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The Beach Boys reach a new all-time peak on the Billboard Global Excl. US as “Little Saint Nick” rises around the Christmas ...

This song was originally written and recorded by Leon Payne in 1960, but it was Jim Reeves’ 1966 ... Hot 100. The song also spent six weeks on top of the Canadian charts and was ranked number two by ...

Well, as the late great Quincy Jones would say, find 100 ways, because it was a year ... These are my 25 favorite songs of 2024. (Although many other gems are over on my albums list, to avoid ...

This past summer, the K-pop group Stray Kids debuted atop the Billboard 200 with a record ... the all-time record of 19 weeks at No. 1 is held by two songs, both of them from the streaming era ...

Songs of a Lost World is reflective of a great band’s undeniable evolution and true artistry. It is elegant, gut-wrenching, and indisputably authentic—an absolute masterpiece. The album doesn ...

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Is Christmas really the saddest day of the year? There’s a whole history of holiday music that explores what it’s like to be down-and-out during the season. Are you mourning absent family ...

The Billboard Hot 100 is widely considered to be the definitive all-genre singles chart in the US. Since it was launched in 1958, well over 1,000 songs have reached the coveted No. 1 spot ...

Two years later, in August 1958, the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart began. At the end of 1958, Billboard printed a recap of the year’s biggest songs for the first time (that year also ...