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It was 56 years ago today (January 4th, 1967) that the Doors released its groundbreaking and iconic self-titled debut album. The album, which hit Number Two on the Billboard 200 albums chart, featured such instant classics as "Break On Through (To The Other Side)," "Soul Kitchen" "The Crystal Ship, "Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)," "The End" -- and the band's first of two chart-toppers, "Light My Fire." On July 29th, 1967, "Light My Fi...

C.W. McCall, who found international fame with his 1976 smash ‘Convoy,’ has died at the age of 93 after a fight with cancer.

It was 55 years ago today (January 4th, 1967) that the Doors released its groundbreaking and iconic self-titled debut album. The album, which hit Number Two on the Billboard 200 albums chart, featured such instant classics as "Break On Through (To The Other Side)," "Soul Kitchen" "The Crystal Ship, "Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)," "The End" -- and the band's first of two chart-toppers, "Light My Fire." On July 29th, 1967, "Light My Fi...

Wanda Young, one of the lead singers of The Marvelettes, a girl group whose 1961 song “Please Mr. Postman,” recorded when they were teenager

Wanda Young and her fellow Marvelettes helped lay the foundation for Motown Records' chart-topping success in the 1960s.

She's given The Beatles and Don McLean a 10-minute run for their money.

I believe that in an Interview when he was asked what "American Pie" meant Don McLean replied: "It means I never have to work again if I ...

Coldplay and BTS rocket onto the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 1 with "My Universe." Coldplay earns its second No. 1, and first since 2008, while BTS adds its sixth.

BJ Thomas poses for a portrait in circa 1975. Forever No. 1 is a Billboard  series that pays special tribute to the recently deceased artists who achieved the highest honor our charts have to offer -- a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single -- by taking an extended look back at the chart-topping songs that made them part of this exclusive club. Here, we honor the late B.J. Thomas with a look at his second and final Hot 100 No. 1, the 1975 country meta-weeper "(Hey Wont You Play) Another Somebody D...