If you look at the Top 10 songs on the Billboard charts, odds are you’ll find nary a love song. Tracks about heartbreak, friendship and self-empowerment abound, but straightforward ballads about ...

MICHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: Love songs are so important. Think about all the songs that have been the soundtrack to your relationships. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "I HONESTLY LOVE YOU") OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN: ...

This essay first appeared in the NPR Music newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this one, listening recommendations and more. I love the word "heartthrob." It stops you whether you ...

The universal language of music has united generations of lovers since the beginning of time. Falling in and out of love, grasping at unrequited love, mourning love lost and succumbing to deep love ...

Love songs have an undeniable power that resonates deeply within us, weaving stories of joy, heartbreak, and longing that transcend cultural boundaries. As many social media users express their ...

From the listener’s point of view, the answer to the question what makes a perfect love song is easy. It’s a song that melts your heart, unlocking feelings that surprise you because they’ve been ...

Kelsea Ballerini (Healed Version) is a force to be reckoned with. As we talk in a cozy Brooklyn hotel room, where the country singer is doing press for her healthy hair partnership with Pantene, she ...

Throughout many lives, change is inevitable, but music is one constant variable where people can learn how to love others and themselves. Jacob Basil, a 21-year-old music education junior, listened to ...

By 1976, popular music was already beginning to sound like the music of the 1980s, as you'll hear in these groundbreaking ...

I love the word "heartthrob." It stops you whether you read it or let it pass through your own lips in a giddy, longing breath. It has too many "t"s and a stutter in the middle, just like the tha-wump ...