November 2019

At just 7 years old, Blue Ivy Carter is an award-winning songwriter, just like her parents before her. Carter, the daughter of iconic pop singer Beyonce and legendary rapper Jay-Z, won the Ashford & Simpson Songwriter's Award at the…

CBS Photo ArchiveGetty Images Blue Ivy Carter continues to outperform essentially every other seven-year-old and most adults. Beyoncé's first-born just won her first-ever writing…

Of Elton john & Bernie Taupin and Carole king & Gerry Goffin at Burt bacharach & Hal David & Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller, popular music's greatest songwriters teams have produced music that spans generations.But no…

What makes music so enjoyable, and can science help us design the perfect pop song?A group of researchers who have statistically analyzed tens of thousands of chord progressions in classic American Billboard hits say they have found the…