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Pop Smoke’s ‘Shoot for the Stars’ joins elite list of album-chart titans; it’s not just another millennial anomaly…
(March 5, 2021). For years, a handful of the greatest R&B/Hip-Hop albums of all time have been able to maintain their decades-long grip on chart supremacy when it comes to…
The Weeknd extends record for most weeks in top 10 – in stark contrast to Bee Gees setting the same record exactly 43 years ago!
(March 3, 2021). In its 64th week on the Hot 100, The Weeknd’s never-say-die smash hit “Blinding Lights” racks up yet another record-extending week in the top 10 as it…
The Super Bowl (and Allstate) created a No. 1 song after all – not by The Weeknd, but by these “brainy, brawny” Boys!
(February 27, 2021). It seems we chart watchers were so focused on whether current pop king The Weeknd could ride a Super Bowl halftime performance all the way back to…
For the Black Music Walk of Fame in Atlanta to be taken seriously, it first has to BE serious!
(February 21, 2021). I recently learned that the new Black Music and Entertainment Walk of Fame – or BMWOF for short – is breaking ground in Atlanta later this year…
Prince Markie Dee Tribute: It’s easy to dismiss the Fat Boys as a novelty, until you remember this about ‘80s hip-hop
(February 20, 2021). In 1985, the emerging rap trio The Fat Boys were tapped to provide a comedic subplot to one of hip-hop’s first major motion pictures, Krush Groove, a…