Random music news for Monday, December 12, 2022
This may be the grossest thing that you read all week. Sorry. Nothing to apologize when it comes to music news for December 12, 2022.
- Sorry, Mariah. You’ve been out-streamed by a song released in 1958.
- Do we really need Christmas music? We do?
- Elton John is the latest star to quit Twitter.
- It took Kanye seconds to get re-banned from Instagram.
- AM radio has survived more than a hundred years. But it may be killed off by the rise of electric cars.
- But at least one politician wants to make sure that AM radio lives.
- Backstreet’s NOT back for Christmas because of some rape allegations.
- Apple Music and Spotify don’t break hits like they used to. Could it be…TikTok?
- Taylor Swift: “Yeah, I like music but what I really want to do is write and direct a movie.”
- Madonna just sold off one of her MTV awards. At US$38,000, that seems cheap.
- Why would someone want to bomb a Patti LaBelle show? (No one did, but there was a threat.)
- Dumbest. Headphones. Ever. Discuss.
- OVER MY DEAD BODY! Same to you, ChatGPT.
- Hey, whatever happened to the Columbia House Records and Tapes (and CDs) Club? This.
BONUS: If you’re of a certain age, this will bring back memories. I think I have something in my eye.
