What deserved to win Song of the Year at the 1990 Grammy Awards? We look back at the nominees and pass our retrospective judgment.

The NAACP Image Awards announced its 2026 nominations on Monday, with the coveted Entertainer of the Year lineup consisting ...

The quarter-century mark is in the rear-view, making it a good time to declare the best of the best in North Carolina high school athletics through the first 25 years of the 2000s.

Before he was the guy leading stadiums full of fans through the chorus of "Sweet Caroline," Neil Diamond was a kid in Brooklyn writing song lyrics while bored in class. Diamond's expansive songwriting ...

In what’s now become a yearly tradition every December, I’m ranking #1 hits from topical anniversary dates. This winter we’ll be doing 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015, and I’ll be ranking every chart ...

Rap in 2025 was all about experimentation. From the year’s first runaway hit, NBA player-turned-musician Gelo’s single “Tweaker,” to the maximalist ecclesiastics of Playboi Carti’s Music, or even in ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...

Another song list! This one is a personal favorite of mine, because it means I get to spend a lot of time with artists I like covering other artist’s songs. Last December, Paste crowned Merce Lemon’s ...

So there was no official song of summer. So let’s move beyond the biggest hits and check out the 10 songs we kept coming back to this year. The singer-songwriter who has worked with Miley Cyrus, ...

In 2024, the song of the year was so undeniable and inescapable that we don’t even have to bother naming it. This year, the landscape is much trickier. Twenty twenty-five hasn’t produced a ...

As the holidays approach, Christmas songs have been climbing back up the charts. As of Dec. 9, 13 of the top 20 on Billboard's Global 200 chart are holiday songs—eclipsing pop hits like Taylor Swift's ...