Album Slayers: Which Blockbusters Kept the Most Other Albums From Hitting No. 1?
These are the No. 1 Albums That Denied the Most Runners-Up (January 23, 2026) – The 1962 soundtrack to West Side Story (with 54 weeks) and Michael Jackson’s 1982 epic…
Every Rap or Hip-Hop Album That’s Topped the Billboard 200; Plus the Rap Leaderboard
This blog post, updated regularly, presents an authoritative listing of all rap and hip-hop albums that have topped the Billboard 200 chart since the first in 1987. Significantly, the artists…
Music Jeopardy 37! It Happened in January — Guess These Clues About January Events in Music History
(January 21, 2026) – Welcome to Music Jeopardy 37! It’s the weekly music challenge where the blog provides the clues… and you provide the responses. Each clue has point values…
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A 44,000% Sales Spike? How Nicki Minaj’s New “No. 1” Exposes Modern Chart Illusion
(January 20, 2026) — When I first saw the recent Forbes headline “Nicki Minaj’s Song Hits No. 1 Thanks To A 44,000% Sales Spike,” I admittedly did a double take…
ASAP Rocky, Rihanna, and the Billboard 200’s Most Complicated Love Chart Yet?
Also, Rocky’s New Album Aims to Do Something Neither He nor RiRi Has Achieved in a Decade (January 18, 2026) – Aside from co-parenting three children since they began dating…