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Top 10 Best-Charting Artists Of All Time

Lil Wayne, one of the best charting artists of all time. (Issac Baldizon/NBAE via Getty Images)Lil Wayne is one of the best-charting artists of all time. (Issac Baldizon/NBAE via Getty Images)

By | February 22, 2012
We'd like Elvis to be the #1 best charting artist in the history of pop music but, sad to say, a revisionist reading of Fame soaked in soap-opera suds has replaced him at the top. Herein lie the Top 10 best-charting artists to hit the US… Read more »
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Top 10 Longest-Running Number 1′s

Rob Thomas Says "We're Number 1!" (YouTube)Rob Thomas Says "We're Number 1!" (YouTube)

By | February 10, 2012
It's one thing to get to #1, another thing entirely to live there for eight or 10 or, remarkably, 16 weeks. Here are the Top 10 Longest-Running Number 1's in pop history. Hit Me With the List Read more »
Rock Flashback

Rock Flashback: George Michael and Elton John

Detail from the Cover of "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"Detail from the Cover of "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"

By | February 2, 2012
In 1974,  Elton John took "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. That summer, an 11-year-old fan heard the song and never forgot it. Eleven years later, in 1985, that fan would perform the song with Elton -- and a… Read more »
Number 1 With A Bullet

Number 1 With A Bullet: Elton John’s “Crocodile Rock”

Elton John - "Crocodile Rock" (MCA, 1973)Elton John - "Crocodile Rock" (MCA, 1973)

By | February 2, 2012
"I never wanted to [be a performer] in the first place. I only wanted to be a songwriter." Read More Read more »
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Top 10 Songs With “Cat” In The Title

"Wot You Say, Mate? Have I ever sung about 'cats'?" (Stephen Lovekin Getty Images Entertainment)"Wot You Say, Mate? Have I ever sung about 'cats'?" (Stephen Lovekin Getty Images Entertainment)

By | January 30, 2012
One of our most popular Top 10s of all time is our Top 10 Songs With "Dog" In The Title. Let's see if cat lovers are as passionate about their pets as dog fanatics (or are at least as interested in singing about them). Meow Read more »
Rock Flashback

Rock Flashback: Long John Baldry

From the Cover of Long John Baldry's "It Ain't Easy"From the Cover of Long John Baldry's "It Ain't Easy"

By | January 12, 2012
Seventy-one years ago, John William Baldry was born in East London. He would grow to be six feet, seven inches tall, which would lead to the nickname by which he's known: Long John Baldry. He's also known for helping to launch the careers of several… Read more »
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Top 10 Firsts For The First Week Of The Year

Jimi Hendrix, 1967 (YouTube)Jimi Hendrix, 1967 (YouTube)

By | January 5, 2012
Not only is this the first week of the year, it's a week loaded with firsts from rock and roll history that include Beatles, Bay City Rollers and Boonesville, Virginia. Here are our Top 10 Firsts for the First Week of the Year from the rock and… Read more »
Rock Flashback

Rock Flashback: Tallahassee Roasts the Rolling Stones, 1975

Despite the negative associations involved with book burning -- Nazi Germany and Ray Bradbury's novel "Fahrenheit 451" -- those who want to make a point about the moral state of popular culture have never been shy about using fire to do it. (Getty Images/Jorge Guerrero/AFP)Despite the negative associations involved with book burning -- Nazi Germany and Ray Bradbury's novel "Fahrenheit 451" -- those who want to make a point about the moral state of popular culture have never been shy about using fire to do it. (Getty Images/Jorge Guerrero/AFP)

By | December 7, 2011
Records by Elvis Presley were burned in the '50s; in the 1960s, Beatles records were consigned to hellfire. And in December 1975, a public record burning was held in Florida. Burn Baby Burn Read more »
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Top 10 Songs From November ’75 That Aren’t Silver Convention

Hot Chocolate on the Midnight Special, 1975 (YouTube)Hot Chocolate on the Midnight Special, 1975 (YouTube)

By | November 29, 2011
It was another case of a hit record without a band. Silver Convention's disco hit, "Fly, Robin, Fly," was the creation of a pair German producers, recorded using anonymous studio musicians. When the song sadly became a #1 hit on this day in '75, a… Read more »
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Top 10 Christmas Songs

(Photo by Mark Renders/Getty Images)(Photo by Mark Renders/Getty Images)

By | November 28, 2011
Well, the turkey has been stuffed and so have we and now it's time to turn our thoughts toward Christmas, now less than a month away. The world is silly with Christmas music, isn't it, so much so it's hard to figure out what to put on the stereo… Read more »