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  • This year’s song-of-summer bracket promises bops and bangers of all types, fit for many situations.

  • Check out the rest of Uproxx’s Best New Pop Music roundup below.

  • There’s a tacit expertise we demand of pop songs - the implicit assurance that, for the next three or four minutes, our dopamine levels are being manipulated by vetted professionals.

  • The big-voiced singer has one of the top songs in the country with his smash hit "Beautiful Things.

  • With Beyonce’s viral hit, “Texas Hold ‘Em” and everyone and their grandmother doing the equally viral two-step dance craze on TikTok, country music seems to be back on the map again as a popular music .

  • Our list of the 50 best Arabic pop songs of the 21st century includes everything from Algerian rai to Egyptian dance-pop to romantic ballads from Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

  • Opinion: The late country music star Charley Pride made his Blackness safe for white fans.

  • U niversal Music Group and TikTok just called time on their three-month spat.

  • The “Lovers & Friends” festival has been canceled, according to event organizers.

  • In the chorus of “Whatcha Doing,” the fifth track on Dua Lipa’s latest album, she sings: “If control is my religion, then I’m headed for collision,” referencing the unexpected pull of a new partner.

  • Songs from artists like Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Billie Eilish are coming back to TikTok as the platform reached a new licensing deal with Universal Music Group.

  • The album "couldn't be more transparent about its subjects", said Laura Snapes in The Guardian.