2016Following the release of his album Views, Drake places a record 20 songs on the Hot 100, besting Justin Bieber's mark of 17 on December 5, 2015.
1994R&B vocal group All-4-One hits #1 on the Hot 100 with "I Swear," a cover of a country song by John Michael Montgomery. The group is playing gigs at Disneyland when the song tops the chart; it stays at #1 for 11 weeks.More
1992MTV airs the first episode of The Real World, which gets huge ratings and begins a shift in programming away from music videos. It also encourages other networks to try this "Reality TV" thing.
1992Bette Midler is Johnny Carson's last guest on The Tonight Show (his final show, the following night, has no guests). She serenades him with "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)."
1983ZZ Top release their video for "Gimme All Your Lovin'," marking the first appearance of the Eliminator, Billy Gibbons' 1933 Ford Hot Rod. The car appears in three other ZZ Top videos and becomes closely associated with the band. Gibbons has another one built just like it to bring on tour.More
1977Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album takes over the #1 spot in the US from the Eagles' Hotel California.
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2008Lou Pearlman, manager of Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, is sentenced to 25 years in prison on four federal charges: two counts of conspiracy, money laundering and using false statements in a bankruptcy proceeding.
2008David Cook seems shocked to become the Season 7 winner of American Idol, beating 17-year-old David Archuleta. Cook got 56% of the record 97.5 million votes.
2003Ike Turner is refused entry into Japan because of a past drug conviction.
2002Little Big Town release their disastrous self-titled debut through Sony's Monument Records. Although the album produces a couple minor hits on the Country chart, the group is denigrated by critics as a fake country band, devoid of substance. LBT proves them wrong with their acclaimed 2005 album, The Road to Here.
2001Josh Groban's career takes off after he appears on the Season 4 finale of Ally McBeal as a jilted teenager.More
2000Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilotsmarries the model Mary Forsberg. It's his second marriage, and this one is low-key, taking place at a restaurant in Los Angeles. Celebrity guests include Weiland's bandmates and Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers.
1996Soundgarden's fifth album, Down On The Upside, is released. It debuts at #2 in America, behind Fugees' The Score.
1993Sliver, starring Sharon Stone and William Baldwin, is released in the US. The movie is panned by critics, but its prominent use of UB40's cover of the Elvis Presley original "Can't Help Falling in Love" helps give the band their second #1 hit in the States. The song was originally released as the first single from their 1993 album, Promises and Lies.
1983"Little Red Corvette" goes to #6 in the US, giving Prince his first Top 10 hit on the Hot 100. The video is one of the first by a black artist to go in hot rotation on MTV.
1981Reggae star Bob Marley is buried with state honors in St. Ann's, Jamaica.
1979Time magazine runs a story on Rickie Lee Jones titled "The Duchess of Coolsville," a reference to the song "Coolsville" on her debut album. The moniker sticks.
1979Elton John becomes the first western act to tour the U.S.S.R. when he plays the first of eight concerts at a show in Leningrad.
1977Stevie Wonder hits #1 in America with "Sir Duke," a tribute to Duke Ellington, who died in 1974.
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Rock And Roll Is Here To Stay
1965
Ten years into the Rock Era, it looks like it's here to stay. Time magazine reports on the rock revival with the cover story, "Rock 'n' Roll: The Sound of the Sixties."
Rock got off to a strong start, with the likes of Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and Little Richard leading the way in the mid-'50s, but late in the decade it floundered as artists like Paul Anka, Pat Boone and Perry Como took up chart positions previously occupied by the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis and Fats Domino. Naysayers who declared it a fad looked like their predictions were coming true, but then Detroit became Hitsville, USA at the same time British acts like The Who, The Rolling Stones and The Beatlesinvaded America.
A big difference with this wave of rock is that it appeals to adults. "A surprisingly large segment of 20-to-40-year-olds are now facing up to the music and, what is more, liking it," the magazine reports.
And the music is also influencing this generation's culture, with dance clubs - known as "discotheques" - popping up all over the country where they can groove to the big beat. All this bumping and grinding is suddenly acceptable. Harvard psychiatrist Philip Solomon says, "These dances are outlets for restlessness, for unexpressed and sublimated sex desires. This is quite healthy."
It's a huge shift in attitudes, as rock is now seen as sophisticated, and its critics hopelessly behind the times. "In chic circles, anyone damning rock 'n' roll is labeled not only square but uncultured," Time reports.
Appearing on the cover are The Beach Boys, Petula Clark, Herman's Hermits, The Righteous Brothers, and notably, The Supremes, marking a rare appearance of black faces on the cover of a mainstream magazine. "The best brown sound is, of course, that sung by Negroes," Time notes, offering praise for the "Motown Sound" that is taking hold.
Rock and roll really is here to stay. By the end of the decade, there is no questioning its influence or staying power.
A big difference with this wave of rock is that it appeals to adults. "A surprisingly large segment of 20-to-40-year-olds are now facing up to the music and, what is more, liking it," the magazine reports.
And the music is also influencing this generation's culture, with dance clubs - known as "discotheques" - popping up all over the country where they can groove to the big beat. All this bumping and grinding is suddenly acceptable. Harvard psychiatrist Philip Solomon says, "These dances are outlets for restlessness, for unexpressed and sublimated sex desires. This is quite healthy."
It's a huge shift in attitudes, as rock is now seen as sophisticated, and its critics hopelessly behind the times. "In chic circles, anyone damning rock 'n' roll is labeled not only square but uncultured," Time reports.
Appearing on the cover are The Beach Boys, Petula Clark, Herman's Hermits, The Righteous Brothers, and notably, The Supremes, marking a rare appearance of black faces on the cover of a mainstream magazine. "The best brown sound is, of course, that sung by Negroes," Time notes, offering praise for the "Motown Sound" that is taking hold.
Rock and roll really is here to stay. By the end of the decade, there is no questioning its influence or staying power.
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