In 1976, a song reached No. 1 on the Billboard chart on May 8, 1976, stayed there for two weeks, and it spent a total of 20 weeks on the chart. Roughly 35 years later, Rolling Stone readers named it ...

At #8 was Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods' 1974 #1 hit "Billy Don't Be a Hero," actually a cover of a song by the British group ...

Dylan DeMarcus, son of Rascal Flatts' Jay DeMarcus, humorously critiques dad’s band in studio, calling 'Life Is a Highway' ...

Ballad in Plain D and Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands reveal Bob Dylan’s most profound and painfully honest love songs.

On January 28th, 2026, Bruce Springsteen released “Streets of Minneapolis,” a protest song he’d written “in response to the ...

The Allman Brothers' Ramblin' Man is a classic rock song Bob Dylan reportedly wished he could have written himself.

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. Before Billboard charts, before ...

Bruce Springsteen touched down in Minnesota on Friday and performed his protest song “Streets of Minneapolis,” a response to the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents, hours after ...

Microsoft shares got caught up in a sell-off Thursday that wiped out $357 billion in value, the second-largest for a single session in stock market history. The software giant’s stock closed down 10%, ...

The 1970s were a wild time for music. Disco, rock, and everything in between flooded the airwaves, giving us some truly unforgettable tunes. But let’s be real: not every song that hit number one ...

Back in my day, EQing instruments out of songs was a real pain in the ass—even if you got all your low and high filters just right, the results were far from perfect. Just ask every soul song I tried ...

Johnston wrote “I Write The Songs” during a several-year hiatus from The Beach Boys in the 1970s. Manilow didn’t initially record the song when he was presented with it, because he was worried that ...