This post was updated April 3 at 8:28 p.m. Now more than ever, male pop stars are hard to come by. Female artists are taking the reins and defining the current pop landscape. Pop stars such as Taylor ...

The boundaries of pop music are amorphous, since it incorporates elements of seemingly every other genre. Yet for a genre of music that borrows from so many different traditions, there are a handful ...

Preface -- Before Pop there was folk -- Alias Smith and Johns : an American cosmos -- Rauschenberg's combines : subjective art for an objective age -- Space is the place : other worlds in the Pop ...

In the world of pop music artists, any list of the most popular names can and will change frequently. One day, you’re hot, and the next, you’re falling off the charts. However, this isn’t to say that ...

Pop music as a genre has changed dramatically since the 1950s. The Beatles were considered pop music, but so was Michael Jackson. Artists have blended genres for decades. R&B was no longer easily ...

This post was updated Feb. 10 at 12:51 a.m. For many K-pop artists, it is time to break free of the confinement of a group and expand their talents by going solo. It has become increasingly evident ...

In retrospect, it might look inevitable, the sticky-sweet commercial marriage between soda pop and pop music. (Catchy jingles worked. Why shouldn’t catchy hit songs work even better?) But in actuality ...