The hit featured a bizarre creature with a surprisingly wholesome dream.

Today, Sept. 29, marks the 68th anniversary of a pop classic with quite the stately backstory. A suave little ballad that arrived during the transition between 1950s orchestral pop and the emerging ...

"Die With a Smile" is the latest leader, dating to the Hot 100's 1958 launch. By Xander Zellner Billboard has been publishing weekly rankings in one form or another for more than a century. Early in ...

While surf rock music wasn’t as prominent in the 1950s as it would be in later decades, the era certainly helped to shape the style’s unique, breezy DNA. That’s just what we wanted to dive into here ...

Let’s take a walk back into the past. Let’s go back seven-plus decades and visit the world of the 1950s. It was a time when rock and roll was just getting going. When commercial music was just finding ...

Billboard celebrates 60 summers on the Hot 100 with a look at the hottest songs to make waves on the chart in the summertime. By Billboard Staff Summer is rapidly approaching, which means many of the ...

A rock song hitting the charts once is an achievement. Doing it multiple times is rare. Doing it four separate times, each with a different artist, is something else entirely. That's exactly what ...

Hot weather and nostalgia make for a potent mix(tape). In order to aid your festive flashbacks, we analyzed the Billboard Hot 100 chart each year dating back to the ...

The popular music of the late 1950s was dominated by Italian singers from the urban northeast — though you might never guess it with a cursory glance at their names. Besides the uncontested star of ...