Big comebacks, creative leaps and multiplatinum records dominated the year’s greatest music, as you’ll see in the below list of the Top 50 Songs of 1984. As voted on by the UCR staff, these ...

By Lindsay Zoladz If you’re halfway decent at math, you know that it is currently the 40-year anniversary of 1984 — which is not only the name of a George Orwell novel and a Van Halen album ...

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 ...

Last week, I ranked the 1974 crop and today we’re looking at 1984, my favorite year that we’ll tackle. The ranking involves 20 songs, and 18 of them are great and about 15 of them are still in ...

Guilty-pleasure songs come with the baggage of profound embarrassment ... “Hold Me Now” by Thompson Twins from Into the Gap Hits in 1984 were buoyed by earnestness. Thompson Twins’ defining ...