How can a song be too successful? Isn’t that the whole goal? Well it is until it’s earned, and then it can seem like more of a curse than a blessing. At least, that’s how many songwriters see it. In ...

Many popular songs were initially discovered through advertisements. Apple was especially known for propelling various artists into successful music careers, thanks to featuring them in their ads.

Every generation has a soundtrack that has helped define growing up. For the gen-x crowd, it’s the 1980s. The baby boomer crowd, those born between 1946 and 1964 also had some incredible musical ...

Do you ever hear millennials and Gen Xers say how much they miss the early 2000s? Part of their reasoning for this feeling is due to the music that was released at that time. The year 2001 is a prime ...

Why do some cultural products become wildly popular while others fall short? Researchers Jonah Berger and Grant Packard investigate in a paper published in the journal Psychological Science, focusing ...