"Miracle Pill' by the Goo Goo Dolls is an Adult Top 40 hit that's introspective--a look at the "big picture"--taking stock--just like songs from "back in the day!" Goo Goo Dolls co-founder, John Rzeznik, explained in a recent Spin magazine interview that "Miracle...

There’s a long history of rock and Top 40 songs that express the pain and anguish of love gone wrong. It’s a tall task: enough sensitivity and honesty to get it across, but not so much that the listener sinks into a depression! Cat Stevens wrote "The First Cut Is the...

In 1986, then 38-year old Boomer Steve Winwood reached the top of Billboard's Hot 100 for the first time with his now classic "Higher Love." Four years later Whitney Houston recorded a version which ended up as a bonus track on the Japanese release of her "I'm Your...

“Easier,” currently the 12th most played song on Top 40 radio, is the latest hit by 5-Seconds of  Summer aka 5SOS, a hot, hip, happening A-list band from Australia. The story-line is a man debating a break-up with a woman; the sound and texture have a Trent Reznor and...

  In 1967 Mary Hopkin, best known for "Those Were The Days," had a hit with "Goodbye" (written by Sir Paul).  Hopkin looks like an angel, and sings cheerily in her clear, bell-like voice, about leaving one lover for another. It's all very lovely. Unlike...

Novelty songs and dances are pop culture mainstays, and this summer's is "The Git Up," with over 1.5 billion viral video views and 50 million+ audio streams; it's getting radio airplay on Top 40, Adult Top 40, and Country, so it's likely that, at some point this...

You'll definitely hear "Senorita " on the airwaves this summer--two of the music scenes hottest pop artists-- Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello, get very, very sexy in this Top 40/Adult Top 40 hit.  The Latin flavored melody is matched by equally steamy lyrics and a...