Early in the 1900s, Billboard presented charts detailing the popularity of sheet music in the U.S. In July 1940, Billboard unveiled its first chart ranking the sales of recorded songs, the 10 ...

((In 2018, the Billboard staff released a list project of its choices for the Greatest Pop Star of every year, going back to 1981. Read our entry below on why Blondie was our Greatest Pop Star of ...

with their most popular album being Escape (1981), which reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts and features some of the band's most well-known songs. To check them out for yourself, read on (and ...