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 ...

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.

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 ...

Through the centuries, old songs known as the Child ballads have been passed down and tweaked to fit the times. More recently, they've been adapted by the folk revivalists of the 1950s and rockers ...

The 19-year-old NYC native has a pair of singles rising on the Hot 100, ... Sombr ‘Didn’t Want to Just Do Ballads Forever’ — So He Pushed the Tempo and Scored Two Hot 100 Hits. Jason Lipshutz.

"Gypsy Ballads," a 1928 compilation of the poetry of Spanish poet, dramatist, and theater director Federico García Lorca, is a work inspired by the traditional ballads and poems that were an ...

Mountain ballads have been a part of American mountain culture since the earliest English and Scottish settlers moved there more than 200 years ago. They were passed down through the oral ...

Among the top 100 noraebang songs of the past decade, ballads overwhelmed the chart with 70 entries, followed by rock and metal with 10 and R&B and soul seven. The annual number of times people sang ...