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Prepare to lose the rest of your day to a flood of obscure 80s hits and ensuing searches for the various bands’ virtually non-existent other songs with Gunaxin’s listicle of 35 One-Hit Wonders from the 80s. For instance, our favorite from the listicle, Italian New Wave group Baltimora’s “Tarzan Boy” (below) was just the best [...]

The Internet is taking a while to fully integrate pop music lingo. After all, it’s kind of awkward and tech-y, and doesn’t always lend itself to easy rhymes and smooth cadences. Nevertheless, it’s beginning to make that mainstream cross-over, as evidenced by Idolator’s listicle of the Top 12 Pop Songs About the Internet. We’re especially [...]

If you’ve peaked at the pop music sales charts lately, you’ll notice that since Michael Jackson died on Thursday his work has taken over. Among Jackson’s less obvious songs from the 80s climbing back into the spotlight, “Man in the Mirror” is an office favorite here at Listicles, no doubt owing in part to the [...]

In light of the recent popstar-popfan moment shared by Britney Spears and some dude, BuzzFeed chronicles the sometimes tragic, sometimes endearing, always entertaining history of on stage assaults. Certainly, there are some amazing entries in their listicle of the Top 19 On Stage Assaults, but if we had to single one out as our favorite [...]

“Rock” is just one of those words (not unlike “hip” and “cool”), that has been so completely integrated into everyday language that it invariably winds up in places we never thought it would go. Best Week Ever chronicles some of Rock’s most erroneous applications in recent pop music memory with their listicle of 20 Songs [...]

It’s always funny to read about the pop production processes that go into creating a hit track, and realizing that for the most part record labels have no idea what they’re doing. As a friend working for a major label once put it, “we just wait to see what sells and then try to copy [...]

Commenting on a familiar meme whereby famous pop songs are performed using sign language, our friends at Urlesque compiled a helpfully entertaining (and entertainingly helpful!) listicle of 7 Pop Songs in Sign Language. We’re a little surprised they included only relatively easy tracks like Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” (which, seriously, only has like 10 lyrics). We’re [...]

It’s funny how no matter what musical genre is dominating the pop charts at a given cultural moment, artists working in that style have to pump out some mushy love songs to keep their adoring fans happy. That’s how we got half of LL Cool J’s catalog (“I Need Love” and so forth) and 50 [...]

With last’s night’s announcement of this year’s Grammy nominees (which is really just an encyclopedic list of music industry goings on), there are some surprise names to be found, and others strangely absent. On the one hand, the big award nominees make for a compelling Radiohead-Coldplay art rock showdown to be played out on Grammy [...]