Artists and their record labels will censor songs for a variety of reasons. There could be a naughty word, or a particular lyric may be deemed offensive to the mainstream country music listening ...

I have a song stuck in my head from Robin Thicke called "Blurred Lines". It's one of the most popular songs on Top 40 radio today. But what you hear on the radio might not necessarily be what the ...

Beatsource has signed deals with indie distributors Empire and Create Music Group to create fully licensed DJ edits of popular tracks from their catalogs. By Chris Eggertsen Beatsource, the joint ...

In order for a song to get a lot of airtime on the radio, it has to be mostly inoffensive and free of obscene language. That's why the radio edit was invented: to make pop hits out of songs that ...

Late one night earlier this year, I followed a link, which someone had shared on Twitter, to a YouTube video that featured the studio recording of Toto’s “Africa,” edited to sound as though it were ...

This man is all over TikTok. In my personal opinion — which seems to be backed by its prevalence — one remix outdoes them all. It's a play on Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror" that tells the story ...

BTS used to sing mainly in Korean, but the group has been making huge splashes with English-language songs such as “Dynamite,” “Butter,” and “Permission to Dance.” Thanks to these singles, BTS is now ...

I knew this would be fun. The response to the story on “AM versions” of songs hit a chord, so to speak, with your memories matching mine … and more. But before we get into it, I had a chance to talk ...