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America’s Top Ten: They Don’t Make ‘Em…
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 […]
Billboard’s Biggest One-Hit Wonders of the Decade
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. […]
Chart Chat 12/2/09: Boyle Burns Up the Charts!
Ladies and gentlemen, the highest first-week total for an album in 2009 is now owned by…Susan Boyle?
Yep, she first wowed ’em on “Britain’s Got Talent”, and now a frumpy, middle-aged Brit has scored a first week better than Eminem, 50, Jay-Z, Britney, John Mayer and even the King of Pop’s last albums. “I Dreamed a Dream” starts with an amazing 701,000 units. It also broke records in Boyle’s native country, where it had the biggest-selling […]