It’s No Longer About the Music… and That Sucks
The Music Industry’s Identity Crisis: More Headlines, Fewer Hits (May 4, 2025). Once upon a time, the biggest headlines in music were about music. An artist dropped a surprise album.…
Triple-Dippers: These 17 Songs Moved to No. 1 Three or More Times
(February 21, 2025). Most of the 1178 songs that have hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 followed a familiar trajectory: they rose, peaked, and eventually faded into chart…
The Christmas songs that once knocked Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas” from No. 1 on Billboard’s Holiday chart (and where they stand now)
(December 16, 2022). By now, everyone knows that Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” has returned for a fourth unprecedented run atop the Billboard Hot 100. It…
The latest music trend: Artists’ new songs are struggling to overcome their old ones (they just won’t leave)
(April 3, 2022). Earlier this year, pop superstar The Weeknd released a new album Dawn FM (featuring his old-man persona on the album cover). It was to mark the end…
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No. 1 pecking order: Artists should never release albums the same week as other artists above them on this list…
(October 9, 2021). There’s a certain unwritten hierarchy when it comes to superstar musicians and their album release schedules. It’s a status that artists rarely test and sometimes find themselves…