The music of the 1960s and 1970s wasn’t just about legendary bands that dominated the charts — it was also an era filled with unforgettable one-hit wonders. These songs may have been the only big hit ...

Janelle has an extensive career as a writer, with over a decade of freelance experience, especially when it comes to pop culture. Although her first love was music, she also enjoys digging into ...

When we listen to a song on the radio or in a soundtrack, we tend to assume the voice we’re hearing is the same person who brought the song into existence. In reality, many steps need to happen before ...

NPR listeners share the one song that hit them the hardest this year, and tell us why they laughed, cried, or simply couldn’t ...

In the 1980s, these 10 acts just barely avoided one-hit wonder status, but which is their third best song? The decade was littered with one-hit wonder bands, but some acts managed to squeeze out ...

Ivory Joe wrote and released “Empty Arms” in 1957. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard R&B chart. More than a decade later, country singer Sonny James took the song to No. 1 in the early 1970s. James ...

Back in the 2010s, when she was just a teen, Rebecca Black went viral for the song “Friday”. Despite the insane amount of hate the song got on the internet at the time in 2011, Black’s hit pop song ...

Classic rock is full of surprising anecdotes. For example, Radiohead only released one song that became much of a hit on the Billboard Hot 100. The tune doesn’t exactly seem like the sort of song that ...

Teddy Swims makes history on this week’s Hot 100: “Lose Control,” the singer-songwriter’s soulful pop-rock anthem, spends its 92nd week on the chart, breaking the record that it shared with Glass ...

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 ...