TOP 40 Let’s start with #2, since #1, “Despacito,” is a phenomenon. #2 is Shawn Mendes’s “There’s Nothing Holding Me Back,” with 17,750 spins. The Vevo video launched June 20th has 111,761,095 views and the lyric video from June 21 has 9,217,720 more. On Spotify, the track has 301,709,142 streams. ACTIVE ROCK Foo Fighters’ “Run” […]

Greta Van Fleet- Spotify It’s a Led Zeppelin rip-off. But didn’t Led Zeppelin rip off Willie Dixon and the rest of the bluesmeisters? If you lived through that era, you will instantly hear mid-period Zeppelin, complete with Robert Plant screams. Then you remember that was 45 years ago! About the same distance, if not longer, […]

Aren’t we supposed to be bitching? No, the future’s so bright you’ve gotta wear shades. It’s hard to change the mantra. How the internet ruined the music business, how streaming is the devil, but you can’t argue with the numbers. Revenue was up 13.3% year over year. Recorded music was up 13.2% to $770 million. […]

I was astounded by the reaction. Audience members who knew every word, who whooped upon hearing the introductions. Who had to run down front and dance… HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? I didn’t expect much of a crowd. There were continuing advertisements in the “Vail Daily,” which had me thinking business would be soft. But that […]