Alex Warren's hit single "Ordinary" is the song of the summer according to the Billboard charts, despite critical disdain for its predictable formula.

Nearly every week this summer, there's been an immovable object at the top of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart: It's "Ordinary" by the singer Alex Warren. That changed this week.

T he song “ Ordinary ” by Alex Warren begins with a problem. “They say the holy water’s watered down, and this town’s lost its faith,” declares the singer, in a track that spent several weeks atop the ...

When I saw moustachioed pop sensation Benson Boone play a show in London last year, the pop star performed the best of his pedestrian midtempos last: his religiously ecstatic hit, “Beautiful Things”.

We finally have the first chart-topping hit by a girl group since Destiny’s Child. It’s not what you might expect.