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Why Billboard Won’t Allow This AI Hit on the Hot 100 — Even Though It Earned the Points; Hear it Here… (November 20, 2025) – The new Hot 100 was released on Wednesday, November 18 (a day later than normal for reasonsRead More

R.I.P. to the Penny — 12 Times the Oldest U.S. Currency Was Famously Immortalized in Music The U.S. just produced its final penny — so I rounded up 12 iconic songs that immortalized America’s humblest coiRead More

Why Michael Jackson’s Most Criticized ‘Thriller’ Single Was Actually a Marketing Masterstroke Michael’s duet with Paul McCartney is one of his least loved singles, but it was a marketing stroke of genius. (November 13, 2Read More

These Are the 15 Hip-Hop Acts in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — and Here Are Who We Predict Will Be the Next 15 OutKast and Salt-N-Pepa just joined music’s hallowed club.  We list the current fifteen inductees — and predict the next fifteRead More

The ‘Michael’ Trailer is Out; I Loved MJ, I Dislike Biopics.  Why This One May Not Change Either Fact (November 8, 2025) — The teaser for Michael dropped Thursday (Nov. 6), and with it came a wave of renewed euphoria around MicRead More

Was Rap’s Absence from the Top 40 After 35 Years a Sign of a Broader Cultural Shift? Megan Thee Stallion may have rescued rap from a brief Top-40 blackout—but hip-hop’s troubles run deeper. (November 7, 202Read More

The Zen of David Byrne: A Halloween Night Where Talking Heads Met Talking Hands A Spirit Dance in Orange (November 4, 2025) – While most of Chicago’s costumed revelers were haunting bars and parties on HRead More

(August 22, 2021).  And you thought that Barry Manilow being preceded on the same stage by rapper Polo G would be the biggest meme coming out of Saturday’s (Aug. 21) half-successful attempt to conduct a music fes […]

(August 21, 2021).  Some records were made to be tied (and later broken).

In 1976-77, Stevie Wonder’s iconic album Songs in the Key of Life spent a then-record 20 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Top R&B/H […]

(August 19, 2021).  The late Aaliyah Haughton – known by millions of adoring fans simply as Aaliyah – is still perhaps the most significant R&B artist of her era to pass away while in the prime of her c […]

(August 15, 2021).  Some musicians are so iconic that when they leave us, the news hits us like a ton of bricks and we may never forget where we were or what we were doing when we first heard it.

When three o […]

(August 10, 2021).  It’s not really news that Billie Eilish’s highly anticipated official followup to her Grammy-winning, megasmash 2019 album (When We All Fall Asleep , Where Do We Go?) has just debuted on the l […]

(August 7, 2021).  They were masked-up, vaccinated and ready to go!  Seven lovely ladies, whose knowledge of Bruno Mars ranged from zero to Silk Sonic, accompanied me to see the pop/R&B superstar perform at the […]

(August 3, 2021).  Inappropriate statements originating from two current superstars of the country and hip-hop worlds went viral and caused a huge backlash this year – the first involving the N-word, the other a […]