Monthly Archive: June 2017
San Francisco-based band Jefferson Airplane is best known, at least under their original band name, for their two hits that reached the Top 10 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart: “Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit.”...
After hitting the Top 10 with the first three songs from their 1988 album Chicago 19, the band Chicago‘s fourth single from the album, “We Can Last Forever,” failed to make the Top 40. On...
What do you get when you mix the King of Pop with the Kings of Punk? You get the mashup of the week – Broken Dreams of A Smooth Criminal! This mashup takes the...
In addition to tremendous success on the country chart, to date Georgia-born musician Luke Bryan has hit the Top 20 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart five times. Exactly five years ago, Bryan’s first Top 20...
London-based band Culture Club‘s 1983 album Colour by Numbers produced for Top 20 hits on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. On this date in 1984, the fourth of those songs — “It’s a Miracle” — climbed to...
Puerto Rican vocal group Menudo was a teen pop music sensation in the mid-1980s, though they only hit Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart once, and that song didn’t reach the Top 40. On this date in...
California-born musician Jim Photoglo has made two appearances on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, both of which reached the Top 40 in the early 1980s. In 1981, he hit number 25 as a solo artist with...
In 1992, pop music stars Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson teamed up for the duet “The Best Things in Life Are Free,” which was featured in the film Mo’ Money. Exactly 25 years ago, the...
New York-based band Atlantic Starr made ten appearances on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, all between 1982 and 1994. Four of those songs reached the Top 40, with three hitting the Top 5. Exactly 30 years ago,...
Dating back to 1975, country music superstar Willie Nelson has made thirteen appearances on Billboard‘s Hot 100Â chart, with seven of those songs hitting the Top 40. Nelson’s biggest pop music hits are a pair...