Listen to a playlist of the year's best songs as selected by The Times' August Brown, Cerys Davies and Mikael Wood.

Notice anything unusual about this year’s top hits? Yes, more than half of them are from last year — we dug into the reasons ...

Some pop songs hit differently, and most listeners can’t explain why. The secret is jazz-level chord writing hiding inside ...

When Hip Hop meets pop, the result is often pure magic. Some of the most memorable moments in music come from when a rap verse jumps into a pop track, adding a fresh layer of attitude, energy, and ...

ALEX WARREN: (Singing) They say the holy water's watered down, and this town lost its faith. Our colors will fade eventually. RASCOE: The singer Alex Warren is one of the artists behind this trend, ...

Seven years ago, Irish singer CMAT (born Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson) received life-changing advice from a fellow rising pop star. Charli xcx urged her to dump her boyfriend and take making music ...

A huge, gloriously silly and brutally effective amalgam of abandoned styles ripe for reinvigorating — rap-metal, dream-prog, ...