Our staff's favorite songs from a year that confirmed that hip-hop and R&B were now at top 40's center, but also had plenty of great rock, country and dance-pop to go around. This week, Billboard is ...

Count down the biggest hits on the 2005 year-end Hot 100, based on weekly performance on the chart. By Gary Trust This week, Billboard is publishing a series of lists and articles celebrating the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I’m grateful that folks have taken this ride with me again this year. The series is almost done for 2025. On December 31 we’ll ...

Ah, thanks Backstop - that's handy. I also just went and searched in Wikipedia for every single person on my list there, and they all had entries so I can't be completely weird. But hey - there's 1250 ...

If summer is endless, as the surfers and romantics say, then summer's soundtrack only stretches on through time. No doubt, 20 summers ago, music journalists were trying to identify the season's ...

Some country songs come and go, as fads and styles change. But some songs sound just as good years later, including these three country songs, all released in 2005. “Guess the Lord made me hard to ...

TikTok has given musicians more opportunities for exposure than ever before. Though the traditional framework for the music industry hasn’t been completely broken down, content creation has shifted ...

Rolling Stone has compiled their list of the 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs of All Time, and it's not too promising if you're a fan of modern metal. In fact, only one song from the 2010s made the cut, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thanks to the 2003-2004 blockbuster successes of artists like Usher, OutKast, 50 Cent, Kanye West and Beyoncé, by 2005, it was ...

Welcome to one of the worst years in Hot 100 history. Sure, most #1 hits these days are especially crummy, but there’s something impossible about 2005’s lukewarm output. Considering how rich 2004 was, ...