In this week's The Contenders, Langley and Dean both jockey to make the leap to the Hot 100's top spot. By Andrew Unterberger The Contenders is a midweek column that looks at artists aiming for the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Thanks to a sync in the fifth season of Stranger Things, Fleetwood ...

Ramanujan’s elegant formulas for calculating pi, developed more than a century ago, have unexpectedly resurfaced at the heart of modern physics. Researchers at IISc discovered that the same ...

On first listen, “total euphoria” sounds like the product of eight people playing completely out of sync with one another. The drums enter and exit the mix of their own accord; the guitars speed up ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More ...

In these 100 songs, you’ll hear lusty dubstep, quietly subversive electronic pop, regional rap bangers, alt-country odysseys, ubiquitous chart-toppers, and much more. We were drawn to songs this year ...

Year End List Season really began in earnest today (12/1), and while Pitchfork has yet to drop their album list, they have unveiled their list of the Best 100 Songs of 2025. As usual it has huge hits ...

No other artist has ever had every song from an album appear in an unbroken streak at the top of the Hot 10 — no skips. Swift had previously become the first and only artist ever to command all 10 ...

While building a simpler model for particle interactions, scientists made a sleek new pi. Representations of pi help scientists use values close to real life without storing a million digits. The ...

Thanks to an unexpected surge in popularity on TikTok, Radiohead now has its fourth-ever song on the Billboard Hot 100: the morosely gorgeous track “Let Down” from the 1997 album “OK Computer.” “Let ...

When most people think of Hozier, it's most likely that the first songs that come to mind are either "Take Me to Church" or, if they're new fans, "Too Sweet." The Irish singer became an international ...