"The kicky, 23-year-old British singer released her second album, the break-up requiem 21, in February, but it wasn't just heartbreak that made her popular," Billboard wrote in December 2011. "In contemporary music,

What have been the biggest rock albums of the 21st Century so far? Billboard has now released their list of the Top 200 Albums of the Decade and there’s one rock album that’s managed to crack the Top 10.

There was a time when Rolling Stone intentionally sought to be an antidote to the fluff of pop culture. It fought against war and the generally approved way to be. It went about it the right way with well-conceived articles and well-researched ideas.

Taylor Swift. With barely a week into the new year, Swift has already earned an accolade as she is the No. 1 artist of the 21 century, according to Billboard. This is not to be confused with their editorial list,

From her self-titled debut in 2006 through 1989 in 2014, Swift released her first five studio albums spaced in every even-numbered year. "Usually things I write in the first six to eight months get thrown out,