From the start of July through August 2023, we’re ranking every Billboard #1 hit from 1973, 1983, 1993, 2003 and 2013 from worst to best in each respective year. Last week, we looked at what 1973 had ...

On this day, 1983, MTV aired the most influential music video of all time, which featured a big budget and lengthy runtime.

These three country songs were all released in 1983, but they are so good that every country music fan needs to know them.

Imagine you sent a time traveler back to 1983 to bring back the biggest, most influential album of the year. If your time traveler didn’t return with Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” well, you’d just ...

Today we look back at the best albums of 1983. Forty years ago, R.E.M. and Madonna released their debut LPs and U2 had their first international hit. Michael Jackson’s Thriller was released the ...

Here is the best thrash metal album of each year from 1983 to 1993. Over thrash's first decade (plus one more year), we saw the rise and fall of one of heavy metal's most enduring subgenres. Of thrash ...

As part of their ongoing #MetallicaMondays series, which has found Metallica posting complete concerts from across their career, the band has just shared a one-hour video from 1983 when they embarked ...

Pop vocal trio the Bee Gees performing at the Music for UNICEF Concert at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, January, 1979. The 1970s were an eclectic time for music and cultural ...

In the 1981 Rolling Stone obituary, Bob Marley biographer Timothy White wrote, “The pervasive image of Bob Marley is that of a gleeful Rasta with a croissant-sized spliff clenched in his teeth, stoned ...

What do we mean by “dance songs”? Good question. In a sense, any song that ever got any one person moving in any perceptible direction is a dance song. The Beatles made great dance songs — as did ...