At the beginning of last year, I decided I had to make some choices. I wasn’t sure if writing was what I wanted to do anymore, and the main site that I was contributing to at the time wasn’t making me happy. After taking my leave from that site, I figured I’d take some time, try to rejuvenate a little, and then decide what I wanted to do as far as taking a “next step”. Well, folks-taking the “next step” […]
Posts tagged "Soldier of Love"
Popblerd Presents!: The Top 40 Albums of 2010 (25-21)
Hey folks, I’ll be taking tomorrow off from posting because I intend to stuff myself silly with Christmas-related goodies (many of which will very likely contain alcohol), and I haven’t had the opportunity to build up my usual backlog of posts that I can fall back on when I’m lazy/stuffed/drunk. So to you Popblerd! readers who celebrate Christmas, I wish you a safe and joyous holiday. To those of you who don’t celebrate Christmas, enjoy your Chinese food and Tron: […]
Sade's "Soldier of Love": Still Smooth After All These Years
People love to talk about the curse of Grammy’s Best New Artist, but what gets overlooked is the amount of times the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences has gotten it right. Case in point, the 1985 ceremonies. While nominees a-ha, Katrina & the Waves and Julian Lennon were has-beens in America by the end of the decade, eventual winner Sade has maintained a level of popularity for a quarter-century now. This is evidenced by not only the fact […]
Chartstalker 2/24/10: Featuring Wanda Sykes
So…hey everybody. Nothing came out last week! So, there’s not a helluva lot to report chart-wise. Sade holds for a second week at the top spot, scanning over 190,000 units of “Soldier of Love”. Following last week’s amazing debut, the venerable British band has sold nearly 700,000 copies of their first album in ten years-in two short weeks. Considering the previous week included Valentine’s Day-a time period during which a good deal of music is usually bought-just about every album […]
Dear Sade…We Have Waited a Long, LONG Time for You
Part of my job is to go and visit record stores, make sure they’re carrying the product we sell. I try to time my visits so they occur on one of two days: either on Friday (because by the end of the week I have the worst cabin fever in the world) or on Tuesday (because that’s when new music comes out). This week’s major new release is the first album in 10 years from British Band Sade. This album, […]