Billboard unveiled its first chart ranking the sales of recorded songs, the 10-position “National List of Best Selling Retail Records,” with Bing Crosby, Jimmy Dorsey and Glenn Miller among ...

In the age of “Thriller,” black music made a resounding comeback on the pop charts. If 1982 was the genre’s low point in terms of pop success, by 1985 more than one third of all the hits on ...

The 1982 album won five Grammys (including Album of the Year) and produced four hit singles ... is devoted to the retroactively named genre of music that blended soft-rock, jazz and R&B and ...