The Ten Best “Hello” Songs
Who has the best “Hello” song of the past 60 years…or essentially since the rock era began? Keep reading to find out. As everyone knows by now, the number one song in the world today is the power...
View ArticleMuhammad Ali – A Tribute in Song to The Greatest!
The following is a unique djrobblog musical tribute to one of the greatest boxers humanitarians of all time. Muhammad Ali died Friday night, June 3, 2016. Ali, reviled as he may have been, was at one...
View ArticleAn Orlando Commentary…and Twelve Songs of Peace for a Grieving Nation
What the world needs now…is love, sweet love – and a little peace. As this country – my country – comes to grips with the latest act of heinous terrorism committed on its soil, we find ourselves once...
View ArticleA Tribute to Friendship – The 40 Greatest Songs About ‘Friends’
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View ArticleWhich Album Would You Want to be Stranded With on a Deserted Island?
Remember the 2000 Tom Hanks movie, Cast Away, in which Hanks gave an Oscar-nominated performance as Chuck Noland, a FedEx employee whose plane crashes in the South Pacific and he winds up stranded on a...
View ArticleThe 76 Greatest British Artists Since 1964 – An American’s Perspective!
As Americans begin the annual celebration of our independence from Great Britain, officially established on July 4, 1776, I’m reminded that this is also the 40th year since our big bicentennial...
View ArticleChuck Berry (1926-2017): Four Songs (in Four Years) That Shaped Rock and Roll...
Ask any of rock’s greatest living legends who influenced other great rock legends – people like Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney of the Beatles or Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys –...
View ArticleJAY-Z – The Chart Monarch Returns with 4:44…and All The Drama That Comes With...
Ok. Cue up the haters. JAY-Z has a new album out, and like every other news event involving hip-hop’s longest-charting active rapper, it’s being met with mixed (including some predictably and...
View ArticleSir Paul McCartney Rekindles Beatlemania for Chicagoans
When it comes to music royalty and concerts, most would agree that artists of a certain stature don’t need any theatrics to go along with their huge repertoire of hits. No frills, no high-tech stage...
View ArticleDude Imperfect: Quincy Jones Got Some Of It Right, But Mainly Just Didn’t...
The legendary producer Quincy Jones either has several axes to grind, is into un-burying fossilized bones or just enjoys letting skeletons out of (other people’s) closets. Or maybe at this stage of his...
View ArticleBillboard’s Hot 100 Chart Turns 60! Here Are 60 of the Most Awesome...
The Billboard Hot 100 chart – the one that measures the popularity of songs across America – turns 60 years old today, August 4, 2018! The Hot 100 was first published on August 4, 1958, and the first...
View ArticleStuck in the Beatles’ Tracks – The No. 2 Songs They Blocked from the Top
(May 13, 2019). Everyone who knows anything about the Beatles knows that they hold the record for having the most No. 1 songs in American chart history with 20. Their most ardent fans – or Billboard...
View ArticleBillboard just released its Top 125 GOAT list; We sliced and diced it for you…
(November 22, 2019). Last week, in a release that flew under most folks’ radars, Billboard magazine unleashed its 125 Greatest Of All Time artists ranking, to commemorate the trade publication’s 125th...
View ArticleEminem‘s killin’ ‘em: Murderous album moves him closer to Jay-Z’s record....
(January 26, 2020). Only four other recording acts in history have had more No. 1 albums than Eminem – and only one is a rapper: Jay-Z. That is the state of things after Slim Shady’s surprise new...
View ArticleThe skinny (or maybe the fat) on vinyl in 2020 – and the ten best selling...
(July 11, 2020). Most industry watchers and record collectors know that vinyl record sales have been on the rise for the past decade and a half. Vinyl sales have increased in the U.S. every year...
View ArticleAlways on Time? ‘Lady of Soul’ Ashanti gets more respect today than she did...
(December 3, 2021). Some artists become critical favorites right out of the gate, where the stars align to make them both commercial and critical successes early on in an industry where the two don’t...
View ArticleThe math that says Taylor Swift will surpass the Beatles and Jay-Z in this...
(October 23, 2022). Midnights is out and breaking records left and right. Taylor Swift’s latest opus is shattering streaming and sales records after just a few days of availability and is projected...
View ArticleA 60th anniversary tribute: ranking the most Beatlesque of the ex-Beatles’ 20...
(April 10, 2023). For the past six decades, the Beatles have been considered by most pop music historians and trade publications to be the greatest recording act of all time. They certainly have the...
View ArticleHere’s why every Beatles fan—plus lovers of history—should download or stream...
A posthumous song by the Beatles, titled "Now and Then," has been released from the John Lennon-vault by Sir Paul McCartney, using AI technology. Despite two Beatles' members having passed and one...
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