The Current's Chart Show started mid-September of 2009. We decided to give every song a 10-week run on the Chart and then induct it into our Chart Show Hall of Fame. Over the past nine years, the Hall of Fame has become a good gauge of what artists that you, our listeners, know and love.

The Chart Show takes a look back at the toughest musical contenders of 2018.

This week on The Current's Music News podcast, we're running down the year's top ten music stories. Here are numbers ten through six.

From searing memoirs to magisterial histories, 2018 was a great year for music books. Here are Jay Gabler's top ten rock and roll reads this year.

Jim Burns and Curtis Mayfield died, The Sex Pistols recorded "God Save The Queen", and Amy Winehouse had a big year, Today in Music History.

Artists heard on The Current are frequently featured on TV programs, and we've gathered the listings in one convenient place for you. See the complete listings and find performance videos as the week progresses. You can also subscribe to receive the week's schedule in your inbox to plan your TV viewing around music.

The 1975 return with a successfully eclectic album that reaches for the mantle of art rock instead of digging deeper into the popternative sound that has been the benchmark of success for their peers.

What albums are you most excited to hear next year? Jade and Jay each pick their top five. Also in the news today: the annual analysis of Bob Dylan's Christmas lights, and Barack Obama collaborates with Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Happy Holidays from Oake & Riley in the Morning! For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what holiday music would you like to hear?

The Supremes made their last TV appearance together with Diana Ross, Lionel Richie started a four-week run at No. 1 with 'Say You, Say Me', Elton John and David Furnish formally converted their civil partnership to a marriage, and Albert King passed away.