‘Ain’t Understanding Mellow’ When You Experience the Zen of Jerry Butler’s Best Song?
(February 23, 2025). Jerry Butler, the soul music icon and former member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocal group The Impressions, left behind a remarkable legacy when…
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.…
Triple-Dippers: These 17 Songs Moved to No. 1 Three or More Times
(February 21, 2025). Most of the 1178 songs that have hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 followed a familiar trajectory: they rose, peaked, and eventually faded into chart…
When ‘90s Pop Found Religion: The Surprising Year That Took the Charts to Church
(February 18, 2025). Back in the late 1960s and early ‘70s, rock musicians were reconciling their music with their spirituality in ways never before seen in modern pop history. Bible-based…
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Always the Runner-Up: The Strange, Unlucky Fate of ‘If This World Were Mine’ and ‘Luther’
(February 15, 2025). If this world were mine… well, actually it kinda was — and wasn’t. That’s the self-eating irony baked into the fate of “If This World Were Mine,”…