In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. The silliest ...

If you were alive and paying attention to pop music in the 1980s, Susanna Hoffs was inescapable — and that was a wonderful thing. Her voice was crystalline, her charisma was magnetic, and the way she ...

In 1986, The Bangles released a song that spent four weeks at No. 1, and was the beginning of the end for the group.

Her chuckles subside, though she still sounds tickled, as if a feather was being brushed across her toes. “It’s something that I never would have written.” “Walk Like An Egyptian.” 1986. Lots of arms ...