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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the peak of the TRL era in popular music — a turn-of-the-century period dominated by bubbly teen-pop stars and punctuated by ...

In 2002, 9/11 was fresh on everyone’s minds, while U.S. headlines were dominated by the misinformation-filled campaign to sell America on the Iraq War (which would be authorized later that year). So ...

Eminem has set a brand new Billboard 200 record with his greatest hits compilation album, Curtain Call. Billboard reports that the 2005 project is officially the first hip-hop album in history to log ...

Eminem’s music floods the U.K. charts, as Curtain Call climbs and The Eminem Show and The Marshall Mathers LP return to the hip-hop tally. INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 13: Eminem performs during ...