The best songs from a year that set the template for the early-21st-century pop star. With the pop music of the ’00s really finding its footing in 2002, the year 2003 was about a new class of ...

These four country songs all came out in 2003, but are so good, we still want to listen to them decades later.

From the start of July through August 2023, we’re ranking every Billboard #1 hit from 1973, 1983, 1993, 2003 and 2013 from worst to best in each respective year. Last week, we looked at what 1993 had ...

In the 20th century, genres were pretty strict. You knew a rock song when you heard it. You knew a punk song when you heard it. You knew grunge, rap, and electronic when you heard it. But as the 2000s ...

In 2003, the country music landscape underwent a new phase of evolution, which included plenty of controversy and loss. The year also marked the emergence of many new talents who kicked off their ...

This week sees Michelle Branch dive back into pop with her first solo album in fourteen years, Hopeless Romantic. It’s a welcome return for the talented singer-songwriter, whose two early 2000s albums ...

Yongsan Garrison, Nov. 1, 2003: Country singer Chely Wright on stage at Yongsan Garrison. The singer, best known for her hit songs Single White Female and Shut Up and Drive, performed a free show for ...

After a period in the politically correct ’90s where very few drinking songs became hits on country radio, it appears the good, old-fashioned elbow-bender tune is making a comeback. Tracy Byrd scored ...