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

Such traditional pop singers as Johnny Mathis and Andy Williams covered “Song Sung Blue” on 1972 albums. Eight years later, ...

Send us a voice memo about a song that hit you hard in 2025 — one you listened to on repeat, made you cry, or just got you in ...

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 ...

Kelsea Ballerini has made headlines more than once for stopping her shows across the past year and setting fans straight when it comes to a disturbing trend, and she has obviously had just about ...

Connie Francis was 87 years old when she posted her first TikTok earlier this year, marveling at an impossible second act: a song she’d recorded in 1962 – the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis – was ...

Happy scrolling! Here is every #1 hit song from 1975, ranked from worst to best. I am among KC and the Sunshine Band’s greatest haters. They’re simply avatars of a forgotten, hopeless time when pop ...

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 ...

What makes a hit song “generic”? Marketability, easy consumption, and the uncanny ability to sound like every band at once. Basically, a song that could have been done by anyone and still have the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 1987 track is getting a new life with a whole new generation of fans.