Often the Random iTunes Fairy surfaces a song that’s a real mystery to me. Something from an obscure soundtrack or a bargain bin purchase I’d long forgotten.
Today’s selection might be the most mysterious yet. I can’t even begin to recreate in my mind the events that led me to have an EP by British blues-rock band Scoundrels in my music collection. Never heard of them, can’t find a reference to them online that helps me connect the dots. I got nothing.
Here’s a ballad from Rob Thomas’ 2005 album …Something To Be, his first solo work after three successful albums with Matchbox 20.
Thomas released two more solo albums, including one in 2015, while Matchbox 20 went on a decade-long hiatus. The band released an album in 2012, suffered the departure of lead guitarist Kyle Cook, then reunited this year to tour with Counting Crows.
I almost made it through the whole Top Ten without hitting a song I’ve already featured, but alas, #10 is ‘Feel It Still’ by Portugal, The Man, which I blogged about three weeks back.
So I close out this look at the charts with the #11 song, Halsey’s ‘Bad At Love,’ from the singer-songwriter’s sophomore album hopeless fountain kingdom.
Maroon 5 shows up at #9 on this week’s Billboard Hot 100, assisted by SZA on the track ‘What Lovers Do.’
This is the 13th song Maroon 5 has landed in the top ten since 2004, with 10 of those coming in the past seven years (how many numbers can I fit into one sentence?!). This band is a pop juggernaut.
Cardi B makes another appearance in the eighth spot of Billboard’s Hot 100, lending a verse to the track ‘No Limit’ by G-Eazy. A$AP Rocky shows up on the chorus as well.
G-Eazy is the third male rapper in the top ten so far, and the third white guy. I guess I haven’t been paying enough attention to the rap scene, and apparently the days when Eminem was the only legit white rapper are long gone.
