Elvis Presley was born on January 8, 1935 which means he would have been 75 years old today. Presley died on August 16, 1977 at the age of 42.
To coincide with his 75th birthday a box set titled Elvis 75 - Good Rockin’ Tonight was released a month ago. It includes a total 100 […]

On the final Billboard 200 album chart prior to Christmas a total of eight Beatles releases made the top 200 sellers of the week:
#082 Abbey Road (1969)
#085 The White Album (1970)
#099 The Beatles in Stereo Box Set (2009)
#126 1 (2000)
#130 Sgt. Pepper’s… (1967)
#163 Rubber Soul (1965)
#170 Revolver (1966)
#184 Love (2006)
Not a bad showing considering that […]

The This Is It documentary (on the preparation for the Jackson concert series that never happened) was the #1 movie in the US last week and now the accompanying This Is It soundtrack (which is essentially another “greatest hits” package with the title track being the only new song) debuted at #1 on the US […]

The soundtrack for the new Twilight movie is at #1 this week in it’s first full week of release (it was #2 last week despite being released on a Friday instead of the usual Tuesday.) I must admit that I bought this soundtrack even though I rarely buy movie soundtracks and even though I think […]

I was thinking: “I wonder how many of the 200 albums on the Billboard 200 are by artists I dig?” This may seem like a rather thin concept for a blog post, but compared to a lot of the crap I post here, this is brilliant!
#002 Twilight Soundtrack
No, I’m not a fan of the Twilight […]

The new Billboard album charts are out for the week and The Flaming Lips newest album Embryonic debuted at #8 with 32,000 copies sold. This is the highest the band has ever charted in the US beating out the band’s last album At War with the Mystics which reached #11. But it should be noted […]

Despite Michael Buble’s new album (Crazy Love) coming out on Friday (rather than Tuesday) he was still able to get the #1 spot on the new Billboard album charts. He beat out Kiss (which debuted at #2 with Sonic Boom) and Toby Keith (who debuted at #3 with American Ride.)
Yes, there are people who […]

The latest Britney Spears single “3″ (which is the only new track on her greatest hits compilation due out on November 24th) has debuted at #1 on the US singles chart.
It’s the first non American Idol song to debut at #1 Lauren Hill’s “Doo Wop (That Thing)” accomplished the feat in 1998.
“3″ is […]

Today would have been Michael Jackson’s 51st birthday as he was born on August 29, 1958 but as everyone knows, Jackson died just over two months ago on June 25, 2009.
Since his death Jackson has been selling albums at an extremely fast pace. He was at #1 on the UK album charts for 8 […]

40 years ago (on August 20, 1969) was the last time all four Beatles were together in Abbey Road Studios. On September 20th John Lennon left the band for good. And the next year (on April 10, 1970) Paul McCartney officially quit the band (just prior to releasing his debut solo album, McCartney.)
On August 20, […]