2025 was a thrilling, wide-ranging year for pop music, from the big-budget triumphs of superstars like Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift to the mainstream arrivals of artists like Addison Rae and Olivia Dean ...

The year 2025 has been a whirlwind year for music, with songs from every genre going viral and dominating playlists around the world. From pop chart-toppers to underground experiments, artists have ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeff Benjamin is a New York-based writer covering global pop music. After 2024 saw the likes of RM, Rosé, NewJeans, ATEEZ, aespa, ...

2025 was a landmark year for K-pop, delivering tracks that made fans dance, celebrate, and feel unstoppable. As 2026 begins, these 20 K-pop songs of 2025 are the ultimate soundtrack to energize your ...

Every year, the bounty of pop music grows more and more (my apologies to the 2,637 songs in my inbox as of time of writing that I haven't gotten to yet, out of you don't want to know how many).

In 2025, she followed that towering year with Iconoclasts, an equally towering album. Its centerpiece, "Struggle With The Beast," has the year's most swaggering intro/outro by far, several minutes of ...

What do Lady Gaga and the economy have in common? According to the Internet, more than you might imagine. Lady Gaga is among the artists supposedly at the forefront of 2025’s boom of “recession pop,” ...