Usually when a radio station changes format, it also changes its name, in part to erase its past and forge a new future. The owners of Star 94 did something different last fall: they dumped its ...

A week after dropping most of its morning show, Star 94 has shifted its music mix to feature more rhythmic dance pop hits and will reach back to the 1980s for the first time in many years. It’s now ...

Thanks to the massive success of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter album and the long-running Billboard hits from country singers such as Zach Bryan and Morgan Wallen in 2024, this year's DJ Earworm United ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts.

Thanks to the massive success of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter album and the long-running Billboard hits from country singers such as Zach Bryan and Morgan Wallen in 2024, this year's DJ Earworm United ...

For the past 40 years, Madonna has not only been a if not the Queen of Pop, but also the reigning monarch of clubland. She’s racked up a record-breaking 50 number-one hits on Billboard’s Dance Club ...

Comedian Jordan Olds’ weekly video series Two Minutes To Late Night has been churning out quality covers throughout lockdown, a lot of them metal-ified takes on songs that are far from metal. This ...

It was been well over 30 years since Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest said, “Rap is not pop if you call it that then stop” on the pioneering quartet’s seminal 1991 single “Check The Rhime.” In the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. After five weeks in a row at No. 1 in the U.K., Ed Sheeran and ...