1984 Called. It Wants Its Top 20 Back.
Three 1984 Hits That Missed That Halloween’s Top 40 Are Back in the Top 20 — Together for the First Time (November 12, 2026) – Three 1984 hits – all…
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Nine Lives and Counting: The 42-Year Journey of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ From No. 4 to No. 2
Why the King of Pop’s Most Famous Halloween Hit Fell Short in 1984 — And How Nine Top 40 Runs Finally Took It Higher (November 11, 2026) – By now,…
Every Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 Song Scored as Scrabble Words – And, No, I Didn’t Do This
From Ricky Nelson to Taylor Swift, 68 Years of Chart-Toppers Get the Scrabble Treatment (October 29, 2026) – Did you ever imagine every No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot…
Music Jeopardy 72! Producer One-Two Punches: Guess Clues About Double-Domination at the Top of the Charts
(October 27, 2026) – Welcome to Music Jeopardy 72! It’s the weekly music challenge where the blog provides the clues… and you provide the responses. Each clue has point values…
‘I Love You Always Forever.’ 30 Years Later, Donna Lewis’s Pop Gem Is Still the Sweetest No. 2 Hit of the ‘90s
How a Quirky 1996 Earworm Became This Writer’s Unexpected Refuge (October 26, 2026) – “I Love You Always Forever” was a brilliant exercise in restraint. A little pop ditty whose…