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 →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 →
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 →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
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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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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
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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 →Q
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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 →
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
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 →
