Music’s biggest night is happening Sunday and the lineup of scheduled performers is pretty impressive.

There’s a bit of a paradox to these. The sort of people who follow music — say, by reading pop music columns — have probably known about many featured artists for a while. The sort of people who don’t ...

Only five of the Hottest 100 winners have been bands in the past 15 years, compared to 13 in the 15 years prior.