It’s Already Been Five Years: Kanye West “Bound 2”
One song from Kanye West‘s 2013 album Yeezus hit the Top 20 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. Exactly five years ago, that song — “Bound 2” — rose to a peak position...
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It Happened 50 Years Ago: Marvin Gaye “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”
Over the course of more than two decades, Marvin Gaye made fifty-six appearances on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. Forty of those songs reached the Top 40, and eighteen hit the Top 10....
DEF: ZZ Top “Sleeping Bag”
ZZ Top hit the Top 10 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart twice, with a pair of songs between 1984 and 1985 that reached number 8. On this date in 1985, the...
Mashup – Beat It, Trooper!
What do you get if you mix up Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” and Iron Maiden’s 1983 classic “The Trooper”? You get the metal masterpiece “Beat It, Trooper! by Nightmare Lyre....
DEF: The Kings “The Beat Goes On/Switchin’ to Glide”
Canadian band The Kings made just one appearance on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, though that one song took two different forms during its chart run. Originally charting as just the song “Switchin’...
DEF: Michael Bolton “That’s What Love Is All About”
Michael Bolton has hit the Top 40 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart eighteen times. That run started with “That’s What Love Is All About,” which on this date in 1987 climbed...
25 Years Ago in the Nineties: Janet Jackson “Again”
Six songs from Janet Jackson‘s 1993 album janet. reached the Top 10 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. Two of those six songs hit number one, and exactly 25 years ago, the second...
DEF: Jefferson Starship “Be My Lady”
San Francisco-based band Jefferson Starship‘s 1982 album Winds of Change produced two Top 40 hits on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. On this date that year, the first of those two hits,...
DEF: Chicago “Look Away”
Chicago has hit number one on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart three times. Exactly 30 years ago, the third of that trio of chart-topping hits, “Look Away,” climbed to number one for...
DEF: Lil Louis “French Kiss”
Chicago-born musician Lil Louis made just one appearance on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. On this date in 1989, that one song — “French Kiss” — climbed to a peak position of...
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