by Kevin Morton | Jun 11, 2025
In 2001 Keys released Songs in A Minor, a hugely successful debut album that featured a number one hit with “Fallin’” and that went on to sell more than 10 million copies worldwide. She won five Grammy Awards in 2002, including those for song of the year and...
by Kevin Morton | Jun 11, 2025
With “Bad Guy,” Billie Eilish became the first artist born in the 21st century and third Gen Z artist to have a number one song on the Hot 100, as well as the first to have a number-one album on the Billboard 200. The sequenced drum sounds on the recording...
by Kevin Morton | Feb 10, 2022
All four ex-Beatles had successful solo careers. “Imagine,” written in early 1971, became John Lennon’s 7th single hit. Lennon had just bought a new piano, spray-painted white, for his wife Yoko Ono’s birthday. Soon afterwards, he wrote...
by Kevin Morton | Feb 10, 2022
There have been many one hit wonders, but some have listed “I Melt With You” the best one-hit wonder of all time. One cannot deny the hummable quality of this 1982 hit. Modern English was a British new wave band. The band’s vocalist, Robbie Grey,...
by Kevin Morton | Feb 11, 2019
The group comes from Wasilia, Alaska, which alone is enough to make this band unique. The song, a worldwide hit, hit the Top 10 in 18 countries. It has been featured in more than five advertisements, and won the Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance in 2018.
