Danny Brown’s fifth full-length offers heartening proof that the 38-year-old has settled snugly into a demographic of middle-class rappers who can sustain livelihoods without the pressure of storming charts or selling out stadiums. The album is a wonderful scenario for an artist a decade into...
Every year, around this time, the gifts get wrapped, the trees get trimmed, and we declare the album dead…or undead…or less dead than we thought. Speaking of broken records, Adele’s recent sales coup—selling more albums in one week than anyone in history, and then setting another rec...
Better known as "Left Eye," this dynamic rapper/singer was one-third of the best-selling female R&B group of all time, TLC. With her fiery personality and distinctive vocal style that seamlessly blended rapping and singing, she played a vital role in shaping the group's groundbreaking sound...
Remember, this million-selling album was scheduled to drop for free. Above all, Drake dripped sauce and self-confidence, so much that even the ghostwriting allegations—audio included—from his beef with Meek Mill couldn’t slow him down. His barbed words even clashed with upper management on...
million copies and spent 18 weeks at No.1 on the US albums chart spurred on, of course, by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes’(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life,Eric Carmen’sHungry Eyesand The Swayze’sShe’s Like The Wind. It went on to be one of the best-selling albums of all ...
Since 2009, she has issued a platinum-selling EP and eight albums, including three Billboard 200 top 10 debuts. She has also been the subject of three solo PBS concert specials. Between 2008 and 2010, Evancho entered talent competitions, sang the US national anthem at a Pittsburgh Pirates ...
The best-selling jazz album of all time,Kind Of Bluecreated a new musical language that was hugely influential not only in the jazz world but for numerous rock and pop musicians as well, assuring the album’s rightful place at the head of any list of the greatest jazz albums in history....
Fresh from their 1972 European tour – and the triple live album that became one of the band's most commercially successful releases – Grateful Dead erected a stage beneath the Old Renaissance Faire Grounds in Veneta, Oregon to throw a benefit concert for the struggling Springfield Creamery. ...
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Salsa turned Anthony into a million-selling star in the Nineties, and salsa is what he gives you in 2019. He doesn’t even attempt another version of 2013’s “Vivir Mi Vida,” which traded tenacity and specificity for the benign, anyone-can-chant-this qualities that make global hits. An...