Elton John is enjoying a return to the top of the UK album chart, with a record first released in 2017. The BBC reports that Sir Elton’s greatest hits collection Diamonds has gone to number one in the ...

As holiday hits decorate the Billboard Hot 100’s entire top 10, and top 16, spots for the first time, another seasonal song, among others, makes a notable jolly jaunt: Ed Sheeran and Elton John’s ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

Elton John has countless hits to his name, from “Your Song” to “Candle in the Wind,” but if you had to pick one track that ...

Reginald Kenneth Dwight was a 20-year-old session musician when he applied for a job at a London record label, and was paired up with a lyricist named Bernie Taupin in 1967. Dwight adopted the stage ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Brandi Carlile and Elton John’s "Who Believes in Angels" enters the top 10 on the Adult Contemporary chart, marking Carlile’s first major win on the tally. BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 05: ...

Elton John's Rocket Man Never made the number one spot in the charts, but the meaning of misunderstanding in the song aligns ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Elton John scores his forty-second Adult Contemporary top 10 hit ...

Whoever coined the songwriting adage to “write what you know” obviously never considered Bernie Taupin and Elton John when coming up with this admittedly arbitrary standard. In fact, the songwriting ...