Folk rock dominated the pop charts in the mid-1960s. These four massive hits put their definitive stamp on the genre.

These classic songs from the 1960s are so good, even today's younger generations can see their appeal, decades after they ...

With music from its final three episodes, the Amazon Prime Video series holds down nine of the chart's 10 positions. By Kevin Rutherford First July, then August, now September: The Summer I Turned ...

Jess Glynne, Jeezy and Black Eyed Peas are just a few of the artists leading TikTok‘s Songs of the Summer 2025 list. In a statement, Glynne shared her excitement over her track being the biggest song ...

Whenever I hear "Float On" by Modest Mouse, "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers or MGMT's "Kids" I'm immediately transported back to my summer days in the early 2000s. And rightly so — summer is usually ...

Spotify said that this year’s summer songs were the “least danceable and lowest-energy summer for music in the past decade” based on “tempos, rhythm stability, beat strength, and overall regularity of ...

Every year, there’s one track that somehow makes its way from a teenager’s headphones to my mom’s Pilates playlist. You know, the song that plays at rooftop bars and seeps into your subconscious ...

Let songs from Lorde, boygenius, Mitski and more help push through a sticky, sludgy August. By Dani Blum This is Dani Blum, a health reporter and sometimes music writer at The New York Times, back ...

Devon Powers says there is one significant data point no one has considered in the debate around 2025’s Song of the Summer, or rather, why there doesn’t really seem to be one this year: Donald Trump.

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- When rocker Eddie Cochran released "Summertime Blues" in August 1958, the concept of "the song of summer" was born. It had a catchy melody with a chugging beat and lyrics that ...

The internet has become obsessed with the song of the summer. The hunt begins in early spring, and debates about the winner never seem to settle until the leaves turn brown and fall to the ground. In ...