As the holiday season approaches each year, a handful of Christmas songs infiltrate the charts. One song that is consistently ...

Brenda Lee recorded “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” in Nashville when she was just 13 years old. The Christmas classic is also now the official holiday song of Tennessee. In 2023, made it to No. 1 ...

1985 into the morning of Jan. 29, 1985. Richie has been a major player in the world of music for more than 50 years — indeed, as the New York Times recently put it, he “started out in the age ...

The star has crowned the Hot 100 in 1990-2000, 2005-06, 2008 and, thanks to "All I Want for Christmas Is You," 2019-24. By Gary Trust Adding yet another honor to her Billboard chart résumé ...

In the spring of 1985, a man entered the Rising Daughter Baptist in Waverly, Georgia and shot Harold Swain and his wife, Thelma. Witnesses at the time provided descriptions that were used to make ...

Hence, our decision to stretch this Best Songs of 2024 list all the way to 200 tracks — there’s so much noise out there that it’d be pointless to limit ourselves to 50 or even 100 songs. While we at ...

Last week, we unveiled our 100 Best Albums of 2024 list, which was topped by the likes of Jessica Pratt, Sturgill Simpson, Waxahatchee, Beyoncé, Fontaines D.C. and numerous other acts we still ...

The top of my list is big-statement songs, ones that had repercussions beyond how they sound. Below those, it’s not a ranking but a playlist, a more-or-less guided cruise through what 2024 ...

Near the end of each year, music people scribble out lists of their favorite songs, then take a few steps back to squint at the rankings. Is there any kind of theme in there? A unifying essence?

These days, things are both the same and very different: The public plays a bigger role than ever not only in making songs into hits, but getting them into the mainstream in the first place.

So, without further ado – and in no particular order – here are The Sisters of Mercy’s greatest songs, according to some of the people who know them best. "In my experience bands are such odd entities ...