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Celebrating 30 years of ‘100% Pure Love’, the undeniable dance classic by Crystal Waters!
Celebrating 30 years of ‘100% Pure Love’, the undeniable dance classic by Crystal Waters
(April 27, 2024). In April 1994, Crystal Waters — the Washington, DC-based dance music diva of earlier “Gypsy Woman” fame — set upon the task of following up that major breakthrough.
Of course, 1991’s “Gypsy Woman” had struck a chord with club goers everywhere with its infectious five-note, organ-driven melody, a driving beat, and Waters’ drone-along “la-da-di, la-da-dow” chorus, a deadpan…
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Ticking Away: The TikTok Time Bomb and Its (possible) Melodic Fallout in the U.S. Music Industry
TikTok Troubles: Exploring the Implications of a U.S. TikTok Ban on the Music Industry
(April 24, 2023). Congress passed a foreign-aid bill yesterday (April 23) that is designed to cause a dent in the economy of one particular foreign adversary: China.
The controversial emergency aid package, which was introduced by the House and passed by the Senate (79-18) in a bipartisan vote, provides $95 billion dollars of funding to Ukraine and Israel in their ongoing military conflicts…
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From Eclectic to Swift: This Week's Top 10 Before the Taylor Takeover… and the Rule Change Billboard Should Consider!
From Eclectic to Swift: This Week's Top 10 Before the Taylor Takeover… and the Rule Change Billboard Should Consider!
(April 23, 2024). This week’s new Billboard top 10 chart is reminiscent of the days of old. There’s actually a little something in it for everyone.
On the Hot 100 dated April 27 (revealed Monday the 22nd), the top ten boasts one of the most eclectic groups of songs and artists in recent memory.
And even while these songs remain among the most popular in the country, they’re about to be washed…
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The 2024 Class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been announced… and the verdict is?
Guess who’s getting into the Rock Hall of Fame this year (and yes they deserve it)!
(April 22, 2024). Cher, one of the most iconic performers in pop music history, is being inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame — finally — after 60 years of recording hit songs, including five No. 1s, and after more than 30 years of eligibility.
Foreigner, the once six-man band that started as half-British/half-American in 1976, and whose first five albums were all certified multi-platinum and…
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#2024 Class#A Tribe Called Quest#Cher#Dave Matthews Band#Foreigner#Kool & the Gang#Mary J. Blige#music news#Ozzy Osbourne#Peter Frampton#Rock and Roll Hall of Fame#RRHOF
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Here are the records Taylor Swift can tie or break with ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ the next two weeks
Here are the records Taylor Swift can tie or break with ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ the next two weeks
(April 20, 2024). Taylor Swift is already on track to have the biggest No. 1 debut in over eight years on the Billboard 200 when her first-week points are tallied a week from this Sunday (on April 28 for the chart dated May 4).
Based on first-day streaming, download and sales estimates, The Tortured Poets Department is expected to move more than two million album equivalent units in its first…
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#Billboard charts#Billboard Hot 100#music news#Number One#Taylor Swift#The Tortured Poets Department
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Rappers aren’t the only demons Drake attempts to slay on the release of “Push Ups” diss track; there’s also Taylor… yes THAT Taylor
Rappers aren’t the only demons Drake attempts to slay on the official release of “Push Ups” diss track; there’s also Taylor… yes THAT Taylor
(April 20, 2024). Drake officially released his infamous “Push Ups,” the single formerly subtitled “Drop and Give Me 50,” on Friday (April 19).
It comes about a week after an unofficial version of the now-famous diss track was leaked on YouTube. The ominous sounding song takes direct aim, rather effectively I might add, at arch rap nemesis Kendrick Lamar and several other MCs — but mainly…
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A reaction to Taylor’s aptly named ‘The Tortured Poets Dept.’: It really is about the words,… not the music
An honest reaction to Taylor’s aptly named ‘The Tortured Poets Dept.’: It really is about the words,… not the music.
(April 20, 2024). Taylor Swift is a remarkable lyricist, clearly among this generation’s best, if not the best.
By now, it’s something that’s as much a fact of life as bacon is essential to breakfast, at least for those who indulge in it.
For that reason, Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department (including its Anthology version) is perhaps her most appropriately named and, by…
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Exploring the Musical Magic of the '4's - From 1964 and ‘84, to 2004… and now ‘24?
What’s up with the 4’s? 1964, 1984, 2004 offered some of the greatest and most historic and culturally significant moments in music history. Can 2024 live up? See analysis within.
(April 15, 2024). There’s something magical — even mystical — about years ending in “4” when it comes to music.
Something special, in fact… especially in even-numbered decades like this one.
Without exception, those years have generated some of the most impactful, most influential, and most historical musical moments (and songs/albums) since the rock-and-roll era began nearly 70 years…
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#1964#1984#2004#2024#Beatles#Beyonce#Billboard#British Invasion#Kanye West#Madonna#Music blog#music history#music news#music trivia#Prince
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America First? Only natives have topped the Hot 100 so far in 2024 (it’s only happened twice in chart history)
It’s been all Americans at the top of the Billboard singles charts so far in 2024 (that’s only happened twice in Hot 100 history). Here’s the current and historical rundown.
(April 14, 2024). How poetic is it that in the midst of a presidential election year where immigration is a key issue and when at least a half-dozen foreign countries are at war (and the U.S. has inserted itself in all of them) that American musicians are on track to do something at home that hasn’t happened in 19 years on the Billboard Hot 100 and has only happened two times in the chart’s…
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#American#Beyoncé#Billboard charts#Billboard Hot 100#Drake#Hip hop news#Jack Harlow#Kanye West#music news#Number One
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Beef is driving hip-hop’s success this year; the impact of J. Cole’s apology (and his bow-out) is real
J. Cole’s diss of Kendrick Lamar landed with a thud; his apology for it may have cost him more than street cred.
(April 13, 2024). Superstar rapper J. Cole — largely considered one of the Big Three MCs of this generation (along with Drake and Kendrick Lamar) — did the unthinkable earlier this week.
He apologized for a diss track he included on his latest mixtape — Might Delete Later — and then he did just that: deleted it.
The song in question was “7 Minute Drill,” a tune that was actually only about…
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#7 Minute Drill#apology#Drake#Future#J. Cole#Kendrick Lamar#Metro Boomin#Might Delete Later#rap beef
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Re: ‘Cowboy Carter,’ Forget Grammys; More pressing: How Will Billboard Handle Beyoncé’s Genre-Defying Smash?
Re: ‘Cowboy Carter,’ Forget Grammys; The More Immediate Question: How Will Billboard Handle Beyoncé’s Genre-Defying Smash?
(April 3, 2024). A lot of music industry fans and prognosticators are weighing in on whether Beyoncé’s new Cowboy Carter will finally garner the Texas superstar that elusive Album of the Year Grammy win at next year’s ceremony. It’s likely to turn a few heads in the Academy’s country music categories as well (or else NARAS will have quite a bit of ‘splainin’ to do).
But that’s still ten months…
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#Beyonce#Billboard charts#country music#Cowboy Carter#genre#hip-hop#Linda Martell#music news#R&B
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‘Cowboy Carter’ is Beyoncé’s ‘Songs in the Key of Life’… seriously
‘Cowboy Carter’ is Beyoncé’s ‘Songs in the Key of Life’. See the many parallels between two iconic albums released nearly half a century apart.
(April 1, 2024). Frankly speaking, calling Cowboy Carter Beyoncé’s magnum opus wouldn’t be a stretch.
It is truly an album of sublime quality — both thematically and musically — from an artist who is now 21 years and eight studio LPs into a solo career that stands among the most influential and important ever.
But placing Cowboy Carter — Bey’s multi-genre (but mostly country) tribute to the…
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No April Fools: Future is in tenth place among acts with the most No. 1 albums in history…
Future now ranks among acts with the most No. 1 albums in all of Billboard history.
(April 1, 2024). This is no April Fools Day joke, unless you see a punchline in the fact that someone considered a pioneer in the hip-hop sub-genre of “mumble-rap” now stands among music industry giants with the most No. 1 albums in history.
Not just hip-hop history, all of music history.
No cap, as they say (for the unenlightened, “cap” is today’s slang for lie or joke).
No jokes aside, with…
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No. 1 songs in ‘24 are doing something that hasn’t happened since Billboard adopted modern technology in 1991
No. 1 songs in ‘24 are doing something that hasn’t happened since Billboard adopted modern technology in 1991
(March 28, 2024). There’s something to be said for longevity. And then there’s something to be said when longevity isn’t happening, like right now at the top of the Billboard charts.
There’s a trend shaping up at the top of this year’s Hot 100 charts that hasn’t happened since 1991. That was before Billboard got with modern technology and adopted point-of-sale barcode scanning technology and…
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Forbes recently declared Journey's 'Don't Stop Believin'' the "biggest" song all time, using a dubious metric. But is it?
Forbes recently declared Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” as the “biggest” song of all time. But is it?
(March 27, 2024). When Journey released their album Escape in 1981, Columbia Records issued four singles from it: “Who’s Crying Now,” “Don’t Stop Believin’,” “Open Arms” and “Still They Ride,” in that order.
That one of those — “Don’t Stop Believin’” — has now been declared by a somewhat reputable source, Forbes Magazine, to be the “biggest song of all time” is a bit surreal for those of us who…
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I just realized my favorite song by Diana Ross is a palindrome (btw, happy 80th, Diana).
I just realized my favorite song by Diana Ross is a palindrome (btw, happy 80th birthday, Diana).
(March 26, 2024). Diana Ross turns 80 today (March 26).
I commemorated by playing my favorite tune by her, 1980’s sublime “Upside Down,” written and produced by Nile Rodgers and the late Bernard Edwards, who were then members of my favorite group, Chic (Rodgers still fronts the band, btw). (The song is arguably also my favorite jam of all time, by any artist, but that’s a discussion for…
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“Carnival” is Kanye West’s viral moment; but don’t confuse that with a comeback
“Carnival” is Kanye West’s (Ye’s) viral moment; but don’t confuse that with a comeback.
(March 20, 2024). Some people are calling Kanye West’s recent return to the top of the charts a “comeback,” noting the artist’s near cancellation and self-imposed hiatus after making antisemitic remarks that all but doomed him the past couple of years (he later apologized for that, in Hebrew no less).
But given his No. 1 song’s TikTok virility and a number of other factors surrounding his…
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