Kylie Minogue's "Xmas" shoots to No. 1 on the U.K.'s Official Singles chart, earning the pop superstar her eighth leader — ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Jackson 5's “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town” debuts on Billboard ...

NEPTUNE -- Michael Jackson in his late teenage years struts to center stage, his kid sister Janet Jackson at his side while their other siblings dance behind them. Out comes a funky original song that ...

Michael Jackson wasn’t just the King of Pop-he was also a gifted songwriter who penned hits for some of the biggest names in music. While the world knows him for chart-toppers like “Billie Jean” and ...

After two decades of chart-topping hits, Michael landed his first and only Christmas number one with the environmental anthem ...

Asbury Park Press photographer Brian Johnston's favorite video of 2025: Neptune man's remarkable battle with Michael Jackson and family. Watch here.

Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

That's not to suggest that "Old Town Road" and "A Bar Song" are the two biggest hits of all time. They're merely beneficiaries of a streaming landscape in which listeners are continually fed the same ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Warner Bros/Apple/Mubi/Netflix The holidays are in the air, and now is the perfect time ...

Sex in movies got an extremely high-profile cosign at this year’s Academy Awards, when the sex-work dramedy Anora took home ...

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

A Neptune man owns the rights to "The Jacksons," a 1970s variety show, and 74 unreleased master recordings from it. Henry Vaccaro, 85, acquired the assets through a decades-long legal battle with the ...