Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” has officially broken the record for the longest-running No. 1 single on Billboard's Hot 100. Pop critic and chart analyst Chris Molanphy says, ”It has dodged all of the major contenders for song of the summer.”

Sound & Vision host Emily Fox spoke with chart analyst Chris Molanphy about the controversy surrounding “bundling.” Artists and labels are raising concerns that purchasing merch or tickets doesn’t prove people actually want to buy an album.

Chris Molanphy joins the gabbers to discuss 2019’s Song of Summer candidates—and how one unlikely track emerged as the decisive winner. Then they sift through 400-plus listener-nominated songs to select finalists for the Summer Strut playlist.

Chris Molanphy is on the show again, this time to walk us through the big tracks from the year The Gist was born—2014 was full of retro vibes and repeats, with hits like “Happy,” “All About That Bass,” and “Blank Space” echoing older styles.

Dana Stevens, Steve Metcalf and Dan Kois consult Hit Parade’s Chris Molanphy on the controversy around “Old Town Road”—the reasons for its exclusion from the country charts, and how and why genre is policed in the first place.

On The Gist, songs like “The Sign” and “I’ll Make Love to You” dominated the charts in 1994, but they weren’t all that emblematic of what was happening in music that year. Chris Molanphy has ideas as to why, and…

What is it that makes so many artists want to sing about Christmas? Why not other holidays, in other times of year? And after decades of holiday hits, is there anything new to do with the genre?…

The 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees are less progressive rock, more progressive politics.…

In the fall of 1987, it wasn’t a foregone conclusion that George Michael’s solo debut, Faith, would be a hit. As successful as Michael had been as half of the Wham! duo, going solo was always going to be a…