Billboard Hot 100 Highlights November 5th, 2016

Three weeks left. That's still hard to believe. That Billboard's year is almost over. But I guess the actual year is approaching fast. Hopefully we get a new number 1 before the end of the year, but at this point that's looking unlikely. Sigh. HIGHLIGHTS TIME!

Billboard Hot 100 Highlights October 29th, 2016

One month left in Billboard's year. Even though right now it's still set to October. Weird. Oh, also Bruno Mars finally returns. Which is awesome. And that dance rap song got an enormous boost up the charts. Because we can't have nice things without also having bad things. Sigh. HIGHLIGHTS TIME!

Billboard Hot 100 Highlights October 22nd, 2016

Another Chainsmokers song debuts in the Top 20 as we approach the last few weeks of the Billboard year. Meanwhile, we get...Beyoncé's sister? Okay. Apparently Solange was a member of Destiny's Child and she's finally getting attention on the Hot 100 again. Even other than that, there's a lot to talk about this week. HIGHLIGHTS TIME!

Retro Album Review: Kerplunk by Green Day

Radio Revolution came out yesterday. But of course I'm going through Green Day's discography before I get to that album. I can't wait. Green Day fans seem to hold this album in high regard, even though it came out before they made it big with Dookie. Time to see for myself what it's all about. I'm not going to be talking about the last four tracks since they're just bonus tracks from the Sweet Children EP. I might give it a listen on my own time later though.

Billboard Hot 100 Highlights October 15th, 2016

The Weeknd makes it back in the Top 10 and it's with a song that's actually pretty great. So I'm on board. Awesome. We've also got kind of a slow week as the second One Direction solo career finally starts and some other smaller things happen. HIGHLIGHTS TIME!

Retro Album Review: 39/Smooth by Green Day

So I've been listening to a lot of Green Day lately. Mostly because I've gotten back in to playing Green Day: Rock Band. But it got me curious to looking into the band's back catalogue. So, over the next few weeks I'm going to be going through all of Green Day's studio albums, whether I've heard them before or not. So that's 39/Smooth, Kerplunk, Dookie, Insomniac, Nimrod, Warning, American Idiot, 21st Century Breakdown, ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ¡Tré!, and Revolution Radio. This should be fun. By the way, Spotify technically doesn't have this album. It has the compilation album 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, which is basically just this album and a couple EPs. Not touching EPs, just the songs that were on the original track listing of 39/Smooth. If you want me to look at the EPs, okay. But for now, just the album.