The first big disco record to use entirely electronic instruments – disco was traditionally recorded with a live band – I Feel Love spent a month at Number 1 in summer 1977 and is generally credited with kickstarting dance music as we know it today. It's sold over a million copies and...
She got a taste of the Top 10 last year with “The Middle,” her surprise EDM hit with Zedd and Grey, which clearly whetted her pop appetite. The high points onGirlhave major emotional reach. “A Song for Everything” follows in the style of “My Church,” as she sings about music...
That includes the cover ofSublime’s sleazy 1996 hit “Doin’ Time” — essentially the “Summertime Sadness” of the Long Beach, Calif., ska band’s discography — recorded out of pure fandom, yet somehow a perfect complement to the album’s beach bum vibe. “We were involved in executiv...
Ana Matronic, Jake Shears, and the rest of the crew served up a brilliant DIY instructional dance video for their unlikely viral hit, which became their third No. 1 hit on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart in 2012. The smartly staged and creatively choreographed one-take clip is as unpoli...
Records were made to be broken and country music got to see another first this week as Shaboozey has hit the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts with his smash hit "A Bar Song (Tipsy)." That is on the heels of the song going to the top spot on the Hot Country Charts....
Her first two albums, recorded as a young teenager and released only in Colombia, were comprised of lackluster, forgettable pop ballads. The records flopped, the former selling less than a thousand copies. At 15, Shaki moved from her hometown of Barranquilla to the capital of Bogotá, enduring...
Whitney, who passed away in February 2012, spent a whopping ten weeks at Number 1 with I Will Always Love You, taken from the soundtrack of hit movie The Bodyguard. The track, which was written and originally recorded by country star Dolly Parton, has sold 1.638 million copies in the UK...
A shouty acoustic indie-blues song in the vein of Mumford & Sons, the original solo version of “Hallucinogenics” was a big hit onalternative and rock radio. Maeson’s lyrics conjure up dramatic images (“Pushing past the limit, trippin’ on hallucinogenics/ My cigarette burnt my finger ’...
Belafonte’s third studio album. The album contains Belafonte’s signature song, “Day O” (also known as “Banana Boat Song”), as well as “Jamaica Farewell” (based on a traditional aire) and “Man Smart (Woman Smarter).” Robert Palmer had a Hot 100 hit with the latter song in ...
OnHigh Off Life, Hendrix vacillates between hood oracle and unabashed paper-chaser as he elevates the trap to mythic proportions. "One of my niggas ain't got no soul," he raps on the hook for "One of My," a song that's as chilling as any he previously recorded. When he's not ...