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United States National Recording Registry recordings
- All Things ConsideredAll Things Considered debuted on the 3rd of May, 1971, fed to about 90 radio stations across the United States with a single host, Robert Conley, at the…
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandSgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band arrived on the 26th of May 1967, and within days it was playing from open windows across London at six in the morning…
- OthelloOthello, written by William Shakespeare around 1603, opens with a secret. A Moorish general and a senator's daughter have eloped in the night, and before…
- Bohemian Rhapsody"Bohemian Rhapsody" arrived in 1975 as something British radio executives were fairly certain would never be played. Six minutes long, with no chorus, three…
- Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) arrived on the 9th of November, 1993, and within a year it had been certified Platinum. By November 2025, it had gone…
- Pet SoundsPet Sounds, the eleventh studio album by the Beach Boys, arrived on the 16th of May 1966, and cost more to make than any rock record before it.
- Straight Outta ComptonStraight Outta Compton, the debut album by N.W.A, was released on the 25th of January 1989, into a music landscape that had never heard anything quite like…
- I Have a Dream"I Have a Dream" was delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. on the 28th of August 1963, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- The Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five song)"The Message" arrived on the 1st of July 1982, released as a single by Sugar Hill Records, and it did something hip-hop had never quite done before.
- The ChronicThe Chronic arrived on the 15th of December 1992, and within eight months it had spent every one of those weeks in the Billboard Top 10. Dr.
- Ready to DieReady to Die, released on the 13th of September 1994, arrived when West Coast hip-hop ruled the charts and the East Coast was struggling to answer.
- IllmaticIllmatic, the debut studio album by the Queens rapper Nas, arrived on the 19th of April 1994, and landed with the quiet force of something that had been…
- Rapper's Delight"Rapper's Delight" arrived in 1979 and changed what radio was allowed to sound like. Produced by Sylvia Robinson, it was the debut single of an American…
- I Will Survive"I Will Survive" arrived in October 1978 as a B-side nobody expected to matter. Gloria Gaynor recorded her vocals wearing a back brace, recovering from a…
- Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point gameOn the 2nd of March 1962, a cold and rainy Friday night, 4,124 spectators paid to enter Hershey Sports Arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania.