Artists – Music Videos Club
Most artist pages online give you a discography and a date of birth. These give you the stories. Each featured hub below gathers every article we’ve written on the artist into one archive — a full biography, the members, the active years, and a link to every song page we’ve built — but the reason to read is what sits inside those song pages: how the record actually got made, who almost sang it instead, and what was really going on the day it was cut. Start with a name you love and read straight through, or pick one you only think you know and find out what you were missing.
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ABBAThe Swedish quartet that turned precise, melody-first pop into 400 million records — and came back forty years later as digital avatars.Visit the ABBA hub →
AC/DCThe Australian hard rock band that reduced rock and roll to its essentials and conquered the world with what was left.Visit the AC/DC hub →
Ace of BaseThe Swedish quartet whose debut became one of the best-selling albums ever made, and the first to send three singles to No. 1 in America.Visit the Ace of Base hub →B
The BanglesFour musicians from a Los Angeles garage-rock scene who ended up with two of the biggest singles of the 1980s.Visit the Bangles hub →
The BeatlesThe band that rewrote what popular music could be — and remain the best-selling act of all time.Visit the Beatles hub →
Bee GeesThree brothers from Redcliffe, Queensland, whose harmonies ran through the sixties before they rebuilt themselves into the sound of disco.Visit the Bee Gees hub →
BlondieThe most commercially successful band to come out of CBGB — four Hot 100 No. 1s, and the first to carry rap vocals to the top of an American chart.Visit the Blondie hub →
Bon JoviThe New Jersey band that outlasted every act it was filed alongside — 130 million records, and a catalog that refused to stay in the decade that made it.Visit the Bon Jovi hub →
Boney M.The German-Caribbean disco group behind “Rasputin” and “Rivers of Babylon” — a Frank Farian studio creation that sold over 100 million records.Visit the Boney M. hub →C
Ray CharlesHe put gospel structure under secular words, made some listeners deeply uncomfortable, and invented soul music doing it.Visit the Ray Charles hub →
CherThe only solo artist with a No. 1 single in seven straight decades — and the only performer with both an acting Oscar and a Rock Hall induction.Visit the Cher hub → 
ChicagoThe rock and roll band with horns — 21 top ten singles, five No. 1 albums, and a jazz section in the middle of the pop charts.Visit the Chicago hub →
Joe CockerA gas fitter from Sheffield who barely wrote a thing, sang other people’s songs at Woodstock, and made every one of them his.Visit the Joe Cocker hub →D
Deep PurpleThe band that gave hard rock its blueprint — Blackmore’s guitar and Jon Lord’s Hammond organ over the loudest rhythm section of the early ’70s.Visit the Deep Purple hub →
Dire StraitsSix albums, one US No. 1, and the first record ever to sell a million copies on CD.Visit the Dire Straits hub →
The DoorsPoetry, blues, and barely-contained menace — six albums in five years before Paris, 1971.Visit the Doors hub →E
EaglesFour musicians who had all backed Linda Ronstadt, put together by David Geffen in 1971, and responsible for the best-selling album of the twentieth century.Visit the Eagles hub →
Earth, Wind & FireNamed after the three elements in Maurice White’s astrological chart, and built to sound like a philosophy — 90 million records, a horn section, and a kalimba.Visit the Earth, Wind & Fire hub →F
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HeartThe Seattle band that proved hard rock could be led by two women — then reinvented itself completely and sold even more.Visit the Heart hub → 
Whitney HoustonThe Newark-born singer known simply as “The Voice” — the best-selling female single of all time, and one of the most influential vocalists ever recorded.Visit the Whitney Houston hub →I
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Michael JacksonThe singer from Gary, Indiana who went to work at six and never really stopped — and made the best-selling album ever recorded.Visit the Michael Jackson hub →
Joan JettTwenty-three labels said no, so she built her own — and then spent seven weeks at No. 1.Visit the Joan Jett hub →
Billy JoelThe Long Island piano player who wrote about steel towns and fishing villages instead of hit-record subjects — and sold 150 million records doing it.Visit the Billy Joel hub →
Elton JohnThirty-one studio albums, seven straight US No. 1s, and a fifty-year partnership with a lyricist he met by answering an advertisement.Visit the Elton John hub → 
Janis JoplinFour years at the front of American music, and she changed what a woman was allowed to sound like on a stage.Visit the Janis Joplin hub →K
KissThe New York band that treated rock and roll as a comic book — four characters, a hundred million records, and a live show nobody could follow.Visit the Kiss hub → 
Kool & the GangSeven Jersey City school friends who started out playing instrumental jazz, and became the most sampled band in hip-hop.Visit the Kool & the Gang hub →L
Ella LangleyShe opened her breakthrough duet by talking instead of singing — then became the first woman to top the Hot 100, Hot Country Songs, and Country Airplay at once.Visit the Ella Langley hub →
Cyndi LauperShe lost her voice in 1977 and was told it would not come back. She’s So Unusual became the first debut by a woman to land four top-five hits.Visit the Cyndi Lauper hub →
Led ZeppelinThe English band that built the blueprint for hard rock and heavy metal, then spent a decade proving how much more the form could hold.Visit the Led Zeppelin hub →
Dua LipaThe English singer who rebuilt late-seventies disco into Future Nostalgia and made a decade of pop sound like a dancefloor.Visit the Dua Lipa hub →M
The Mamas & the PapasFour voices, three years, and close to forty million records — the group that defined what the middle of the 1960s sounded like.Visit the Mamas & the Papas hub →
Bruno MarsHe was fronting his uncle’s band at four and impersonating Elvis in Honolulu — then wrote hits for everyone else before anyone would sign him.Visit the Bruno Mars hub →
Paul McCartneyHalf of the most successful songwriting partnership in popular music, and the rare Beatle who built an entirely separate career after it.Visit the Paul McCartney hub → 
George MichaelHe sold 25 million copies of Faith, then made a follow-up he refused to promote and wouldn’t appear in — and sued his label to get out.Visit the George Michael hub →N
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Dolly PartonThe songwriter from a one-room cabin in Sevier County who wrote three thousand songs and kept nearly all of them.Visit the Dolly Parton hub →
Pink FloydThe English band that turned the rock album into a single sustained argument — and lost itself building The Wall.Visit the Pink Floyd hub → 
Elvis PresleyThe Tupelo-born singer who fused country, gospel, and rhythm and blues into rock and roll — and became the best-selling solo artist in history.Visit the Elvis Presley hub →
Billy PrestonThe gospel-trained keyboardist who shared a credit with the Beatles, played for the Rolling Stones, and took two singles of his own to No.1.Visit the Billy Preston hub →Q
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Cliff RichardFourteen UK No.1s, the only artist with one in five consecutive decades, and still in the album Top 5 in 2020.Visit the Cliff Richard hub →
Lionel RichieHe joined a funk band out of Tuskegee and rewrote it into a ballad machine — then placed No. 1 records in nine consecutive years.Visit the Lionel Richie hub →
Kenny RogersJazz bassist, folk singer, then psychedelic pop frontman — he was nearly forty before he became the biggest crossover act in country music.Visit the Kenny Rogers hub →
The Rolling StonesThe longest-running great rock band of them all. Sixty years, twenty-six albums, still onstage.Visit the Rolling Stones hub →S
SladeSix UK No. 1s, seventeen consecutive top 20 hits, and the Christmas record that has come back to the British chart nearly every year since 1973.Visit the Slade hub →
Status QuoThe English boogie band that turned three chords and a relentless shuffle into more UK hits than any other rock band.Visit the Status Quo hub → 
Rod StewartThat raspy voice and a chameleon’s instinct for reinvention — 120 million records and still going.Visit the Rod Stewart hub → 
Donna SummerA Boston choir singer who moved to Munich for a part in a musical, met Giorgio Moroder, and changed what electronic music could do.Visit the Donna Summer hub →
SweetThe glam rock band that hid real hard-rock muscle under the glitter — from “Block Buster!” to the self-written hit “Fox on the Run.”Visit the Sweet hub →T
T. RexMarc Bolan began with an acoustic folk duo, then plugged in, shortened the name, and scored four UK No.1s in barely more than a year.Visit the T. Rex hub →
Thin LizzyPhil Lynott put twin lead guitars behind Celtic myth and working-class stories, and became the first Black Irishman to front a rock band that mattered.Visit the Thin Lizzy hub →
Tina TurnerShe walked away with thirty-six cents and built the longest second act in popular music.Visit the Tina Turner hub →
Shania TwainThe best-selling female artist in country music history, and the woman behind the best-selling country album ever made.Visit the Shania Twain hub →U
UB40The Birmingham band that took its name from a dole form and sold seventy million records with it.Visit the UB40 hub →
Uriah HeepThe English band that critics spent a decade dismissing while it quietly sold forty million records.Visit the Uriah Heep hub →V
Van HalenTwo brothers from Pasadena who rented their PA system from a local singer for ten dollars a night, then invited him to join the band to stop paying him.Visit the Van Halen hub →
Stevie Ray VaughanFour studio albums in seven years, and blues was back on American radio for the first time since the sixties.Visit Stevie Ray Vaughan hub →
