Saturday, April 20, 2024

Music

Pop Music: A Year After Columbia Records Named New Chief, They’ve Had No Hits at All, With the Exception of Bruce Springsteen on Broadway

The first of the year will mark the anniversary of Ron Perry taking over as president of Sony's Columbia Records. In that time, the...

Flashback: How Mariah Carey Was Ripped off by Jennifer Lopez and Others When the “Glitter” Project Was Being Put Together

Flashback: Even though Mariah Carey herself had to pay off a number of plagiarism lawsuits during her days at Sony, she was also ripped...

Grammy Lifetime Achievement: Sam & Dave, Black Sabbath, Dionne Warwick, George Clinton, Billy Eckstine, Donny Hathaway, Lou Adler, Ashford & Simpson, Julio Iglesias

The Grammy Award Lifetime Achievement inductees have been announced. And what a gang. Perfection: Black Sabbath, George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic, Billy Eckstine, Donny Hathaway, Julio Iglesias,...

Paul McCartney’s New Video for Catchy “Who Cares” Stars Emma Stone, Has Anti-Bullying Message

Paul McCartney's cool new video is for his catchy "Who Cares." It's a song from Paul's "Egypt Station" album with anti-bullying message. It also...

RIP Galt McDermot, Award Winning Composer of All Those Hit Songs from “Hair”: “Aquarius,” “Let the Sunshine In,” “Good Morning Starshine”

Is there a popular musical that spawned as many hits as "Hair"? The Fifth Dimension had the medley of "Aquarius" and "Let the Sunshine...

UPDATE: Pop Star Zayn Malik Has Sold Just 1,800 Copies of New Album “Icarus Falls,” Drops Number 73 on iTunes

FRIDAY UPDATE: "Icarus" has fallen to 76 on iTunes. Buzz Angle shows 5,500 in sales including streaming of singles, and just 1,800 albums sold....

Watch Ringo Starr and Ronnie Wood Join Paul McCartney On Stage in London for “Get Back”

We're never in the right place, are we? Sunday night in London, at the O2 Arena, Paul McCartney had some nice guests join his band...

One Direction’s Zayn Malik Releases Somber 27 Track “Icarus Falls” and Flies to Number 3 on iTunes

Zayn Malik has already had a weird year. He released six new singles, and all of them failed. Spectacularly. Now the former One Direction star...