Monthly Archive: April 2016
Since first appearing on the chart in 2005, as a lead or featured artist Rihanna has topped Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart fourteen times. Exactly five years ago, the tenth of those fourteen chart-topping hits, “S&M,”climbed to number...
New York/New Jersey-based band The Young Rascals (later known simply as The Rascals) hit the Top 40 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart thirteen times, with six of those singles reaching the Top 10. Three of...
Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry appeared on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart twice as a solo act: first in 1976, when “Heart on My Sleeve” climbed to number 86, and then in 1988, when “Kiss and Tell,”...
Los Angeles-based rapper Tone LÅc has hit the Top 5 with two of the three singles he has placed on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. Those two hits came with two consecutive singles from his debut album, LÅced...
What do you get when mix 21 Pilot’s Stressed Out with R. City featuring Adam Levine’s Locked Away? You get the mashup of the week (MOTW) which is truly an interesting mix of gushy...
In the early to mid-1980s New York City-born composer Michael Gore worked on such films as Fame, Terms of Endearment, and Pretty in Pink. With the second of those three films, Gore also garnered his only...
Augusta, Georgia-born musician Amy Grant has hit the Top 40 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart ten times, ranging from “Find a Way,” which peaked at number 29 in 1985, to “Takes a Little Time,” which...
Indiana-born musician Lonnie Mack, who is one of the most influential blues guitarists in history, passed away last week at the age of 74. Mack is most known popularly for his two Top 40...
Duran Duran bassist John Taylor appeared on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart just once as a solo artist, though he reached the Top 40 in doing so. That appearance occurred with his song “I Do What...
Miami-born musician Terri Gibbs has appeared on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart twice, with two singles in 1981. The first of those two singles — “Somebody’s Knockin’” — is her only Top 40 hit. Exactly 35...