The Lord of the Rings is one of the most iconic fantasy franchises of all time, and much of it is owed to one 15-minute scene.

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Since its premiere in the summer of 2022, the Amazon Prime series The Summer I Turned Pretty has been winning audiences over with its intriguing love triangle — and equally irresistible soundtrack.

The Songs of the Summer running tally tracks the most popular titles based on cumulative performance on the weekly streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Billboard Hot 100 chart from Memorial Day ...

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.

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 ...

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: ...

The results come from to Trusted Housesitters ‘ annual Pet Name Study, which offers an inside look into nearly 100,000 pet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...