Every Rap or Hip-Hop Album That’s Topped the Billboard 200; Plus the Rap Leaderboard
This blog post, updated in January 2024, presents an authoritative listing of all 257 rap and hip-hop albums that have topped the Billboard 200 chart since the first in 1987.…
Trent Reznor thinks Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” is 2024’s best song; I think it channels this 1982 Jeffrey Osborne hit
(January 18, 2025). When it comes to music, every man has his opinion. Recently, Trent Reznor — the mastermind behind Nine Inch Nails — offered his about last year’s big…
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This album spent Biden’s entire presidency in the top 50… it debuted the week he was inaugurated
(January 17, 2025). In January 2021, Taylor Swift’s Evermore was unseated at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 by an unlikely contender: a sophomore album by a rising country star…
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One of these old LPs — not the one you think — is on Billboard’s List of the Top 200 Albums of the 21st Century
(January 12, 2025). For the past several days, Billboard has been unveiling its quarter-century rankings of the top artists, songs and albums — based strictly on cumulative chart performance from…
‘Hold On’: Sam Moore, Half of Legendary Sam & Dave, Dies; A Tribute
Sam Moore, 89, Was Once Called the “Greatest Living Soul Singer.” (January 11, 2025). Sam Moore, the high tenor powerhouse of the iconic Miami-based soul duo Sam & Dave, passed…