Featured Artists
GOAT Album Anniversary Series
Hip-Hop Perspective
I Don't Get It - or Maybe I Do
The Business of Music
Trivia You Can Use
Featured Artists
GOAT Album Anniversary Series
Hip-Hop Perspective
I Don't Get It - or Maybe I Do
The Business of Music
Trivia You Can Use
Lil’ Kim’s ‘Hard Core’ Turns 30: Still a ‘Big Momma Thang’ After All These Years
As MC Lyte and Queen Latifah Enter the Rock Hall of Fame, Queen Bee’s Provocative Debut Reminds Us That Female Empowerment Came in Many Forms
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…
Featured Artists
GOAT Album Anniversary Series
I Can’t Believe That Song (or Album) Is 40!
Pop Stuff
R&B Music Commentary
The Business of Music
Trivia You Can Use
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…