There are plenty of songs that become incredibly successful while being considered less than stellar by most of the music-loving world. These are the songs that dominated the airwaves and MTV, before ...

Got a song stuck in your head? Catchy songs have been around as long as there's been music, but what makes a song stick in our minds is still a mystery. I recently chaperoned the all-night graduation ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Each week, we use this column to break down major takeaways from the latest Billboard albums and singles charts. But it seems like a good week to break down a larger question about the charts circa ...

Everyone has their own opinion on what does or doesn't fall under the category of worst Christmas songs. Some are so bad, however, that many people tend to agree on their ability to make us cringe. In ...

Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

As summer slowly melts into fall, the songs that defined the warmer months are coming into clearer view. An announcement on Aug. 27 from Spotify named five songs of the summer, hand-selected by the ...

“It’s What’s Inside” might have you wondering exactly which character the actors are playing at any given moment, but it’s just as likely to have you wondering, “Hey, what’s that song?” The new ...

With a career that saw him dominate the charts for decades, Michael Jackson's albums are filled with more incredible songs ...

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