What are the chances that we'd end up dancing? Like two in a million, like once in a life That I could have found you, put my arms around you   “Chances,” the latest by Backstreet Boys, is a love song, romantic and dreamy, wide-eyed at the miracle of meeting someone...

Superstar rapper/singer/songwriter/record producer/actor and entrepreneur Drake’s latest top 40 hit, “Don’t Matter to Me” features vocals by the late Michael Jackson, snippets from an unreleased 1982 recording session between Jackson and Drake’s fellow Canadian,...

“Shotgun” by 25-year old British singer/songwriter George Ezra has 29 million+ YouTube views, so, just to be in the know, you’ll probably want to it check  out—he’s in the rock/pop arena, his idol is Bob Dylan, he’s grounded in American blues and folk, has a deep,...

"Long Long Time'” is a beautiful and haunting ballad that pretty much closed the deal that Linda Ronstadt would be one of the greatest talents of her, and our, generation. At the time (1970) Ronstadt was 24-years old,  just slightly older than Camila Cabello, one...

In 2015, Lauren Daigle won the Best New Artist award from the Gospel Music Association (GMA), the organization that represents Christian music and that has their own version of the Grammys called the Dove Awards. It’s rare, and it’s a struggle, for faith-based artists...

  Ariana Grande is a 25-year-old Top 40 star named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world in 2016. Billboard Magazine named her 2018’s “Woman of the Year.”  She’s won a slew of top-notch awards: three #1 albums on the U.S....

Here’s a clip from the latest “Star Is Born”--the one with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper--it’s a concert scene that feels so real --so 70s--the crowd's enthusiasm, the smoke, the lights...(it has almost 72 million YouTube views). The song is “Shallow” and it’s the...

In between writing term papers and taking exams, recent Harvard grad Brynn Elliott was also writing and singing songs, and now she has a hit that’s getting airplay on Adult Top 40 radio and is expanding into Top 40. “Might Not Like Me” is cute, bouncy, and fun with an...

20-some years ago, if you grooved to Jamiroquai’s "Virtual Insanity,” with its soul tinged sound and funky beat, then it’s likely Calvin Harris and Sam Smith’s “Promises’” will appeal to you. Within weeks of its release, "Promises" raced to #1 on the British pop chart...