Stacker surveyed Billboard’s Hot 100 chart in 1975 to highlight the top 50 songs turning 50 in 2025. See which hits made the ...

In this decade, the success of funk meant it was also beginning to influence new popular genres. Many early disco songs leaned on the same rhythmic phrasings as funk, and hip hop was spawned ...

And now, Billboard just announced that Bruno Mars’s “Uptown Funk” has claimed the second spot on the list of Top Hot 100 Songs of the 21st Century. Billboard recently released a list of the ...

Influential funk musician Roy Ayers has died at 84 after a long battle with a serious illness. Best known as a vibraphone player and record producer, Ayers' work heavily impacted genres like disco, ...

Kendrick Lamar and Mustard did this with the record “ Not Like Us, ” which is currently one of the most popular songs in the world. Curiously enough, throughout music history, most of the songs that ...

Everybody Loves Sunshine hit-maker and jazz legend, Roy Ayers, has passed away after battling a long illness. He was 84.

Despite her impressive accomplishments, she never had a top 40 single on the Billboard Hot 100. In total, three of her songs charted: “No More Rain (In This Cloud)” in 1999, “Brotha” in 2001, and ...

Influential funk musician Roy Ayers has died at 84 ... The signature Roy Ayers song, hugely popular at the time and reinvented over and over again, most famously in Mary J Blige's massive 1994 ...