It's taken just six weeks for Club Nouveau's single "Lean on Me" to top the Billboard magazine pop singles chart.
After reading the Calendar pop music section for more than five years, I still can't believe that Pop Meter is still featured.
This should be the year of U2.
Justine Bateman's high ratings on the PopMeter for Sade and, more absurdly, for Arcadia, indicate she may have been playing a Val-girl variation for too long on "Family Ties."
The hottest new albums on the Billboard magazine pop album chart are Barbra Streisand's "One Voice
Billboard pop chart at No. 1 when the LP turned the trick on this week's Billboard pop charts.
U2's "The Joshua Tree" did not , as expected, rise to the top of the Billboard magazine pop album chart after two weeks.
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Mr. Charlie was unhappy.
They stand like bent ramrods, twisted pokers and charred fence posts.
A new study of the audience of C-SPAN (Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network) found that the average viewer watches the program service about 12 hours a month, with 10% of the network's audience claiming to watch between 20 and 100 hours monthly.
The Material Girl won the battle, but the Boss won the war. Or was it vice versa?
Lone Justice in the Top 20 Pop Scorers? They must have knocked out Tom Petty or Elvis Costello.
It's a good thing Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre isn't engaged in the kind of legal battle over sound levels being fought by Pacific Amphitheatre, because Bon Jovi's Irvine concert Saturday night was delivered at excruciating volume.
"Why bother" with Neil Diamond? No wonder record industry executives are referred to as weasels.
Contemporary art collectors from Los Angeles, New York and plenty of places in between are expected at Sotheby's in Manhattan on Monday for three days of sales dominated by work from the fabled collections of Ethel Scull and Robert C.
It was the editor on the phone. "The new Bond movie review." "Yes?" " Where is it???
Robert Hilburn's fascinating record company exec survey ("The Big Deal," Dec. 15) immediately brought to mind the old saying "the music business is not the music world."
In Hilburn's article as I expected, the only mention of Billy Joel was in a list of artists who were top sellers "seven years ago . . . where are most of them today?"
This is the third letter I've written to you about Robert Hilburn . . . and I still haven't seen it on the Letters Page.