Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Musicians Hall of Fame

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The Musicians Hall of Fame formed to honor musicians of all instruments and genres. As the website explains, nominations are made by current members of the American Federation of Musicians as well as various music industry professionals. There is no indication of how these nominees are whittled down to determine who is inducted. After its formation in 2007, the Hall inducted three classes before closing, reopening, and inducting a fourth class in 2014. Here are the inductees from 2007-2014:

  • Chet Atkins (2009)
  • Randy Bachman (2014)
  • Booker T. & the MG’s (Steve Cropper, Donald “Duck” Dunn, Al Jackson Jr., Booker T. Jones, 2008)
  • The Blue Moon Boys (Bill Black, DJ Fontana, Scotty Moore, 2007)
  • Jimmy Capps (2014)
  • Billy Cox (2009)
  • The Crickets (Jerry Allison, Sonny Curtis, Joe B. Mauldlin, 2008)
  • Mike Curb (2014)
  • Dick Dale (2009)
  • Charlie Daniels (2009)
  • Duane Eddy (2008)
  • Victor Feldman (2009)
  • Fred Foster (2009)
  • Peter Frampton (2014)
  • The Funk Brothers (Richard “Pistol” Allen, Jack Ashford, Bob Babbitt, William “Benny” Benjamin, Eddie “Bongo” Brown, Dennis Coffey, Johnny Griffith, Joe Hunter, James Jamerson, Uriel Jones, Joe Messina, Earl Van Dyke, “Wah Wah” Watson, Eddie Willis, 2008)
  • Buddy Guy (2014)
  • Ben Keith (2014)
  • Al Kooper (2008)
  • Will Lee (2014)
  • Barbara Mandrell (2014)
  • The Memphis Horns (Wayne Jackson, Andrew Love, 2008)
  • The Memphis Boys (Gene Chrisman, Tommy Cogbill, Bobby Emmons, Mike Leech, Bobby Wood, Reggie Young, 2007)
  • The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (Barry Beckett, Pete Carr, Roger Hawkins, David Hood, Clayton Ivey, Jimmy Johnson, Randy McCormick, Will McFarlane, Spooner Oldham, 2008)
  • The Nashville “A” Team (2007)
  • Corki Casey O’Dell (2014)
  • Roy Orbison (2014)
  • Paul Riser (2009)
  • Billy Sherrill (2008)
  • Velma Smith (2014)
  • The Tennessee Two (Grant Marshall, Luther Perkins, 2007)
  • Toto (David Hungate, Steve Lukather, David Paich, Jeff Porcaro, Mike Porcaro, Steve Porcaro, 2009)
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble (2014)
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Aural Fixation: The Five Year Anniversary of Dave’s Music Database Blog

Aural Fixation:

The Five-Year Anniversary of Dave’s Music Database Blog

“Aural Fixation” is a music-themed column I wrote for PopMatters.com from 2011-2013. They are no longer online there, but I have reformatted them here at the DMDB blog with additional videos, photos, and links, such as where to buy referenced albums. I have also used the title “Aural Fixation” for any essays I have written outside of PopMatters.com as well. To see the essays, check out the Dave’s Music Database Aural Fixation page.

The essays from PopMatters.com have been gathered in book form as Aural Fixation: Essays from a Music Obsessive. Essays written from 2009 to 2011 have been gathered in the book No One Needs 21 Versions of “Purple Haze”. You can purchase the essays in book format here.

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the DMDB blog. It has come a long way in five years! That first post, entitled “How to Get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”, mocked that institution’s biases with five observations about what will (or won’t) lead to canonization in Cleveland. I ripped on the organization for failing to induct acts like Kiss, Rush, Genesis, and Alice Cooper. All are now in.

I put up a whopping 13 posts in 2009 and another 14 in 2010. About mid-way through 2011, I changed the focus of the blog from essays on music-related topics to more objective snapshots of musical history tied to that particular day. That paid off in spades. Prior to the thematic switch, my biggest month was September 2009 with 422 hits. I more than doubled that number in June 2011 with the new approach. I noted in a 2012 post, “The History of the Dave’s Music Database Blog”, how the blog had mustered 31,000 hits. I was quite proud. It has grown by more than ten times that in the last two years. By the end of January, the blog should log 400,000 views.

I’m not sure how I’ve been so lucky to get so much attention to my blog, but I’m grateful to all the fans. Thank you for reading!

The Fifteen-Year Anniversary:

And now for another update – January 22, 2024 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the DMDB blog! The blog has now amassed five million hits, an average of more than 900 hits a day! The most popular post, with over 120,000 hits, is “The Top Songs by Decade, 1800-2019.” Not far behind is “Radio’s Most-Played Songs in History” with 119,000 hits.

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Saturday, January 18, 2014

Pitbull & Ke$ha “Timber” hit #1

Timber

Pitbull & Ke$ha

Writer(s): Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald, Armando Perez, Kesha Sebert, Pebe Sebert, Henry Walter, Jamie Sanderson (see lyrics here)

Released: October 7, 2013

First Charted: October 20, 2013

Peak: 13 US, 14 DG, 13 RR, 11 A40, 11 UK, 18 CN, 4 AU, 22 DF (Click for codes to charts.)

Sales (in millions): 10.0 US, 1.29 UK, 14.11 world (includes US + UK)

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 1592.18 video, 1221.97 streaming

Awards:

Click on award for more details.

About the Song:

Armando Christian Pérez, known as Pitbull, was born in 1981 in Miami, Florida. The Latin rapper first charted in 2004 with M.I.A.M.I., a gold-selling top-20 album, and its top-40 hit “Cujo.” He landed his first top-10 hit in 2009 with “I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)” and topped the charts with “Give Me Everything” in 2011. He’d racked up eight top-ten hits by the time he hit #1 in 2013 with “Timber.”

The song was the lead single from his EP Meltdown and featured American singer Ke$ha. This was the ninth top-ten hit for each of them. In the UK, it was the third #1 song for each of them. The pair had previously worked together on the 2009 Pitbull song “Girls” and remixes of Ke$ha’s songs “Tik Tok” and “Crazy Kids.” Pitbull initially wanted Rihanna for the song but she wasn’t available. SF

The song was produced and written by Dr. Luke among others. It hit #1 in some fifteen countries and sold nearly ten million copies worldwide in 2014. WK

The song features harmonica, which gives it “a country square dance vibe.” SF Pitbull said he was inspired to use the harmonica after hearing Avicii’s hit song “Wake Me Up.” SF In 2014, Lee Oskar and others filed a copyright infringement lawsuit that the harmonica melody in “Timber” is identical to the one in Oskar’s 1978 song “San Francisco Bay.” SF

Meanwhile the title, a reference to what lumberjacks yell when cutting down trees, “gives the song a rustic vibe and creates a play on the phrase ‘It’s going down.’ We know Pitbull won’t be working in a forest anytime soon, so it becomes a big party metaphor.” SF

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Frozen Soundtrack Hit #1 for first of 13 weeks

Frozen Soundtrack

various artists

Released: November 25, 2013

Peak: 113 US, 1 UK, 17 CN, 12 AU

Sales (in millions): 4.0 US, 1.01 UK, 10.0 world (includes US and UK)

Genre: Disney soundtrack

Tracks:

Song Title (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts.

  1. Frozen Heart (Cast of Frozen)
  2. Do You Want to Build a Snowman? (Kristen Bell, Agatha Lee Monn, and Katie Lopez) (#51 US, #61 CAN, #45 AUS, #26 UK)
  3. For the First Time in Forever (Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel) (#57 US, #70 CAN, #62 AUS, #38 UK)
  4. Love Is an Open Door (Kristen Bell and Santino Fontana) (#49 US, #89 AUS, #52 UK)
  5. Let It Go (Idina Menzel) #5 US, #18 CAN, #16 AU, #11 UK, worldwide sales: 8.085 million)
  6. Reindeer(s) Are Better Than People (Jonathan Groff)
  7. In Summer (Josh Gad) (#90 AUS, #84 UK)
  8. For the First Time in Forever (Reprise) (Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel)
  9. Fixer Upper (Maria Wilson and Cast of Frozen)
  10. Let It Go (Demi Lovato) (#38 US, #31 CAN, #25 AU, #42 UK)
  11. Vuelie (Christophe Beck, Frode Fjelheim, & Cantus)
  12. Elsa and Anna *
  13. The Trolls *
  14. Coronation Day *
  15. Heimr Arnadair *
  16. Winter’s Waltz *
  17. Sorcery *
  18. Royal Pursuit *
  19. Onward and Upward *
  20. Wolves *
  21. The North Mountain *
  22. We Were So Close *
  23. Marshmallow Attack! *
  24. Conceal, Don’t Feel *
  25. Only an Act of True Love *
  26. Summit Siege *
  27. Return to Arendelle *
  28. Treason *
  29. Some People Are Worth Melting For *
  30. Whiteout *
  31. The Great Thaw (Vuelie Reprise) (Christophe Beck and Frode Fjelheim)
  32. Epilogue
* score by Christophe Beck

Total Running Time: 69:40

Rating:

4.091 out of 5.00 (average of 16 ratings)

Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

About the Album:

Disney’s Frozen was a “welcome return to form” AMG in the tradition of animated musicals in which characters broke into song. AMG The story was inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Snow Queen. The movie took home the Oscar for Best Animated Featured Film and the soundtrack proved to be a monster. It became only the fourth soundtrack from an animated film to top the U.S. album charts. WK With 13 weeks logged on top, it became the biggest soundtrack since 1998’s Titanic. WK It became the best-selling album of 2013 with more than 10 million albums sold worldwide.

Robert Lopez Avenue Q, The Book of Mormon), one of twelve people to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony, AMG teamed up with Kristen Anderson-Lopez (In Transit, Winnie the Pooh) to write original Broadway-style songs for the soundtrack. Idina Menzel’s version of Let It Go won the Oscar for Best Song, sold more than 8 million worldwide, and garnered over 400 million views on YouTube.

The soundtrack offered a balance of songs with comic relief (In Summer, Reindeer(s) Are Better Than People) alongside musical interplays (For the First Time in Forever) between the two leading ladies, sisters Anna and Elsa, voiced respectively by Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel.

In addition, Christophe Beck, fresh off an Oscar win for short Paperman, provided the score. His instrumentals provided “much of the soundtrack’s drama and suspense…[incorporating] orchestral, choral, and folk-inspired elements.” AMG

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Thursday, January 16, 2014

50 years ago: Hello, Dolly! opened on Broadway

Hello, Dolly!

Jerry Herman (music & lyrics)

The Musical

Premiered in Detroit: November 18, 1963

Opened on Broadway: January 16, 1964

Number of Performances: 2844

Opened at London’s West End: December 2, 1965

Number of Performances: 794

Movie Release: December 16, 1969

Cast Album

Charted: February 22, 1964

Peak: 11 US

Sales (in millions): 0.5 US

Genre: show tunes

Soundtrack

Charted: November 15, 1969

Peak: 49 US

Sales (in millions): --

Genre: show tunes

Songs on Cast Album:

  1. Prologue/Call on Dolly
  2. I Put My Hand In
  3. It Takes a Woman
  4. Put on Your Sunday Clothes
  5. Ribbons Down My Back
  6. Motherhood
  7. Dancing
  8. Before the Parade Passes By
  9. Elegance
  10. Hello, Dolly!
  11. It Only Takes a Moment
  12. So Long, Darie
  13. Finale

Songs on Soundtrack:
  1. Just Leave Everything to Me
  2. It Takes a Woman
  3. It Takes a Woman (Reprise)
  4. Put on Your Sunday Clothes
  5. Ribbons Down My Back
  6. Dancing
  7. Before the Parade Passes By
  8. Elegance
  9. Love Is Only Love
  10. Hello, Dolly!
  11. It Only Takes a Moment
  12. So Long, Darie
  13. Finale

Singles/Hit Songs:

These were covers of songs from this musical which became hits:

  • “Hello, Dolly!” – Louis Armstrong (#1, 1964)
  • ”So Long, Dearie” – Louis Armstrong (#56, 1964)

Rating:

4.208 out of 5.00 (average of 14 ratings for cast album and soundtrack combined)

Quotable: “One of the last great old-style musicals” – William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Awards (Cast Album and Soundtrack): (Click on award to learn more).

About the Show:

“Few Broadway musicals have proven as timeless as Hello, Dolly!.” LP “The centerpiece is the David Merrick adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker (1956). When coupled with Gower Champion’s impeccable direction and choreography, as well as Jerry Herman’s equally memorable score, (pardoning the pun) the stage was set for an irrepressible blend of laughter and song.” LP

“Herman used a turn-of-the-century, major-chord, big-melody approach” WR to create “one of the last great old-style musicals and a massive hit. Even today, its songs…are so memorable most people can hum them.” WR

“The ensemble are…superb, boasting the respective talents of [Carol] Channing as Mrs. Dolly Gallagher Levi, Charles Nelson Reilly portraying Cornelius Hackl, and concurrent newcomer Eileen Brennan as Irene Molloy.” LP “It’s precisely because Channing doesn’t quite have the range for these melodies that she’s able to express the character so well (an effect lost in the Barbra Streisand movie version, though Streisand has no trouble expressing character in other ways).” WR

“In addition to the universally renown title selection, Hello, Dolly!, the David Burns’ led It Takes a Woman, Reilly and Brennan’s It Only Takes a Moment, Channing’s I Put My Hand In and So Long Dearie are a few of the other classics.” LP

“After opening at the St. James Theater on January 16, 1964, Hello, Dolly! immediately became an unprecedented success, ultimately running for 2, 844 performances – the most for any Broadway musical up to that point. The soundtrack yielded similar enthusiasm, selling roughly 80,000 copies during its’ first week alone. While those results would have been staggering for any release circa 1964, for an LP of a stage show the numbers were all the more impressive.” LP

Notes: The 2003 deluxe edition of the cast recording overhauled the sound with digital remastering and added six recordings, including “‘I Put My Hand In’ and ‘So Long Dearie’ taken from the 1965 London cast, led by Mary Martin. ‘Before the Parade Passes By’ and ‘Hello, Dolly!’ featuring Pearl Bailey are from the 1967 revival. Plus, Ethel Merman's 1970 redux of ‘Love, Look in My Window’ and ‘World, Take Me Back.’” LP

There’s also “ten-minutes-worth of recollections from a 2003 interview with Carol Channing,” LP which contains “wonderful reminiscences, nicely enhancing the substantial cache of supplements.” LP

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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Bruce Springsteen High Hopes released

High Hopes

Bruce Springsteen

Released: January 14, 2014

Peak: 11 US, 11 UK, 11 CN, 11 AU

Sales (in millions): 0.21 US, 0.06 UK, 0.52 world (includes US and UK)

Genre: rock

Tracks:

Song Title (Writers) [time] (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts.

  1. High Hopes (Tim Scott McConnell) [4:57] (11/19/96, 16 AA) *
  2. Harry’s Place [4:04]
  3. American Skin (41 Shots) [7:23]
  4. Just Like Fire Would (Chris Would) [3:56]
  5. Down in the Hole [4:59]
  6. Heaven’s Wall [3:50]
  7. Frankie Fell in Love [2:48]
  8. This Is Your Sword [2:52]
  9. Hunter of Invisible Game [4:52] (7/9/14, --)
  10. The Ghost of Tom Joad [7:33] (11/21/95, 26 UK, 34 CN) *
  11. The Wall [4:20]
  12. Dream Baby Dream (Martin Rev, Alan Vega) [5:00] (9/13, --)

Songs written by Bruce Springsteen unless noted otherwise.

* Chart data for original versions.

Total Running Time: 56:24

The Players:

  • Bruce Springsteen (vocals, guitar, etc.)
  • Roy Bittan (piano, organ)
  • Clarence Clemons, Jake Clemons (tenor saxophone)
  • Danny Federici (organ)
  • Nils Logren (guitar)
  • Patti Scialfa (backing vocals)
  • Garry Tallent (bass)
  • Steven Van Zandt (guitar, backing vocals)
  • Max Weinberg (drums, percussion)
  • Tom Morello (guitar, vocals)
  • Charles Giordano (organ, accordion)
  • Ron Aniello (guitar, etc.)
  • Soozie Tyrell (violin, backing vocals)
  • Sam Bardfeld (violin)
  • Barry Daniellan, Clark Gayton, Stan Harrison, Ed Manion, Curt Ramm (horns)

Rating:

3.366 out of 5.00 (average of 22 ratings)

About the Album:

Bruce Springsteen’s eighteenth studio album is a collection of covers, outtakes, and re-recordings. He called it “some of our best unreleased material from the past decade.” WK They “don’t cohere into a mood or narrative,” AMG “oscillat[ing] between the moody and militant, particularly in the politically charged numbers.” AMG It “doesn’t have the cohesion or gilded surfaces of [2012’s] Wrecking Ball,” AMG but “ti’s rather thrilling to hear Springsteen revel in a mess of contradictions.” AMG

It featured the E Street Band, including contributions from deceased members Clarence Clemons and Danny Federici. Guitarist Tom Morello also worked on the album, “proving to be a brother in arms to Springsteen,” AMG giving the album “its workingman’s politics and…cinematic sound.” AMG

He originally recorded the title cut in 1995 and released it on the Blood Brothers EP. He started performing it during the tour for 2012’s Wrecking Ball, which led to him re-recording it. The Ghost of Tom Joad also originated in 1995 from the album of the same name. Tom Morello had recorded the song with his band Rage Against the Machine, leading to Morello and Springsteen performing the song together many times. WK

The Wall dated back to 1998. He originally wrote it based on an idea from Joe Grushecky. It was inspired by Springsteen’s visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. He tells the story of Walter Cichon, a New Jersey musician who didn’t come home from the Vietnam War. Springsteen said Cichon was one of his early guitar mentors. WK

American Skin (41 Shots) dated back to 2000 and release on the Live in New York City album. Harry’s Place was originally intended for the 2001 album The Rising. It sports “a bit of synthesized Sopranos noir that sounds much older than its ten years.” AMG

Three more songs date from between 2002 and 2008: WK Heaven’s Wall, Down in the Hole, “which rides the same train-track rhythm as ‘I’m on Fire,’” AMG and Hunter of Invisible Game with its “complicated waltz.” AMG

Just Like Fire Would is a cover of a 1986 single by the Saints, an Australian punk rock band. Dream Baby Dream, meanwhile, is a “strangely soothing interpretation” AMG of a single in 1979 by the protopunk band Suicide. Springsteen performed the song in 2005 to close out shows for his Devils & Dust tour.

The album also includes “the rousing Gaelic rock of This Is Your Sword” AMG and “the absolutely glorious Frankie Fell in Love, as open-hearted and romantic a song as Springsteen has ever written.” AMG

Rolling Stone’s David Fricke called the collection “a retrospect with a cutting edge, running like one of the singer’s epic look-ma-no-set-list gigs.” WK The Independent’s Andy Gill specifically praised Tom Morello for re-invigorating some of Springsteen’s older material. WK

The album was Springsteen’s 11th chart topper in the United States, placing him third all time behind only the Beatles and Jay-Z. WK It was his tenth trip to the top of the charts in the UK, which put him in the company of the Rolling Stones and U2. WK

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Friday, January 10, 2014

Mojo Magazine’s 100 Greatest Albums

Mojo Magazine:

The Top 100 Albums

Mojo is a British music magazine. Over the years, they’ve put out a number of best-of-all-time album lists. This DMDB exclusive list aggregates 13 of Mojo’s lists together (see resources for all the lists at the bottom of the page).

Also, check out Mojo’s annual picks for album of the year from 1950 on.

Check out other publications and organizations’ best-of album lists here.

1. The Beach Boys Pet Sounds (1966)
2. The Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
3. The Beatles Revolver (1966)
4. The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced? (1967)
5. The Clash London Calling (1979)
6. Marvin Gaye What’s Going On (1971)
7. Stevie Wonder Innervisions (1973)
8. Radiohead The Bends (1995)
9. The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street (1972)
10. Jeff Buckley Grace (1994)

11. David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
12. Patti Smith Horses (1975)
13. Ramones Ramones (1976)
14. The Doors The Doors (1967)
15. Pulp Different Class (1995)
16. The Stone Roses The Stone Roses (1989)
17. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica (1969)
18. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
19. Television Marquee Moon (1977)
20. Oasis Definitely Maybe (1994)

21. Bruce Springsteen Born to Run (1975)
22. Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde (1966)
23. Velvet Underground & Nico Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
24. Nirvana Nevermind (1991)
25. Joni Mitchell Blue (1971)
26. Fairport Convention Liege and Lief (1969)
27. Richard & Linda Thompson I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (1974)
28. Radiohead OK Computer (1997)
29. Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind (1997)
30. Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

31. Love Forever Changes (1967)

32. The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland (1968)
33. Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks (1975)
34. The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers (1971)
35. New York Dolls New York Dolls (1973)
36. Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)
37. Lou Reed Transformer (1972)
38. Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
39. Steely Dan Can’t Buy a Thrill (1972)
40. U2 Achtung Baby (1991)

41. Neil Young Tonight’s the Night (1975)
42. The Band Music from Big Pink (1968)
43. Frank Zappa Hot Rats (1969)
44. Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
45. The Strokes Is This It (2001)
46. The Libertines Up the Bracket (2002)
47. Tricky Maxinquaye (1995)
48. The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed (1969)
49. Nirvana In Utero (1993)
50. The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet (1968)

51. The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground (1969)
52. Blur Blur (1997)
53. Nick Drake Five Leaves Left (1969)
54. Van Morrison Astral Weeks (1968)
55. The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin (1999)
56. The Beatles The Beatles (aka “The White Album”) (1968)
57. The Beatles Abbey Road (1969)
58. DJ Shadow Endtroducing… (1996)
59. Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
60. Black Sabbath Black Sabbath (1970)

61. James Brown Live at the Apollo Volume 1 (live, 1962)
62. The Band The Band (1969)
63. Miles Davis Kind of Blue (1959)
64. David Bowie Hunky Dory (1971)
65. R.E.M. Automatic for the People (1992)
66. Portishead Dummy (1994)
67. The Stooges Fun House (1970)
68. Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (1997)
69. Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977)
70. Fleetwood Mac Rumours (1977)

71. Air Moon Safari (1998)
72. Oasis (What’s the Story) Morning Glory (1995)
73. The Byrds The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968)
74. Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy (1985)
75. Prince Sign ‘O’ the Times (1987)
76. John Lennon Plastic Ono Band (1970)
77. Various Artists Buena Vista Social Club (1997)
78. The Clash The Clash (1977)
79. Roxy Music For Your Pleasure (1973)
80. Blur Parklife (1994)

81. Otis Redding Otis Blue (1965)
82. Donald Fagen The Nightfly (1982)
83. Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)
84. Gram Parsons Grievous Angel (1974)
85. Joy Division Unknown Pleasures (1979)
86. The Beatles A Hard Day’s Night (soundtrack, 1964)
87. Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones (1983)
88. Carole King Tapestry (1971)
89. Kate Bush Hounds of Love (1985)
90. Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti (1975)

91. R.E.M. Murmur (1983)
92. Underworld Second Toughest in the Infants (1996)
93. Johnny Burnette & the Rock ‘N’ Roll Trio Johnny Burnette and the Rock ‘N’ Roll Trio (1956)
94. PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love (1995)
95. Derek and the Dominos Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs (1970)
96. King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
97. Free Fire and Water (1970)
98. The Slits Cut (1979)
99. Jethro Tull Stand Up (1969)
100. John Cale Music for a New Society (1982)

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Monday, January 6, 2014

The All-Time Top 10 Digital Songs of Country Music

Florida Georgia Line, image from parade.com

According to Nielsen SoundScan, who tracks sales for Billboard magazine, these are the top-selling digital songs for country music. Personally, I think some of these really challenge the definition of “country music” (Miley Cyrus “The Climb”?, Taylor Swift “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”?) but this is their list, not mine.

1. Florida Georgia Line “Cruise” - 6.33 million

2. Lady Antebellum “Need You Now” - 6.27 million

3. Taylor Swift “Love Story” - 5.66 million

4. The Band Perry “If I Die Young” - 4.74 million

5. Taylor Swift “You Belong With Me” - 4.41 million

6. Zac Brown Band “Chicken Fried” - 4.06 million

7. Jason Aldean “Dirt Road Anthem” - 3.94 million

8. Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats” - 3.90 million

9. Taylor Swift “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” - 3.77 million

10. Miley Cyrus “The Climb” - 3.71 million

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