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Well, this was... a week? Still wish I could get some damn confirmation on whether this is the last week of the Billboard year, but we...

Well, here we go folks: down to the last weeks of tracking the Billboard year (either this week or next week, I've yet to get clear in...

I'm honestly not sure how this will be received - silent majority acts like him always get a bit of an odd response, so we'll hav...

So I'm not too proud to admit that I screwed up in a big way by not covering Luke Combs' debut album. Now to be completely fair,...

So yeah, this was better - but next up, ugh, it's not good... stay tuned?

These are the album bomb weeks I always tend to find a bit perplexing... because the fuse seems "delayed", for lack of better ...

Alright, this actually came together a fair bit better than I was expecting - go figure.  Next up... well, the poll says Bastille, so s...

You know, one of the most frustrating things as a music critic is that sometimes you can find yourself in a bubble of your own biases - yo...

Okay, here we go - pretty bad week, but at least the Bazzi song was good, right? Right? Anyway, I've got Logic or Emotional Oranges...

...so yeah, there are weeks where I'm wrong, and then there's this week, where I might have been expecting a slowdown - which in s...

Man alive, this took WAY too damn long to put out - hell, I had something ready in Birmingham, but the footage got corrupted. But not to ...

Okay, album bomb, but a solid week regardless... Next up, more Kanye, but with bonus Kid Cudi...

Kanye album bomb. Yeah, I know there are other things going on right now - a new #1, a sizable amount of activity further down the chart, ...

And it's out... and that means I might be able to go to bed on time on a Tuesday... nice. Anyway, looks like it's Beach House n...

So I've said a number of times that the most interesting weeks on the Hot 100 are not those of the album bombs, but the week right aft...

Heh, this turned out WAY more controversial than I expected... eh, it happens. Next up, something way better than everything I'm ta...

You know, given how the past week has been it's been very tempting of me to just step up in here, say the Billboard Hot 100 shit itsel...

And here's an especially long episode of Billboard BREAKDOWN... man, this took a while to put together, as they always do... But st...

It's never the album bomb weeks that are actually interesting - it's the weeks that come after, the fallout period where you see t...