UK Top 10 Albums, December 11th, 2011
Hugely successful, straight in at # 1, but so sad that Amy's third album is this cobbled together piece of product.. It will be a huge hit but still a mere shadow.
View ArticleUS Top 10 Albums Week Of December 24th, 2011
not being on Spotify hasn't helped the Black Keys, it certainly hasn't hurt them much. Album at # 2, adding a second night to MSG, and, er a shave??
View ArticleUS Top 10 Singles, Week Of December 24th, 2011
Though the album was a bit disappoint, T-Pain's take on Lily Allen is a masterstroke, the sort of stroke you might expect from the man who sang a duet with Taylor Swift at the CMAs.
View ArticleMichael Buble Has Himself A Merry Little Christmas
On the same day it was released (along with Justin Bieber's Under The Mistletoe, which it trounced) (and on Spotify, so so much for the Black Keys theories), his sales soared and soared and at the...
View ArticleUK Top 10 Singles Week Ending December 17th, 2011
Comment: Another big hit by another X-Factor winner very doubtful to be matched Stateside at next week's conclusion. It is really amazing how X-Factor has taken over the UK's important Christmas # 1...
View ArticleUK Top 10 Albums Week Ending December 17th, 2011
Yup, still Christmas for Buble, but the surprise is Coldplay, riding hit single "Paradise" for an increase of, dig it, 113% in sales. Otherwise, the usual UK mish mash of local greatest hits and Yanke...
View ArticleUS Top 10 Albums, Week Of December 31st, 2011
Christmas means giving in country land and that's why Lady Antebellum and the American Idol kid are back up there. Two of the top three will be gone soon. And congrats to Black Keys, who aare now a...
View ArticleUS Top 10 Singles Week Of December 31st, 2011
This hasn't moved much in ages. All winter long: Rohanna, LMFAO, Adele, Maroon 5. The only adds have been T-Pain and the Throne. It is the opposite of the album charts this year, where there is almost...
View ArticleMilitary Wive's Choir To Be UK's Xmas Single 2011
They took the words from letters written by wives of military personnel and added music tby the dreadful Royal Wedding composer Paul Mealor. It is worse than it sounds.
View ArticleUK Top 10 Singles, December 31st, 2011
The top three (and # 11 -"Smeels Like Teen Spirit") were the battle for # 1, with #1 trouncing all comers by a margin of :1. It is the sort of fun thing you can't, or at least couldn't, you probably...
View ArticleUK Top 10 Albums, December 31st, 2011
I don't mind being manipulated by music, but I don't enjoy being taken for a fool. Westlife and rebecca Ferguson are just the absolute worse: moribund pathos for people who have o be dragged through...
View ArticleThe Associated Press: Top 10 Albums of 2011
No Beiber? No Gaga?They have Adele but I think if you don’t include Adele in your top something or other of 2011 you get shot or something or maybe she will stalk you from a tree outside yourhouse.
View ArticleUS Top 10 Singles, Week of January 2nd, 2012
Despite LMFAO finally getting the # 1 position, and despite Big Sean getting a remix with Nicki, and despite Adele getting another hit off her album, this is awful bland compared to the UK singles...
View ArticleUS Top 10 Albums, Week Of January 2nd, 2011
next week Christmas and Mistletoe will be in moth balls so what will happen next? I predict, Adele will be back at # 1, essentially because there is nothing else around
View ArticleUS Top 10 Albums, November 24th, 2012
The Hot 100 seems mostly centered on electro pop and its variants but he album charts have no center at all. Two guys hitting 70, English folk, Christian rock, two up and coming rappers, a country...
View ArticleWhere’s My Dentures, I’m Ready to Rock ‘n’ Roll: Crawfords Best of 2012
Teenage girls across America dumped their boyfriends for the honor of singing “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” and feeling solidarity with Taylor Swift. Justin Bieber returned with less...
View ArticleEntertainment Weekly Lists the Top 100 Albums Of All Time
Right now citizens of Great Britain are having a cow because Sgt Peppers isn’t on the list. Why? Who really cares what Entertainment Weekly thinks.
View ArticleBillboard Chart 1996, When Things Were Rotten
Seventeen years ago music was pretty lame. When songs like "Macarena" rule the airwaves its brutal to say the least. The top 10 songs were so bad that theyre nearly unidentifiable.
View ArticleThe 100 Best Songs of the 1990s
Lester’s vision of cultural atomization became a reality in the 1990s, as audiences segmented into different genres/sub-genres and fewer artists impacted mass culture as a whole. Therefore, everyone’s...
View ArticleWinner And Loser Week Of December 16th, 2013: Bobby Womack And UK Christmas...
You hear about these kinda things but until you actually see it,a man shed 20 years just by getting onstage, it is hard to believe it actually happens and yet there it is! The great, one of the...
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