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“Ordinary” is no ordinary love song
You would’ve never heard the song, “Ordinary,” if its composer didn’t believe in it. Songwriter Alex Warren admits the song was an accident. He said, “We didn’t write it to be a hit, we didn’t mean to write it to be anything more than just a love song.” But it found a huge audience despite…
Read MoreTop selling music artists in history, Part 5
The top selling music artists in history are: The Beatles Michael Jackson Elvis Presley Elton John Queen Madonna Led Zeppelin Rihanna Pink Floyd This month’s entrant is Queen, a legendary band that saw its fame get a boost with the 2018 biopic, “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Queen generates more weekly visitors to Spotify than any of…
Read MoreTop selling music artists in history, Part 4
The top selling music artists in history are: The Beatles Michael Jackson Elvis Presley Elton John Queen Madonna Led Zeppelin Rihanna Pink Floyd We continue the series considering the best wedding songs from the list of musical greats. This week we look at the best Elton John wedding songs. Elton may be #4 on this…
Read MoreTop selling music artists in history, Part 3
The top selling music artists in history are: The Beatles Michael Jackson Elvis Presley Elton John Queen Madonna Led Zeppelin Rihanna Pink Floyd This series considers the best wedding songs from the list of musical greats. This week we look at the best Elvis Presley wedding songs. No artist on this list recorded more quality…
Read MoreTop selling music artists in history, Part 2
The top selling music artists in history are: The Beatles Michael Jackson Elvis Presley Elton John Queen Madonna Led Zeppelin Rihanna Pink Floyd This series considers the best wedding songs from this list of musical greats. We looked at The Beatles in our last installment. This week let’s consider Michael Jackson’s best song for weddings.…
Read MoreTop selling music artists in history
The top selling music artists in history are: The Beatles Michael Jackson Elvis Presley Elton John Queen Madonna Led Zeppelin Rihanna Pink Floyd Their careers spanned the 1950s to today. Songs by artists now deceased, like Elvis, continue to rack up the sales. This blog thought it only appropriate to select a song from each…
Read MoreTop wedding love songs you’ve never heard of!
On a whim, we did an AI search on “wedding love songs you’ve never heard of.” Here’s what came up, in no particular order: “Home” by Phillip Phillips Really nice song. And we kind of think you’ve heard of it. After all, Phillip Phillips sang it in his award-winning performance on American Idol in 2012.…
Read MoreBest Bee Gees love songs for weddings
The recent wedding movie, “You’re Cordially Invited,” put the Bee Gees back in the spotlight with its use of the 1983 hit song, “Islands in the Stream.” A lot of younger readers of this wedding blog may not be aware of the enormous popularity of this band, and the power of Bee Gees love…
Read MoreAmazon’s 100 Greatest Wedding Songs
Amazon’s 100 Greatest Wedding Songs contains many of the usual songs you’d expect at a Cookeville wedding. “At Last” by Etta James tops the list followed by Elvis’ “Can’t Help Falling In Love.” Number fourteen on the list is an interesting song, because the composer himself didn’t like the song. Billy Joel’s “Just the Way…
Read MoreTop love songs of the 21st century
This is a wedding blog. Love songs play an important role in the overall scheme of wedding entertainment, especially when it comes to the first dance. Interestingly, Billboard Magazine said fewer love songs are being written these days when compared to pop songs of the 20th century. This should concern all of us. As music…
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