The 2000s brought us the height of the boy band era, bubbly pop bops and pop-punk greatness. But which artists were the most influential on the overall sound of the 2000s pop-scape? In the Reddit ...

Let me take you back to the fall of 2008. The country is in the grip of the Great Recession. Unemployment is rising. Home foreclosures are spiking. It is dark times. But when you turn on the radio... ...

Ford released her first album in 25 years 'amanda' on Friday, March 6 Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared in The New ...

The 2000s were a turning point for pop culture. Reality television exploded, celebrity blogs and paparazzi photos dominated the internet, and social media began changing how fans interacted with their ...

Punk wasn’t supposed to be pop. But no one told the Ramones, who mined girl groups like The Ronettes and The Shangri-Las for catchy hooks to sit atop the loud and fast guitar riffs. Pop is short for ...

Willa Ford is reflecting on her rise to fame as a pop star. In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, the "I Wanna Be Bad" hitmaker opened up about being a pop star in the early 2000s, which she referred ...