“Uncharted Territory” provides an entertaining and empirical look at how the Billboard chart has changed over the decades.

Teddy Swims makes history on this week’s Hot 100: “Lose Control,” the singer-songwriter’s soulful pop-rock anthem, spends its 92nd week on the chart, breaking the record that it shared with Glass ...

NPR listeners share the one song that hit them the hardest this year, and tell us why they laughed, cried, or simply couldn’t ...

Janelle has an extensive career as a writer, with over a decade of freelance experience, especially when it comes to pop culture. Although her first love was music, she also enjoys digging into ...

Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

Music has the power to move us, uplift us, and even haunt us — but sometimes, the stories behind our favorite songs are far more unsettling than we realize. Songwriters and musicians find inspiration ...

Remember the ’90s? If you do, here’s some news that might make you feel old: We’ve been in the 2000s for a quarter century now. That’s a long time, and over these past 25 years, the world has changed ...

It’s wild that The Beatles would make it to this list. However, the Fab Four failed to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with the release of the 1966 song “Yellow Submarine”. Some have blamed it on ...

It's true what they say: success does not always happen overnight. This is particularly accurate in the music business, where it can take years for an artist to reach a notable level of commercial ...

Ivory Joe wrote and released “Empty Arms” in 1957. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard R&B chart. More than a decade later, country singer Sonny James took the song to No. 1 in the early 1970s. James ...