Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. With her five-octave range, Mariah Carey has one of the most powerful and impressive voices of all time. She is a top '90s female ...

In 1991, the pop music machine was in full force. Record executives saw what the 1980s meant to the genre, and they took it up to the next level. While rap music and grunge rock were making waves in ...

Let’s get a little secret out of the way. The 1990s were the greatest decade for pop music. While the genre was rising in major ways in the 1980s thanks to artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna, ...