Monthly Archive: September 2017
Whitney Houston‘s second album, Whitney, produced four number one singles on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. Exactly 30 years ago, the second of those songs, “Didn’t We Almost Have It All,” climbed to the top for a...
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts hit the Top 20 with the first three songs they placed on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. On this date in 1982, the third of those songs — “Do You Wanna...
D.J. Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, a.k.a., Jeff Townes and Will Smith, hit the Top 20 with their first two songs to appear on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. On this date in 1988, the...
Memphis-based band The Box Tops made ten appearances on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, with seven of those songs reaching the Top 40 and two hitting the Top 10. Their biggest hit was their first song...
Toronto-based duo Kon Kan made two appearances on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, both in 1989. On this date that year, the second of those two songs, “Puss N’ Boots/These Boots (Are Made for Walkin’),” which...
What do you get when you mashup the Beatles, LCD Sound System and Kinks? You get the MOTW, mashup of the week, entitled “Really Got To Get Back To My House”. The tune takes...
To date, Long Beach, California-born and New Orleans-raised singer Frank Ocean has made two appearances on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, once by himself as once as a featured artist alongside Calvin Harris. Exactly five years...
All three songs from Merle Haggard‘s 1984 album It’s All in the Game that made Billboard‘s Hot Country singles chart reached number one. On this date that year, the first of those hits — “Let’s Chase...
All four songs from Kool & the Gang‘s 1984 album Emergency that appeared on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart made the Top 20, with the first three reaching the Top 10. The biggest hit of the quartet...
Three songs from Luther Vandross‘ 1986 album Give Me the Reason made appearances on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. The first of those three hits was the album’s title track, which was also featured in the film Ruthless...