Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Nicki Minaj's "My Life" debuts at No. 1 on Billboard's Rap Digital ...

The late 1990s were a defining era for platform games. Some of the greatest games in the genre were released during this time. Developers were experimenting with 3D spaces, new control schemes, and ...

We’ve reached the finale of this year’s #1 hits ranking series, and we’re ending on one of the strongest Top 5s of the whole event. It helps that I lived through all of these songs dominating radio ...

Welcome to one of the worst years in Hot 100 history. Sure, most #1 hits these days are especially crummy, but there’s something impossible about 2005’s lukewarm output. Considering how rich 2004 was, ...

There are a lot of ways that “Song Sung Blue” — a film about real Milwaukee Neil Diamond tribute act Lighting and Thunder — could have gone awry. The premise alone could be a “Saturday Night Live” ...

They simply don't make music the same as they used to, but thankfully, we can revisit the classics as often as we please. Some of the best gems and biggest hits have come from the '70s, an iconic time ...

With the film Song Sung Blue due for release on Christmas Day, here’s a quick refresher course on Neil Diamond’s loping, midtempo ballad of the same name which became a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot ...

In what’s now become a yearly tradition every December, I’m back ranking #1 hits from topical anniversary dates. This winter we’ll be doing 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015, and I’ll be ranking every ...

Relive the magic of the 90s with songs that marked a generation and continue to thrill our hearts. Epstein file dam bursts as Trump demands full dump of grand jury stash ‘Desperately sad’ — RTÉ’s new ...

Telisha “Nikki” Jones grew up steeped in gospel, blues and R&B. She sang in a choir and wrote poetry. But becoming a full-time artist was “never a dream of mine,” she said. That all changed in ...

Country song "Walk My Walk" by singer Breaking Rust is number one on the country digital song sales chart. However, the singer and the song are all AI-generated. It’s been streamed 2.1 million times ...