CBS Records was well aware that there were no black records at all in the pop Top 20 the week ... of pop success, by 1985 more than one third of all the hits on the Billboard Hot 100 were of ...

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George Michael has been nominated for another Ivor Novello award, eight years on from his death. The beloved ...

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Aretha Franklin made chart history with her 1987 collaboration, "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)", with pop icon George ...

Sinéad O’Connor scored her only No. 1 hit on the ‘Billboard’ Hot 100 with her classic cover of the Prince tune "Nothing Compares 2 U" on April 21, 1990.

Forty-one years ago today, Phil Collins started a three-week run at No. 1 on the Hot 100 with a song that didn't make his solo album.

Merle Haggard wowed the crowd with an incredible performance of "Natural High" at a 1985 fundraiser in Illinois.

George Michael died on Christmas Day in 2016 at the age of 53, yet nearly a decade after his tragic death, the onetime Wham!

How Dire Straits went from the pubs of London to become one of the biggest bands of the 1980s ...