Max Martin is one of Taylor Swift’s favorite collaborators — as on her soon-to-be blockbuster The Life of a Showgirl, where he and Shellback co-produced and co-wrote the whole album. Martin, the ...

2025 has been full of musical surprises, with several songs becoming unexpected chart-toppers. The world’s most-streamed songs of the year prove that good music always finds its way to the audience.

The '90s were a magical time for country music fans. The decade produced some of the most beloved acts in the genre's history in a way that eclipsed the decades before (and some would agree, since).

One-hit wonder songs were all over the place in the 1970s, across genres like disco, rock, new wave, and pop. And a select few of those one-hit wonders are really difficult to cover properly. Some of ...

Mr. Garg sang in dozens of languages and his music blended folk, pop and rock. His hit song “Ya Ali” was featured in the 2006 film “Gangster.” By Mark Walker and Suhasini Raj Zubeen Garg, the singer ...

FRANKLIN, North Carolina — Brett James, who wrote hit songs for stars such as Taylor Swift, Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood, died in a plane crash Thursday in North Carolina, reports say. The ...

Paul Wall has revealed that Nelly was sold a fake Johnny Dang grill, an act that eventually led to the creation of their 2005 Grammy-nominated hit song "Grillz." During his appearance on The Art of ...

Drake, Ed Sheeran and Tyler, the Creator, are usually reliable hitmakers. But the songs they’ve put out this summer haven’t stuck around. Instead, listeners keep returning to a power ballad from 1998: ...

'80s Singer Rick Springfield Reveals the True Inspiration Behind Hit Song 'Jessie's Girl' originally appeared on Parade. More than four decades after “Jessie’s Girl” first hit the airwaves and became ...

"It almost didn't make the album... Every time I remember I almost took it off the album, my heart starts beating." The song's position as the 17th and last track on the album perhaps captures ...

In the 1980s, these 10 acts just barely avoided one-hit wonder status, but which is their third best song? The decade was littered with one-hit wonder bands, but some acts managed to squeeze out ...

Any seasoned country executive can tell you that there's a certain secret sauce that goes into making a radio hit. A catchy hook, a relatable lyric, a little twang ... and well, if you throw in a few ...