Sure, we all love a good bop, but more substantial songs — the kind built around characters and narratives — can be just ...

When Van Halen recorded You Really Got Me, they took a beloved Kinks song and gave it a raw, heavy edge that helped define their sound.

In the past, Pentatonix has released singles featuring the group singing with recordings of artists who are no longer with us ...

The soundtrack to Reiner’s third film as a director, Stand by Me (Atlantic), reached No. 31 on the Billboard 200 and went ...

Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' has broken the record for most weeks spent at No. 1, logging 20 weeks on the ...

The Clash released back-to-back albums in December – London Calling (Dec. 14, 1979) and Sandinista! (Dec. 12, 1980). Both ...

These one-hit wonders from the 1970s were genuinely good artists, and I think their later hits deserved more chart attention.

Such traditional pop singers as Johnny Mathis and Andy Williams covered “Song Sung Blue” on 1972 albums. Eight years later, ...

The Billboard 200 has long been the ultimate standard for measuring album success in America. The records that have earned [… ...

Gaga was nominated at the 2010 ceremony with her debut studio album, The Fame; the following year with the EP The Fame ...

Today in Music History for Dec. 11: In 1882, Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta "Iolanthe" was performed at the Bijou Theater in Boston, the first U.S. playhouse to be lighted exclusively by electricity.

Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore are the latest songwriters to be inducted posthumously into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, ...