“Spirit in the Sky” went certified gold, with more than two million copies sold from 1969 to 1970, per The New York Times. It was the only hit of Greenbaum’s career, confirming his status as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This timeless era for Black musicians across genres such as R&B, funk, and pop preached messages of love, freedom, and fun. Let’s ...

Using historical Billboard charts and other top song and album lists from the 1970s, Stacker spotlighted 15 of the ...

And so it is with Don McLean, who recorded a hit so massive that it ranked number one on a list of the “greatest one-hit wonder songs of the 1990s.” The list was compiled by Ranker. However, some ...

To musical bluebloods, or blue-ears, or whatever you might call them, pop music has always been seen as an opiate for the masses. Listeners with taste never go for the most popular. They are more ...

Of all the different eras of country music we’ve witnessed, whether in real time or retrospect, the 1970s seem to take the cake in terms of overall grooves, musical and lyrical experimentation, and ...

Country music has been popular in the United States for decades. In recent years, though, the genre has seen an uptick in popularity with artists like Morgan Wallen, Luke Combs, and Lainey Wilson ...

Quite a few music commentators say that the 1970s produced some of the best and some of the worst pop and rock music of the last century. (Heck, we do here often at AudioPhix.) If you look at it that ...

The 1970s carried the momentum of the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War’s final years, Watergate, economic turmoil, and second-wave feminism. Music did more than entertain during that decade. It ...

Roberta Flack, a classically trained pianist who taught in the D.C. school system before launching a singing career that made her one of the most popular performers of the 1970s, with such No. 1 hits ...