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Gibb's Third Solo Album is His Highest Charting The following are the top albums by veteran artists (recording for twenty years or more) on this week's Billboard charts (January 23, 2021).  Actual chart position is in parenthesis: Barry Gibb & Friends: Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook, Volume 1  - Barry Gibb  (#15) Music to Be Murdered By  -  Eminem  (#19) Greatest Hits  -  Queen  (#33) Rumours  -  Fleetwood Mac  (#40) Diamonds  -  Elton John  (#53) Curtain Call: The Hits  -  Eminem  (#61) Journey's Greatest Hits  -  Journey  (#65) Chronicles: The 20 Greatest Hits  -  Creedence Clearwater Revival  (#66) Back in Black  -  AC/DC  (#73) Legend  -  Bob Marley & the Wailers  (#74) The top 10 charting singles by veteran artists: What's Poppin'  - Jack Harlow Featuring DaBaby, Tory Lanez &  Lil Wayne  (#41) Happy Does  -  Kenny Chesney  (#70) Beers and Sunshine  -  Darius Rucker  (#77)

Phil Spector (1939 - 2021) January 18 Jimmie Rodgers (b. 1933) January 17 Sammy Nestico , Composer & arranger (b. 1924) January 16 Phil Spector (b. 1939) Little Walter DeVenne , Boston DJ - COVID-19 (b. 1948) Chris CM Murphy , Manager of INXS - Mantle Cell Lymphoma (b. 1954) January 14 Duranice Pace of the gospel group the Anointed Pace Sisters (b. 1958) Larry Willoughby , Country singer, VP of A&R at Capitol Records - COVID-19 (b. 1950) January 13 Tim Bogert of Vanilla Fudge, Beck, Bogert & Appice, Cactus - Cancer (b. 1944) Sylvain Sylvain of the New York Dolls - Cancer (b. 1951) Duke Bootee (born Edward Fletcher), Rapper, writer of "The Message" - Congestive heart failure (b. 1951) January 12 Shingoose (born Curtis Jonnie) - COVID-19 (b. 1946) January 11 Howard Johnson - Jazz tuba player who played with The Band, Taj Mahal (b. 1941) Don Miller of the Vogues (b. 1940) January 10 Marsha Zazula - Co-founder of Megaforce Records (b. 1952) Mark Keds of the

She Walks in Beauty, out 4/30 On April 30, Marianne Faithfull, with composer and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis, will release She Walks in Beauty, one of the most distinctive albums of her long, extraordinary life and career. Recorded around the earliest days of the COVID-19 lockdown — during which the singer herself became infected and almost died of the disease — She Walks in Beauty fulfills Faithfull’s long-held ambition to record a full album of poetry with music, and features musical friends Nick Cave, Brian Eno, cellist Vincent Ségal and producer-engineer Head (PJ Harvey, Thom Yorke). She Walks in Beauty finds Faithfull drawing deep on the works of Shelley, Keats, Byron, Wordsworth, Tennyson and Thomas. Her vocal performances, set to Ellis’ subtle collages of sound, draw out the vibrant living matter in these great poems, renewing them with the complex, lived-in timbres of her voice. It’s both a radical departure and a return to her original inspirations as an artist and perf

The Soul Cages (Expanded Edition) A&M/UMe has celebrated the 30th Anniversary of Sting's stirring third album, The Soul Cages , by releasing a digital-only expanded edition. Originally released in January 1991, the Expanded Edition features the original nine-song Soul Cages album plus 13 bonus tracks that consist of remixes, extended mixes, and a pair of songs sung in Spanish and Italian incarnations. Seven of these bonus tracks have not been previously available for digital download or streaming. The core nine-track song cycle for The Soul Cages centers around Sting's deep sense of personal loss following his father's passing. The balance of the album's lyrical content embarks on a recurring seafaring motif in honor of his father's lifetime lamentation about never becoming a sailor, one of his unrealized personal dreams. The opening track, the slow-churning "Island Of Souls," follows a son's reverie about his fervent wish to take his shipbuilding

KISS co-founder & frontman, best-selling author and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer PAUL STANLEY has spent the last few years developing a project close to his heart. Soul Station is a band gathering some of today's leading musicians to pay tribute to the greatest artists and songs from the R&B and soul catalog to keep this vital music current. While a surprise to many, Stanley's early pivotal roots in this music has quietly turned this passion into a celebrated touring and recording band. Stanley's 15-piece ensemble group has toured the U.S. and Japan, and recently recorded an album of nine classic soul songs and five new original songs. NOW AND THEN will be released March 5 on UMe, Speaking to new music, Stanley said: "Between us doing some great Soul Station shows and starting the album I started to think that neither the band or the music we love should depend only on the past so I started writing with the goal of seamlessly taking songs into the present

Out April 23 Sir Tom Jones has announced a diverse set of cover songs for his new album. The 80-year-old singer - whose upcoming record 'Surrounded By Time' drops on April 23 - has re-imagined tracks by the likes of Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens and Michael Kiwanuka for the collection, which has been co-produced by Ethan Johns and Mark Woodward. In a press release, his team teased: "'Surrounded By Time' marks out new territory with a sonic landscape of outstanding musicianship and a vocal delivery that re-imagines a diverse set of songs of personal importance that have impacted the artist throughout a long, unpredictable but undeniably impressive career." And Tom was particularly moved by Todd Snider's 'Talking Reality Television Blues', which is available now as the album's first single. Commenting on the song, he said: "I was there when TV started - didn't know I'd become part of it - but it could be that its power is to remind us how w

Here are the top new albums by veteran artists released on January 15, 2021: Coming on January 22: 

Top Selling Single by a Veteran Artist The following are the top albums by veteran artists (recording for twenty years or more) on this week's Billboard charts.  Actual chart position is in parenthesis: Music to Be Murdered By  -  Eminem  (#15) Greatest Hits  -  Queen  (#27) Rumours  -  Fleetwood Mac  (#36) Diamonds  - Elton John (#48) Chronicles: The 20 Greatest Hits  - Creedence Clearwater Revival  (#57) Journey's Greatest Hits  - Journey  (#60) Curtain Call: The Hits  - Eminem  (#61) Thriller  - Michael Jackson (#66) Legend  - Bob Marley & the Wailers  (#71) Back in Black  - AC/DC  (#72) The top 10 charting singles by veteran artists: Happy Anywhere  -  Blake Shelton  and  Gwen Stefani  (#32) What's Poppin'  - Jack Harlow Featuring DaBaby, Tory Lanez &  Lil Wayne  (#34) Beers and Sunshine  - Darius Rucker  (#64) Happy Does  - Kenny Chesney  (#69) Girl Like Me  - Black Eyed Peas x Shakira (#87) One Too Many  - Keith Urban  Duet With P!nk  (#89)

Gary Numan's "Intruder" Gary Numan has released the title track from his upcoming album Intruder  (out May 21).  Numan has said his new album will examine  “climate change from the planet’s point of view" with the title track representing an " earth angry and hostile, and more than willing to fight back.” Intruder  will be Numan's 19th studio album. 

2021 is the Album's 30th Aniiversary The Black Crowes Present: Shake Your Money Maker, the multi-platinum debut by the seminal rock n' roll band The Black Crowes, is being re-released in multi-formats sets on February 26, 2021, through UMe/American Recordings. Band founders, brothers Chris and Rich Robinson, with original producer George Drakoulias, oversaw the creation of the re-release. Most exciting are the 4LP and 3CD Super Deluxe versions, which includes the original album, remastered; 3 never-before-heard studio recordings; 2 unreleased demos from the band's early incarnation as Mr. Crowe's Garden; B-sides; a spectacular, high-energy 14-song unreleased concert recorded in their hometown of Atlanta, GA in December 1990; reproductions of an early Mr. Crowe's Garden show flyer, setlist and tour laminate; a 4" Crowes patch; and a 20-page book with liner notes by David Fricke. One of the

Lost Recordings by Pre-AC/DC Bon Scott Adelaide music promoter and historian Victor Marshall has been heralded as the 'Indiana Jones' of Australian Music after uncovering the 'holy grail' of lost recordings, Hamish Henry's vault of now historical Australian recordings, including lost Fraternity tracks featuring AC/DC lead singer Bon Scott. Marshall has worked alongside the surviving members of Fraternity and their manager Hamish Henry to put together the band's remastered complete recordings. Fraternity's original albums (Livestock and Flaming Galah) and singles have been remastered from Hamish Henry's original tapes along with an entire album of new unheard songs featuring the then future lead singer of AC/DC, Bon Scott. The new album is called 'Second Chance', named after its title track. The box set will be released by Cherry Red Records world wide on January 22nd 2021. Space Lab 9 will also be releasing each album in a special edition limited

Here are the top new albums by veteran artists released on January 8, 2021: