The sheer scale of Michael Jackson’s fame can sometimes overshadow the music itself. From the moment he danced into America’s ...

Soxx & the Blue Jeans—a Hollywood contrast to Motown’s amalgam of Mary Wells ... By then, Elvis had made a great Christmas album, as did Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra.

His 2012 holiday collection tops the list for the first time. By Kevin Rutherford Elvis Presley’s The Classic Christmas Album leads Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart for the first time ...

THE WEEK'S TOP-SELLING ALBUMS ACROSS ALL GENRES, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE. Lil Baby New this week! Quality Control/Motown/ICLG Highest ranking debut Gains In Performance Week of January 18 ...

Motown celebrated Dr. King’s work wholeheartedly – with soul, you might say. It released albums of his most pivotal speeches, and their words, recorded for posterity by Motown, still resonate.

Marvin Gaye’s In Our Lifetime? was an album with a long and often unhappy history, and one which came to mark the end of his 21-year association with Motown Records. But in the generation ...

"It mixes classic Motown with newer production that still feels fresh ... to see how the song has become so prominent in pop culture every holiday season," he said. Image: Carey launching her Merry ...

But while everyone has their preferred Christmas music on their Spotify playlists, there are many amazing albums that don’t get enough appreciation. Below are 10 underrated Christmas albums that ...

Jumping all the way to 1985, Motown’s 53rd chart topper across its track record was Lionel Ritchie’s ‘Say You, Say Me’, hitting number one in the week before Christmas that year. The single came from ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Elvis Presley can usually be located somewhere on the Billboard charts.

Sometimes, he avoided putting musicians on album covers so they wouldn’t be immediately discounted because of their race. Motown’s first album was Hi… We’re the Miracles, released in 1961.