Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts.

After a long career of making regulation-issue rock albums, with some dips into psychedelic music, Steve Miller leaned willfully into the pop world with his 1982 album Abracadabra. "You have to be ...

Gather ’round, children, and watch as a new Lady Gaga music video will appear out of nowhere. One … two … three … “Abracadabra!” Gaga premiered a new ...

Just days after announcing her long-awaited seventh album, Mayhem, Lady Gaga has unveiled a new single, “Abracadabra,” from the forthcoming album. The singer premiered the music video for “Abracadabra ...

A lot of exciting things happened in the '80s pop charts. Gloopy soft-rock ballads faded away. MTV helped lead to the rise of towering, iconic blockbuster pop stars. Jittery art-school new wavers ...