The Top 40 in 1968 was chock-full of incredible music, most of which every baby boomer can still sing by heart.

Most fans know that country music is full of cover songs. In the early days of the genre, it was not uncommon to see multiple artists record versions of the same song within months of one another.

John Lennon had a knack for stand-alone Top 40 songs. As the following countdown shows, five of his 14 trips to Billboard’s main singles chart weren’t originally part of any original album. Included ...

If 1965 was the year when pop and rock music started to take its first baby steps toward adulthood, as more artists began to explore albums as defining statements rather than collections of hit ...

Musical fame is notoriously brief. Stars rise and fall quickly, shining intensely for a few years before fading into darkness. While some artists may live on in record collections and oldies rotations ...