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.

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 ...

Modern English’s I Melt with You flopped on release but became an ’80s new wave classic after the 1983 film Valley Girl ...

Frontman James Hetfield's favourite songs from the Metallica back catalogue, picking out some of the bands biggest hits ...

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 ...

Johnny Marr, The Smiths guitarist and the mind behind countless indie staples, shared ten of his favourite tracks from ...

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 ...