In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Look at this ...

On this day in 1999, Lonestar‘s “Amazed” notched a record-setting eight-week reign at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart—a stretch that hadn’t been matched in 30 years. Written by Marv Green ...

In the autumn months of 1969, Paul McCartney died. It had been a series of deaths, really. First up were the rumors, invented and spread by DJs and college students, that he had perished in a 1966, ...

The Beatles were more than a rock band. They were a cultural phenomenon. As their music evolved, each individual Beatle began contributing material, and musical differences became inevitable. During ...

Last night, stressing about undone tasks, I glanced in a mirror and saw my t-shirt, with its picture of a galaxy and a little sign sticking up out of its outer swirls, saying "you are here." A joke ...