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This weekend, a woman who possesses one of the most famous distinctive voices in music will be celebrating a birthday, but since we won’t be in the office on the day in question, we decided that someone as special as...

If you’re one of the millions upon millions of viewers who tuned in to watch Harry and Meghan’s royal wedding on Saturday and watched the proceedings with rapt attention, then you couldn’t possibly have missed the Kingdom Choir’s performance of...

34 years ago today, Prince released his first single with the Revolution as his backing band and provided a generation with an instant retort to any traumatizing moment in their lives: “So this is what it sounds like when doves...

Even if you haven’t seen Avengers: Infinity War yet, it’s no spoiler to say that the members of the Guardians of the Galaxy are in the film, since they’re heavily promoted not only in the trailer but also on the...

46 years ago this week, David Bowie released the single that helped reinvigorate his career after his post-“Space Oddity” slump. Written by Bowie, who also co-produced the song with Ken Scott, “Starman” is one of the most famous tracks on...

34 years ago today, Twisted Sister released the debut single from their third studio album, STAY HUNGRY, a track which proved to be the band’s only top-40 single but which also raised their profile to such a degree that they’re...

31 years ago this week, Aretha Franklin found herself atop the Billboard Hot 100 for the second time in her career due to her duet with George Michael, “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me),” which seems like a good...

12 years ago today, Daniel Powter sat atop the Billboard Hot 100, making this a good day to do a Single Stories piece on “Bad Day.” Written by Powter and produced by Mitchell Froom and Jeff Dawson, “Bad Day” was...

12 years ago today, “Dancing in the Street” was announced as one of the 50 latest sound recordings to be preserved by the Library of Congress to the National Recording Registry. Of course, the version designated for preservation was the...