Some stats for people who love one-hit-wonders
A one-hit-wonder is usually defined as an artist who has had one and only one song reach any position in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Yes, you can
Read MoreA one-hit-wonder is usually defined as an artist who has had one and only one song reach any position in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Yes, you can
Read More[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] If you were part the minuscule audience who watched the MTV Music Video Awards last week (according to Nielsen overnights, only 865,000 people tuned in
Read MoreFor almost a year now, a group of us (including former staffers Ivar Hamilton and Scott Turner) have been working on a big-budget (well, for a documentary) on the history of CFNY (now
Read MoreTwenty-five years ago when Napster and its sort began allowing us to share music online, we did it because: Illegal file-sharing wipe out huge swaths of the recorded music industry. Revenues went into
Read MoreA nice little video retrospective of Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Read MoreMusic is always changing and evolving. Meanwhile, people of the present are constantly re-evaluating the music of the past. Reader Chris forwarded this chart of the greatest singles of all time that was
Read MoreIf you were around to watch Nirvana on Saturday Night Live on January 11, 1992, you would have seen them on an old-school cathode ray tube TV with interlaced scanning at 60 Hz,
Read MoreIt’s exceedingly rare to be able to pin down the birth of a music genre to a specific date. With rock, there was no Big Bang; the music evolved and coalesced over many
Read More[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca on Sunday. – AC] When I was in high school and university, every Wednesday afternoon required to the Rexall drug store in my small prairie hometown. That
Read MoreIf you were around in the early 80s, you’ll know how MTV changed the music game. It didn’t happen right away–its influence took at least two years to become visible–but once it did,
Read MoreThe Luminate data came late this week–Thursday night instead of late Monday–but at least it got here. We begin with comparisons between last week and the same week in 2022. This next comparison
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