Motown redefined pop music with a signature sound blending soul, R&B, funk, and gospel. And of course, the deepest grooves.

Holland-Dozier-Holland wrote 10 of The Supremes’ 12 No. 1 hits. The first No. 1 was “Where Did Our Love Go?” The track topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks in 1964. “Baby Love” ended up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What the world needs now is love, sweet love — and compassion. In 1966, Four Tops, Motown’s second-greatest male vocal group, ...

Any year of the 1960s holds its fair share of prestige and regard in Motown history. And the last four volumes of Hip-O-Select’s series (chronicling 1961 through 1965) have showcased that with a ...

*Fifty-four years ago today, The Supremes made history as the first girl group to score a No. 1 album in the United States. Their ninth studio LP, “The Supremes A’ Go-Go, was released by Motown on ...

Fifty years ago this January, a budding young songwriter and record producer named Berry Gordy founded a small record label in Detroit. Tamla Records soon became Motown Record Corporation, and Gordy's ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...

You may be shocked to learn some of these artists and groups were once with Motown. Click through the slideshow to see 20 singers and bands who you probably didn't know were once with the Motown ...

On Dec 30th, without much fanfare or marketing, Universal Music Group put out Motown Unreleased: 1966, a digital-only collection of 80 previously unavailable tracks by Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, and ...

Ruffin, pictured in 1998, was approached to join the Temptations before his brother Jimmy Ruffin, the Motown performer who scored his biggest hit with 1966's What Becomes of the Broken Hearted, has ...