Pop
Macklemore and Kesha's 'Good Old Days' Never Lands on the V Chord. The Sheet Music Shows How It Finds a Way Home Without One
Adele Planned to Re-Record 'Set Fire to the Rain' With Rick Rubin, Then Kept Her Demo Vocal Instead
The Five-Bar Phrases That Make Taylor Swift's 'The Fate of Ophelia' So Sticky
Lady Gaga's Deep Cut That Waited More Than 11 Years for TikTok to Get It on the Hot 100: 'Bloody Mary'
'Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)': A Rejected Demo Turned Into Green Day's Biggest Hit
Adéla Impresses Nicole Kidman With 'Nicole Kidman'
Neil Diamond's 'Sweet Caroline' Chorus Works Because of the Gaps in It, Not the Notes, According to the Actual Sheet Music
Bad Bunny's 'EoO' Hits 1 Billion Streams on Spotify After Spider-Man: Brand New Day
The Strange Afterlife of Arctic Monkeys' '505': From Tumblr to TikTok to Techno Festivals
Tame Impala's 'Loser' Follows 'Dracula' Into a Second Life, Thanks to Spider-Man
Stella Lefty's "Boston" And Breaking Into Fame From TikTok
One Chord Makes 'California Dreamin'' Undercut Its Own Lyrical Promise: The Word 'Warm' Lands on C# Minor
Bare Power Chords and One Simple Bass Line: Why 'Eye of the Tiger' Hits So Hard
Country Hasn't Pulled It Off Since '83: Ella Langley and Morgan Wallen's 'I Can't Love You Anymore' Debuts at #7
Malcolm Todd's 'Earrings' Didn't Chart in 2024. TikTok Just Changed That
New World Cup Anthem and Its Hypnotic Minor-key Loop: Shakira and Burna Boy's 'Dai Dai'
How Max Martin and Ilya Salmanzadeh Shaped the Moody Minimalism on Ariana Grande's 10th No. 1 Single
How One Relentless Bass Line Drives Michael Jackson's 'Smooth Criminal': The Song Never Changes Chords
The Non-Diatonic Chord In 'Empire State of Mind' Hit Different When Alicia Keys Performed It at The Knicks' First Championship Parade In 53 Years
'You've Got a Friend in Me' Still Works: The Randy Newman Chord Tricks Taylor Swift Just Sang Over
Foster The People's 'Pumped Up Kicks' Has Been Out for 16 Years and It's Still All Over YouTube
The Gen Alpha Melody Appeared in Hundreds of Pop Songs for 20 Years and Nobody Ever Sued
