Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. The Neil Diamond-themed music drama Song Sung Blue, starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson, ...

In what’s now become a yearly tradition every December, I’m ranking #1 hits from topical anniversary dates. This winter we’ll be doing 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015, and I’ll be ranking every chart ...

I was playing in public when a stranger asked to sing a Filipino song with me — and what followed was a beautiful, unplanned duet that touched everyone around us. Canada's Florida boycott 'taking ...

It’s true, 2001 was a strange year. It was a new century, a new millennium. We’d gotten through Y2K and the year 2000. All of a sudden, the world for certain wasn’t going back to the 1990s. And then… ...

Before George Harrison's death at 58, the Beatles’ lead guitarist delivered one final hit that carried deep personal meaning. In 2001, Harrison recorded the only song he's ever developed with his son, ...

The English singer-songwriter, a best song Critics Choice Award nominee for the "big rock song" he wrote with John Mayer and Blake Slatkin, goes deep with The Hollywood Reporter about his odds-defying ...

Over on TikTok, 2025 was the year of talking to all the bluebirds, the bill and coo birds. The video app has named Connie Francis‘ saccharine 1962 hit “Pretty Little Baby” the Top Global Song of 2025.

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 ...

Record a voice memo on your phone telling us about a song released in 2025 that hit you particularly hard. Maybe it's one you listened to on repeat, made you cry, or just spoke to you and connected ...

Toby Keith has a lengthy list of songs that would be perfect for any party, including “I Wanna Talk About Me”. Although it seems like something Keith would have written, “I Wanna Talk About Me” is ...