Four years ago, the boy band went silent — but not before setting off a chain reaction that would reshape the pop market, conquer the Grammys and prime the world for an inevitable comeback.

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The superstar boy band returns after a four-year hiatus on Friday. The genre it helped turn into a global juggernaut has endured some shifts, and minted new stars.

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While I’ve always considered myself to be a modern pop music enthusiast, I will confess that there is one notable artist whose discography I took forever to get around to: Harry Styles. Of course, I’d ...

British singer Kenya Grace releases "Naked" co-produced with Nitepunk. Watch the official music video. Listen, stream, buy the track, mp3 download.

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The episode also goes deep on “Aperture,” with Sheffield hearing traces of Talking Heads and Depeche Mode, along with Chicago house and Detroit techno. (Styles said he was listening to LCD Soundsystem ...

Spotify is stacking the most-beloved pop songs against one another in a new playlist. Spotify dropped its 100 Greatest Pop Songs of the Streaming Era list in a ranked playlist on Thursday, Feb. 26.