Earlier this decade, pop ruled the Billboard charts, and it seemed like every week, the top 10 on the Hot 100 was dominated by artists pushing new electro jams. In the past few years, as streaming ...

Last summer, Ava Max, a little-known newcomer from Milwaukee, foreshadowed a shift in the pop trajectory in the United States when her vivid single "Sweet But Psycho" cracked the top 10 on the ...

Ava Max can’t escape the comparisons to Lady Gaga. It’s easy, between the platinum wigs and the big-synth pop anthems, but it also gives critics an easy knock on her for lacking the personality and ...

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 06: Ava Max attends Billboard Women In Music 2018 on December 6, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Billboard ) Since releasing “Sweet But Psycho” ...

Ava Max’s Heaven & Hell was the most-streamed debut album by a female EDM artist in 2020, and it’s not hard to understand why. Since her debut single, “Sweet But Psycho,” was released in 2018 and ...

A non-exhaustive list of American musicians who've hit it big in Europe and the UK before breaking through back home: Jimi Hendrix, Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, the Strokes, the White Stripes, Andrew W.K.