In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. There are so ...

Irv Gotti, the music executive, songwriter and producer behind the reign of hip-hop and R&B stars Ja Rule and Ashanti in the early 2000s, has died. Gotti, the music mogul who co-founded Murder Inc.

To ring in the new year, music fans of a certain age were treated to a couple of familiar faces on Friday night (December 31). Reuniting for Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, R&B star Ashanti and ...