Monthly Archive: May 2015
Miami-based trio Linear reached Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart three times, all in the early 1990s. The most successful of the three songs, and their only Top 10 hit, was their very first chart appearance, “Sending...
Los Angeles-based band The Go-Go’s have scored four Top 20 hits on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart , with all four coming between 1981 and 1984. On this date in 1984, the group’s fourth Top 20...
Glasgow-based band Simple Minds have reached the Top 40 with five of the six singles they have placed on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, and those were their first five charting singles. Their most successful single...
Take one part Skylar Grey and then add a touch of 3 Doors Down, Sting, Men at Work, ET, Deadmau5, Rihanna and P Diddy. Shake and stir and you’ll get the mashup of the...
Detroit-born singer Smokey Robinson reached the Top 40 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart five times in the 1980s, with three of those singles hitting the Top 10. Robinson’s first Top 40 hit of the 1980s was...
Salt-N-Pepa rose to prominence in late 1987 and early 1988 with their Top 20 single “Push It.” It was the first of eight Top 40 singles on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart the trio have enjoyed...
B. B. King, who is considered one of the greatest guitarists of all time, passed away Thursday at the age of 89. King rose to prominence in the 1950s and experienced much of his...
Melbourne-based band The Seekers reached Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart four times in their career, all between 1965 and 1967. The first of their appearances also netted the group it’s first Top 10 hit. Exactly 50...
New York City-born musician Carole King has reached Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart 16 times, most successfully with “Too Late,” which spent five weeks at number one in 1971. King’s most recent Hot 100 appearance happened...
Over the past two and a half decades, Dr. Dre has become one of the biggest names in rap and hip hop. Before building that highly successful solo career, Dre was a member of Los...