To mark America's Semiquincentennial, TIME asked 25 experts to share a song that captures the essence of American life today.

It seems I’ve been singing the same refrain ever since 2017, the year of our blessed “Despacito.” In 2023, Latin music continued its exponential growth in commercial value. The Recording Industry Assn ...

You can go in many directions when compiling a list of the all-time best country music songs. Which criteria do you use? Record sales, most streamed, most googled, number of weeks on the country ...

Some say that the hippie era truly ended when 1970 rolled around. Others would say that it didn’t end until the US military finally pulled out of Vietnam in 1973. Either way, the early 1970s marked a ...