The London singer-songwriter is all over TikTok and unmissable on pop radio. Dean’s fans, songwriters and label describe her seemingly rapid rise.

The team behind 'KPop Demon Hunters' wanted to deliver an authentic, industry sound for the Netflix film. It created a global ...

Like many music lovers, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt took to social media to share her 2025 Spotify Wrapped ...

With “bangers” like “Don’t Delete the Kisses” and “Silk”, it’s no surprise Wolf Alice have “built a cult following”, said ...

YouTube has released its annual “Global Culture & Trends Report” for 2025, analyzing the platform’s most-subscribed creators, ...

Below the surface of the mainstream, music had a wonderful year—making the task of whittling down 2025’s best albums to a top ...

There's a Christmas song for all tastes – jolly to melancholy – so corralling them into one list is not only futile, but impossible. Still, we try.

Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music I’ve been fixated on recently. After working in music ...

Spotify Wrapped works because it taps into our need to belong and stand out. Here's why its personalized slideshows dominate ...

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

We think of the iconicity of our favorite 21st century pop stars mostly in terms of the ways we had for long before: smash hits and blockbuster albums, classic music videos and sold-out tours, bold ...

In the late 1980s, pop music was at its apex. The training wheels had come off. It was time to take the genre for a real spin and show what it could do. And in 1987, there were a number of artists who ...