A fan-voted ranking crowned one of Steely Dan’s smoothest cuts, “Hey Nineteen,” among the greatest yacht rock songs of the ...

A beloved soft rock favorite released after the genre's golden age is still making waves with fans nearly four decades later.

An unforgettable 1977 hit with a one-word title still ranks among the greatest yacht rock songs of all time. Steely Dan introduced the world to "Peg" in the late '70s. The first release from the ...

Olivia Newton-John’s 1980 chart-topper “Magic” has found new life as one of the most beloved yacht rock songs of the decade.

Gerry Rafferty is a legend of the yacht rock genre for a reason.

The term “yacht rock” didn’t exist in the 1970s and early ’80s. Retroactively given to the music of The Doobie Brothers, Toto, and Christopher Cross, yacht rock is defined by glossy production, smooth ...

You may not have a boat. You may not be by the beach. But you can imagine you are with the three songs below. Yacht rock is one of the most transportive sub-genres ever. Songs in this vein are really ...

"People would be surprised how many country artists are obsessed with yacht rock," says Lady A singer Charles Kelley, host of a new yacht-rock show on SiriusXM ...

In 2024, Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary was released in homage to a genre of late ’70s, early ’80s easy listening pop music. The term “Yacht Rock” was actually coined as part of a web series joking that ...

In one of the odder developments in the rock era, an entire sub genre of music was named decades after the fact by a comedy team in the mid-2000s. In turn, it evolved into a wholly unlikely phenomenon ...

The summer of soft rock has begun.