There were many times during Julio Jones’ career when you watched him early on in a game and said, “Oh, this is looking like a Julio game.” He was going to produce over 100 receiving yards. There ...

Kelly Clarkson learned early on in her career that it's worthwhile to push back against music industry executives when they don't see the value in a song she loves. They thought she was just a TV show ...

John Mellencamp has a long list of hit songs over more than four decades. That doesn’t mean he likes all of them. In fact, Mellencamp said during a recent interview with Bill Maher that he hates the ...

Las Vegas – Can we all agree that Diana Ross is the definition of indefatigable? “You know I’m 81, right?” she playfully asked the audience while jutting a hip during “Upside Down,” her frothy 1980 ...

The Pretenders mixed up several different classic genres into their musical stew throughout their career. They also endured numerous drastic lineup changes. But they always had Chrissie Hynde, who ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. A little less than a year after her death, Roberta Flack was ...

His song “The Distance,” released in 1996, became an anthem for the disaffected members of Generation X. By Clay Risen Greg Brown, whose grungy guitar licks helped propel the band Cake, which he ...

A single released by an eighties icon skyrocketed to absolute smash hit status back in the day, becoming a top 10 hit on the “Billboard Hot 100.” Many people love the song to this day. But the artist ...

A single released by an eighties icon skyrocketed to absolute smash hit status back in the day, becoming a top 10 hit on the “Billboard Hot 100.” Many people love the song to this day. But the artist ...

Outside the Von Braun Center Arena on Thursday night it was 2026, but inside it was the 1990s. The venerable Huntsville, Alabama venue hosted an “All Star Salute to ’90s Country” tribute concert that ...

The year before punk broke, rock's old guard made a strong, pressing stand. But as the UCR staff-selected list below of the Top 40 Songs of 1976 shows, the music that dominated headlines at the end of ...