For the next six weeks, I’m going to be ranking every Billboard #1 hit from 1964, 1974, 1984, 1994, 2004 and 2014 from worst to best in each respective year. I did this in 2023, which you can ...

O n this date in 1964, the Beatles posted their first No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, as “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” their first entry on the list, rose 3-1 in its just its third week ...

Betty Everett, an R&B; singer in the 1960s known mainly for her 1964 hit “The Shoop, Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss),” has died. She was 61.