These 50 famous rappers have never had a No. 1 album…
(March 25, 2022). The first rap album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (which measures the best-selling and most consumed albums each week) happened in March 1987.…
Chart don’t lie: The year every Jackson had a Hot 100 hit, except one…(with an asterisk, of course)
(February 10, 2022). Okay, maybe the word “hit” in the article’s title is being used loosely here, but there was a year during the 1980s when all of the Jackson…
Just when you thought it would hit No. 1…the story of the most frustrating No. 2 peaks of the 1970s (“YMCA,” “I’m Not In Love,” What’s Going On,” others)
(February 5, 2022). Just when you thought it would hit No. 1…suddenly, it didn’t. This is the story of those frustrating near-misses, those runners-up on the premier Billboard singles chart—the…
1980s rewind: Just when you thought it would hit No. 1…the story of the most frustrating No. 2 peaks of the ‘80s
(January 29, 2022). Just when you thought it would hit No. 1…it suddenly didn’t. Exactly 40 years ago this week, one of the most historic and, to Foreigner fans, disappointing…
2022 “Rap-port card”: Here’s what Kool Moe Dee’s grading system might look like for today’s rappers (from best to worst). Do you agree?
(January 14, 2022). You knew it would happen. After a couple of rap “report cards” from 1980s hip-hop pioneer Kool Moe Dee went viral last weekend, it was only a…