On February 9th of 1964 The Beatles debuted on The Ed Sullivan Show. This was the very first time that most Americans saw The Beatles on TV. An incredible 73 million Americans watched. As the Washington Post pointed out in their story today; that means that 40% of Americans saw The Beatles that night – [...]

Beatles legend John Lennon was shot and killed in New York City 30 years ago today by a deranged lunatic who doesn’t deserve to be named. To celebrate John Lennon’s life today I will share RateYourMusic.com‘s (yes I’m still addicted to this site) perspective on each on each of his solo albums (the Lennon Signature [...]

John Lennon was born 70 years ago today on October 9th of 1940. Celebrate his birthday by buying the new Lennon Signature Box which includes remastered versions of all of his solo work along with a disc of previously unreleased recordings and/or The Beatles in Stereo Box Set featuring remastered versions of all of The [...]

Arcade Fire’s third album, The Suburbs, has debuted at #1 in both the US and UK. I think this means that “indie rock” is now officially mainstream, or something like that. I’m actually not much of a fan of Arcade Fire. I find their approach to be a bit over-dramatic. They remind me of my [...]

From time to time I like to check out the Billboard album charts to see what kind of music people are buying in mass quantities these days. This is one of those times. I’m mostly pretty detached from the “pop” world (most of my favorite new music doesn’t sell huge quantities) so this is my [...]

Ringo Starr turns 70 today. He was born as Richard Starkey on July 7, 1940. Ringo was the oldest Beatle. John Lennon would be turning 70 on October 9 of this year and Paul McCartney just turned 68 (June 18th.) George Harrison was the youngest Beatle as he would have turned 67 this year (on [...]

According to this story on Billboard, Michael Jackson has sold over 30 million copies of his albums around the world since his death one year ago (June 25, 2009.) In the US alone, MJ has sold over 9 million copies of his albums in the past year. On top of that he has sold over [...]

The new Billboard album charts are out today and I find the sales numbers for MGMT’s new album, Congratulations, interesting enough to pass along: 66,000 copies sold in the first week which is good enough to debut at the #2 spot (behind Justin Bieber at #1.) The Billboard story also mentioned that MGMT’s first album, [...]

I wasn’t that surprised to see that Valleys of Neptune (the latest collection of previously unreleased Hendrix recordings released as a new album) debuted at #4 on the US album charts this week, because Hendrix definitely seems to have an enduring popularity. But I was a bit surprised to see how many of his older [...]

Soldier of Love, Sade’s first album since 2000′s Lover’s Rock, debuted at #1 on this week’s Billboard 200 album charts with more than half a million copies sold. It’s Sade’s second #1 album in the US, the first being 1985′s Promise which was their second album (their debut album, Diamond Life, was released in 1984 [...]