Looking back at the biggest hit singles of every year, dating to the Hot 100's 1958 launch. By Xander Zellner Billboard has been publishing weekly rankings in one form or another for over a century.

Carole King’s 'Really Rosie,' her 1975 collaboration with famed children’s author Maurice Sendak, marks its 50th anniversary ...

Frankie Avalon- Venus (#46): The original, from 1959, was Avalon's best song, and was recorded in nice stereo. This is an ...

What have been the biggest rock albums of the 21st Century so far? Billboard has now released their list of the Top 200 Albums of the Decade and there's one rock album that's managed to crack the ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — There is only one non-Christmas song on the Billboard Top 10 this week. The rest of the top 10 songs are primarily classics with a few more recent artists. Then, of course ...

The Billboard Hot 100 singles chart measures the most popular songs every week from Friday to Thursday based on the combination of their sales, online streams (audio and video), and radio airplay.

The Hot 100 is the United States’ main singles chart, compiled by Billboard magazine based on sales, airplay and streams in the US. View the full Hot 100 here.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. 2Pac has been on a posthumous roll lately thanks to a viral craze, one which ...

Folk music is criminally underrepresented in the 21st century, but back in the day these three folks songs graced the charts' ...