Rihanna's "Don't Stop the Music" climbs to new all-time peaks on both of Billboard global charts, passing "Kiss It Better" on one worldwide tally.

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Revisit these classic songs that defined summers past.

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New wave was the kind of genre to dish out some weird songs, but these 1980s jams managed to be both bizarre and delightful.

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Culture Club singer sings ‘I stand with the Jews / I don’t feel brave, I just need to behave like a human’, in song defending Israel’s response to Hamas attack ...

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