Mary J. Blige just killed (and maybe saved) the 2019 BET Awards!
We’re not worthy, Mary! On a night when the annual black cultural fest known as the BET Awards seemed as if it were devolving into a sunken place that no…
History repeats: Madonna and Bruce have the top two albums this week – for the first time simultaneously since 1985!
(June 23, 2019). What year is this anyway? On the new Billboard 200 albums chart dated June 29, 2019, Madonna debuts at No. 1 with her ninth chart-topping set, Madame…
Originals vs. “Originals”: a song-by-song rating of Prince’s originals vs. the versions others recorded.
(June 22, 2019). On Friday, two weeks after what would have been Prince’s 61st birthday – and two weeks after its exclusive release on Tidal – the Prince estate expanded…
That time John “Cougar” Mellencamp channeled James Brown and Mick Jagger…and got an MTV hit!
As part of a private Facebook music group called “Lost Pop Hits (M.I.A.),” I participate in a daily song tournament in which tunes from a given year compete against one…
20 Years Ago: Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way” was supposed to be a No. 1 hit – but bad timing and label greed prevented it.
(June 20, 1999). Have you heard “I Want It That Way” by the Backstreet Boys recently and thought to yourself: “damn that song is still a bop after all these…