Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” climbs to a new peak on the U.K.’s ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: ...

Hear every queer cover on Lady Gaga's Born This Way 10th anniversary album Listen to Ben Platt cover "You and I," Years & Years cover "The Edge of Glory," Kylie Minogue take on "Marry the Night," and ...

Lady Gaga has called her 2011 song her "freedom song." It's defiant and proud. And it has become an American anthem for the LGBT community. (This piece initially aired on Jan. 30, 2019 on ATC.) In ...

Lady Gaga said something interesting about her song “Born This Way” during a March 2011 interview at Google headquarters. “What's so funny [is] when I put that song out, everybody was like, ‘Oh, the ...

everyone else is wrong about. When Lady Gaga released “Born This Way,” the 2011 song on an album of the same name, it was an instant hit and an instant L.G.B.T.Q. anthem. The song debuted at No. 1 on ...