Taylor Swift Is the Only Artist to Have a Number One Album in Four Consecutive Decades. The Statistician Who Calculated It Said He Checked It Three Times.

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For most artists, staying relevant for one decade is already a career-defining achievement. Music trends change quickly, audiences move on, and entire genres rise and disappear in just a few years. But Taylor Swift has now accomplished something so statistically unusual that even the analyst who discovered it reportedly double-checked — and then checked again … Read more

The Song That Destroyed Led Zeppelin’s Friendship — And Robert Plant Still Won’t Forgive Jimmy Page For

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Robert Plant and Jimmy Page built one of the great creative partnerships in rock history. Page was the architect — the guitarist, producer, and sonic visionary who constructed the world in which the band existed. Plant was the voice and the myth — the golden god figure who inhabited that world with a physical charisma … Read more

The Album Johnny Cash Made at 69 — That Made Every Young Artist Ashamed of Their Own Work

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By 1996, Johnny Cash had been famous for forty years and was, by the music industry’s cold actuarial assessment, finished. His record label had dropped him. Radio would not play him. The country music establishment that he had helped to build had moved on to younger, smoother, more commercially manageable artists. He was 64 years … Read more