How does a truly terrible song end up an otherwise flawless album? Blame ego-appeasing band-politics concessions, drug-fueled studio experiments, songwriters working through a few too many ...

"I fell in love with Carl Dean when I was 18 years old," Parton wrote in an Instagram post announcing the song. "We have spent 60 precious and meaningful years together. Like all great love ...

Both host Conan O'Brien and best original song presenter Mick Jagger suggested that the 'Complete Unknown' subject had passed on attending the ceremony. By Shirley Halperin The Oscar for best ...

Flack transformed the song from a pop/folk tune to one that drew from a wide range of American music forms – pop, soul and jazz. By Paul Grein Forever No. 1 is a Billboard series that pays ...

She was formerly at POPSUGAR, Bustle, Tiger Beat and Her Campus. Gareth Cattermole/Getty Brenda Song is loving the stage of life she’s in but even she’s dealt with imposter syndrome from ...

Music was a prismatic and intellectual form of creation for Flack, a rare sparkling diamond with a million diversely flashing facets, whose voice was — according to Les McCann, the jazz lion who ...

She specialized in hypnotic ballads like “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” and “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” all Number One hits. She grew up a ...

By Gary Trust Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” lifts a spot to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. The single – whose title is an ode to late R&B legend Luther Vandross ...

“Short n’ Sweet,” which moves to No. 2 with 156,000 equivalent album units earned following its deluxe reissue with five new songs on Feb. 14. Dolly Parton was enlisted as a feature on a ...