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.…
From Elvis to Whiskey: Billboard Revives a 1950s Chart — And Today It’s Mostly About Drinking
(April 27, 2025). How did I miss this one? Last July, Billboard reinstated a chart it hadn’t published in nearly 70 years — well, kinda — and it didn’t hit…
Morgan Wallen’s Fans Think He ‘Owned the Libs’ on SNL, He Just Sold Them Another Album
(March 31, 2025). Morgan Wallen, the star of “Bro Country” Music and this decade’s poster boy for anti-cancel culture, has a new album to promote. It’s called I’m the Problem.…
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…
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This album spent Biden’s entire presidency in the top 50… it debuted the week he was inaugurated
(January 17, 2025). In January 2021, Taylor Swift’s Evermore was unseated at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 by an unlikely contender: a sophomore album by a rising country star…