Friday marks 44 years since “Jump to It” first appeared on the Billboard Hot 100, debuting at No. 83. For the week of Aug. 21 ...

The album featured 12 tracks and was released through Columbia Records.

Aretha Franklin’s album “Amazing Grace” sold more than two million copies, becoming the best-selling gospel album of all time. She recorded it over two days in 1972 at the New Temple Missionary ...

Here is the surprise. For all its power, Amazing Grace never topped the chart. It peaked at just No. 7 on the Billboard 200 and stopped at No. 2 on the R&B albums chart, never claiming the top spot.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In addition to being a maternal figure to Hudson, the Memphis-born icon has long been the Queen of Soul to music lovers around the ...

Songstress Aretha Franklin, aka "The Queen of Soul" went to her final resting place on this day in pop culture history.

On January 22, 1968, Aretha Franklin released “Lady Soul.” Credit: Photo courtesy of All Music. Aretha Franklin has long been considered the “Queen of Soul” and her Detroit upbringing has always kept ...

There is a good chance that as you read this, you can’t name an Aretha Franklin album. Sure, you know the hits — "Respect," "Chain of Fools," "Rock Steady," "Spanish Harlem" and so many more — that ...