First Time in History – the Top Ten albums of the week are all hip-hop/R&B!
(May 5, 2020). Actually, it’s the top eleven albums, and it was inevitable. Three years ago, the combined music genre of R&B and hip-hop finally overtook rock as the most…
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Hip-Hop Perspective
I Don't Get It - or Maybe I Do
R&B Music Commentary
The Business of Music
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Blasphemy? Drake’s clever No. 1 grab ‘slides’ him into elite company with two R&B legends…
(April 17, 2020). Earlier this week, it was announced that the ubiquitous Canadian rapper Drake got his first No. 1 single of the new decade (and his seventh overall) on…
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Hip-Hop Perspective
I Can’t Believe That Song (or Album) Is 40!
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R&B Music Commentary
Trivia You Can Use
40YO: Remembering YMO’s “Computer Game” and the 1st Japanese band to hit the R&B chart in America…
(April 12, 2020). How many folks of a certain age remember “Computer Game,” the quirky, but funky, instrumental jam that R&B radio programmers were all over in the late winter…
Bill Withers’ ten most compelling songs (and what made them so)
(April 4, 2020). By the time the world was informed on Friday of Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bill Withers’ death, he had already been gone four days. And…
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I Can’t Believe That Song (or Album) Is 40!
Ol' Skool Music Trivia Question
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R&B Music Commentary
Trivia You Can Use
How 76-year-old Diana Ross just got her fourth consecutive No. 1 hit on this Billboard chart…all since 2018!
(March 31, 2020). Don’t look now, Dua Lipa, but you’ve got some very unlikely competition on one of Billboard’s charts. It seems that Ms. Diana Ross, the Motown legend who…