Over 15K music fans have voted on the 380+ Best Pop Music Artists & Groups Of All Time. Current Top 3: Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Queen
Criteria:These recordings were ranked based on initial popularity, longevity and lasting popularity, influence, social impact, and on their effect on the development and advancement of recorded music and the music business in general. This is all done mainly from an American/English speaking perspecti...
Though songs had to hail from the Hot 100 era to qualify for our list, this isn’t a charts-determined ranking: Rather, these are the songs our staff felt were simply the greatest, most enduring pop songs of that 65-year period, the songs that we most think of when we think of ...
These all-time rankings are based on actual performance on the weekly Adult Pop Songs chart, from its launch in Billboard magazine dated March 16, 1996, through March 12, 2016.
Aubrey Drake Graham (or Drake, to you and me), has, despite still being relatively young, has already reserved his place among the pantheon of the greatest rappers of all time. Hailing from Toronto, Drake made his initial mark on the hip-hop scene in 2009 with his groundbreaking mixtape,...
Long before theseHallyustars, plenty of homegrown artists paved the way for K-pop’s popularity and eclecticism. Our list of 100 Greatest Songs in the History of Korean Pop Music was led byRolling Stonecontributor Michelle Hyun Kim and crafted by a panel of music journalists and critics, both...
There is an ocean so dark down below the waves Where you watch while these dreams gently float away And there is a silence so soft it’s only memory Like the way your voice always sounds when you sing to m But I can’t hear it now ...
Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden I understand that this isn't as well-known as many of the songs above it (which are great in their own right), but let me explain why this is one of, if not arguably, the greatest song of all time. First, let's look at the instruments, specif...
Ready to Diemarked the precise moment when hip-hop’s golden age transitioned into its modern age, the height of New York hip-hop, and the sound of the greatest rapper of all time at the absolute top of his powers. The album starts with the theater necessary for such a high-stakes deb...
Bruno Mars' 10 greatest songs ever, ranked It has been described as borrowing “heavily from roots reggae” and has been compared to the reggae pop style of Jason Mraz. It is an anthem to laziness, and topped the UK chart. Bobby McFerrin - 'Don't Worry Be Happy' Bobby McFerrin - Don...