Billie Eilish truly has the magic touch. The 16-year-old is one of the brightest talents that has emerged in recent years. And she is on the verge of a commercial breakthrough. If you need any evidence (beyond her incredible streaming numbers), look no further than a co-sign from Apple. The company selected the "Lovely" singer to soundtrack their “Share Your Gifts” campaign with her new song, "Come...

Delivering a winning mix of standards and toe-tapping originals, Gwen Stefani's You Make It Feel Like Christmas is one of the best festive LPs in recent memory. (I would rank it up there with Kelly Clarkson's Wrapped In Red and Kylie Minogue's slept-on Kylie Christmas). The title track was rolled out as a single last year and it came agonizingly close to cracking the Billboard Hot 100. With any luck,...

Staying relevant long enough to release 15 studio albums is a noteworthy achievement in and of itself. Just like landing a number one hit, it's "difficult to get... not everybody has that." To be in the game for 28 years and deliver the tightest, filler-free opus of your career is a whole different story. That's the miracle Mariah Carey pulls off with Caution. This is the new blueprint for legacy acts....

Little Mix is one step closer to global domination with the unveiling of LM5. A lot has changed since Jesy, Leigh-Anne, Jade and Perrie dropped Glory Days in 2016. Their fourth effort spawned five Top 20 hits and went triple platinum in the UK. However, it struggled to find a niche in US markets. Things are different now. For starters, the girls recently parted ways with Syco (their UK label). It seems...

If the enduring popularity and annual chart run of Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" proves anything, it's that writing a modern-day Christmas carol isn't easy. And while there are a couple of notable gems (Mimi's "Oh Santa," Kelly Clarkson's "Underneath The Tree" and Gwen Stefani & Blake Shelton's "You Make It Feel Like Christmas" all spring to mind), most fall flat. Happily, that fate...

Fridays can be overwhelming for pop fans. Every week you're bombarded with a glut of new music, which can lead to ear candy falling through the cracks. I'm hoping to avoid that tragic scenario with The Drop — a cheat sheet of sorts to get you through New Music Friday. By now, you have surely succumbed to the masterpiece that is Mariah Carey's Caution album and hopefully checked out Jennifer Lopez's...

Every so often, a song comes along that completely transcends genre and introduces an artist to a whole new audience. Lauren Daigle's "You Say" falls into that category. The powerful ballad, which conveys a timely message of hope, has been a mainstay in the iTunes top 10 for months and ranks as one of the few inspirational anthems to crack the Billboard Hot 100. Amazingly, "You Say" is only at the...

Bohemian Rhapsody, 21st Century Fox's long-percolating Queen biopic, finally hit theaters on Friday (November 2) and proved to be a runaway success — bringing in $51 million at the North American box office in its first three days. To put things into perspective, that's $6 million more than A Star Is Born earned in the same time period. That result stunned some commentators give the film's infamous...

A lot has changed since MØ (real name Karen Ørsted) dropped her debut LP, No Mythologies To Follow, in 2014. For starters, she landed arguably the biggest hit of 2015 as the voice of Major Lazer & DJ Snake's "Lean On" and then repeated the feat a year later with "Cold Water." The Danish pop star has also managed to drop a long, staggeringly-good list of singles including "Final Song," "Kamikaze,"...

Iggy Azalea's comeback is in full swing. The rapper, who many wrote off after the atomic fallout that followed the success of The New Classic, recently returned to the Billboard Hot 100 with "Kream" and just dropped one of the better EPs of 2018. Not only that, but the Aussie hitmaker's new sound — a return to the aggressive, defiantly sexual anti-pop of her mixtapes, has struck a chord well outside...

Tori Kelly's Unbreakable Smile is that rare kind of debut album that stands out as an impressive achievement in its own right, but also hints at something greater. It had radio hits, quieter moments and soulful grooves, but there was always the sneaking suspicion that the 25-year-old's voice could soar even higher, that she could open her heart even wider. That promise finally comes to fruition on...

Five years have passed since the arrival of Cher's underrated Closer To The Truth, but her hold on pop culture is stronger than ever thanks to the most iconic Twitter account of all time and a scene-stealing role in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. The latter inspired the seemingly immortal diva to get back in the studio and record an album of ABBA covers. At first, I feared Dancing Queen might be more...