(May 8, 2025). Welcome to this eighth edition of Music Jeopardy! The blog provides the clues, you provide the responses AND figure out the mystery category to which they all belong.
Given this week’s major headline — actually two of them — this category and the clues should be easy to figure out. If you do so, or even if you think you have, provide your responses in the “Your Thoughts” box at the bottom of the article or DM me on any of the social media platforms where this is posted. You can also post your answers there publicly, but do you really wanna play spoiler? All correct entries will be acknowledged in the next Music Jeopardy, but the best one will win the prize, which is absolutely nothing but bragging rights!
Below this puzzle’s clues are the results of Music Jeopardy 7. But first, here are your five clues for today’s post:
Clue 1:
Clue 2:
Clue 3:
Clue 4:
Clue 5:
It’s another easy category, so provide your responses to the clues and guess the category as described above. Have fun and good luck!
Here are the Results from Music Jeopardy 7:
Category: ColumBia Records Artists or Columbia Records’ B-List (or anything close to that). All the clues were related to longstanding Columbia artists Barbra, Bruce, Beyoncé, Billy and Bob.
Clue 1: What is Casablanca Records? (“No More Tears” – by Barbra and Donna Summer; Casablanca imprinted the 12” single)
Clue 2: Who is Bruce Springsteen? (He’s had six No. 1 studio albums this century, just three in the 20th)
Clue 3: Who is Beyoncé? (All eight of her studio albums have debuted at No. 1)
Clue 4: Who is Billy Joel? (His first studio album was released on Family Productions in 1971 and later re-released by Columbia. His last was on Sony Classical, under Columbia. All others were on Columbia proper.)
Clue 5: What is Asylum Records? (Dylan recorded two albums with The Band for that label and the rest for Columbia)
The following responders provided correct responses: Luis Ortiz (NJ) who also named the category, and Matt Mullen (IN)
Good luck with today’s puzzle 8! The correct responses and the results will be revealed Monday (5/12).
DJRob
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