The United States turned 200 years old in 1976 (happy birthday to us!), and as the bicentennial celebrations ramped up that spring and summer, the music scene was in the middle of a seismic shift.

The music world underwent radical change in 1976 — some for better and some for worse, as you’ll see in our following list of all 26 No. 1 songs of 1976 ranked worst to best. The disco explosion was ...

The year before punk broke, rock's old guard made a strong, pressing stand. But as the UCR staff-selected list below of the Top 40 Songs of 1976 shows, the music that dominated headlines at the end of ...