With a song from 1759 as a mile marker, pianist Lara Downes and historian Jill Lepore examine what this land was like just ...

Chris Stapleton's "Tennessee Whiskey" is the first country song to be certified double diamond by the RIAA. The song has sold over 20 million units in the United States. This achievement places the ...

Chris Stapleton just reached a milestone no other country artist ever has — and he did it with the song that started it all. “Tennessee Whiskey” is now the first country song in history to earn a ...

LORENA, Texas (FOX 44) – History in Central Texas is front-and-center in a grassroots effort to gather the community and foster downtown revitalization — by recreating the past centered around a ...

Whether or not you consider Wham!’s “Last Christmas” a gay song depends on how you see its lyrics and its creator. The 1984 Wham! song “Last Christmas” has become a regular holiday favorite among ...

Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is now the longest-running No. 1 song in U.S. chart history. The 1994 modern Christmas classic has spent a cumulative 20 weeks atop the Billboard Hot ...

This song has haunted listeners for over a century. It started as a folk tale whispered through the pines, became a blues lament under lead belly, and ended as nirvana’s rawest moment. Few songs carry ...

Bad Bunny is continuing a historic year. On Friday, as the Recording Academy announced its nominations for the 2026 Grammys, Bad Bunny became the first Spanish-language artist to earn nominations for ...

What makes a truly great dark country song? Well, it helps if there's a death involved, and country music is full of classic, chilling murder ballads that fit the bill. But in order to be truly dark, ...

Bruno Mars has always been an innovator and one of music’s most prolific hitmakers, but his most recent achievement goes all the way back to his first-ever Billboard smash. His breakout 2010 single, ...

Bruno Mars has made history once again. His debut solo single, “Just the Way You Are,” has officially become the highest-certified song in RIAA history, reaching 21x Platinum and surpassing “Sunflower ...