1986 – 2026: 40 Songs for 40 Years → Playlist
![1986 – 2026: 40 Songs for 40 Years (2026) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Canva AI; Gordon Johnson from Pixabay]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/1986-2026-40-songs-for-40-years.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1)
1986 – 2026: 40 Songs for 40 Years features songs by Alicia Keys, Beyoncé, Hozier, Mariah Carey, The Weeknd, and Whitney Houston.

Sifting through all of the musical hype

Sifting through all of the musical hype
![1986 – 2026: 40 Songs for 40 Years (2026) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Canva AI; Gordon Johnson from Pixabay]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/1986-2026-40-songs-for-40-years.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1)
1986 – 2026: 40 Songs for 40 Years features songs by Alicia Keys, Beyoncé, Hozier, Mariah Carey, The Weeknd, and Whitney Houston.
![15 Memorable Songs About Crushing & Catching Feelings (2025) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Canva AI; Jonathan Goncalves, Nikita Skripnik from Pexels; AcatXIo from Pixabay]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/15-memorable-songs-about-crushing-and-catching-feelings.jpg?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1)
15 Memorable Songs About Crushing & Catching Feelings features songs by Alicia Keys, David Archuleta, Fantasia, Little Big Town, Prince, and Taylor Swift.
![A Kool Kollection of K Songs (2025) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Armin Rimoldi from Pexels; AcatXIo, Clker-Free-Vector-Images, OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay; Glodi Miessi on Unsplash]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/a-kool-kollection-of-k-songs.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1)
A Kool Kollection of K Songs features songs by Angie Stone, j-hope, Roberta Flack, Seal, SZA, and The Beach Boys.
![Alicia Keys, Golden Child [📷: RCA]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/alicia-keys-golden-child-1.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
In advance of a special, 20th anniversary edition of her sophomore album, The Diary of Alicia Keys, Alicia Keys releases a previously unreleased song, “Golden Child.”