One of my favorite Grammy Award moments occurred back in 2003, when two of the artists tagged to carry the singer-songwriter torch into the 21st century joined forces with the man who lit the torch for a wonderful performance. The young artists were Vanessa Carlton, then riding high with her hit “A Thousand Miles”, and John Mayer, who had already scored huge hits with “No Such Thing” and “Your Body is a Wonderland”. Carlton performed a shortened version of “Miles” […]
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Chart Stalker 12/8/10: Here Comes Middle America!
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Susan Boyle retakes the chart throne this week, selling 272,000 copies of her album “The Gift”. Meanwhile, The Black Eyed Peas debut at a disappointing #6.
Award Show Sundays: Lenny Gets the Led Out
It’s amazing to think that the guy who started out being giggled at for being Denise Huxtable’s husband has gone on to have an enduring career that’s lasted for over two decades now. Lenny Kravitz went from laughingstock to near-legend by virtue of consistently solid albums and smoking live performances. He hasn’t done too much in terms of televised award show performances, but this run through “Are You Gonna Go My Way” from the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards is […]
Chart Stalker 12/2/10: Yay ‘Ye!!
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A look at this week’s Billboard 200 album chart. Kanye West debuts at #1, while Nicki Minaj scores the best sales week for a female rapper ever.
Eminem, Lady Antebellum Lead Grammy Nominees
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Eminem and Lady Antebellum lead the pack of Grammy nominees. The nominations were announced last night in Los Angeles.
The Grammy Crystal Ball: Who Gets Nominated?
Award season is in full swing, isn’t it? Coming less than two weeks after the American Music Awards and less than a week after the Soul Train Awards, and just a short time before the year-end best-of lists start raining down, the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences will announce the nominees for next January’s Grammy Awards. For the second consecutive year, there will be a prime time TV special announcing the nominees for the major categories, with scheduled […]
Award Show Sundays: Getting on Board the Soul Train
This week’s Award Show Sundays pays tribute to the Soul Train Music Awards, including a clip from the very first Soul Train Awards in 1987.
2010 American Music Awards: Live Blog
The American Music Awards may have fallen to third place on the importance list behind the Grammy Awards and the MTV Video Music Awards, but it’s still a pretty important show where it counts…at the cash register. It’s pretty well-watched, and lots of people that see performances or award winners end up going to their local store (or to iTunes) and picking up a single or album by someone they caught on the show. The AMAs began in 1974 as […]
Award Show Sundays: AMA All Day!!!
Hey folks-guess what? The American Music Awards are tonight. Who has two thumbs and will be live-blogging the whole show-as painful as that process appears? Yep-this guy. Make sure you check out this site frequently throughout the night to see what I think of the show. In the meantime, let’s go back in time and pull yet another great AMA moment out of the archives. Damn-looks like someone’s gone into YouTube and pulled out a lot of the good stuff, […]
Chart Stalker 11/18/10: SuBo FTW!
Big things happen when you drag pops and grandpa out to the record store. Check out this week’s Billboard album chart, and you’ll find Susan Boyle scoring another big debut. The owner of 2009’s biggest selling album looks to score a huge seller in 2010 with “The Gift”. The collection of new material and holiday classics scans 318,000 units, easily taking the top spot away from Taylor Swift . Not that Taylor’s doing too shabby. “Speak Now” adds another 212,000 copies to […]
Award Show Sundays: Getting Close to the Carpenters
I believe this is the first Award Show Sunday that predates my birth. As I’ve been on a Carpenters kick lately, I figured posting one of their several Grammy wins would be appropriate. What a category to win in, too? For Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus in 1971, they were pitted against four legendary groups-The Jackson 5, Chicago, Simon & Garfunkel, and The Beatles. Granted, their win sort of underscores Grammy’s historical bent towards the […]