Listen to a playlist of the year's best songs as selected by The Times' August Brown, Cerys Davies and Mikael Wood.

It’s either a recession indicator or a sign of the changing seasons, but pop music is defrosting. Bangers are in bloom as artists are releasing upbeat songs and albums to get us out of hibernation and ...

The week’s most popular current dance/pop songs, featuring titles with dance-centric vocals, melody and hooks by artists not rooted in the dance/electronic genre, ranked by streaming activity by ...

From unexpected pop pivots to reflections on the state of the world, these are the essential songs of the year.

If you lived the relatively brief era when it ruled the world in the late 1970s, it’s hard to remain unbiased about disco. For some, it was the soundtrack of their coming-of-age years. Others ran as ...

You may have heard of recession meals and wardrobes. Now, we have "recession pop" - bangers from 2008-2010 gaining popularity with a younger audience. Let me take you back to the fall of 2008. The ...

Madonna is one of the all-time greatest female artists, with some of the top hits of the '80s, '90s and beyond. Madonna Louise Ciccone, aka the Queen of Pop, is one of the most successful musical ...

There are pop singers, and then there are pop icons of modern music who are so influential to the genre you can’t ignore their presence. These superstars have produced hit after hit over their careers ...

As 2025 rolls in, it's time to look back and celebrate some of the nostalgic pop songs you may have forgotten about that turn 25 this year. (Yes, we feel old.) These tracks defined the sound of 2000 — ...