*Anyone thinking The Beatles had the biggest influence on pop music may want to sit down for this. The Los Angeles Times references a new study by researchers in Britain, which states that hip-hop, ...
A study of the top five Billboard songs every year from 1950 to 2023—a list that includes hits like “Hey Jude” by the Beatles, “Vogue” by Madonna and “Poker Face” by Lady Gaga—found that popular ...
A team of computer scientists and evolutionary biologists have published a fascinating study into the evolution of pop music over the last 50 years. The group, which was led by Matthias Mauch, from ...
Hans Zimmer has composed music for everything from Inception to The Dark Knight, but beyond classical, he was also inspired ...
In 2021, researchers at Queen Mary University, London, revealed the results of a study of 700 "chill-inducing" tracks and ...
This story is the first installment of a three-part series discussing major changes in popular music throughout the course of 2024. Today’s story focuses on the current state of pop music. This year ...
Short for "popular" music, pop music has evolved over the decades, morphing from 1950s rock and roll to today's eclectic mix of contemporary folk, rock, dance, country, urban, and Latin elements.