Insider ranked the 10 best K-pop songs of 2021, weighing factors like critical acclaim and listenability. The list includes songs from newer artists like STAYC as well as industry giants like BTS.

Before we get to this week's column, some housekeeping: After eight(!) years writing The Week In Pop, I am handing over the reins of this column in 2022. Starting in January, Rachel Brodsky will be ...

Spotify’s year-end 2021 Wrapped report is officially out! On December 1 local time, Spotify published its annual rankings of the year’s most-streamed artists and songs on the platform. BTS was the ...

It’s brutal out there, and that’s why, more than ever, we needed the consoling and prodding pleasures of popular music to help everything make sense in here. [Stage direction: taps chest, knowingly.] ...

Billie Eilish is the Grammy Award-winning artist behind Happier Than Ever. Several songs from this album earned Grammy nominations and even jumped to the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 music chart. Here’s ...

Rapper Jack Harlow professes his appreciation for Dua Lipa on his new album Come Home the Kids Miss You. The rapper takes his love for the pop star so far that he even named a track after the “Don’t ...

“I wanted to make Pop Smoke a superstar,” record executive and artist manager Steven Victor says wistfully. He succeeded — the young rapper has two songs on Variety’s Hitmakers 2021 list, “What You ...

Olivia called it right and exact this year: God, it’s brutal out here. But tough times call for tough tunes, and these tunes delivered, in an absurdly abundant year for music. These are my 25 favorite ...

Olivia Rodrigo does not, as a general rule, read the comments. “Sometimes you see one thing and then you’re thinking about it all day,” says the 18-year-old singer and songwriter responsible for ...

Like in any other year, K-pop in 2021 can’t be defined by a single sound or message. Soloists and groups continued pushing the bounds of genre within Korean pop music as they experimented with ...

Before we get to this week's column, some housekeeping: After eight(!) years writing The Week In Pop, I am handing over the reins of this column in 2022. Starting in January, Rachel Brodsky will be ...