The breakthrough single launched the singer's international career and became a chart-topping success in several countries.

In 1977, Cosby, Stills & Nash had their biggest hit with a song that happened by chance. Recorded by musical trio David ...

Reaching No. 7 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and spending 19 weeks on the chart, the timeless track became the highest-charting ...

Long before it became a defining hit of the hair metal era, one of its most beloved songs was shaped by an unlikely source 43 ...

These love songs missed out on No. 1 single status, but they resonated over time and attained enough cultural ubiquity that ...

Most bands would be ecstatic to have just one of their songs reach No. 1 in the United States. In the summer of 1985, British ...

A popular duo from England recorded a song ranked as the best pop song of the 1980s. Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" ranked top 1980s pop song by Ranker. Ranker praised the song’s ...

The 1980s was a Golden Age of one-hit wonders, but if you had an aversion to MTV-pretty artists and their synthesizer – or (shiver) keytar – heavy, boppy pop tunes, the pickings were slim. Thankfully, ...

“September Gurls” was likely the biggest power pop song of 1974. It was all over the radio in the years that followed, but when it first dropped, it actually wasn’t that big of a hit. Today, it’s ...

Paul McCartney has dished out so many chart-topping hits that became radio fodder, both in and out of The Beatles, that I’m not surprised that some of his hits have fallen to the wayside in favor of ...