When Billboard started publishing in 1894, Grover Cleveland was president of the United States of America — all 44 of them. Parsing politics has never been this publication’s primary purpose, but over ...

The 1950s. The dawning of a new era in popular music. The birth of rock & roll. James Brown and Chuck Berry. Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly. In 1958, Billboard released its first newly consolidated ...

If, on a whim, you decide to take a gander at the Billboard Top 100 hit singles chart and scan through the artists without looking at the song titles, you may feel like you stumbled on the Adult ...

Connie Francis, the first-ever solo female artist to hit the Billboard Hot 100, has died at age 87. The death of the beloved 1950s and ‘60s era singer was confirmed by Concetta Records president Ron ...

You can’t talk about music from this era without including Little Richard, a famed artist from Macon, Georgia. The track, "Tutti Frutti," was written by Richard and Dorothy LaBostrie and recorded in ...