Over at Popdose, my current favorite music site, DW Dunphy prophesizes the end of the album as we know it. In a sense, he says the music industry could very well go back to its’ Sixties model, where artists were signed to “singles” contracts (with singles being the primary income source for the label), and albums were generally an afterthought.
The industry’s boom period of roughly 1995-2002 coincided with the death of the commercial single, an […]
I think FOX should give Jason Castro his own show. The premise would be that he be given two classic songs to perform in front of a live studio audience. The goal would be to see how badly he would wreck those classic songs. The louder the crowd growns, the more money he gets. It would be car crash television at it’s best. I would call it Jason Castro Wrecks The Beatles~!. And yes, that’s […]
Hey folks:
Courtesy of the good folks at Billboard magazine, I bring you (drumroll…) this week’s Top 20 singles and albums!!
We’ll start with the albums chart:
1) “E=MC2” Mariah Carey
2) “Spirit” Leona Lewis
3) “Flight of the Concords” Flight of the Concords
4) “Bittersweet World” Ashlee Simpson
5) “When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold” Atmosphere
6) “Now That’s What I Call Music 27” Various Artists
7) “Juno” Soundtrack
8) “Troubadour” George Strait
9) “Taylor Swift” Taylor Swift
10) “Prayer of a […]