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In a new study, high-energy, less acoustic songs evoked personal memories featuring amusement and excitement, while lower-energy, more acoustic songs evoked memories characterized by calmness, romance ...

According to the charts, Alex Warren's hit single "Ordinary" is the undisputed song of the summer. The song has reigned at No. 1 on the Hot 100 for 10 weeks, but fans and critics remain unenthused.

Billboard's Makin' Tracks looks at the writing and recording behind the Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton collaboration "A Song to Sing." By Tom Roland When Big Loud released “A Song to Sing” to ...

Anime makes itself memorable through creative stories and stunning animation, but sometimes it needs a little extra push, and that is why anime opening theme songs have become so popular. These catchy ...

Don’t mess with the Sandman. Adam Sandler is setting the record straight on the meaning behind a scathing lyric in his “SNL:50” song. During the 50th anniversary special of “Saturday Night Live,” the ...

SHE STARTS UP PRETTY EASY AT ALMOST 60, THIS RED CORVETTE STINGRAY STILL RUNS LIKE A CHAMP. DON’T WRECK IT WITH THE ORIGINAL 327 ENGINE. FUN SOUND OWNER JIM BAIRD, A RETIRED ARMY MAJOR AND COMMERCIAL ...

Drake, Ed Sheeran and Tyler, the Creator, are usually reliable hitmakers. But the songs they’ve put out this summer haven’t stuck around. Instead, listeners keep returning to a power ballad from 1998: ...

I t happened earlier this month the same way it always happens. Jesse Welles was scrolling on his cell at home in northwest Arkansas — Siloam Springs, population 21,000 — when he came across a ...

Earlier this summer, Materialists was hotly anticipated. With internet darlings Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal, as well as Captain America himself, Chris Evans, what was marketed mostly as a romantic ...

Sometimes in country music, the person singing a hit song isn't the one who wrote it. That's true for at least four of the No. 1 songs from the past 12 months, and we want you to meet the man behind ...

Clockwise from top left: Rico Nasty, Arca, Justin Bieber, Yung Lean, and james K. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: YouTube (Rico Nasty, Miley Cyrus, Lucy Dacus, Wet Leg, Yung Lean) If you couldn’t ...