Ed Sheeran
÷
Pop, Rock

British superstar Ed Sheeran’s latest features a lot of sweetness and sentimentality … when he’s not doing shots and hooking …

Lorde
Green Light
EDM/Electronica/Techno, Pop

Lorde’s latest hit finds the young New Zealand singer trying to navigate her wildly disorienting emotions after a heartbreak.

Ed Sheeran
Divide
Pop, Rock

British superstar Ed Sheeran’s latest features a lot of sweetness and sentimentality … when he’s not doing shots and hooking …

Little Big Town
The Breaker
Country, Pop

Little Big Town’s eighth studio effort focuses more what it takes to be whole than it does being broken.

Lana Del Rey
Love
Alternative, Pop, Rock

Alt-pop chanteuse Lana Del Rey’s latest is as earnest and wonder-filled as her last album was grim and nihilistic.

Kygo and Selena Gomez
It Ain’t Me
EDM/Electronica/Techno, Pop

Selena’s collaboration with Norwegian EDM DJ Kygo yields a song about a woman who’s decided she’s had enough of a …

Linkin Park
Heavy
Alternative, Pop, Rock

Linkin Park is joined by Kiiara on this surprisingly subdued song about the struggle to relinquish anxiety.

Imagine Dragons
Believer
Alternative, Pop, Rock

Imagine Dragons roars back with an ambiguous song about the relationship between pain and belief.

The Chainsmokers & Coldplay
Something Just Like This
Alternative, EDM/Electronica/Techno, Pop, Rock

The Chainsmokers collaboration with Coldplay yields an intriguing song about our longings to be heroic … and our fears that …

Keith Urban
The Fighter
Country, Pop

Keith Urban gets in touch with his inner knight in shining armor here, pugilistically promising always to fight for the …

Lady Antebellum
You Look Good
Country, Pop

If you’re beautiful, you may as well flaunt it. That’s about the only message in Lady Antebellum’s latest hit.

Julia Michaels
Issues
EDM/Electronica/Techno, Pop

Are the handful of issues with Julia Michaels’ track “Issues” enough to warrant a breakup with her first big solo …

Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee
Despacito
Pop, Reggae

This huge, mostly Spanish hit just became the most-streamed track ever. But you might be surprised how racy its lyrics …

Ed Sheeran
Shape of You
Pop

Ed Sheeran’s latest hit reflects and reinforces our culture’s confusion about how lasting intimacy and commitment are formed.

ZAYN & Taylor Swift
I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)
Pop, R&B, Soundtracks

Taylor Swift and ex-One Directioner Zayn Malik join forces in a breakup duet that lends Swift’s brand equity to the …