Colin Morris conducted a study for the online magazine The Pudding in which he found that the repetitiveness of songs on the Billboard Hot 100 had steadily increased between the chart’s inception in ...

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Mac Miller's song "Donald Trump" is a top 40 sales hit again following the re-election of the man the track is named after.

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Jelly Roll begins November 2024 with the No. 1 album in America and the No. 1 country song on the radio. Is that enough to ...

Rock and roll has always been about being from the wrong side of the tracks, but these songs are all about the darker side of life the devil can offer you.

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(See "Getting Closer," found later in our list of Top 40 Paul McCartney '70s Songs, among others.) Asked what a "pure McCartney song" might be during a 1986 BBC documentary, he at first demurred.

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