Don’t stop believing in “Purple Rain.” Since the title song of Prince’s 1984 hit movie was featured in the finale of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” Dec. 31, “Purple Rain” is enjoying another life. The ...

It's been a big week for Stranger Things star Joe Keery, who plays Steve Harrington in the hit Netflix series, and it just ...

Tagged as the “AI Powered Hit Radio from the Future,” Hit Radio AI is a fully artificial intelligence-generated hit music station created in the spirit of traditional, mass-appeal Top 40 stations.

Popular music experienced a massive upheaval during the ‘00s, when the high record sales of the Nineties crash-landed, record-store chains closed en masse, and tech companies started beckoning ...

Remember the ’90s? If you do, here’s some news that might make you feel old: We’ve been in the 2000s for a quarter century now. That’s a long time, and over these past 25 years, the world has changed ...

Bryan Adams steadily rose from local Canadian hero to dominator of American pop charts. His first US hit was a ballad from his younger days.

Taylor Swift called it "the summer of Sabrina." Now can Sabrina Carpenter prove her right? The "Espresso" and "Please Please Please" hitmaker has released her sixth studio album, "Short n' Sweet," and ...

For his part, Horn claims to have contributed the ‘ Move yourself !’ opening gambit after an all-night writing session, and ...

Corrections and clarifications: A previous version of this story misstated the writers of "Ease on Down the Road." Charlie Smalls was the sole writer. Quincy Jones once said his most important ...

In what’s now become a yearly tradition every December, I’m back ranking #1 hits from topical anniversary dates. This winter we’ll be doing 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015, and I’ll be ranking every ...

How about a bit of a deep cut? But if you’re a plunderphonics or calypso fan, this song isn’t really a deep cut at all. “Frankie Sinatra” is a song by the Australian electronic outfit The Avalanches, ...