From Eclectic to Swift: This Week’s Top 10 Before the Taylor Takeover… and the Rule Change Billboard Should Consider!
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by DJ Rob
2d ago
(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 ..read more
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The 2024 Class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been announced… and the verdict is?
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by DJ Rob
2d ago
(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 ..read more
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Here are the records Taylor Swift can tie or break with ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ the next two weeks
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by DJ Rob
4d ago
(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 ..read more
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A reaction to Taylor’s aptly named ‘The Tortured Poets Dept.’: It really is about the words,… not the music
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by DJ Rob
4d ago
(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 ..read more
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Exploring the Musical Magic of the ‘4’s – From 1964 and ‘84, to 2004… and now ‘24?
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by DJ Rob
1w ago
(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, culturally shifting, and most historical musical moments (and songs/albums) since the rock-and-roll ..read more
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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)
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by DJ Rob
1w ago
(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 ..read more
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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
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by DJ Rob
1w ago
(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 ..read more
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Re: ‘Cowboy Carter,’ Forget Grammys; More pressing: How Will Billboard Handle Beyoncé’s Genre-Defying Smash?
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by DJ Rob
3w ago
(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 ..read more
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‘Cowboy Carter’ is Beyoncé’s ‘Songs in the Key of Life’… seriously
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by DJ Rob
3w ago
(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 in pop culture.   But placing Cowboy ..read more
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No April Fools: Future is in tenth place among acts with the most No. 1 albums in history…
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by DJ Rob
3w ago
(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 ..read more
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