Speaker B: Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of pop chart history from Slate Magazine about the hits from coast to coast. I’m Chris Melanfy, chart analyst, pop critic and writer of Slate’s why Is this ...

Much of what we think of as "classic rock" is guitar-based music of the 1970s, when rock splintered into slightly different divisions like hard rock, arena rock, country rock, jam rock, and power pop.

The internet can’t seem to decide who is and isn’t a one-hit wonder. The primary factor in the confusion derives from a Billboard-centric view of the music industry. The reasoning essentially says ...