The 100 Best Songs of 2004: Staff Picks Our favorite songs from a year that redefined rock, rap, pop and R&B for the 2000s.

(In 2018, the Billboard staff released a list project of its choices for the Greatest Pop Star of every year, going back to 1981. Read our entry below on why Usher was our Greatest Pop Star of ...

The final three days of the 2004 Noise Pop Festival were filled with a plethora of solid shows, too many, in fact to choose from. Yet between myself, David Adams, and Gabe Mirlin, we attempted to ...

To say that the 2004 edition of the annual Noise Pop Festival in San Francisco was unwieldy would be an understatement. In excess of 127 bands played over the course of six days at a wide variety ...

It's been an amazing year for Avalon. The contemporary Christian pop quartet has myriad 2004 blessings to count: major spring and fall U.S. tours, a new studio album The Creed (the group's first ...

Spencer Kornhaber, Shirley Li, and Hannah Giorgis assess the state of pop music following the Grammys on an episode of The Atlantic ’s culture podcast, The Review. Listen to their conversation here: ...

Our favorite songs from a year that redefined rock, rap, pop and R&B for the 2000s. By the time the 2000s reached 2004, the decade was hitting its stride, with an identity totally its own. Newly ...