This Christmas, ‘Last Christmas’ brought hope for next Christmas!
(January 4, 2023). Christmas music may be behind us for the most recent holiday season, but there is a late-breaking occurrence involving this year’s crop of festive hits that may…
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‘Thriller’ 40th Anniversary: 40 things you didn’t know (or simply forgot) about the world’s biggest-selling album
(November 24, 2022). This week marks the 40th anniversary of the release of the biggest-selling album in history: Thriller by Michael Jackson. It was on Tuesday, November 30, 1982, that…
Tribute: Coolio’s biggest hit made him the first rapper to accomplish this feat; only five rap acts have done it since
(September 30, 2022). When then-up-and-coming rapper Coolio (real name Artis Leon Ivey, Jr.) borrowed the haunting melody of Stevie Wonder’s “Pastime Paradise” for his own song in 1995, it was…
Tribute to Joel Whitburn (1939-2022): the Billboard chart historian whose books were an inspiration to many and this blog’s main data source
(June 19, 2022). For the past several weeks as I wrote one of this blog’s most intense articles yet—a 100-song tribute to super producers Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis—there were…
‘Stranger things’ couldn’t have happened to a stranger song: Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” hits the top ten… in 2022!
(June 6, 2022). Most people over 50 who follow these things don’t like the current Billboard charts. We don’t like the fact that instant streaming and digital downloads can dictate…