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Rory & Mal join B. Dot to crown the worst Jay-Z song in the Complex Brackets season 3 finale! They break down lackluster ...

Welcome to one of the worst years in Hot 100 history. Sure, most #1 hits these days are especially crummy, but there’s ...

The original Bad Company knew how to start an album, that's for sure. The newly minted Rock and Roll Hall of Fame supergroup- ...

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Matt Mitchell On our worst songs list earlier this week, I called “Ordinary”—arguably 2025’s most painfully bland hit—the ...

Mariah Carey's disastrous 2016 New Year's Eve performance left fans stunned. Technical difficulties derailed her set, but was ...

These three country songs, all released in 2013, are bound to put anyone in a good mood, wherever they might be.

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"Some years ago, my live-in girlfriend of nearly three years cheated on me with another woman ― in our living room while I ...

During The Guardian 's Today In Focus podcast, music editor Ben Beaumont-Thomas called out Sleep Token 's Even In Arcadia as the worst album of the year. They may have been one of 2025's biggest bands ...

In what’s now become a yearly tradition every December, I’m back ranking #1 hits from topical anniversary dates. This winter we’ll be doing 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015, and I’ll be ranking every ...