“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. Before Billboard charts, before ...

Hit-Boy. Has there ever been a name more fitting for an artist? Since the late 2000s, the producer has been behind some of the most recognizable hits in rap music. Hailing from Southern California, he ...

View post: Predicting the Matches for WrestleMania 42: Night 2: The Tribal Chief Squares Off With the Best in the World Joe Keery's song "End of Beginning" dethroned Taylor Swift on the Spotify charts ...

We’ve reached the finale of this year’s #1 hits ranking series, and we’re ending on one of the strongest Top 5s of the whole event. It helps that I lived through all of these songs dominating radio ...

Like fruitcake and tangled lights, holiday songs show up every year, some nice, some naughty. For the past five decades, several Christmas songs have risen above the tinsel and snow to become true ...

In what’s now become a yearly tradition every December, I’m ranking #1 hits from topical anniversary dates. This winter we’ll be doing 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015, and I’ll be ranking every chart ...

PEOPLE FIRST started bopping to “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” in 1958. They have done so every December since. Yet it was not until 2023—exactly 65 years later—that the song topped the charts.

With the film Song Sung Blue due for release on Christmas Day, here’s a quick refresher course on Neil Diamond’s loping, midtempo ballad of the same name which became a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot ...

We say something like this every year, but now more than ever, a hit song is more than just a song. They’re always the soundtrack for years or moments in our lives, but now they’re also the soundtrack ...