THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES ... week Weeks at no. 1 Weeks on chart Fontana Week of December 24, 1966 click to see more Fontana Epic ...

Two years later, in August 1958, the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart began. At the end of 1958, Billboard printed a recap of the year’s biggest songs for the first time (that year also ...

And of course, there’s more of it all than ever before, – which makes narrowing the field to 40 songs harder in turn. We could have gone to 50 or 100 or more and still missed hundreds of ...

Continuing on with list season, we’re pivoting our focus to the best cover songs of the year. We opted to limit the ranking to one entry per project, as something like Thanks to I Saw the TV ...

In a year of exuberance and dread, songs came from every which way to comfort, to amuse, to haunt, to tantalize. Here, in descending order of greatness, are the 30 best of the year. 1. Chappell ...