The late icon's catalog counts "When Doves Cry," "Purple Rain" and "Kiss" among its biggest successes. By Trevor Anderson Prince, aptly named, was music royalty, celebrated among his peers as a ...

The legendary songwriter penned hits for stars including Garth Brooks, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kenny Rogers, Randy Travis and Tanya Tucker. By Russ Penuell The songs told the stories. The artists made ...

The year before punk broke, rock's old guard made a strong, pressing stand. But as the UCR staff-selected list below of the Top 40 Songs of 1976 shows, the music that dominated headlines at the end of ...

As 2025 winds down, let's take a closer look at the 13 best rock songs of the year and count down to the best of the best. Earlier this year, we gave you the 51 Best Rock and Metal Songs of 2025 and ...

What a year for music — great songs came out of anywhere, in every style and every genre. These are my 25 favorite songs of 2025, though some gems will appear over on my albums list, to avoid ...

So there was no official song of summer. So let’s move beyond the biggest hits and check out the 10 songs we kept coming back to this year. The singer-songwriter who has worked with Miley Cyrus, ...

Stuck between the '70s and '90s, literally and figuratively, the '80s reached its midpoint in a melting pot of styles: rock, pop, metal, new wave, alternative, soul, dance and more. As selected by the ...

If you’re like a lot of us, this past year might be one you’re not unhappy to see go. (Maybe you’d even like to see the swinging door slap 2024’s ass on the way out.) But then, also like some of us, ...

Mariah Carey performs one of her greatest hits onstage for "Merry Christmas One And All!" at Yaamava' Resort & Casino at San Manuel on November 15, 2023 in Highland, California. Mariah Carey is a pop ...

Songs show up everywhere these days: appended to sports highlights and TikToks, piped into political rallies and Paneras, interpolated during sermons. This ubiquity often trivializes music, but it ...

Near the end of each year, music people scribble out lists of their favorite songs, then take a few steps back to squint at the rankings. Is there any kind of theme in there? A unifying essence? A ...

As we put this list together, we thought about the rise of a new pop class, the return of some longtime favorites, regional rap bangers, country crossovers, the year of sexy drill, and more. All the ...