Word: billboards
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...drive. Pop music now has to find other ways to seep into our consciousness—to find new, pulsing veins through which to get us addicted and to get these songs into our heads. I won’t claim to know how they do it, but Billboard must have its ways—because as slow-moving and tiresome as their weekly lists sometimes are, they’re usually dead on. For this reason, the national charts should be hawked and combed for the prettiest, the funniest, and the most modern on a regular basis. William...
...answers to those questions arrived bundled together last September in the form of American Idiot. There is almost no precedent for a band's putting out six decent albums and then on its seventh delivering a masterpiece, but American Idiot debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart, appeared on most critics' year-end Top 10 lists, netted seven Grammy Award nominations (including one for Album of the Year), returned for another run atop the charts this month and inspired talk that the rock opera--oh, yes, American Idiot is a rock opera with characters and a plot...
Sources: New York Times (2); USA Today (2); Billboard; Variety; NOAA; United Nations Environment Program
...fasting-rising star is just as likely to rhyme about buckling his seat belt as about getting it on with the ladies. Kanye West, 27, won four Billboard Music Awards last week and got nominated for 10 Grammys--mostly for his debut album, The College Dropout, but also for producing other artists, like Alicia Keys. He freestyled with TIME's Barbara Kiviat...
...Billboard magazine does not publish a posthumous pop chart, but if it did, Elvis and Tupac would have an everlasting grip on the top slots. Hovering just behind them would be Jeff Buckley. Buckley was not widely known during his life, and his productivity after death, while impressive, does not yet approach that of Presley or Shakur. But careerwise, he does have a few things going for him. In 1995 he was named one of People's 50 Most Beautiful People. Two years later, on a spring day in Memphis, Tennessee, Buckley, 30, put down the guitar on which...