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Chart Chat 9/16/09: Jigga and the Fabs
Jay-Z makes history on this week’s Billboard 200 Album Chart. “The Blueprint 3” crashes in at the #1 spot, scanning over 475,000 copies. This is Jay’s 11th chart topping album, giving him more #1 albums than any solo artist in history. More than Elvis. More than Michael Jackson. More than Billy Joel, Barbra Streisand or any artist in history than…
…The Beatles, who make some chart noise of their own this week. Their recently reissued catalog […]
Live!…and in Living Colour
It’s not often that you get to see musical legends playing mere feet from you. However, that turned out to be the case last Thursday when I saw Grammy winners Living Colour play a tiny Boston bar called Johnny D’s. The groundbreaking funk/rock band was touring in support of their fifth studio album, “The Chair in the Doorway”, and their 2-hour plus set proved that after more than twenty years, they’ve still got the goods.
The […]
First Listen – Janet Jackson’s Make Me
If you didn’t get enough Miss Jackson tonight from her the MTV Video Music Awards appearance, reprising her role with MJ in Scream, you have a gift from her.
She has a stream to her new song Make Me up on her website. Let us know what you think about the new Janet song. Even though I’m on Team Janet until the end, I have to admit that her last few releases have left me wanting […]