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The '70s and '80s were a heyday for Oscar winners topping the Hot 100, but the double distinction became far less common ...

In 1976, a song reached No. 1 on the Billboard chart on May 8, 1976, stayed there for two weeks, and it spent a total of 20 weeks on the chart. Roughly 35 years later, Rolling Stone readers named it ...

The early 1970s was a period that featured quite a few artists who scored only one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with catchy tunes. More rare during this time were artists whose only major hit reached ...

New York City has always loomed large over the music world. Think of the way it hosted the Brill Building. Or how about its role at the epicenter of movements like punk and rap? It never seems to be ...

In 1970, the Dutch rock group Shocking Blue hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Venus.” The group made history as the first-ever Dutch band to top the coveted U.S. music chart, per The Current.

One of the most iconic rock stars of the 1970s spent almost that entire decade battling in court off and on over his biggest solo hit song ever. On November 28, 1970, George Harrison's "My Sweet ...

There's no question that the 1970s gave us some of the most amazing music of all time...but not every chart-topper from the decade went on to become a classic for generations to come. In fact, some of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1976, a song reached No. 1 on the Billboard chart on May 8, 1976, stayed there for two weeks, and it spent a total of 20 weeks ...

The singer and songwriter, who died on Friday at 86, gave voice to teenage dreams, then executed one of music’s most unexpected comebacks. By Stephen Thomas Erlewine Neil Sedaka defined a micro-era in ...