While interning at Billboard, one of my tasks was to organize CDs that were sent to the office.  In addition to country music, we also received large amounts of bluegrass and gospel albums.  In an attempt to expand my horizons, I began listening to a lot of this material that I was unfamiliar with.  These were all signed [...]

If you aren’t familiar with Asa (pronounced Asha), it’s time to change that. Born Bukola Elemide, she is a great and exciting Nigerian – French singer/songwriter. Over a very short career she’s released two amazing albums and opened for acts like Beyonce, Snoop Dogg, and Akon. Her sophomore album “Beautiful Imperfection” was released by Naive records [...]

Tha Carter IV has been a long time coming and a lot of the hip-hop community shows their support by delivering guest verses for the project.  Eight of the album’s fifteen tracks have guest appearances.  It is safe to say that Lil Wayne was the first artist to become “The Best Rapper Alive” without an [...]

|Download Running On Fumes by concordmusicgroup There has been a lot of great music released this year, this month alone has seen new music from the Pistol Annies, Ellie Holcomb & our free music Friday artist this week, Gabe Dixon. If you haven’t picked up Gabe Dixon’s latest album “One Spark” stop reading this now, [...]

Despite many album delays and failed promotional singles, rapper Game’s fourth set, The R.E.D. album, finally hit shelves on Tuesday.  And with the album’s second official single “Pot of Gold” reaching the top of the 106 and Park countdown and receiving radio airplay, it appears that the album’s first-week sales will see a boost as [...]