Early in the 1900s, Billboard presented charts detailing the popularity of sheet music in the U.S. In July 1940, Billboard unveiled its first chart ranking the sales of recorded songs, the 10 ...

A musical year with hits from Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar and breakouts by Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter ...

Year in Review ... What songs were the most streamed in 2024? The folks at Spotify keep track of global interest and reported ...

The two most recently released holiday hits to jingle to the Hot 100’s top 10 did so on the Dec. 28, 2024-dated chart: Ariana Grande’s “Santa Tell Me,” released in 2014, and Kelly Clarkson’s ...

People get excited every year for the season of Christmas music because nothing else feels like it. Carols, old pop standards ...

Music-identification app Shazam surpassed 100 billion song recognitions recently. Here, I have recognized 10 songs that mattered ... told Rolling Stone in 2020. Giddens plays banjo on a catchy ...

The songs that break through the noise of all the contexts in which we now play music also illustrate the value of swag, timbre, attitude, mystery. These 10 tracks, spanning rap, country ...

NEW YORK — Ten of the best songs of the year, as determined by Associated Press Music Writer Maria Sherman, in no particular order. “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Shaboozey It is not only the biggest song of ...

On the latest Hot 100 chart (dated December 28, so it’s the final one of the year), Carey is No. 1 for a 17th week, which puts the song in third place on the all-time list of the most weeks spent at ...