Music industry – One step closer to being accurate
Since his feature on See You Again, Charlie Puth has been one of the strongest hit makers among international pop stars. If songs like Marvin Gaye, One Call Away, We Don’t Talk Anymore and Attention quickly gained traction in mid-10s, …
The Car, the 7th album of the Arctic Monkeys, is out. The band is hotter than ever having charted at least 4 catalog tracks inside the Global Spotify chart for several months. Can the TikTok madness, which is turning viral …
Up to 7 albums and 16 years of career, the Arctic Monkeys are still able to shift over 100,000 units in their first week in the UK. Their homeland is only a small piece of the global streaming jigsaw yet. …
From 2014 to 2016, Meghan Trainor flooded airwaves with hits like All About That Bass, Lips Are Movin’, No and her feature on Marvin Gaye. As she releases her 5th studio set Takin’ It Back, we review her discography in …
As every artist who debuts with an out of the blue global smash like All About That Bass, Meghan Trainor was quickly doomed as a one-hit wonder. After 8 years and more than 150 songs released, we question this belief …
Most Brazilians who were kids in late 80s/early 90s have something in common. They were, and still are in love with Xuxa. In no time, she went from being the sexy model who was dating football legend Pelé to build …
The “Queen of the shorties” Xuxa took Brazil by storm in 1986. Her TV show, dedicated to kids, was aired daily for 5 hours in the country’s main channel, Globo, shooting her to unparalleled popularity. If this mass hysteria enabled …
In a conversation about guitarists, chances are the name of Eric Clapton will be cited very quickly. How does this translates into record sales though? After digging into sales of his early bands the Yardbirds, Cream and Blind Faith, here …
The popularity of Eric Clapton was at an all-time high in the 90s, especially after the release of the mega successful Unplugged album in 1992. We are now 30 years later though, how is he performing on streaming platforms, with …
It would take blind faith to believe a group can start with a jam session in January, announce its formation to the press in February, recruit members in May, perform in front of 100,000 in June, release a #1 LP …