These days, few songs get to #1 unless they're at least rap-adjacent. But for nearly its first decade of existence, rap music came nowhere near the pop charts. For a long time, it never even came ...

The iconic Blondie track has been sampled and revered since hitting the US top spot in 1981 Blondie’s classic Rapture hit the top of the US charts 44 years ago today (March 28 2025) The song has ...

A year after the Sugarhill Gang released “Rapper’s Delight” in 1979, Blondie recorded “Rapture,” the first major hip-hop hit to use original music rather than sampling other artists’ beats. Released ...

“Rapture” is often considered one of the earliest rap songs to hit the mainstream. During a 2012 interview with Westchester Magazine, Harry said the song was an example of hip-hop rather than rap. “At ...

The year is 1981. “Rapture” is Blondie’s second single from their fifth studio album—it’s been in the number one spot for weeks—and it’s the first ever rap video to be shown on MTV. And there he is: ...

Blondie was a New York City band that became famous for its New Wave rock sound and had several hits in that style, including the No. 1 smash “Call Me” from the movie “American Gigolo.” But the band ...

One of the most versatile classic rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s was Blondie. Blondie songs took ideas from many genres, including disco, rock, pop, new wave, doo-wop, rap, and reggae. It’s ...

The first go-round for the New York new-wave band – one of the leaders of the punk-parallel movement, along with Television and the Talking Heads – famously disintegrated in 1982, after charting a ...