Country music: the cicada of the pop charts?
(June 19, 2023). It’s that time again…for country music to infiltrate the top of the pop charts as it has at the beginnings of every other decade—or vicennially—for the past…
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‘Oh, oh, oh, Ozempic!’ Kids, that Ozempic®️ song will be 50 next year!
(June 17, 2023). Whether you’re getting “down with Rybelsus” or lowering your A1C with Jardiance, the “little pill with a big story to tell” (and a happy-go-lucky musical style commercial…
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50th anniversary shutout: Hip-hop is facing a No. 1 drought rarely seen since the days before MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice!
(June 16, 2023). This is likely not how hip-hop expected it would be commemorating its 50th anniversary. As Morgan Wallen and K-pop (and Taylor Swift and SZA) continue their dominion…
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In honor of Black Music Month and Pride Month: the 25 greatest Black LGBTQ+ artists ever.
(June 13, 2023). June is Black Music Month. It’s also Pride Month. What better way to commemorate both than by celebrating the greatest LGBTQ+ musicians of color in modern music…
25 songs that started as ballads and ended up disco: Which of these slow-to-fast dance tunes did it best?
(June 4, 2023). In the heady days of disco, and in the years immediately after, it wasn’t uncommon for a great dance tune to begin as a slow ballad. It…