Billboard's best birthday songs of all time. Okay, “22” only fully works as a birthday song when the listener is actually turning 22 — but its impact on the demographic is so vast, it’s ...

An earlier version of this article said “Happy Birthday” is a six-note song. It is actually an eight-note song. The story began in 1893, with a Kentucky schoolteacher and her older sister.

Jennifer Hudson did her best to kick up the standard vanilla version of Happy Birthday. She did a nice job, which is to be expected because she could sing the alphabet and win a Grammy. But it’s ...

Happy, happy birthday, Today’s your birthday day! You are one year older, And so we’re here to say: First you get your flan, And then you eat it, too. So happy, happy birthday, From all of us ...

*Stevie Wonder’s version of the “happy birthday” song is one of the most popular among Black people in America. The singer wrote the song in 1981, as a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther Jr ...

He also composed a new version of “Happy Birthday” in MLK’s honor. As Baram reports, Wonder originally planned to record himself singing the traditional version of the song for King, but ...

'The Happy Birthday song in English sounds like they are offering the birthday person as a sacrifice,' one woman said. The majority of users loved the Arabic version of the song.