“It’s safe to say that Rihanna is the premier artist of the second half of the decade, with no signs of wear and tear,” Michael Menachem wrote in a review of her then-new single, “Disturbia,” in the ...

Before the pop princesses of the 2020s, Rihanna was at the helm as the absolute queen of the early 2000s and 2010s. It seemed like every year from the time she released her first single in 2005, there ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. At one point, ...