The Queen of Soul's timeless anthem continues to define generations and top music rankings.

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“DIE WITH a smile” by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars was the anthem of 2025. The soppy ballad climbed charts in more than 30 countries and became the longest-running daily number-one song on Spotify, a ...

The 1980s were a transformative era in pop music. Musicians were moving away from the disco genre of the '70s and decided to innovate with bolder sounds. It was a time in which synthesizers, ...

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Nashville has become a disruptive force in popular music, shaping a new genre known as "Southern pop." Southern pop is a genre-blurring movement that mixes authentic storytelling, hip-hop rhythms, and ...

With his producing partner, Jeffry Katz, he made lightweight ditties like “Yummy Yummy Yummy” that soared up the charts in the late 1960s. By Alex Williams Jerry Kasenetz, a hitmaking record producer ...

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