For more than half a century, the Billboard Hot 100 has been documenting the biggest, most commercially successful hits in the U.S. The chart—compiled by Billboard magazine using record sales, radio ...

If you've listened to any pop music since the 1990s, you've listened to Max Martin. The Swedish songwriter and record producer has been omnipresent in the industry for decades, and he has masterminded ...

7/21 Books; 191 pp. David Klein reads at the Regulator Bookshop in Durham on Thursday, March 22, at 7 p.m. I readily admit that I’m a numerically hyper-aware guy. In numbered lots, I’ll only park in ...

In 1985, a washed-up singer named Derek Stevens walked into a meeting with record company execs in hopes of reviving his ...

With all due respect (and possible future apologies) to Beyoncé, whose path recently overlapped with hers on the “Vogue”-sampling “Break My Soul (The Queens Remix),” Madonna is set this week to remind ...