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In the pop music world, songwriting credits and demos get passed around quite a bit. Some major artists decide to give a track a chance, while others opt to pass it along to the next musician. These ...

We at American Songwriter have some fun from time to time, looking back at the five biggest US hits of a particular artist. As far as we can tell, in only one case did the five songs come from a ...

Demi Lovato is in the final stages of her ninth studio album. A source close to the project tells Rolling Stone Monday that Lovato is embracing the electronic sound of some of her biggest pop hits on ...

In a peak moment of pop monoculture, synthesizers pumped up songs and MTV forever changed how artists were seen. Here’s how — and why. Credit... Supported by By Jon Pareles Forty years ago, the ...

Rihanna has shown that putting in the work to create a great album will pay off. “Anti,” Rihanna’s eighth studio album, has spent 500 weeks on the Billboard 200 as of the week of Dec. 1, 2025, ...