Popular Music And Automobiles

Chuck Berry is perhaps the defining musician of the early rock & roll era, the one figure responsible for the music's sound, style, and sensibility that created the blueprint for the generations that followed. A guitarist who wanted to play like T-Bone Walker and croon like Nat King Cole, Berry married these two styles to a swinging beat that spliced jump blues with juke joint R&B and hillbilly boogie–a blend that arrived nearly fully realized with his 1955 debut single "Maybellene," a record that topped the R&B charts and crashed into the pop Top Ten. Berry quickly followed "Maybellene" with a series of fleet-fingered, quick-witted singles like "Roll Over Beethoven," "School Day," "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "Johnny B. Goode" that constitute one of the richest and deepest American songbooks of the 20th Century, a collection of tunes that capture the exuberance of post-war popular culture, a period filled with automobiles, teenagers and rock & roll music.

Billboard and its popular music charts have evolved into the primary source of information on trends and innovation in music. Eric Church sings here about a guy from a small town who is lamenting his former lover who left him due to an insatiable case of wanderlust. After weeks of dropping teasers and behind-the-scenes looks, Tekashi69 has at last delivered on the music. The song, which features the Dominican Bronx-bred rapper Cardi B singing in Spanish and English is a Jamaican dancehall, brought to the club. Its a really catchy chorus and a really catchy beat, Ozuna told Billboard.