The iconic songwriter discusses writing a song for her own documentary, what she thinks of her famous collaborators' honest ...

Determining which song was Elvis’ biggest hit is a tricky thing. Over the course of a career that began with 1954’s Sun single “That’s All Right,” (which sold around 20,000 copies regionally) to his ...

Every year has its outlier hits, but it's hard to think of a song from the last 50 years that sounds even a little like the ...

How can a song be too successful? Isn’t that the whole goal? Well it is until it’s earned, and then it can seem like more of a curse than a blessing. At least, that’s how many songwriters see it. In ...

Here's why "All I Want for Christmas Is You," which reemerges on the charts each holiday season, is on track to become the most successful song ever released. By Mesfin Fekadu Christmas may be over, ...

Remember the ’90s? If you do, here’s some news that might make you feel old: We’ve been in the 2000s for a quarter century now. That’s a long time, and over these past 25 years, the world has changed ...

Despite this, there are a few who did the unthinkable by creating covers so great that the originals seem obsolete. As a result, here are six covered songs that were more successful than the original.

Pop vocal trio the Bee Gees performing at the Music for UNICEF Concert at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, January, 1979. The 1970s were an eclectic time for music and cultural ...

Bob Dylan has one of the most acclaimed and valuable catalogs of songs in music history. That isn’t just thanks to his originals, but it is also thanks to the wide variety of musicians who have ...