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 ...

Linda Ronstadt is no one-hit wonder. Technically, her old band, The Stone Poneys, would be considered one-hit wonders. The baroque pop folk group only scored one major hit back in the 1960s, and that ...

Let’s take a trip. Let’s close our eyes and leap from the darkness into the soft, satin, cotton candy times known as the 1960s. (Okay, the decade wasn’t really all that saccharine…let’s ignore that ...

In 1985, a washed-up singer named Derek Stevens walked into a meeting with record company execs in hopes of reviving his career. The first song he played for them would become the stuff of legends. It ...