For the rest of the year, I’m ranking every Billboard #1 hit from 1964, 1974, 1984, 1994, 2004 and 2014 from worst to best in each respective year. I did this in 2023, which you can read the final ...

"Thriller" had a stronger Halloween week in 2024, but hits a new 21st century Hot 100 peak this week. The reason has less to ...

1984 was a strong year for music in general, but rock, in particular, had a stellar run. In this era of the genre, hair bands ran rampant, experimentation was commonplace, and anthems were all the ...

There are a lot of things going on in today’s crazy, mixed-up world. We don’t need to enumerate them here, but suffice it to say, it often feels like too much is happening. But what can a person do to ...