Connie Francis was 87 years old when she posted her first TikTok earlier this year, marveling at an impossible second act: A song she’d recorded in 1962 — the year of the Cuban missile crisis — was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Fleetwood Mac's "Silver Springs" debuts on a pair of Billboard ...

The year 1974 was quite a big one for the singer-songwriter and folk musician alike, and a ton of songs released that year ...

Elton John's first major hit, "Your Song", first entered the charts in mid-December 1970, under two months after its release.

With Mariah Carey and Wham! saturating airwaves with their holiday tunes, it’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas. But if all you want for Christmas is a reprieve from stereotypical Christmas ...

Every New Year’s Eve, many of us will come to the realisation that we don’t actually know the words to “Auld Lang Syne”.

One of southern California’s oldest giant sequoias holds more leaves than there are people in China. It has stood since there were fewer people on Earth than live in modern Japan—more than 3,000 years ...

There are plenty of modern and timeless songs we sing on New Year’s. But one of the most classic tunes of all is “Auld Lang ...