pop music

Canada’s beloved pop star is the emotional defibrillator for this exact moment. And we’ve never needed her more.

As an elite topline writer, Jason ’Poo Bear’ Boyd has produced a pile of pop hits. So why does he still feel like he has plenty to prove?

Adele’s ’25’ is the year’s biggest album. And yet Adele the person still remains a mystery, secondary to her art—a rare feat in 2015

A writer delves into the largely anonymous, fascinating machine that churns out today’s pop hits and tells their human stories

This week on our culture podcast: Chilly Gonzales’s dissertations on pop, and we talk Carly Rae Jepsen’s new album Plus: our songs of the summer

Singer-songwriter Dan Hill on why this is the greatest generation

A British store’s Christmas ads have a habit of spawning chart-topping pop hits

The New Zealand singer has anthems for suburban teens

Maclean’s archives: A candid interview with the new king of pop

Six years after she ruled the world with Loose, the pop star learns to say yes again