The Beatles proved time and again throughout their career that good songs can come in small packages. Early in their career, it was common for many of their songs to hover around the two-minute mark, ...

PinkPantheress’ music is the embodiment of “here for a good time, not a long time”: Her signature hit, “Boy’s A Liar Pt. 2,” is barely over two minutes long, and most of her other songs are either ...

When pop music was becoming the next big thing since sliced bread in the 1950s and 1960s, short songs were all the rage. The idea was that less is more. Get in, get out, give music fans the verse, ...

Popular songs are getting shorter, with Grammy-winning hits and Spotify chart-toppers shrinking in length. But is streaming really to blame? The answer is more complex, with history, genre, and ...

WHAT IS the “song of the summer”? For more than a century, music fans and critics have considered which anthems capture the season of barbecues and suntans. In 1910 the New York Tribune wondered ...