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.…
Five old chart records that will likely never be broken… even in the streaming era!
(May 4, 2024). Yeah, we know, we know. Taylor Swift did the unimaginable and occupied the top 14 positions (and 32 songs in all) on this week’s Hot 100, making…
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Billboard mysteriously releases its decade-end charts; These are the top 10 artists of the 2010s…
(November 16, 2019). On Thursday (11/14) Billboard announced the top artists of the decade…that is, they announced the artists ranked from No. 100 to No. 11, keeping some of the…
Katy Perry’s $2.8M Plagiarism Ruling Reveals the Complex Math – and the Gospel – Behind a Huge Number 1 Hit.
(August 3, 2019). Can’t Katy Perry catch a break? The pop superstar and American Idol judge hasn’t had a No. 1 hit song in more than five years. And now…
Taylor Swift Has the Most Unpopular Song in the U.S. Right Now – And That’s Why It’s No. 1
You took one listen to Taylor Swift’s new single, “Look What You Made Me Do” and called it petty. You took another listen and said Swift, one-time friend to everybody…