In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Did you know ...

The Beatles aren’t the only ones celebrating a big 50th anniversary this year. While Beatlemania was stirring up the U.K. and Europe prior to the group’s 1964 arrival in the U.S., a trio in Detroit ...

Lamont Dozier, the Motown songwriter who, with the brothers Brian and Eddie Holland, was behind such hits as the Supremes’ “Baby Love” and “You Keep Me Hanging On,” has died, his family said overnight ...

It didn’t happen overnight. In the beginning, the Supremes were three girls from the same Detroit housing project. When they started singing together, they were the Primettes, the sister group to a ...