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- Blogs, Bleader Jun 3, 2014
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Can the Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts separate signal from noise?
Billboard and Twitter go halves on a baby.
- Blogs, Bleader May 27, 2014
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Paramore against the trolls and psychopaths
"Ain't It Fun" might be the cure for the Internet's toxicity.
- Blogs, Bleader May 20, 2014
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Usher kicks off the summer chart wars
"Good Kisser" prepares for chart dominance.
- Blogs, Bleader May 13, 2014
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Michael Jackson bounces back
A posthumous single that doesn't feel ghoulish.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 29, 2014
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Like it or not, 5 Seconds of Summer is rock's future
Pop-punk boy band brings new fans to a fading genre
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 22, 2014
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Iggy Azalea flips the script and goes pop
A controversial rapper finds an audience in the club.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 15, 2014
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The Hot 100 turns disturbingly wholesome
Kids movies and worship music are taking over the pop charts
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 8, 2014
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Christina Perri does Lana Del Rey
A copycat song highlights how Del Rey's more than a pretty face.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 25, 2014
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Sam Smith brings UK two-step back to the Hot 100
Disclosure's "Latch" and Naughty Boy's "La La La" revive a turn-of-the-millennium style.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 18, 2014
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Young Thug weirds his way onto the Hot 100
"Stoner" brings the young rapper's idiosyncratic style to the mainstream.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 11, 2014
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The Chainsmokers' paint-by-numbers virality
"#SELFIE" makes a thoroughly engineered attempt at memedom
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 4, 2014
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Pharrell continues to be unstoppable
"Happy" breezes to the top of the Hot 100.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 25, 2014
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Tegan and Sara strike satirical pop gold
"Everything Is Awesome!!!" gives Canadian cult act their biggest hit
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 11, 2014
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Getting buzzed on frat country
Jerrod Niemann and Jon Pardi want to party with you.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 4, 2014
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Ratchet king DJ Mustard makes moves on the Hot 100
Mustard on the charts
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 28, 2014
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Lil Jon returns to his pop charts
"Turn Down For What" and crunk's legacy
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 21, 2014
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Bastille and Inspiration Rock
Will rock end with a whimper?
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 14, 2014
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I have found my least favorite song of 2013
A music snob faces existential horror.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 7, 2014
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Beyonce struggles on the pop charts
"Drunk In Love" might be too weird for the Top 10.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 24, 2013
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2013 ends with an "eh"
A landmark year ends in a flurry of limp ballads and fake folk.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 17, 2013
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Looking back at 2013 with the Billboard Hot 100
In an electrifying year for music, mediocrity still reigns
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 3, 2013
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Enya reenters the Hot 100 with help from Jean-Claude Van Damme
How old songs have begun competing on the Hot 100
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 26, 2013
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Pitbull prepares us for the country-EDM boom of 2014
What "Timber" says about pop's immediate future
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 19, 2013
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Is Paramore's "Still Into You" the rock song of the year?
Clues that rock's salvation lies with the girls.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 12, 2013
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Lady Gaga and Katy Perry: The dueling divas
The pop starts fight it out in the Hot 100.