Michael Lippman, a formidable artist manager, label executive, and lawyer whose fierce advocacy and sharp deal-making helped shape modern pop stardom, died on Dec. 29. He was 79. The cause of death ...

Such traditional pop singers as Johnny Mathis and Andy Williams covered “Song Sung Blue” on 1972 albums. Eight years later, the greatest of them all, Frank Sinatra, covered the song on his triple-disk ...

Grammy fever is heating up as first-round voting opens on Friday (Dec. 12). By Paul Grein Sabrina Carpenter is nominated for album of the year at the upcoming 68th Grammy Awards for Man’s Best Friend, ...

Rob Reiner has died alongside his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, the director's family confirmed late Sunday (Dec. 14).

Howie Klein, the influential and forward-thinkinrecord executive and political activist whose artist-first philosophy helped bring alternative music into the mainstream, died Wednesday (Dec. 24) after ...

Fifty-five years ago today, George Harrison became the first former Beatle to score a No. 1 single in the United States.

Riley Green and Ella Langley expand their entwined chart history, earning a second No. 1 together on Billboard ’s Country Airplay chart as “Don’t Mind If I Do” lifts two spots to the top of the Dec.

Donna Summer, the undisputed Queen of Disco, shocked the music world with her hidden talent for crafting timeless hits. Her ...

Jerry Butler, a legendary soul singer with the Impressions, died on Feb. 20. He was 85. He had reportedly been battling ...

While pop music was all the rage in the mid-80s, there were female-fronted classic rock bands who earned No. 1 hit songs in ...

Gospel singer Richard Smallwood died December 20 at 77. He had a dozen Top 10 albums and four No. 1s on the Billboard gospel ...