Music Charts

Billboard Now Counts YouTube Plays, so "Harlem Shake" is Number One

"Harlem Shake" is the No. 1 song in the United States of America this week, which means that now is your chance to listen to more than fifteen seconds of it. Baauer's meme soundtrack is the beneficiary of a Billboard rule change--YouTube views have been added to the Hot 100 calculations, joining phy ... More >>

Italy's Greatest Treasure

Why Folks Are Complaining About Lil Wayne Breaking Elvis' Record - And Why They're Wrong

By Chaz Kangas Last week, rapper Lil Wayne added to his already-quite-substantial legacy by breaking Elvis Presley's record for most songs on the Hot 100 charts by a solo artist. Immediately, however, many began squawking that this record deserved an asterisk, a la Roger Maris' 61 home runs. See ... More >>

The 100 Best Texas Songs: The Complete List

100. Tripping Daisy, "Sonic Bloom" Before this album, the band had a grunge-pop affectation, but this song, from 1998's Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb, was more heartfelt than anything they'd done before. - Daniel Hopkins 99. Pleasant Grove, "The Plaque at 16ft" Bret Egner wrote "The Plaque at 16ft, ... More >>

Ben Folds Plays With the Fort Worth Symphony

Duran Duran, Neon Trees

Thursday, October 6, at Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie

53 Years Into The Billboard Hot 100's History, A Look At Every Dallas Song To Make The Chart

Yesterday marked the 53rd anniversary of the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. Launched in 1958, the chart combined statistics gleaned from both radio airplay and sales of individual singles to determine a single's popularity. Today, the Hot 100 chart is topped by LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" -- proo ... More >>

Chiodos, Breathe Carolina, I See Stars, The Color Morale, The Air I Breathe, Mod Sun

Friday, July 29, at The Door

The Civil Wars Fight For Recognition

Matt & Kim Skip Along the Sidewalks.

Juanes

Saturday, March 26, at the Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie

The Sword's Having More Fun Than You Think

Lady Antebellum Isn't Country's First Pop Sensation.

Picture Show: Lupe Fiasco and B.o.B. at House of Blues

Kevin TodoraLupe Fiasco headlined the House of Blues last night.​ Skate rap icon Lupe Fiasco, who, if nothing else, might boast the coolest name ever, rolled through the House of Blues last night. And with him? Atlanta rapper B.o.B., who, last week, hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts with h ... More >>

B.o.B.'s Album Isn't As Adventurous As He'd Like

Eli Young Band Adds A Little Nashville Spice to Denton

Listen: Lil Twist & Lil Chuckee -- "Girl I Got You"

​Up to this point, we really haven't heard too much from 16-year-old Dallas rapper Lil Twist. We knew a few things, of course: Namely, that he's a member of Lil Wayne's Young Money crew and stopped by to join the man on stage at Wayne's American Airlines Center performance back in December '08. (H ... More >>

LMFAO Wants To Be Your Friend, Bitch!

Norah Jones Announces A November Release For Her Next Album

​According to a press release that apparently went out to every media outlet in the world today, Dallas' own Norah Jones has a new album coming out in November--her fourth overall, and first in two years. After the jump, the press release in full, since it features some Jones quotes on the new, as ... More >>

Ida Maria Carries A Heavy Scandinavian Pop Burden

Whattup, Colleyville: Demi Lovato's Here We Go Again Tops The Billboard 200

​As expected, Colleyville's own Demi Lovato has the No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart this week, after selling 108,000 copies of the disc in its debut week of sales. (Last year, Lovato's debut disc, Don't Forget, debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the chart with 89,000 discs sold in its first wee ... More >>

Today In Music News: Jackson Could Go To The Top, Big Names Headline Voodoo and Art Brut Just Doesn't Get It

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, June 29, 2009... In what shouldn't surprise anyone, Michael Jackson could take the number one spot on the Billboard charts this week. Eminem, Flaming Lips and Jane's Addiction have been added as headliners at Voodoo Festival. Apparently Art Brut is ... More >>

Dorrough's Got The Most-Played Video On BET--And, This Afternoon, He's Set To Appear 106 & Park.

Believe the hype, folks: Dallas' own Dorrough's got the most-played video on BET with the above "Walk That Walk." Well, if this press release is to be believed, that is--and really, why not? Guy's on a serious roll, what with "Walk That Walk" being No. 21 on the latest Billboard Hot Rap Tracks char ... More >>

Eli Young Band Cracks Billboard Hot Country Top 10

If frosted tips and graphic tees ain't country, I don't know what is. According to a press release from the Eli Young Band, the Denton country group's single "Always The Love Songs" has made it to #10 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart with an increase of 1.7 million impressions for a total of 2 ... More >>

Kelly Clarkson Does Not Hook Up, You Say? Hmmm.

Here's the thing, Kell: We started out friends..."I Do Not Hook Up," the second single from Burleson's own Kelly Clarkson's latest album, All I Ever Wanted album, is indeed a catchy little gem (written by Katy Perry, who stopped through town last night, dontchaknow). But unlike the first single, "My ... More >>

311 Isn't Lame. No, Really. They Aren't. Seriously.

Britney Spears And The Greatest Music Comebacks Of All Time

Kelly's Been Waiting More Than Six Years For A Moment Like This.

Billboard reports today that Burleson's own Kelly Clarkson is set to make chart history tomorrow. Here's how: When the results for this week's Hot 100 chart are officially revealed tomorrow, they will show that Clarkson's newest single, "My Life Would Suck Without You", will have made the largest j ... More >>

The Village Voice's Annual Pazz And Jop Poll Is Now Up And Running

Earlier this month, we unveiled our Dallas Observer contributors' top albums and, in some cases, top singles of the year, as submitted to the annual Pazz & Jop poll conducted by our sister paper in NYC (in some cases, to the best of our recollections).Well, now the full results of those submiss ... More >>

Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were de ... More >>

What To Get The Music Fan Who Has Everything For The Holidays This Year?

Chart News: Lovato, Simpson Rock Billboard's Hot 100

Jessica Simpson vs. Carrie Underwood

Sing Me Back Home (From Frisco)

Soulja Boy: Crankin' the Chain

No one understands the world of major-label rap better

Sure Hope You Like Norah Jones

Arctic Monkeys, The Coral

Sunday, September 16, at the Palladium Loft

K104 Summer Jam

Saturday, June 30, at Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie

Platinum Plus

Ne-Yo snaps to it

Dallas is The Best, Really

Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Death From Above 1979

Burt, Back Around

Fall in love with Bacharach

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

Saturday, November 13

Ice Ice Maybe

A decade after Vanilla Ice melted down, he's back with the man who made him

California dreaming

A new four-disc compilation attempts to give the West Coast East Side Sound its proper place in rock-and-roll history

Nothing but static

Broadcast Data Systems listens to the radio so you don't have to

Freedom of choice

Ben Folds Five: a revolution in genre-bending

Roadshows

Grading on a curve

This was the year local music broke, but was it fixed?

Can he get an 'amen?'

Al Green returns with his first all-secular album since 1977