Variety's music writers pick 2025's best songs, from Lily Allen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Dijon, Hayley Williams, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande’s Wicked follow-up movie, Wicked: For Good, is new in ...

Songs about love, sex, tax and demon hunters ranked among the best music of 2025, according to a "poll of polls" conducted by ...

It’s worth celebrating the happy moments and James Brown was able to put that sentiment into musical form. The voice of “Godfather of Soul” combined with brass instrumentals will put just the right ...

There are good songs, and then there are feel good songs. Public radio music stations specialize in the latter, especially new tracks by emerging artists that make you stop what you're doing and smile ...

There are eleven songs in Wicked: For Good, and while they're all well-produced, they don't all hold the same weight in terms of their memorability, catchiness, or production. Tackling Act 2 of the ...

It may not draw crowds like “The Nutcracker,” but as an annual Chicago holiday tradition it has no less devoted an audience. “Songs of Good Cheer,” on stage next week in a short series of concerts at ...

Something “Wicked” this way comes not only at the movie theater, but in the music world as well. “Wicked: For Good – The Soundtrack” drops 11 songs nestled in the second volume of the film, with a ...

For Dry January, a former pop critic for The New Yorker suggests great songs about not drinking. Many are by musicians who have been sober for decades. Happy Dry January to those who celebrate. For ...

Usher takes ET inside his music video for 'Good Good' feat 21 Savage and Summer Walker, talks Las Vegas residency and upcoming album. Usher is continuing his reign of summer with another musical drop ...