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 ...

View post: McDonald’s Announces Major Change for All Restaurants in 2026 Joe Keery's song "End of Beginning" dethroned Taylor Swift on the Spotify charts. Keery releases music as Djo after leaving the ...

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 ...

Country music is full of cover songs. In the 1950s and ’60s, it was common for multiple artists to cut the same song within months of one another. Today, though, artists tend to leave more of a gap ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, the Grammys announced their latest batch of nominations. One nominee has a fraught history with the Awards. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson has the story. STEPHEN THOMPSON, BYLINE: ...