For today's music history, the spotlight shines on the first No. 1 hit of the new year. In fact, it is making history at the present time. How long it will run is yet to be seen. Following the featured artist are many U.S. hits by various recording artists as reported on Billboard for each decade from the 50s to the 2000s. Click on the year for all the songs that made number one in that year. It is interesting and amazing to go back in time, revisit the songs of yesteryear and reflect upon the memories of the times. Each song has its own story whether its the lyrics, the music, the songwriter, the performer or the emotion that brought about a memory.
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Quite simply, Taylor Swift is a global superstar with having just celebrated her 26th birthday this past December. She is one of country music's top recording artists, having successfully crossed over into pop. To date, she has achieved seven Grammy awards and has become the youngest recipient in history of the music industry's highest honor, the Grammy Award for Album of the Year (2009).
Swift started crafting songs at age 5, and at age 16, released her debut album. The upcoming 57th Grammy Awards in February find Taylor Swift's name at the top of the list of nominees for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. She is the best-selling digital music artist of all time, and the only female artist in music history (and just the fourth artist ever) to twice have an album hit the 1 million first-week sales figure (2010's Speak Now and 2012's RED). She's a household name whose insanely catchy yet deeply personal self-penned songs transcend music genres, and a savvy businesswoman who has built a childhood dream into an empire.
2015 Taylor Swift's hit single 'Blank Space' holds the No. 1 spot into its 7th week placing it the first No. 1 of the new year. The song finds Swift sending up her image as a heartbreaker who writes all of her songs about former boyfriends. She warns us that she's "got a long list of ex-lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane" plus she has, "a blank space baby, and I'll write your name."
Swift performed this song to open the 2014 American Music Awards. In the very elaborate production, Swift wore an evening gown and a headset microphone as she made her way thought a variety of sets populated by a bevy of dancers portraying the men she was dismissing. At one point, she even handles a flaming rose in a bit of symbolism. Click the image for the video...Memories Through the Decades...
2008 Spice Girl Victoria Beckham was named the worst dressed celebrity in an annual list of fashion disasters. Fashion critic Richard Blackwell, who had compiled the poll every year since 1960, said Beckham stepped out in "one skinny-mini monstrosity after another". Amy Winehouse's trademark beehive and tattoos helped earn her second place in the list.
And the music goes on beating to the rhythm of the changing times...
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