Donna Summer, the undisputed Queen of Disco, shocked the music world with her hidden talent for crafting timeless hits. Her ...

To celebrate the holidays, we’re looking back at four archive Fresh Air interviews discussing popular Christmas songs: First, jazz singer Mel Torme tells Terry Gross about co-writing “The Christmas ...

Looking ahead to 2026. It's safe to say that 2025 was another incredible year for country music. Despite country radio still being lightyears behind the current trends, nearly all corners of the genre ...

From Clipse to Metro Boomin and Cardi B, the year was full of memorable rap songs that expanded and experimented with the ...

De Los writers name the best songs released by Latino artists in 2025 — including tracks by Bad Bunny, Cardi B, Fuerza Regida ...

The Oakland-based experimental artist Chrystia Cabral, a.k.a. SPELLLING, resists genre categorization in a way that allows ...

They were called 'The Hit Factory' for good reason. Here are Stock Aitken Waterman’s 15 greatest songs, ranked.

From tongue-in-cheek antics poking fun at the music industry to heartfelt odes to salsa, here's what we loved this year.

For those reasons, “Ordinary” has fast-tracked the 25-year-old singer/songwriter into mainstream musical fame, coming to a ...

Some of the lyrics on this modern classic were brave, but they helped laid the foundations for what was to come ...

We did it a million different ways,” guitarist Alana Haim recalls. “We worked on the song once a year for all of those years.

A glance at some of those chart-toppers in 2025, including Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” Sabrina Carpenter ’s “Manchild,” Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” Huntrix’s “Golden” and Taylor Swift ’s “The Fate of ...