As you’ve probably noticed from some of my previous articles, I’m obsessed with charts and with The Beatles. I was inspired to write this particular chart-o-phile fanatical Beatles related post by seeing that The Beatles jumped from #3 to #1 on this week’s Last.FM charts (maybe because of the recent release of The Beatles USB?) [...]

I think I’ve done a post very similar to this in the past but what can I say? I’m addicted to The Beatles and to Last.FM and I find it very interesting to see which Beatles songs are played the most often. I’m going to be using the chart from the last 6 months which [...]

The Beatles topped the week’s Last.FM charts with 124 thousand listeners and 2.6 million plays. The Beatles were at #2 last week (and #3 the week before that.) Of course this big jump in plays (almost twice as many as last week) is due to the release of the newly remastered stereo CDs (see The [...]

It’s almost been a full decade since the ’90s ended which means ’90s nostalgia ought begin kicking into high gear sometime soon. Here’s my bit to get that started. A look at the 10 most popular songs from the ’90s based on most Last.FM listeners over the past week. 01 – Oasis – “Wonderwall” – [...]

Michael Jackson topped the UK album charts for the 5th straight week with the greatest hits collection The Essential Michael Jackson. No other album has topped the UK album chart for so long this year. Jackson didn’t just get the top spot, he also had five of the top 20 and ten of the top [...]

I didn’t really think Michael Jackson would dominate the Last.FM charts again this week but he actually did so even more than last week. I suppose in a way that makes sense because there was a full week rather than just a few days after his death. But I’m still a bit surprised at the [...]

Each Monday Last.FM has a new chart of the most played artists for the previous week (Monday through Sunday.) Last week Michael Jackson was #67 which isn’t too bad for someone hadn’t released any new music in almost 10 years. This week Jackson climbed up 66 spots all the way up to #1 with over [...]

As a follow-up to my feature on the top 20 most played Michael Jackson songs on Last.FM, this is the top 10 most played MJ songs that never reached the top twenty singles in the US. Considering that 32 of his songs reached the top 20, that’s going to disqualify most his more well known [...]

There will be a lot of retrospectives of Michael Jackson after yesterday’s shocking news. I’ll let others comment on his personal life. Sure that’s part of his story, but it’s because of his music that anyone cared about his personal life in the first place. Anyway, I’ve done quite a few of these Last.FM features [...]

I won’t try to explain what Elephant 6 is, I’ll let them do that themselves on their new website. What I will say is that some of my favorite music of the last 20 years has been made by bands who are a part of the Elephant 6 collective/label/cult, most particularly The Olivia Tremor Control [...]