After it became apparent that summer was going to very quickly get away from me, I decided to table the podcast for a couple of months. However, those of you who were enjoying Blerd Radio, guess what? We’re back!! For our Season 2 premiere, I called on my regulars: GG and Car-late-a Carletta for what turned out to be a quite entertaining show. Among the topics discussed: -While waiting for Carletta to show up, GG and I discuss our summers, the return […]
Country Music
Chart Stalker 9/1/10: The Girls Have It
New blood at the top of the chart, y’all! The Top 2 albums both sell over 100,000 units as well (with Eminem at #3 just short of six figures). Leading the charge is Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream”, which starts off with 192,000 units. While some might think that a small number in light of “California Gurlz” being inescapable this summer, it’s also worth nothing that this is more than 4 times what Katy’s debut album started with, and “I Kissed […]
Chart Stalker 8/26/10: There’s Life!!!
Eminem #1, yada yada yada blah blah blah. However, the remainder of the Top 10 on this week’s Billboard album chart gets an almost complete makeover, by virtue of six debuts and a reentry. The only albums in this week’s Top 10 that were also in last week’s Top 10 besides Eminem are Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs” (#7) and Justin Bieber’s “My World 2.0” (#8). This week’s Top 10 debuts come from R&B singer Kem (#2), singer-songwriters Ray LaMontagne (#3) […]
Chart Stalker! 8/18/10: Change Soon Come
I’ll stand by for a sec and let you try to guess who has this week’s #1 album. Give up? It’s Eminem!! “Recovery” scans another 133,000 units this week and spends it’s 6th non-consecutive week at the top of Billboard’s album chart. “Recovery” also spends it’s 8th consecutive week at the top of Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Album chart. It’s the longest consecutive stay at the top for a rap album in 20 years. Last album to hang around that long? MC […]
Taylor Makes a Swift Return to Country/Pop Goodness with “Mine”
Taylor Swift is officially middle-America’s squinty-eyed sweetheart. She keeps her clothes on, has a bit of “musical credibility” (i.e. she plays guitar and writes her own lyrics) and has a blandly appealing vibe that’s obviously worked wonders at the sales counter. Hell, I dig her and at first glance you wouldn’t figure me for a fan. Her first two albums have sold 10 million copies combined and she took home a Grammy Award for Album of the Year back in […]
Will Darius Rucker’s New Song Make You Want to “Come Back”?
Two years ago, if you were to tell me that Darius Rucker would be coming off of a Platinum album…a Platinum country album, I would have laughed directly in your face. However, the former Hootie & the Blowfish frontman (and doppelganger of this site’s fearless leader) completed one of the more astounding musical comebacks in recent memory with a top-selling album called “Learn to Live” and a slew of #1 country songs (making him the first black singer to top […]