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News Articles: Genre: Pop

Maren Morris

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  • Music

Maren Morris is searching for something sweeter on 'Dreamsicle'

On her first record following her divorce, the Texas star navigates her bisexuality, motherhood and the do's and don'ts of dating in your 30s.

July 25, 2025
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By:
  • Raina Douris and
  • Miguel Perez
Travis Scott, seen here performing at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on July 11, 2024, in London, England, hit No. 1 on <em>Billboard</em>'s album chart with his album <em>JACKBOYS 2.</em>

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  • Music

Justin Bieber and Travis Scott bring some chaos to summer chart doldrums

The recently stagnant charts are flooded with new releases this week, led by Bieber and Scott. Plus, Ravyn Lenae's slow-burning hit "Love Me Not" makes a play for song of the summer status.

July 24, 2025
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By:
  • Stephen Thompson
Connie Francis fixes her hair during a 1959 press reception at the Dorchester Hotel in London.

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  • Obituaries

1960s pop star Connie Francis has died. The singer's life was touched by tragedies

1960s pop star Connie Francis has died. The first female singer to chart a No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, she sold over 40 million records before the age of 25.

July 18, 2025
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By:
  • Jeff Lunden
Drake's "What Did I Miss?" — the first single from <em>ICEMAN</em>, the rapper's forthcoming album — dominated the hip-hop discourse over the holiday weekend.

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  • Music

Drake, Toby Keith and 'KPop Demon Hunters' have a big week on the charts

It's a slow week on the Billboard charts, but a few albums and singles are still having a huge impact, including Drake's new single, "What Did I Miss?," and the soundtrack to the Netflix original movie KPop Demon Hunters.

July 16, 2025
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By:
  • Stephen Thompson
SOPHIE

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  • Music

10 songs that were hyperpop before the subgenre was born

To commemorate 10 years of SOPHIE's debut, World Cafe put together a mix of "proto-hyperpop" tracks.

July 09, 2025
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By:
  • Miguel Perez
Benson Boone at the 2025 Governors Ball Music Festival held at Flushing Meadows Corona Park on June 06, 2025 in New York, New York. (Photo by Nina Westervelt/Billboard via Getty Images)

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  • Music

Benson Boone and Karol G can't displace Morgan Wallen on the charts

This week's highest debuts on the Billboard 200 albums chart — Benson Boone's American Heart, Karol G's Tropicoqueta and the soundtrack to Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters — all land in the top 10. But they don't come anywhere near displacing Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem.

July 02, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
Lorde's fourth album, and first in four years, is titled <em>Virgin</em>.

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  • Music Reviews

On the ecstatic 'Virgin,' Lorde knows she doesn't have it all figured out

The pop star's fourth album, her first since 2021's polarizing Solar Power, finds the 28-year-old shedding the stoic self-possession that defined her early career.

June 27, 2025
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  • Hazel Cills
The "song of the summer" sweepstakes have finally been joined by an honest-to-goodness pop jam from Sabrina Carpenter.

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  • Music

Sabrina Carpenter joins the 'song of the summer' race, just in time

"Manchild," the first single from Sabrina Carpenter's forthcoming album Man's Best Friend, enters this week's Hot 100 singles chart at No. 1, making a late-breaking bid for "song of the summer" status in the process.

June 17, 2025
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By:
  • Stephen Thompson
Timbaland speaks at the 2023 A3C conference in Atlanta. The Grammy-winning hip-hop producer has launched an AI music company, Stage Zero, with the goal of creating a stable of digital "artists."

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  • Music Features

Timbaland's AI music project is a ghost in a misguided machine

The super-producer whose beats moved the boundaries of Top 40 radio is chasing a new revolution: digital superstars and the erasure of artistic process as we know it.

June 17, 2025
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By:
  • Sheldon Pearce
Christian pop singer Forrest Frank's hit "Your Way's Better" has been a fixture on the <em>Billboard</em> Hot 100 chart for weeks.

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  • Music

Christian music is experiencing a pop breakthrough

Once largely confined to insular networks, contemporary Christian music is having a breakthrough moment on the pop charts with artists like Brandon Lake and Forrest Frank.

June 16, 2025
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By:
  • Emma Madden
Morgan Wallen

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  • Music

The charts are ruled by Morgan Wallen, Alex Warren… and doldrums

Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem continues to dominate the charts, while long-ago chart queen Connie Francis is gathering momentum for a song from 1962.

June 11, 2025
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By:
  • Stephen Thompson
Tunde Adebimpe

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  • Music

How a forgotten tape recorder led to Tunde Adebimpe's debut album

The TV on the Radio cofounder talks about making Thee Black Boltz.

June 10, 2025
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By:
  • Raina Douris and
  • Miguel Perez
K-pop band BTS members RM, left, and V salute after being discharged from a mandatory military service in Chuncheon, South Korea, on Tuesday.

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  • Pop Culture

K-pop group BTS set to reunite as two more members complete military service

BTS has been on a break since June 2022 to focus on solo projects and serve in the South Korean military. All of the group's members are scheduled to finish mandatory enlistment by the end of June.

June 10, 2025
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By:
  • Se Eun Gong
Jarvis Cocker formed Pulp in Sheffield, England in 1978, when he was a teenager. After two decades, the band took an extended break, but it has returned with its old formula applied to a new phase of life. "I've always loved pop songs and I like the way [they make] you feel," Cocker says. "But I always wanted to try and put something that is slightly inappropriate in the lyrics."

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  • Music

Death, love, sex, mistakes, marriage and 'More.' Pulp is back after 2 decades

Pulp was the wittiest, bitterest star in the Britpop constellation. On More, the band's first new album in 24 years, singer Jarvis Cocker is learning to trust his feelings.

June 08, 2025
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By:
  • Ann Powers
In his latest album, <em>Lush Life</em>, Seth MacFarlane records  arrangements of songs originally written for the late Frank Sinatra.

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  • Music Interviews

Seth MacFarlane of 'Family Guy' uncovers Sinatra songs in new album

The Family Guy creator got a trove of previously unheard arrangements written for Frank Sinatra and has released a first album of some of the songs.

June 07, 2025
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  • A Martínez and
  • Iman Maani
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