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    13 More Songs Where the Focus is TWO (2025) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Jonathan Goncalves from Pexels; AcatXIo, Агзам Гайсин from Pixabay]
    Evergreen

    13 More Songs Where the Focus is TWO | Playlist 🎧

    13 More Songs Where the Focus is TWO features songs by bbno$, Lil Tecca, Linkin Park, Sebastián Yatra, Tate McRae, and Tyla.

    By the musical hype, 8 monthsMay 28, 2025 ago
    11 Extremely Careful Songs (2025) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Anna Pachenko, Berkant Akyüz, indol.ly house, Katya Wolf, Stephan Louis, Tim Mossholder from Pexels; Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay]
    Evergreen

    11 Extremely Careful Songs | Playlist 🎧

    11 Extremely Careful Songs features songs by Bad Omens, Cardi B, NF, Omar Apollo, and Xiuhtezcatl.

    By the musical hype, 12 monthsJanuary 10, 2025 ago
    Awesome Songs: February 2023 [📷: Brent Faulkner/The Musical Hype; Pexels]
    Evergreen

    Awesome Songs: February 2023 | Playlist 🎧

    Awesome Songs: February 2023 features music courtesy of Cordae, Depeche Mode, Lana Del Rey, Omar Apollo, P!nk, and Saint Levant.

    By the musical hype, 3 yearsFebruary 27, 2023 ago
    Cordae, Two Tens [📷: Atlantic]
    Music

    Cordae, Two Tens | Track Review 🎵

    Rapper Cordae, assisted by the ever versatile Anderson  .Paak, and production courtesy of J. Cole (!), drops a brief but sensational rap banger with “Two Tens.”

    By the musical hype, 3 yearsJanuary 30, 2023 ago
    Super: 5ive Songs No. 5 (2022) [📷: Atlantic, Brent Faulkner, Clovis Cheminot, Julian Daniel, Klaus Nielsen from Pexels, The Musical Hype, OpenClipart-Vectors, Pixabay, Republic, Sony Music Entertainment]
    Evergreen

    Super | 5ive Songs

    On the 5th edition of 5ive Songs (2021), we select five songs that are associated with the word SUPER in some form or fashion.

    By the musical hype, 4 yearsFebruary 2, 2022 ago
    Cordae, “Super”: Rap BNGRZ 🔥 No. 6 (2022) [📷: Atlantic, Brent Faulkner, cottonbro, The Musical Hype, Pexels, RODNAE Productions, WoodysMedia]
    Bangerz N Bopz 🔥

    Cordae, “Super” | Rap BNGRZ 🔥

    On the 6th edition of Rap BNGRZ 🔥 (2022), we break down the banger status of “Super” performed by Grammy-nominated rapper Cordae.

    By the musical hype, 4 yearsJanuary 31, 2022 ago
    Encanto Rebounds to No. 1: Scanning the Charts 📉 No. 4 (2022) [📷: Brent Faulkner, Danny Santamaria Osorio, Disney, Mediamodifier, The Musical Hype, pinkzebra, Pixabay]
    Columns

    Encanto Rebounds to No. 1 | Scanning the Charts 📉

    Scanning the Charts (1/26/22): The Encanto soundtrack rebounds to the no. 1 on the Billboard 200.

    By the musical hype, 4 yearsJanuary 26, 2022 ago
    H.E.R., Back of My Mind [📷: RCA]
    Album 💿

    H.E.R., Back of My Mind | Album Review 💿

    Multi-award winning, gifted R&B singer/songwriter H.E.R. delivers a superb, well-rounded, debut album with Back of My Mind. 

    By the musical hype, 5 yearsJune 22, 2021 ago
    Taylor Swift Returns to No. 1 with Evermore: Scanning the Charts 📉 No. 23 [📷: Brent Faulkner, The Musical Hype, Taylor Swift]
    Columns

    Taylor Swift Returns to No. 1 with Evermore | Scanning the Charts 📉

    Scanning the Charts (6/12/21): Taylor Swift returns to no. 1 with Evermore, while BTS spend a second week at no. 1 with “Butter.”

    By the musical hype, 5 yearsJune 9, 2021 ago
    Awesome Songs That Tickled My Fancy: December 2020 [📷 : Brent Faulkner, Dori Bano, Henri Meilhac, Jason Leung, Langa Hlatshwayo, The Musical Hype, Pixabay, Unsplash]
    Evergreen

    Awesome Songs That Tickled My Fancy: December 2020 | Playlist 🎧

    Awesome Songs That Tickled My Fancy: December 2020 🎧 features Ant Clemons, Arlo Parks, Rina Sawayama, Trey Lewis & Taylor Swift.

    By the musical hype, 5 yearsDecember 30, 2020 ago
    You've Got to Hand it to These 13 Hand Songs [📷: Brent Faulkner, The Musical Hype, Pixabay]
    Evergreen

    You’ve Got to Hand it To These 13 Hand Songs | Playlist 🎧

    You’ve Got to Hand it To These 13 Hand Songs 🎧 features music by Alanis Morissette, MGMT, Nine Inch Nails, Selena Gomez & Trey Songz.

    By the musical hype, 5 yearsDecember 24, 2020 ago
    Cordae, "The Parables" [📷 : Atlantic]
    Music

    Cordae, The Parables | Track Review 🎵

    Grammy-nominated rapper Cordae brings the heat on his second single of 2020, the aggressive, hard-hitting “The Parables.”

    By the musical hype, 5 yearsDecember 1, 2020 ago

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