If you look at the Top 10 songs on the Billboard charts, odds are you’ll find nary a love song. Tracks about heartbreak, friendship and self-empowerment abound, but straightforward ballads about ...

MICHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: Love songs are so important. Think about all the songs that have been the soundtrack to your relationships. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "I HONESTLY LOVE YOU") OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN: ...

This essay first appeared in the NPR Music newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this one, listening recommendations and more. I love the word "heartthrob." It stops you whether you ...

1975 arrived just like any other year. But by the time the 12 months of the decade's middle ended, popular music was moving toward a different place than where it had started. Along with the ...

Every possible stage of the creation and dissolution of romance has been documented in song, encompassing the good, the bad, and the ugly. Romantic love is a prominent component of human life and ...

40 or so years after the genre’s creation, the many subgenres of house — piano, gospel, acid, progressive, deep, future, Afro, etc. — now each form worlds unto themselves, but the twin hearts of house ...

K. Michelle's collab with Justin Champagne, "Country Love Song," is out now Tricia Despres is a writer for PEOPLE digital, covering everything from country music to pets to that love story that will ...