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

At Paste Music, we’re listening to so many new tunes on any given day, we barely have any time to listen to each other. Nevertheless, every week we can swing it, we take stock of the previous seven ...

No one wants their time wasted, including by music. But the rise of TikTok-optimized tracks less than two minutes long might be going too far. The best long songs are an antidote to that—a way of ...

Expect to see selections from the established stars, the next wave of new talent, the up-and-comers and everyone else in between. If the song is fire enough to beat the competition, it'll take one of ...

University of Winchester provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Life is busy these days, so when you manage to get some well-earned free time, it’s important to use it wisely. You could, ...

Jennie Richardson is a TV Features and Lists Writer for Collider, and a graduate student pursuing an MFA in Fiction Writing. In other words, she really loves stories. Now almost 20 years after it ...

Lorde is 28, but both her music and aura can often feel timeless. Roaring into pop culture with her debut single “Royals” in 2013, she was much more composed than any other teenager breaking into the ...

As we approach the halfway mark of 2025, among the things we have yet to find out are how many weeks Morgan Wallen’s “I’m the Problem” will spend at No. 1, when Lana Del Rey’s supposed country album ...

The future seldom arrives on time. Proclamations that a certain technology is about to radically alter our everyday lives are almost always proven wrong: There are no flying cars or robot maids; our ...

But while the series has 16+3 absolute bops of songs so far that each serves their own purposes within the series, some somehow manage to go above and beyond. Some songs provide much-needed ...

Disney princess movies are nothing without great songs. The Disney musical canon takes inspiration from so many genres, including showtunes and Native American music. Here are the five best Disney ...

These are the best country songs of the last 10 years, and anyone who disagrees can ... Well, if you disagree you probably have a great point to make, because there is no objectively awesome way to ...