This is the third in a series of posts on the top 10 pop/rock albums of each decade beginning with the 1960s according to the users of RateYourMusic.com. You can find the first two installments here (1960s) and here (1970s.) #01 Pixies – Doolittle (#4695 on Amazon’s bestsellers list.) #02 The Smiths – The Queen [...]

Using a similar criteria as I used in my post on the top 20 ’90s artists on Last.FM – these are the top 10 ’80s artists on the Last.FM charts. I find this interesting because it lets us know which bands or “artists” from the past are new listeners (as most of the people using [...]

With 27 million copies sold in the US and at least that many more again throughout the world, Thriller is the most commercially successful album of all time.