Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and ...

LONDON — British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998's ...

Below, Billboard’s hip-hop braintrust ranked the 50 greatest hip-hop album covers of all-time, spanning from from the genre’s earliest days, to some of the new generation’s most daring stars. Take a ...

Cliff's career peaked with "The Harder They Come," but, after a break in the late 1970s, he worked for decades with the ...

In 1996, it seemed a like a new stat hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 each week. These are three songs you likely forgot hit No. 1 in ...

Alice and Ellen Kessler, twin dancers and singers who launched their international career in the 1950s and performed with ...

Is it hot in here, or is it just our chart? By Hannah Dailey Let’s talk about sex, baby. For decades, the Billboard Hot 100 has documented the hottest songs in the country — but some of them have been ...

Bestselling author Jeff Pearlman digs into the complexities that defined rapper Tupac Shakur's short life in book Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur.

Taylor Swift can’t stop making chart history with “The Life of a Showgirl.” Shortly after it was announced that her album debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 with record numbers, Billboard also ...

Despite losing his life at only 25 in 1996, Tupac Shakur, also known as 2Pac, is still among hip-hop's most influential figures. When he was alive, the rapper released four studio albums that ...