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Columbia House was an umbrella brand for Columbia Records' mail-order music clubs, the primary iteration of which was the Columbia Record Club, established in 1955. The Columbia House brand was introduced in the early 1970s by Columbia Records (a division of CBS, Inc. ), and had a significant market presence in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.
In March 1958, RCA and Book-of-the-Month Club began operation of a Popular Album Club. [16] Capitol Records launched its record club with an initial test mailing in November 1957. [17] The enthusiastic response prompted Capitol to announce a full-scale drive to establish its record club. [18] A second, nationwide, mailing went out in January ...
Diariocritico's 100 Best Albums of the 80s: #85 [164] May 15, 1986 Raising Hell: Run-DMC: Hip hop; rap rock; Profile: The first Platinum and multi-Platinum hip hop record, and one of the greatest and most important albums in the history of hip hop music and culture. [296] [297] Accolades: May 19, 1986 () So: Peter Gabriel Pop [298] art pop; art ...
Club play from pioneering DJs like Ron Hardy and Lil Louis, local dance music record shops, and the popular Hot Mix 5 shows on radio station WBMX-FM helped popularize house music in Chicago and among visiting DJs & producers from Detroit. Trax Records and DJ International Records, local labels with wider distribution, helped popularize house ...
Chocolate Buttermilk Band member made a mark on '80s nightlife. Akles, 76, also brought some of the biggest names in music to the Fayetteville clubs he owned from the late ‘70s to early ‘90s.
Club play from pioneering DJs like Ron Hardy and Lil Louis, local dance music record shops, and the popular Hot Mix 5 shows on radio station WBMX-FM helped popularize house music in Chicago and among visiting DJs & producers from Detroit. Trax Records and DJ International Records, local labels with wider distribution, helped popularize house ...
Cooper Square office building where The Village Voice was headquartered at the end of the 1980s. Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s is the second in a series of books—beginning in 1981 with Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies—to compile, revise, and expand on Christgau's capsule album reviews, which were originally written for his monthly "Consumer Guide" column in The ...
The Billboard Hot 100 is the main song chart of the American music industry and is updated every week by the Billboard magazine. During the 1980s the chart was based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales figures and airplay on American radio stations.