The Seven Biggest News Stories From Music's Weirdest Year
It's a well-established fact by now that chart position is mostly irrelevant. Even some of the best music in the world never sells, and as such, it's a silly way of discerning "good" music. Unless, of course, we're talking about Bob Dylan. This past April, some 59 years into his career, Dylan scored his first No. 1 song with "Murder Most Foul," a 17-minute epic exploring the JFK assassination (per Deadline). Dylan's come close before, having hit No. 2 with "Like a Rolling Stone," and even penned chart-toppers for other acts (The Byrds' "Tambourine Man" and Peter Paul & Mary's "Blowin’ in t...