The 33 Most Romantic No. 1 Hits
Love songs have gone in and out of style since Billboard began its Hot 100 chart in 1958. Here are the best ones that hit the top spot.
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21 Defining Moments Of 1966
A look back at an epic year that gave us Twister, Star Trek, The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds and an escalating war in Vietnam.
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John Lennon’s Insane Psychedelic Rolls Royce
When you are a Beatle, life is AWESOME.
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The 24 Most Important Flowcharts Of All Time
Turns out all the biggest questions in life can be answered by diagrams.
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17 Musicians As Creepy Dolls
When your ability to make arts & crafts doesn’t exactly match your obsessive fandom. Happy nightmares!
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17 Questions From Pop Songs, Answered Definitively
Famous lyrics, taken literally.
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9 Reasons George Harrison Was The Funniest Beatle
George Harrison had comic chops. Any person who mortgages his house to fund a Monty Python film must know something about comedy.
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16 Wonderfully Weird Disco Covers
Disco doesn’t suck, but some of these covers do. Behold Joni Mitchell, Chuck Berry, and Broadway classics get the disco treatment.
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16 Truly Terrible Beatles Covers
There are many great covers of Beatles songs: these are not them.
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15 Glorious Songs About Pie
Nothing inspires musicians more than pie. Not love, not sex, not drugs. It’s pie. Especially if you are Paul McCartney.
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The Beatles’ Secretary Finally Tells Her Story (Like How She Would Mail Out The Band’s Hair)
In the fascinating documentary Good Ol’ Freda, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival, the Fab Four’s loyal secretary breaks her silence.
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10 Things Worth Obsessing Over At The SXSW Film Festival
Over 130 feature films and 150 panels will unfold at the SXSW Film Festival, which plays alongside SXSW’s Interactive and Music festivals in Austin, Texas. From Bates to the Beatles, these are the most exciting.
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17 Songs That Blatantly Rip Off Other Songs
Imitation is flattery, or something like that. Or influence? That’s the nice word for it.
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100 Original Pressings Of The Beatles’ White Album Played At Once
This gets really, really trippy by the time “Glass Onion” begins.
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14 Classic Albums Reimagined As Books
British designer Christophe Gowans answers the question: “What if best-selling albums had been books instead?”
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16 Songs That Are Now 50 Years Old
Yup, it’s true – The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and “Be My Baby” have been around for half a century.
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20 Amazing Gift Ideas For Music Lovers
Gadgets, instruments, art, apparel, and more!
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Paul McCartney Is The New Singer Of Nirvana
At least for tonight, anyway. Foo Fighters singer Dave Grohl and bassist Krist Novoselic are teaming up with McCartney at tonight’s 12.12.12 Concert in Manhattan for Hurricane Sandy Relief.
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Michael Jackson’s Life In Five Seconds
Somewhat accurate.
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11 Adorable Rock History GIFs
A guy named Josh is turning classic music moments into 8-bit animations, and it’s wonderful.
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12 Reasons Rihanna Owns The Charts
She now has as many Number One hits on the Billboard Hot 100 as Madonna and the Supremes.
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36 Mind-Blowing Rock & Roll Cakes
Music is great, but it’s better with frosting. And yeah, that’s a Nickelback cake.
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19 Vintage British Invasion Print Ads
Flashback to when The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who and The Kinks were all brand new.
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Get Ready For The 50th Anniversary Of Everything The Beatles Ever Did
It’s all starting today with the anniversary of their first single, “Love Me Do,” and it won’t stop until 2020. It’s already exhausting!
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17 Hits That Are Not-So-Secretly About Drugs
Musicians have been trying to sneak references to getting high into their songs for years. Here are some very famous examples. What did we miss?
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24 Classic Pop Songs That Peaked At Number Two
Madonna, Springsteen, Prince, Lady Gaga, Dr. Dre and more were robbed. Seriously, some of this is just galling.
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Mark Halperin’s Joke Bombs On Morning Joe
Spoiler: Yes, Mark Halperin really told this joke on Morning Joe today. No, it didn’t bomb as hard as my selective editing makes it look here.
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This Beatles/Ke$ha Mashup Is Way Better Than It Should Be
I know what you’re thinking, but seriously, just give this a shot.
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Heartwarming Olympic Stadium Singalong Of "All You Need Is Love"
A stadium chock-full of the world sings The Beatles’ classic, and it’s exactly what you need to hear right now.
