Pop music has always had a short attention span, but a select few artists over the years have managed to create number one hits with ten-minute runtimes.
It wasn't Elton, Bowie, Zeppelin or Queen who owned 1973, but a heartfelt little song about redemption by the painfully ...
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s ...
For more than half a century, the Billboard Hot 100 has been documenting the biggest, most commercially successful hits in the U.S. The chart—compiled by Billboard magazine using record sales, radio ...
He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993 and received the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular ...
Canadian artist The Weeknd’s hit song “Blinding Lights” has earned the number one spot on Billboard’s Greatest Songs of All Times Hot 100 Chart. The song replaces Chubby Checker’s 1960’s hit “The ...
In 1985, a washed-up singer named Derek Stevens walked into a meeting with record company execs in hopes of reviving his career. The first song he played for them would become the stuff of legends. It ...
Singer Khalid and producer DJ Khaled have both made notable contributions to the music industry. Khalid has emerged as one of R&B’s new faces for the next generation, while DJ Khaled has been a ...
The Weeknd has gone from being an underground R&B artist to Super Bowl halftime show performer in the span of a decade. The Canadian singer has won Grammy Awards and released several singles and ...
Rock and metal fans have plenty of great songs to choose from for their next road trip playlist. But just how many tunes should be on it? Is there some magic number of tracks that make the perfect ...
With all due respect (and possible future apologies) to Beyoncé, whose path recently overlapped with hers on the “Vogue”-sampling “Break My Soul (The Queens Remix),” Madonna is set this week to remind ...