Peplowski, who died Feb. 2, started playing clarinet professionally at age 10 and went on to perform with the Benny Goodman Orchestra and to record on his own. Originally broadcast July 7, 1999.

Soundtracks and musical cast albums have been a part of Billboard’s main album charts dating to March 24, 1956, when Billboard began publishing an all-encompassing albums chart on a consistent ...

Today in Music History for Feb. 14: ...

At the Palm Springs International Jazz Festival, an instrument long consigned to the background becomes the through line of a century of jazz history — from New Orleans parades to fusion, funk and the ...

Standing on the steps of the Humboldt County Courthouse, these young Humboldt men have all been inducted into the military on a single day in 1942, following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Phillip died ...

Jeanne Ellison Butcher was born in Knoxville on May 25, 1925, at Riverside-Ft. Sanders Hospital. Showing an early affinity ...

Bad Bunny hops up the charts in the aftermath of his big wins at the Grammys, but it's rapper Don Toliver who lands at the top of the Billboard albums chart. On the Hot 100 singles chart, country ...

Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, is one of the most-streamed artists on the planet.

After winning three Grammys, Jelly Roll sends “Amen,” “Liar,” and “I Am Not Okay” back into the top 10 on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chart.

Randy Newman became a one-hit wonder with his 1977 track "Short People", something he would later call a "bad break." ...

Barry Manilow reigned as one of the 70s biggest hitmakers in the US. Here are the five songs of Manilow's that did the best in America.

Here's every single that topped the charts this year, based on new formula that tallies physical sales, airplay, and streams. The Billboard Hot 100 singles chart measures the top songs every week ...