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.…
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Nicki Minaj, Cardi B & others combine for a historic first, but it’s overshadowed by a petty beef among female rappers.
(October 5, 2022). An amazing first-time milestone has occurred on the Billboard charts this week, thanks in part to superstar rappers Nicki Minaj and Cardi B who, in an ideal…
Five ways the 2020 Billboard Music Awards stuck it to 45…and other observations from this year’s oddly dated show.
(October 15, 2020). The 2020 Billboard Music Awards are (finally) in the history books. An awards show mostly celebrating the accomplishments of the 2019 charts ten months into 2020 was…
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The technical reasons Lizzo got swept by Billie Eilish at the 2020 Grammys
(January 30, 2019). For the second year in a row at the Grammys, there were eight nominees in each of the Big Four categories: Album of the Year, Record of…
From “Mammy” to Lizzo: the evolution of the full-figured black woman in American entertainment…
(January 23, 2020). You might call this the month of Lizzo. With Grammy night now just days away, and the popular singer/rapper/flautist up for eight awards – more than any…