Hey Folks, I can’t say I’m the world’s foremost authority when it comes to country music. So this year, I farmed out the prediction process to my buddy Matt Bjorke, who runs Roughstock.com ! Matt, who has guested on the Blerd Radio podcast in the past, is THE man when it comes to country music, and I thank him for helping me out and offering his take on the country categories this year. Take it away, Matt!! 2010 was considered by […]
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Village Voice Pazz & Jop Goes Gaga Over Kanye
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Music tastemakers of a certain vintage still go crazy over The Village Voice‘s annual Pazz & Jop poll. The poll asks a who’s who of music critics for their favorites in music over the previous year. The results for 2010 were published recently, and Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was voted the best album of 2010 by a landslide, receiving almost double the votes of the runner-up, LCD Soundsystem’s This is Happening. Yeezy then ran roughshod over the […]
Chart Stalker! 1/12/11: Nobody’s Buying Shit
Taylor Swift’s Speak Now holds on for another week at #1 on the Billboard charts published today. That’s the good news, I guess. What’s the bad news? She does so with the lowest sales for a chart-topping album in history. And it’s not even close. Taylor manages to sell only 52,000 records this week, 8,000 units less than the previous dubious record-holder, the Dreamgirls soundtrack. It’s fairly obvious that album sales are in the shitter. Add in a week with […]
Chart Stalker 1/5/10: 2010 in Review
Eminem leads the list of the 50 best-selling albums of 2010.
Chart Stalker! 12/30/10: The Home Stretch!
Taylor Swift hangs on to the top spot for yet another week on the latest Billboard chart. She’s gonna come within a hair of scoring 2010’s top-selling album, but Lady Antebellum and Eminem are standing in her way.
Chart Stalker!: Billboard Year-End Version
Welcome to the first of two year end editions of Chart Stalker! Why two, you ask? Simple answer-Billboard’s year-end issue comes out before the end of the actual calendar year (to allow for publication time and ad purchasing). Generally speaking, it covers the year from December 1st of the previous year to November 30th of the current year, or thereabouts. Additionally, Billboard calculates it’s rankings by using a formula based on chart position, so where an artist ends up on […]
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.
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.