Listen to a playlist of the year's best songs as selected by The Times' August Brown, Cerys Davies and Mikael Wood.

The pop superstar is the sole writer credited on more than 60 tracks.

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Spears spent a few years shooting TV ads and performing in an off-Broadway play before she was cast, at age 11, in season 6 ...

As I write this post, Taylor Swift has had a huge year. Her Eras Tour wrapped last December as the highest-grossing tour of ...

Many of those fans, accustomed to overpromised and underdelivered pipe dreams, scanned a lineup that included new material ...

After losing Reindeer Games on 'The Kelly Clarkson Show,' Kelly Clarkson sang Melissa McCarthy a voicemail greeting set to a ...

Paul Williams is known for his ability to elicit both laughter and tears. This week, he and his decades of music will be ...

Iconic Aussie soap opera Neighbours has turbo charged many acting careers, but the legendary show has also been a hit factory ...

Joplin, Missouri has been featured in pop culture in various forms, from songs and movies to novels and young reader's books, ...

Leona Lewis’s One More Sleep has been named the most streamed 21st century British Christmas song.

The celebration of Singapore’s six decades of music history takes place at Fort Canning Park on Dec 6 and 7. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.