James' Blog
Articles and writing on music-related topics that don't necessarily fit within the bounds of the weekly chart columns. Along with the soon to be legendary SongbookLM blog.
To keep things neat, content here is divided into four different categories, as described below:
Charts News
Occasional updates on changes to chart rules and other newsworthy items. Plus any musings that don't necessarily fit within the weekly Chart Watch columns.
Chart Rewind
Retrospective pieces breaking down an old Top 40 chart (often a quite notable one from history) song by song and telling the stories of each one.
Songs
Detailed appreciations of particular songs from the past. Forgotten classics that perhaps deserve closer attention than they normally receive, A chance perhaps to unearth some hidden gems.
SongbookLM
Using Google's extraordinary NotebookLM tool to create mini artificial intelligence podcasts, conducting what they call a "deep dive" into both the big songs of the moment and some particularly notable classics. And you'll be amazed just what they uncover.
