Throughout the Hot 100’s history, piano ballads have reigned, but until Adele and Mars’ songs, none were as stripped down as “Someone” and “Man.” All-piano-and-vocal hits have charted ...

The 100 ballads website, based on a decade of research, provides the first ever pop chart for songs of the seventeenth century. It presents images and new recordings of the most successful ‘broadside ...

An analysis of why slow songs ruled top 40 in the late '80s but don't, for the most part, now. Plus, Hall & Oates' top 10 hits and Tom Wopat, "Luke Duke" himself, stops by.

This is according to a new UK study called 100 Ballads, the work of Christopher Marsh, a history professor at Queen’s University Belfast, and Angela McShane, an honorary reader at the University ...