American Songwriter

4 Songs That Were Chart-Topping Hits on the Hot 100 for Two Different Artists

Reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 often is considered a crowning achievement for recording artists and songwriters. A song popular enough to take over the top of the U.S. singles chart has to be ...

1991 Hit Ranked the 'Saddest Song' of All Time Was Inspired by Family Tragedy

March 20, 1991, was a horrific day for one of rock music's most famous artists, Eric Clapton. His son, Conor, was 4-years old ...
The Root

White Mega-Hit Songs You Didn’t Know Were Written By Black People

We don’t know who needs to hear this, but mainstream American music didn’t just pop up on the radio out of thin air.
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1991, This NFL Player Topped the Country Music Charts—and Later Wrote No. 1 Hits for Conway Twitty and Tanya Tucker

Mike Reid, a former NFL Pro Bowler turned country singer, scored his only No. 1 country single on Feb. 26, 1991.

‘80s rock icons celebrate 40 years of hits: ‘We never forgot who we are’

And that was on purpose.” And after grunge hit in the ‘90s, many of Tesla’s ‘80s contemporaries got grunge clothes and grunge haircuts and adopted a mopeyer sound. But not Tesla. “You know,” Keith ...