Quizzes
1990s Music Quiz: How Well Do You Remember the Decade?
Test your knowledge of 1990s music with 20 questions covering pop, rock, grunge, hip-hop, R&B and some of the decade’s biggest hits.
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Music
By The Numbers
The Artists Who Dominated the Billboard Charts the Longest
Reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 is difficult enough. Staying there week after week — and then returning to the top
Music
How Music Formats Changed From 1970 to 2025
Vinyl → cassette → CD → downloads → streaming: more than six decades of change in how Americans bought and listened to music.
Features
10 Songs That Were Never Supposed to Be Hits — But Became Huge Anyway
Some hit songs are carefully crafted for radio, polished for months, and released with a major promotional campaign behind them. These weren&
By The Numbers
The Best-Selling Album Every Year of the 1980s
From Pink Floyd and Michael Jackson to Whitney Houston and Bon Jovi, these were the albums that ruled America year by year.