For all the nay-sayers and Scrooges out there, Christmas pop is an annual scourge of the high street and TV advertising from ...

Forty-seven years ago today, a singing cowgirl who toured with a Wild West act and made country music history died.

Veteran singer on the ‘accidental' hit he wrote for someone else and how it captured the public imagination to become a ...

We say this every year, but any list of the year's best music books is even more of a losing proposition than best albums or ...

From rain-soaked concerts to last-minute substitutions and happy accidents, rock history is full of chance moments that ...

There was a man in the city of Salzburg by the name of Joseph Wolhmuth. He was well-to-do, but not exactly well-liked. In fact, he was the local executioner — a hangman. Though the job paid well, it ...

A glance at some of those chart-toppers in 2025, including Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” Sabrina Carpenter ’s “Manchild,” Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” Huntrix’s “Golden” and Taylor Swift ’s “The Fate of ...

Forty-seven years ago today, Waylon Jennings was in the middle of a long run at the top of the country chart with one of his ...

The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

What the saxophone riff was to 2014, the heavy panting sample is to 2025: a little microtrend meant to imply, well, sex on ...

“Uncharted Territory” provides an entertaining and empirical look at how the Billboard chart has changed over the decades.

The top country songs of 2025 prove that the next generation has arrived, and we're not just talking about the artists. Important songs from this year broke on streaming platforms or social media ...