From bubblegum holdovers to blog-house bangers, the 2000s pop charts were a battlefield of hooks. Vote up the tracks that ...

Pop music reached one of its most influential eras during the early 2000s. Although critics sometimes dismissed the genre as commercial entertainment, its impact on the music industry became ...

These ten books are not a poptimist syllabus, but they represent some of the best music writing of the 21st century on pop ...

In the 2000s, pop music experienced a big resurgence. At the tail end of the decade prior, people remembered that sticky, well-crafted hit songs were something audiences craved. And the 2000s up and ...

If pop music serves any function, it’s an attempt to capture a listener with an incomparable chorus. A good pop song has to have a stellar refrain. Without it, it can never hope to steal audiences ...

"By the time N Sync released this track, it was well established that the group was boy band royalty. They could've been lazy with their next release. But nope, they brought the noise as well as they ...