Fleetwood Mac perfected turning drama into hits

Still Freaky After All These Years: Gaga, Tyler, The Cure

Did Kendrick Lamar kill hip-hop?

Where are all the scary songs?

The virtuosity of Stevie Wonder

The last decade of pop explained

Learning to love: Coldplay

Fall Out Boy and the worst earworm ever

Mexican pop is bigger than you think

How Megan Thee Stallion brought Japanese hip hop to the Hot 100

Learning to love: Oasis

Newcomers: Porter Robinson

Sabrina Carpenter is more than Short n' Sweet

Newcomers: Jhayco

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars bring back the duet

Newcomers: Magdalena Bay

Tinashe’s “Nasty” takes on Janet and Beyoncé + Are songs getting simpler?

Kesha v Katy + Tayla Parx on pop’s obsession with eras

Introducing One Song

brat but it's a podcast about the album by CharliXCX

Why Chappell Roan is the sound of 2024

Is country the new hip hop?

The music industry's AI fight

Switched-On Wendy Carlos

The song of the summer is DEAD with Today Explained

Lawrence: the kick-ass eight-piece family band reshaping the music business

The Imperfect Feminine: Camila, Charli, and Sabrina

Empress Of asks for your consideration (with Empress Of)

Bootsy Collins is gonna funk you up (with Bootsy Collins)

Freaking out about songwriting with Nile Rodgers

Begging songs and basketball's musicality (with Hanif Abdurraqib)

Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist (with Charlie Puth)

Billie Eilish hits both hard and soft

Gastropod: Why are restaurants so loud? Plus the science behind the perfect playlist

Is pop music just fast food? (with Gastropod)

Rosie Tucker's unending bliss

Eurovision 2024: from Baby Lasagna to Windows95Man

Justice is never-ending

Best of 2024 so far: hip hop feuds, Hozier’s pop surprise and espresso shots

Taylor Swift's Literary Era

Lost Notes: How Fela Kuti Found Afrobeat in LA

Berlin's Hottest Club is Rico Nasty & Boys Noize

Chasing old sounds: Djo's "End of Beginning" with Joe Keery

Cowboy Carter: This Ain't Country

Hip-hop's Sea Change at Rolling Loud

Rhapsody in Blue, Reimagined

Eternal Sunshine of Ariana Grande's Mind

How to DIY a Music Career (with Amelia Meath and David Gray at SXSW)

Is Beyoncé's music #sponcon? And other mysteries LIVE in Brooklyn

Jacob Collier unites the world

Beyoncé's Country

Adult Contemporary, but make it cool (with CHROMEO)

The Star Spangled Banger!

Brittany Howard's Chaos Theory (with Brittany Howard)

The b*tch of loving musical theater (with Bridger Winegar)

Kali Uchis takes on the world

Soundalikes: Lil Nas X and Ariana Grande

The case of the missing vocals, and other listener questions

Too Fast? We’re Curious: The sped-up remix phenomenon - ICYMI

Wham! Op. 84 “Last Christmas” with Chilly Gonzales - ICYMI

"Did I mention that it's Christmas in this club?" (w Matt Rogers)

Nicki Minaj's Roman Empire

Hear the Year: The music we loved in 2023

Behind the Scenes of Switched on Pop on Harman Audio Talks

Noah Kahan’s Folk Pop Revival

Why Country Music Dominated 2023's Charts

The Beatles: "Now and Then" and Forever

Rerecording Taylor Swift's 1989, Dark Side of the Moon, and Demi Lovato

Chartbreakers: Mitski tops the TikTok chart

How Talking Heads reinvented the concert film (with Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz)

Feeling Fine with Faye Webster

Metro Boomin Wants Some More

In Defense of Crunk

Made In America: Jay-Z & Toby Keith ICYMI

The Art of Flow (with DJ Jazzy Jeff) ICYMI

Doja Cat’s Satanic Suite

Jimmy Buffett: Next Year in Margaritaville

Beyoncé's 'Renaissance' Era ICYMI

Olivia Rodrigo’s Good Ideas

Wonders: "Stacy's Mom" and Adam Schlesinger

The mid-career crises of Travis Scott and Post Malone

Song Camp 2: Electric Boogaloo! (with Alex Tumay, Wolftyla, Nicholas Petricca, Grace VanderWaal)

The secret world of songwriting camps

Your cursive singing is tearing this family apart!

Barbie and the plasticity of pop

How Louis Armstrong invented the modern pop star

Speak Now (about Taylor's versions)

My Beyoncé Ticket Cost $4,000: Why the Touring Industry Might Be Broken – Into It with Sam Sanders

What makes a gay anthem?

Switches Brew: blink-182, Kate Bush, BewhY, The Pointer Sisters, Saint Levant

Chartbreakers: Mexican regional y más

Listening 2 Daft Punk: Random Access Memories

Listening 2 Daft Punk: Human After All / Alive 2007

Listening 2 Daft Punk: Discovery

Listening 2 Daft Punk: Homework

The Jonas Brothers' Yacht Rock Revival

From Westeros-techno to trance metal: Eurovision 2023

Who killed the key change in pop music?

A.I. Drake has put music in a tailspin

BTS goes solo together

This Generation's Caroline Polachek

The Shakira Conspiracy

Reinventing Bach

100 gecs and the new sound of hyperpop

Switches Brew

Modern Classics: Seal - Kiss From a Rose

How John Denver got huge in Asia

Chartbreakers: Jersey Club, Complicated Country, and 50s Crooners

Five years later, the legacy of Nipsey Hussle's "Victory Lap"

“Flowers” and the art of the response song

Rihanna Party! ICYMI

The L.A. guitar shop that reinvented indie folk

A History of Whammies at the Grammys - Into It with Sam Sanders

Wonders: Bobby McFerrin

The New Wave of Paramore

Taylor Swift and the music industry's next $20

SZA's Endless Melody

Too Fast? We’re Curious: The sped-up remix phenomenon

ICYMI 90s Music Canon

ICYMI: We *do* talk about Bruno

Anitta & Rosalía on the borders of Latin pop

How Bad Bunny won 2022

The soft sounds of Kali Uchis (live from Vulture Fest)

Why do new Christmas songs fail?

The Art of Flow

Willow Smith rocks harder

The Sound of Sapphism

Scary Pockets funkify pop classics (with Lizzy McAlpine)

Up late with Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’

Steve Lacy brings bedroom pop to the Billboard top

Why it hurts to release a record (with Sylvan Esso)

Santigold sings Spirituals

The future of music pt I

Lady Gaga & The Pequeños Monstruos

Invasion of the Vibe Snatchers

Into It: Song of Summer 2022

Learning to love the Killers (maybe)

K-Pop Chartbreakers: BLACKPINK, Girls’ Generation, NewJeans, IVE

Demi Lovato Searches for "Substance" In Pop-Punk Perfection

Beyoncé's ‘Renaissance’ Era

Into It: The Business of Beyoncé

"It's About Damn Time" for Another Lizzo #1

Elvis, Big Mama Thornton, Doja Cat, and the Long Legacy of “Hound Dog”

We Won’t Go Back: Pop Music and the Fight For Reproductive Rights (w MILCK and Ann Powers)

Harry Styles and the Sledgehammer Horns

ICYMI: The 90s’ Most Unlikely Hit (with Baz Luhrmann)

Beyoncé's House

Robert Glasper on jazz, basketball, and his score for "Winning Time"

Scoring Stranger Things with Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein

Kate Bush, Stranger Things, and a hit song four decades in the making

So your song went viral on TikTok. What’s next?

The 1980s jam that gave Latto and Mariah Carey Big D*** Energy

Kendrick Lamar and the big samples

Modern Classics: PJ Morton made Nas’s Stevie Wonder dream come true

Will Ukraine win Eurovision 2022?

Belle and Sebastian on the value of staying "young and stupid"

The New Alternative

Jump-starting the creative process with Allison Ponthier

A Higher Power Ballad

How sound becomes hearing

Listening 2 Britney: Gimme More

Listening 2 Britney: Toxic

Listening 2 Britney: I'm a Slave 4 U

Listening 2 Britney: ...Baby One More Time

Chartbreakers (ft. Megan Thee Stallion and the Red Hot Chili Peppers)

Leon Bridges and Khruangbin Sing a Song of Texas

Shaking Out the Numb with Sylvan Esso

We *do* talk about Bruno

32 Albums in, Elvis Costello is Just Getting Started

Accidental K-pop star Eric Nam risks it all to go his own way

The Weeknd drives through purgatory (with a little help from Jim Carrey)

Why do new Christmas songs fail?

Tai Verdes TikTok-ed his way to a breakout hit

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raise The Roof

The Beatles get back to their roots

Taylor, Adele & Silk Sonic’s broken hearts club (with Brittany Luse)

Snotty Nose Rez Kids on hip hop and Indigenous protest

The State of the Pop Union

Why ABBA songs just hit different

The Healing Power of Pop with Esperanza Spalding

Janet Jackson's Legacy After 'Control' from It's Been A Minute with Sam Sanders

James Bond's Spycraft Sound

James Blake & The Return of Harmony

Sparkle spoke out against R Kelly. It cost her her career.

ICYMI: The Mystery of Montero AKA Lil Nas X (feat. Take A Daytrip)

Deja Vu: Why Olivia Rodrigo keeps giving up songwriting credits

CHVRCHES and the sound of 80s horror

From Taylor Swift to Bon Iver, Aaron Dessner Finds Meaning in Musical Community

Modern Classics: Carina del Valle Schorske on Cat Power's "Manhattan"

The Joy of Music Festivals

The Beauty and Horror of Insane Clown Posse's Summer Festival

How Coachella took the Woodstock look

Modern Classics: Mark Ronson on Ginuwine's "Pony"

Summer Hits: Jack Antonoff on Bleachers “Stop Making This Hurt”

Modern Classics: Yola on Childish Gambino’s “Redbone” and the Longevity of Soul

The Appealing Uneasiness of Listening to L’Rain (Live at JBL)

Summer Hits: City Girls - Twerkulator (with Kyra Gaunt)

Summer Hits: Lorde - Solar Power (w Hanif Abdurraqib)

Summer Hits: Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u (with Jessica Hopper)

Modern Classics: Labrinth's "Sexy MF" (with Sam Sanders)

Growing Pains with Lucy Dacus

Summer Hits: BTS - Butter (with Jenna Andrews)

Pop’s Worst Kept Secret ft. Emily Warren

40 Years Later, Japanese City Pop is Still Crashing the Charts (with Cat Zhang)

J Cole’s The Off Season and the Power of the 12/8 Shuffle

ICYMI Rina Sawayama Reimagines the 00s

Vijay Iyer on why jazz has always been political

Introducing Galaxy Brains

Turns out Willow Smith rocks

Julia Michaels’ Songwriting Superpowers

How Take A Daytrip took off (full interview)

The Mystery of Montero AKA Lil Nas X (feat. Take A Daytrip)

Pop On A Perilous Planet (w Kyle Devine)

5 Rules of Great Songwriting Collabs, According to Teddy Geiger and Dan Wilson (On Air Fest 2021)

Silk Sonic's Retro Soul (with Tayla Parx)

AJR Conjure Broadway on 'OK Orchestra'

Return of the Funk Guitar: Cory Wong Breaks Down Dua Lipa, Jessie Ware and Nile Rodgers

What the 63rd Grammys say about the state of pop

Kimbra reflects on a song that we used to know

Kaytranada's journey from basement beat-making to the Grammys

JP Saxe Didn’t Mean for His Grammy Hit ‘If the World Was Ending’ to Be So Literal

Adrian Younge's new project sounds like James Baldwin meets Marvin Gaye

The Scandalous Sounds of Bridgerton (w Kris Bowers)

How The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” used retro sounds and modern bass to break every record

Epik High is our gateway into Korean hip hop (with Tablo)

Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” is a full throttle power ballad

D.O.C. (Death of the Chorus) with Emily Warren

ICYMI: The End Of Pop Music As We Know It: Fall Out Boy & Charli XCX

ICYMI: Do You Believe in Life After Autotune?

Wham! Op. 84 “Last Christmas” with Chilly Gonzales

Taylor Swift has "evermore" of a good thing

Women's Rap Renaissance

Red Hot + Blue with Meshell Ndegeocello

The Cyndi Lauper Conspiracy (with Sam Sanders)

ANTHEMS: Missy Elliott — Work It

ANTHEMS: Smash Mouth — All Star

ANTHEMS: Jock Jams — Get Ready For This

ANTHEMS: Queen — We Are The Champions

Cory Henry has Something to Say

The Pop Music Forecast (with Lauren Michele Jackson)

Brandy Clark's Life Is A Record

Keith Urban on The Speed of Now Part 1

Mickey Guyton sings truth to Country Music

Disclosure: Where Energy Flows

THE 5TH — MOVEMENT IV, What Beethoven Would Have Wanted

THE 5TH — MOVEMENT III, Putting the Classism in Classical

THE 5TH — MOVEMENT II, From Struggle to Victory

THE 5TH — MOVEMENT I, A Battle Brewing

The Resistance is Dancing in the Streets (ICYMI)

Benee and the Art of the Sad Banger

90s Music Canon

Bruno Major restyles the Great American Songbook

Black Is King (ICYMI Beyoncé's Gift To Africa ft. Ivie Ani)

folklore: taylor swift's quarantine dream

The Women Reclaiming Nu-Metal ft. Rina Sawayama

Rosie: Investigating a Crime at the Heart of the Music Industry

Song of Summer 2020: TikTok Jams, Protest Anthems, Breezy Bops & Bummer Bangers

The Many Colors of Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’

I Am America (w Shea Diamond and Justin Tranter)

Baz Luhrmann’s “Sunscreen Song” — The 90s’ Most Unlikely Hit (with Avery Trufelman)

Jacob Collier on staying creative and his 646 track song “All I Need”

What it means to make music in 2020

Big Floyd And The Influence Of Houston Chopped N Screwed Music

Carly Rae Jepsen: Meeting The Muse

Why lo-fi is the perfect background music

Eurovision Lives! (with Netta)

How To Soundtrack A Villain: Killing Eve

Did Fiona Apple Just Release a Perfect Album?

Doja Cat’s “Say So” is a Masterclass in Good Times

Were We Wrong About Kanye West?

Aussie2Aussie: 5SOS on Tame Impala (with Luke Hemmings & Calum Hood)

The (murder) Ballad of Joe Exotic “Tiger King” (with Robert Moor)

D’Angelo and the Legacy of Voodoo (with Faith Pennick)

"Happy Birthday" is the Worst (with Anne-Marie)

Bad Bunny Has A Message For Your Mom

The Fire & Fury Of Overcoats

Can't Help Falling in Lauv (the interview)

What Happens When Justin Bieber Samples Your Music

Return Of The Guitar: Halsey, 5 Seconds of Summer, Joji

Look At Selena Gomez Now with Justin Tranter & Ian Kirkpatrick

Five Directions: How do the solo efforts of One Direction stack up?

Post Malone has us Running in Circles

Hopes and Fears of Mac Miller, Future, Drake, and Billie Eilish

Dua Lipa’s Disco Fever

ICYMI: Chance The Rapper, Kehlani, & The Shifting Sound of R&B — with Oak Felder

ICYMI: Billie Eilish is a Different Kind of Pop Star (ft. FINNEAS)

Dolly Parton's America (with Jad Abumrad)

Who's Afraid of the Sound of TikTok? (w Cat Zhang)

Paper Planes, Chandelier & What the #@%! is Timbre? (with Constance Grady)

Prelude & Feud on a 'G' Thang: Biggie vs Tupac

Pop is the Sound We Need Right Now (with Electric Guest)

The Past, Present, and Future of EMO (with Allegra Frank)

When Pop and Classical Collide (with James Bennett II)

Unlocking the Rhythms of Rosalía

Rihanna Party! (with Gina Delvac)

Why U Love 2 Listen 2 Prince (with Anil Dash)

A Brief History of Men Singing Really High

Total Request Live! Taylor, Lana, Kim, and More (with Sam Sanders)

Mastering Music (with Dallas Taylor of Twenty Thousand Hertz)

Jazz 1959

BONUS: Charli XCX and The Future of Music (with Dani Deahl)

The “Baby Shark” Phenomenon (with Andrea Silenzi)

BONUS: Who are the Picassos of pop? (with Ross Golan)

Switched Off Book the Improvised Musical (with Jess McKenna and Zach Reino)

ICYMI: How to 'Make Me Feel' with Lizzo

ICYMI: Why is 90s Pop so Bizarre?

Songs of Summer Call-in Special

Chance The Rapper, Kehlani, & The Shifting Sound of R&B — with Oak Felder

Beyoncé's Gift To Africa (with Ivie Ani)

LCD Soundsystem and the Unbearable Sameness of Restaurant Playlists

The $50M Beat Marketplace That Broke the Billboard

Shawn Mendes and the Rhythm of Rhyme

Space, The Final Frontier: Madonna, Stephen Puth and Street Studios

What BTS's "Boy With Love" ft. Halsey Can Teach Us About K-pop

"Prince Ali" and Why We're All Music Theorists

Why Does Every Intro Sound Like It's Underwater? (Live)

The Man Behind the Rocketman with Giles Martin

The Greatest Pop Stories Never Told (with Jessica Hopper)

Should You Care About Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber?

The Smooth Sound of NPR Morning News

Is There An Indie Rock Conspiracy? (Featuring Joywave)

Lizzo And The End of Genre (with Sam Harris of X Ambassadors)

Taylor Swift Causes a PANIC!

Sounds Like Teen Spirit (with Elle Fanning)

Lil Nas X: Country at the Crossroads

Billie Eilish is a Different Kind of Pop Star (ft. FINNEAS)

BONUS: Bhi Bhiman's 'Peace of Mind' Episode 1

Bhi Bhiman Puts the Music Before the Message

Comeback Kids: The Jonas Brothers are Back

Lost & Found: The Drama of Pop Form with Emily King

How Streaming Changed the Sound of Pop

Top 40 Activism with Justin Tranter

What Makes An Award Winning Song?

What Makes a Song Sexy?

The Deep History of '7 Rings'

Do You Believe in Life After Autotune?

Slay Bells, All Year Long

Look What You Made Us Do

Entering Beard Phase with Mike Posner

How Dirty Projectors Make You Feel Energy (with David Longstreth)

Stairway To Hell: Greta Van Fleet’s Scorching Album Review That Went Viral

Charli XCX and Troye Sivan Love the 90s

Sicko Rap and Drunk Country

The Side Effects of Pop Music with Emily Warren

Drake vs Drake

Summer Heat of the 2000s: Beyoncé and Black Eyed Peas (Pt. II)

Summer Heat of the 2000s: Nelly + Katy Perry (Pt. 1)

Why is 90s Pop so Bizarre?

The Resistance is Dancing in the Streets

Switched on Summer: Getting Around with the Beach Boys

The Pure Pop of Charlie Puth + Carly Rae (ft Hanif Abdurraqib)

Afrofuturism in Kali Uchis & Clipping (with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes)

Finding Equanimity In 'No Tears Left To Cry'

Can AI 'Algorhythms' Write Pop Songs? (With Taryn Southern)

Listening Differently to Lorde | with MARIAN HILL

Kacey Musgraves Gives Us Butterflies

Gucci Gang and the Neural Substrate of Subjective Time Dilation

How to 'Make Me Feel' with Lizzo

808s & Havana Heartbreak

My My My! Troye Sivan + Queer Pop (w Gina Delvac, Darryl Bullock)

90s Nostalgia in Bruno Mars and Charlie Puth

Justin Timberlake's Identity Crisis

Dua Lipa's Minor Mantra (w Emily Bootle)

All I Want for Xmas is a Year in Review Episode

Björk's Emotional Landscapes

Taylor Constructs A Darker Reputation

Unlikely Mashups: Taylor + Cardi B | Clean Bandit + Berlioz

Kendrick Lamar's HUMBLE deconstructed w. guest Amber Mark

Demi Lovato is Not Sorry

How to 'Feels' the Groove

Anthems of Resilience - Kesha and Imagine Dragons [LIVE]

The Many Worlds of "Despacito"

Selena Gomez: Bad Liar, Psycho Songwriter

Breaking Down Alanis Morissette (and our own Preconceptions) with guest Andrea Warner

Morgan Page Reveals the Rule of 3 in Julia Michaels and Maroon 5

DJ Khaled - I'm The One... six... four... five

Musical Architecture in Charlie Puth + HAIM

The End Of Pop Music As We Know It: Fall Out Boy & Charli XCX

Harry Styles, Eschatology and Teen Girl Fandom

What's to Love About Ed Sheeran? (guest Ross Golan)

Zedd + Alessia Cara - Stay (w special guest Grey)

Chained to the Green Light: Katy Perry + Lorde

Oscar Week!: La La Land ft. Genevieve Koski

Zayn, Taylor Swift & The Grammys

The Puzzle of Ariana Grande's "Into You" (with K. Flay)

Seduced by the Sound: The Weeknd + Daft Punk

Dreaming Of A White Christmas

How to Listen to Music in 4 Easy Steps

Playing it Cool: How Tove Lo Aims High

Made In America: Toby Keith & Jay-Z

Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal

The Most Popular Song In The World

Lady Gaga Is A Perfect Illusion

How Beyoncé to The Beatles Modulate Your Emotions

Pop Drops and Chipmunk Soul

The Gideon and Hubcap Show

Breaking Down The House

Around The World With Drake

When Good Music Happens To Bad People

Justin Timberlake Goes Medieval

All About Those Baseline Assumptions About Femini$m in Pop

Jonas vs. Jonas: Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love a Boy Band

Purple Lemonade: Prince & Beyoncé

Pablo And The Wolves

The Populist Pop of Twenty One Pilots

American Oxygen

Say Hey

Now I Sia, Now I Don't

B Side: Singing With Mama Jan

Call Your Girlfriend

Click With Dick And Other Campaign Anthems

The Life Changing Magic of Music in 2015

Linus & Lucy

Same Here

Searching for Max Martin

Hotline Hello: Drake and Adele

Can’t Get You Out Of My Head

Justin Bieber’s Existential Suite

The Weeknd: Dance of Deception

Let’s Talk About Sax

Kacey Musgraves: Transgressing Country

Song of Summer: LIVE!

The Dual Meaning of Fetty Wap’s Trap Queen

One Direction: Our Modern Day Castrati

The Final Dropout

Hidden Sounds in FourFiveSeconds

Carly Rae Jepsen – I Really Like You

Hozier’s Waffling of Faith in Take Me To Church

Taylor Swift’s Beethovian Blank Space

A Cappella Dreams

Radio Africa

Star Spangled

Mark Ronson: Funk Politics

The Imperative Jingle Bells

To Be Young

Boom Bang Pow

The Oeuvre of Taylor Swift

Heartbreak