Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts.

Continuing down memory lane, this is a look at some of the top country hits of 1989 a staggering 35 years ago. With music's uncanny ability to take us away to the places we were, the people we were ...

Taylor Swift‘s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) opened with one of the most dominant weeks on the charts in years, as the album takes seven of the Top 10 slots on Billboard‘s Hot 100, the publication announced ...

Swift also becomes the first artist to score new Global 200 No. 1s in consecutive weeks, as her new leader follows the coronation of her “Cruel Summer” a week earlier. The Billboard Global 200 and ...