A playlist celebrating a staggeringly great year in music: Pixies, Janet Jackson, De La Soul, Madonna, Indigo Girls and more. By Lindsay Zoladz Today’s playlist is a homage to the music of 1989. Yes, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts.

Long before the 45-song concerts, the world dominance at the box office and the giddy touchdown celebration hand slaps, Taylor Swift was just a twentysomething emerging from her country shell to ...

The Year of Taylor just keeps rolling: on this week’s Billboard chart, Taylor Swift reigns with the biggest sales week of her career, as well as a new Hot 100 chart-topper replacing a different Swift ...

Looking at it now, it all seems so simple: the year was 2014, and Taylor Swift turned the world upside down by releasing a pure pop album called 1989. Already a superstar, 1989 sent Swift into the ...

While each of the original “1989″ songs have been re-recorded with new vocals from Swift, the real draw for these projects is the “from the vault” tracks — songs that didn’t make the album’s first ...

Pop music in the 1980s was something special. The decade provided a time when things seemed stable but also new. It’s hard to put a fine point on it, but there was no worry about the oncoming new ...

“The 1989 album changed my life in countless ways,” Swift wrote on Instagram as she announced 1989 (Taylor’s Version). Additionally, she referred to the new album as her “most FAVORITE re-record” ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Taylor Swift’s 1989 spent 11 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, ...