Egads! When Taylor Swift is #1 for a 10th week, and the album only moved 62,000 copies in the past seven days, the death knell is ringing loudly for commercial LP sales as we know them. Remember only two years ago when the Dreamgirls soundtrack marked the lowest-selling week for a #1 album, with sal...

You might have already known this, but I am a huge fan and admirer of Annie Lennox. I have followed her career since she hit the United States with Eurythmics and "Sweet Dreams (are made of this)" all those years ago. Today marks the release of her first solo anthology, logically name...

Continuing with my posts on some old Billboard charts I just bought, looking at the chart for February 16, 1985, it's amazing what was on the Top Pop Albums chart simultaneously. The Top 10: #1 Like A Virgin by Madonna. I creamed over this album—I just absolutely loved it all the way through. ...

The Billboard "Hot Dance Music/Club Play" chart for May 15, 1993, featured Madonna's "Fever" in the pole position. This was right after I moved to New York, and I still remember how exciting it was to see her in her little red wig in the video. I have a special place in my he...

Recently, I bought hundreds of old Billboard Top 40 charts; seeing what was on the charts at the same time was a real trip, so I'm sharing a bit of them today and tomorrow... On May 11, 1985, my sister turned 10 years old and I was holed up in my bedroom writing down the entire Billboard Top 40 ...

I was a Eurythmics fan ("Just Eurythmics. No 'the.'"—David Leavitt's The Lost Language Of Cranes) before I was a Madonna fan; in fact, their Revenge Tour was my first concert. I saw it with a handsome boy with whom I was in unrequited "love," and still remember how ...

It's hard to move for celebrities making a benevolent nuisance of themselves writes Melissa Kite....

Global protests continue against Israel as the death toll in Gaza hits 500 including civilian casualties. As the number of people killed in Israeli military invasion of Gaza rose to 500 yesterday, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has insisted that the offensive in  the contentious strip will...

I frigin love Oxfam, ya’ll! Ever since Minnie Driver told me about this fantastic organization last year, I’ve kept my eye on the group and all their accomplishments. Most recently Oxfam recruited nineteen actors, musicians and activists – including stars like Scarlettt Johansson, Annie Lennox...

Last night the American Music Awards were handed out on live TV at the Nokia Theater here in Los Angeles, CA. Stars of varying importance made their way into downtown LA last night to walk the red carpet, participate in the show or mug for the cameras in the press room afterward. Chris Brown was one...