Cortez scored the first instrumental to top the Billboard Hot 100 in 1959 with his high-energy electronic organ hit "The ...

Seventy years ago today, Bill Haley & His Comets became the first rock and roll band in history to top the pop charts.

The Billboard 200 albums chart measures the top releases during the weekly tracking period every Friday through Thursday. While it used to be determined strictly by record sales, the ever-changing ...

If it weren't for these three Nashville Sound country songs the genre as we know it, would be entirely different.

In 2012, the "Gangnam Style" video by Korean rapper PSY made its debut on YouTube. It became a worldwide sensation, with its dance moves inspiring online parodies and flash mobs. Within four months, ...

That was the last time Billboard tackled the monumental feat of ranking the top R&B artists, dating back to the ‘50s. Michael ...

Taylor Swift earned her 12th chart-topper in 2024, tying Madonna and The Supremes for the seventh-most No. 1 hits in Billboard history.

Wayne Lewis, Atlantic Starr Singer and Founding Member, Dies at 68 The group's "Always" topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1987.

Morgan Wallen’s No. 20-debuting “20 Cigarettes” joins the likes of “One Week,” “7” and numerous other chart coincidences in this Ask Billboard.

His 1957 breakthrough smash “Diana” topped Billboard ’s Best Sellers in Stores chart. Percy Faith, who in 1960 became the second Canadian artist to top the Hot 100, also had hits that ...

Alex Warren ’s “Ordinary” spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200. A week earlier, the song became the singer-songwriter’s first leader on the chart. Meanwhile, Lady Gaga ...