The Top 40 hasn't host to introduce the music videos, and it hasn't opening or ending credits. It only broadcasts the music videos in countdown without pause or commercials but a brief channel ident ...

Our staff's favorite songs from a year that confirmed that hip-hop and R&B were now at top 40's center, but also had plenty of great rock, country and dance-pop to go around. This week, Billboard ...

Released in 2010, “Teenage Dream” kicked off the decade with an ... an excuse for her music. “Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored” is one of those pop songs that get an instant ...

Our 2005 Week starts here with a discussion of Ciara’s dominant 2005, a year full of huge, beloved hits that set the tone for mid-’00s pop music, but proved pretty hard for the breakout artist ...

Having grown up in that decade, Courtney remembers seeing a sudden surge in appreciation for music that was not considered “cutting edge”, but instead basic pop: tunes like “You Spin Me ...

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In the great landscape of modern music, perhaps the strangest area of territory is the pop songs field. So often, when we think of artists, we think that they are toiling away in their bedrooms ...