For some reason, December has established itself as the month when a lot of bigname urban artists release albums. I’m not sure when or how that happened, but over the past couple of years, this month has hosted releases by Alicia Keys, Mary J. Blige and Jamie Foxx…and, hark! They all have new albums scheduled for release THIS December! How coincidental! However, those albums won’t be out for another week or two, so let’s concentrate […]
You can find just about anything on Youtube these days. I was just kind of bumming around the internet and for some reason I was compelled to search for episodes of “America’s Top Ten” with Casey Kasem. Lo and behold, Youtube user burtiscurtis09 has uploaded a handful of episodes, with the videos edited out (for copyright concerns). I watched like ten of these in a row-man, the nostalgia!! In an age where Billboard chart info […]
So, the flow of new music is slowing down to a crawl and the music news front has seemed pretty stale these past couple of days. When business isn’t booming, it’s time to find fallback options, and thankfully the folks at Billboard mag have given us something fun to discuss today. Namely, the biggest one-hit wonders of the decade.
Now, let’s face facts. A hit single is lightning in a bottle for a lot of artists. […]