Early in the 1900s, Billboard presented charts detailing the popularity of sheet music in the U.S. In July 1940, Billboard unveiled its first chart ranking the sales of recorded songs, the 10 ...

“I get along with old timers/ ‘Cause my name’s a reminder of a pop song people forgot.” Fair indeed to suggest that in 2016, the general public was not still humming along to “Cooler Tha ...