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Seventy years ago today, Bill Haley & His Comets became the first rock and roll band in history to top the pop charts.
If it weren't for these three Nashville Sound country songs the genre as we know it, would be entirely different.
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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, ...
Billboard's special salute to Black Music Month continues its ... Brown rocketed to a top five debut on the R&B chart with her 1949 debut single “So Long.” She reigned at No. 1 for multiple weeks just ...
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 ...
On this day (April 15) in 1957, Jerry Lee Lewis released “Whole Lot of Shakin’ Goin’ On” as his second single for Sun Records. It went to the top of the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart ...
Kendrick Lamar & SZA’s ‘Luther’ tops the Billboard charts for 7th week in a row, which is…so amazing The Luther Vandross-sampling single from Kendrick Lamar’s “GNX” album is his ...