Month: December 2025

Mariah Carey Grabs Record-Tying 19th Week at No. 1

Billboard
Jason Tate

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas is You” has once again topped the charts:

The recurrent tune surges four spots to the Hot 100 summit, tying the record for most weeks at the top alongside Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus. It also marks the seventh consecutive year that “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has hit No. 1. The song previously became Carey’s 19th No. 1 on the Hot 100, the most for any solo artist and only one behind the Beatles as the record-holder.

A Quick Update on Ads, Support, and Direct Sponsorships

Jason Tate

Over the past few weeks I’ve made some behind-the-scenes changes to how advertising works on the site, and I wanted to share a quick update in one place.

Short version:

  • We officially moved to a new ad platform.
  • It’s already performing several times better than the old setup.
  • I’ve also updated the Advertise page so anyone can now easily purchase direct ad placements on the site again.

If you’d like the longer, more detailed background on why I made this change and how it affects the site long-term, I’ve linked a few in-depth posts below.

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Dwight + Nicole – “Only You” (Song Premiere)

Dwight + Nicole
Adam Grundy

Today I’m thrilled to bring everyone the new Yaz cover song performed by Dwight + Nicole called “Only You.” The song comes from the band’s forthcoming LP, Day or Night, that will be released on March 20, 2026 via WestWalk Records. Nicole Nelson shared, “I found the process of creating Day or Night to be about looking inward – reflecting my inner and not outer world. It was a deeply healing process creating this music. We always head into recording sessions with a bunch of songs and song ideas in hand. Often, we run out of time before we can finish everything we set out to record. Other times, we have finished recordings that don’t fit with the album we’ve built. Day or Night is the product of whittling down a collection of 163 compositions, demos, and studio recordings.” If you’re enjoying the single, please consider supporting the band here.

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Rules for Reading

Jason Tate

Ryan Holiday with some great advice on reading:

These 31 rules by no means make a complete list, but if you implement even a couple of them, I’m comfortable guaranteeing you’ll not only be a better reader for it, but a better person too.

–It is not enough that you read. You have to read well. You have to read the right books. You have to figure out how to process and retain and of course apply what you read. As Epictetus said, “I cannot call somebody ‘hard-working’ knowing only that they read.” He said he needed to know what and how they read. He needed to know that their “efforts aim at improving the mind.” Because then and only then would he call you “hard-working.” Then and only then would he give you the title “reader.”

I didn’t read as many books as I wanted to this year. Other priorities ended up taking up my time. I read more from my RSS feeds than I think ever before but I need to make sure I bring book reading back into my daily routine.