Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the peak of the TRL era in popular music — a turn-of-the-century period dominated by bubbly teen-pop stars and punctuated by ...

In 2002, 9/11 was fresh on everyone’s minds, while U.S. headlines were dominated by the misinformation-filled campaign to sell America on the Iraq War (which would be authorized later that year). So ...

Eminem has set a brand new Billboard 200 record with his greatest hits compilation album, Curtain Call. Billboard reports that the 2005 project is officially the first hip-hop album in history to log ...

(In 2018, the Billboard staff released a list project of its choices for the Greatest Pop Star of every year, going back to 1981. Read our entry below on why Eminem was our Greatest Pop Star of 2002 - ...