The Week In Pop

Fifth Harmony were the reigning girl group of their era. Although they never came close to the success of their closest predecessors, Destiny's Child, the…

Pop music is a crazy industry, even more so in our fractured age. It's crazy how many songs can be blowing up in some corner…

Pop is dead; meet the new pop.

Y'all wanna hear something crazy? I've been writing this weekly pop column for five whole years now. It seems like just yesterday that I published…

Everything's coming up Travis Scott. This week, four months after it came out, Scott's album Astroworld returned to the top of the Billboard 200 for…

When the world met Alessia Caracciolo three years ago, she was the awkward teenager enduring a house party where she did not belong: "Somewhere in…

Do you remember what you were doing the night of December 31, 2016? Just after midnight, I was at home watching Dick Clark's New Year's…

It all happened so fast -- and it keeps happening faster.

The name Ocasio derives from the Spanish "ocasión," which means what you think it means: an occasion, a time. According to Ancestry.com, most people named…

It's late October, which means we're deep into the most terrifying season of the year: that moment when all kinds of musicians unveil their new…

Jessie Reyez has so much to say, and hearing her say it is so much fun.

In 2015, Twenty One Pilots were the biggest band you've never heard of. By the end of the following year, they were the biggest band,…

If you remember any scene from the trailer for Bradley Cooper's new A Star Is Born remake, it is almost certainly the one in which…

"I'm an R&B nigga with a hip-hop core." That's 6LACK, the Atlanta singer born Ricardo Valentine, on "Scripture," a track from East Atlanta Love Letter,…

Every few years, a major national publication will publish an overview of the Christian music industry. This week, Kelefa Sanneh has a good one in…