The natural follow-up to my last post on the top 10 selling artists in the US of the soundscan era (from 1991 through 2008.) It will be in the same format (total sold and amount sold just in 2008) for the same reason (to see which albums are slowing down, actually this idea works a [...]

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” – [...]

Every week Last.FM has a new top 500 tracks chart (ranked by the amount of different listeners each song had during the last 7 days.) It’s amazing to me how little the rankings seem to change week to week and how the same older songs seem to be in the list every week. That’s what [...]

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 [...]

As I’ve mentioned about 50 times before Last.FM is my favorite music website. The radio player is a great way of hearing new music (I dig using the similar artist route and the tag route) and I also like the charts they have of what Last.FM members are listening to. I think it’s a reasonably [...]

Cliff Burton was born on February 10th of 1962 in Castro Valley, California. He is best known as the bassist for Metallica for their first three albums; 1983′s Kill ‘Em All, 1984′s Ride the Lightning, and 1986′s Master of Puppets. “(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth” from Kill ‘Em All is probably the best example of his bass [...]

Lars Ulrich was born on December 26th of 1963 in Denmark. He is best known as the drummer for the heavy metal band Metallica and for the battle he waged against the file sharing service Napster in 2000. Ulrich founded Metallica in 1981 when he ran a newspaper ad as a drummer looking for other [...]

Kirk Hammett was born on November 18th of 1962 in San Francisco, California. Hammett is most well known as the lead guitarist for the heavy metal band Metallica. He joined the band in 1983 after their original lead guitarist, Dave Mustaine, was kicked out of the band due to alcohol & drug related problems. Metallica [...]

According to many fans, Metallica’s new album, Death Magnetic, sounds better on Guitar Hero 3 than it does on the official CD version. Why? Because of the “loudness war.” Basically the music has been “mastered” in a way in which the only goal is to make the music as loud as possible without any concern [...]

Metallica lead singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist James Hetfield turned 45 years old today. He was born on August 3, 1963 in California. Metallica’s studio albums to date: Kill ‘Em All (1983) Ride the Lightning (1984) Master of Puppets (1986) …And Justice for All (1988) Metallica (1991) Load (1996) ReLoad (1997) St. Anger (2003) Metallica’s [...]