NPR Best Books of 2017

In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR’s acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race.

In Good Booty, Ann Powers explores how popular music became America’s primary erotic art form. Powers

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Michael Bublé packs even more music onto his chart-topping album Crazy Love with a second CD that includes the new single Hollywood, as well as four live tracks.

Grammy and Golden Globe-nominated singer/songwriter Nick Jonas returns with his third solo album. The album features the title track plus ten new songs and was largely written and recorded over zoom with Greg Kurstin & Mozella during isolation. Within a few weeks, he found a new sonic landscape that felt both fresh and a nod to the records he loves from the '80s.

A record of euphoric, empowered dance floor bangers and sultry pop cuts, this is eleven tracks of unabashed pleasure-seeking, seize-the-moment, joyful pop tunes with the hypnotic electro of 'Padam Padam' opening the album.

After dropping critically acclaimed singles Now That I Found You and No Drug Like Me, multi-platinum Grammy, Juno, and Polaris Prize-nominated singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen releases her next full-length album via School Boy/Interscope Records.

Following his successful debut album, and his appearance on the hit single See You Again, Charlie Puth releases his sophomore album. It includes the new hits How Long and Attention.