Alex Warren’s chart-topping ballad “Ordinary” is this summer’s most popular song by the numbers, but critics and music fans have lamented that this summer seemed to have few breakout hits as the ...
2024 was widely viewed as a thrilling year for mainstream hits. 2025, not even close. “There haven’t been too many big moments,” says Nima Etminan, COO of Empire, the independent label that signed ...