Billboard Hot 100 re-entries are a relatively common occurrence, as songs often experience sudden gains in activity that help ...

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J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Ted Kessler and Hamish MacBain’s ‘A Sound So Very Loud’ digs into the Britpop band’s entire discography, from "Wonderwall" to rare ...

You may or may not be surprised, but Elton John never gets sick of singing the song that put his name on the map.

After his voice was heard on countless hits throughout the 1970s and early ’80s, it was high time that Michael McDonald stepped into the spotlight. He did it in 1982 with a killer track called “I Keep ...

Here's the best song from every Dream Theater studio LP (including 2025’s Parasomnia)! As someone who's written a book on the band, I can confidently say that no other artist has had as much of an ...

Holiday music isn’t just nostalgic—it’s one of the most profitable genres in entertainment history. A single Christmas hit can pay out millions every December, often generating more money in one month ...

Taylor Swift is notorious for penning lyrics about the highs — and lows — of her own high-profile romances over the years. On her 2012 album, Red, Swift wrote about infidelity on the track “Girl at ...

One of the most cogent pieces of pop music analysis in recent memory is not an essay, or a review, or a magazine cover story, but a 2023 tweet from writer Matthew Perpetua, who broke Billy Joel's ...

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