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Music Jeopardy 58 – Class of 1958!  Guess Clues About Famous Musicians Born That Year (June 30, 2026) – Welcome to Music Jeopardy 58!  It’s the weekly music challenge where the blog provides the clues… and you prRead More

How Will History Remember Clive Davis?  How Should I Remember Him? (June 28, 2026) – With Black Music Month nearing an end and this year’s BET Awards upon us (airing Sunday, June 28), and with musRead More

Questlove’s EWF Documentary Shows Maurice White’s Genius—and His Flaws (June 25, 2026) – Turns out the brilliant man whose vision was responsible for the band Billboard recently named the “best R&B gRead More

Music Jeopardy 57: 57 Varieties! Guess these completely unrelated clues associated with the number 57! (June 24, 2026) – Welcome to Music Jeopardy 57!  It’s the weekly music challenge where the blog provides the clues… and you prRead More

STFU: Every Song in This Week’s Top 10 Is By a Woman—or Named for One (June 23, 2026) – Not since Taylor Swift’s album-release blitzes temporarily monopolized the Billboard Hot 100’s upper reaRead More

Historic Chart Collapses and Where Lizzo’s Stands Among Them (June 22, 2026) – Four years after scoring a No. 1 hit and establishing herself as one of pop music’s most relevant stars, LizRead More

James Brown’s ‘Papa Don’t Take No Mess’: A Father’s Day Salute to the Original No-Nonsense Dad (like my own) (June 21, 2026) – Long before television gave us Cliff Huxtable, and shortly after TV’s James Evans, Sr. became the iconic fatRead More

Music Jeopardy 56! — Rock-n-Roll Never Forgets – 1956!  Guess These Clues About 1956 in Music (June 16, 2026) – Welcome to Music Jeopardy 56!  It’s the weekly music challenge where the blog provides the clues… and you prRead More

‘Paint It, Black’ and ‘Hold On! I’m Comin’: The Songs That Ruled America On a Very Special Day 60 Years Ago (June 14, 2026) – Sixty years ago on June 14, two future classics sat atop the nation’s major charts, as a very special birth dRead More

You Laugh… But Every Act Booked for Trump’s Freedom 250 Had a No. 1 Hit Somewhere Trump’s Freedom 250 Lineup Was Mocked—Including by the President Himself. Then I Checked Their Chart Histories. (June 11, 202Read More

Five Key R&B Figures Gone in 10 Days: Remembering Ronald LaPread, James Anthony Carmichael, Dexter Wansel, Foster Sylvers and Peabo Bryson (June 10, 2026) – Five men.  Ten Days.  More than two centuries of combined musical experience gone. Between May 23 and JuneRead More

Music Jeopardy 55! I Can’t Drive 55: Guess These Clues About Cars in Songs (June 9, 2026) – Welcome to Music Jeopardy 55!  It’s the weekly music challenge where the blog provides the clues… and you proviRead More

These Artists (and Songs) Have Gone Where No Drake Has Gone Before The Five Hot 100 Positions Drake Has Never Hit—and the Artists/Songs That Did (May 30, 2026) – Billboard reported this week thRead More