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Music Jeopardy 38! It’s Awards Season!  Guess These Clues About Musical Excellence in Grammy and Oscar History (January 28, 2026) – Welcome to Music Jeopardy 38!  It’s the weekly music challenge where the blog provides the clues… and you prRead More

Triumph and Tragedy Led to The Two Most-Watched Grammy Ceremonies of All Time: 1984 and 2012 How one music icon’s victory march and another’s untimely demise led to the two most-viewed Grammy ceremonies eveRead More

Album Slayers: Which Blockbusters Kept the Most Other Albums From Hitting No. 1? These are the No. 1 Albums That Denied the Most Runners-Up (January 23, 2026) – The 1962 soundtrack to West Side Story (with 5Read More

Music Jeopardy 37! It Happened in January — Guess These Clues About January Events in Music History (January 21, 2026) – Welcome to Music Jeopardy 37!  It’s the weekly music challenge where the blog provides the clues… and you prRead More

A 44,000% Sales Spike? How Nicki Minaj’s New “No. 1” Exposes Modern Chart Illusion (January 20, 2026) — When I first saw the recent Forbes headline “Nicki Minaj’s Song Hits No. 1 Thanks To A 44,000% Sales SpikeRead More

ASAP Rocky, Rihanna, and the Billboard 200’s Most Complicated Love Chart Yet? Also, Rocky’s New Album Aims to Do Something Neither He nor RiRi Has Achieved in a Decade (January 18, 2026) – Aside from co-Read More

Music Jeopardy 36! MLK Weekend: Guess These Clues About Titles w/ Those 3 Letters In ‘Em (January 17, 2026) – Welcome to Music Jeopardy 36!  It’s the weekly music challenge where the blog provides the clues… and you prRead More

The Jig Is Up: Why Styx’s ‘Renegade’ Will Never Fit Another Steelers Coach Like Mike Tomlin (January 17, 2026) – By its primary definition, ex-Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin, who resigned Tuesday (Jan. 13)Read More

No Stranger Thing: The Full-Circle Moment of Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Landslide’ Finally Hitting the Hot 100 (January 16, 2026) – Imagine being 27, recording a song about getting old — and not seeing it chart until you’re 77.Read More

“I Just Might” — Bruno Mars Bets on Himself for the First Time in a Decade Mars Clones Himself: Proof He Doesn’t Need Collaborators? (January 11, 2026) – Take a look at Bruno Mars’ new video for theRead More

20 Years After “Tim McGraw,” Taylor Swift Is on Track for an Unprecedented Billboard Achievement (January 9, 2026) – Here’s something Swifties — and chart geeks — will love. Taylor Swift has a chance to do something no otRead More

Music Jeopardy 35!  ‘1976 – 50 Years Later.’ Guess These Clues About Bicentennial Hits from a 2026 Perspective (January 7, 2026) – Welcome to 2026 and the year’s first new Music Jeopardy!  It’s the 35th edition overall and, as alwaysRead More

Why a Grammy Win for Kendrick & SZA’s “Luther” Would Make History — and Snub Marvin Gaye If “Luther” Wins Song of the Year, Grammy History Gets Complicated (January 6, 2026) – The 2026 Grammys are fast approRead More

These are DJROBBLOG’s tributes to the artists we lost in 2025—and the music they left behind that still endures. (January 3, 2026) – Some years leave a deeper echo than others—and 2025 was one of them. Over twelve months, the music world saRead More

It’s Official: 2025 Tied for the Second Fewest New No. 1 Songs in Hot 100 History (January 2, 2026) – Between Jan. 1 and December 31, 2025, ten different songs spent time at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 1Read More

Remembering Richard Smallwood (1948-2025): Gospel Without Compromise Why Richard Smallwood’s Legacy Matters Beyond ‘I Love the Lord’ (January 1, 2026) – An icon of one of the most profoRead More

Music Jeopardy 34: What Year Is It Anyway?  Name These Annum-Focused Titles Based on the Clues Given (December 31, 2025) –  Happy New Year everyone!  Welcome to the 34th edition of Music Jeopardy!  As always, the blog providRead More

Only 3 of the 59 People Listed in Billy Joel’s ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ Are Still Alive Following Brigitte Bardot’s Death (December 31, 2025) – A data-conscious Reddit user named u/cavedave has been tracking the lifespans of a very exclusive club: theRead More

Things My 1995 Self Would’ve Never Believed About Music in 2025 (December 30, 2025) – In 1995, many people were just discovering the Internet and its capabilities.  By 2025, Billboard mRead More