The song had a 5-week reign at No. 1 the summer it was released.

A late-'70s disco-funk anthem didn't just light up dance floors. It helped launch an all-female family group into stardom. Sister Sledge quickly became a standout singing group of the disco era, ...

Meanwhile, pop music continued its evolution, pushed forward by groundbreaking artists blending multiple genres, including disco. Like these three disco-infused songs from 1979 that were ahead of ...

You can make the argument that disco’s popularity peaked with the Bee Gees-heavy soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever in 1977. But the genre didn’t fall away all at once. In 1979, songs with heavy disco ...

What's your favorite song by the Bee Gees? From "Stayin' Alive" to "You Should Be Dancing," it's tough to choose. The renowned musical group was all over the music scene during the 1960s and into the ...

Disco is a music genre and a subculture born out of a dance floor and pioneered by Black musicians, DJs and producers in the 1970s and early 1980s. The word disco comes from the Italian discoteca, ...

Disco music originated in the 1960s at underground venues popular with LGBTQ+, Black, and Latinx Americans. Still, it wasn’t long before the subculture spread from clubs in New York and Philadelphia ...

The 1970s were a time for polyester suits, platform shoes, giant gold chain necklaces and heading out on the dance floor to “shake your groove thing” to one of the many disco songs that seemed to form ...