STFU: Every Song in This Week’s Top 10 Is By a Woman—or Named for One
(June 23, 2026) – Not since Taylor Swift’s album-release blitzes temporarily monopolized the Billboard Hot 100’s upper reaches has the chart’s top ten been so thoroughly dominated by women. But…
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Historic Chart Collapses and Where Lizzo’s Stands Among Them
(June 22, 2026) – Four years after scoring a No. 1 hit and establishing herself as one of pop music’s most relevant stars, Lizzo is confronting a commercial downturn so…
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James Brown’s ‘Papa Don’t Take No Mess’: A Father’s Day Salute to the Original No-Nonsense Dad (like my own)
(June 21, 2026) – Long before television gave us Cliff Huxtable, and shortly after TV’s James Evans, Sr. became the iconic father of Norman Lear’s “Good Times,” James Brown delivered…
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Music Jeopardy 56! — Rock-n-Roll Never Forgets – 1956! Guess These Clues About 1956 in Music
(June 16, 2026) – Welcome to Music Jeopardy 56! It’s the weekly music challenge where the blog provides the clues… and you provide the responses. Each clue has point values…
‘Paint It, Black’ and ‘Hold On! I’m Comin’: The Songs That Ruled America On a Very Special Day 60 Years Ago
(June 14, 2026) – Sixty years ago on June 14, two future classics sat atop the nation’s major charts, as a very special birth date was being celebrated. No not…