{"id":31235,"date":"2023-07-18T09:18:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T14:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31235"},"modified":"2023-07-18T09:18:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T14:18:12","slug":"taylor-swift-almost-as-good-as-herb-alpert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/18\/taylor-swift-almost-as-good-as-herb-alpert\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift: Almost As Good As Herb Alpert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/07\/17\/1188091063\/taylor-swift-billboard-top-10-first-woman\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Swift just made Billboard history, again<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Drop everything now: Taylor Swift has just made history as the first woman \u2014 and third artist ever \u2014 to have four of the Top 10 albums in the Billboard 200 chart at the same time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Herb Alpert had four albums in the top 10 in 1966.<\/p>\n<p>Which was back when people bought albums.  So I would suspect the number of albums sold is quite different.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Herb Alpert has won a Grammy for vocal performance and instrumental performance and has continued to tour and draw crowds into his 80s.<\/p>\n<p>So I guess Taylor Swift is not almost as good as Herb Alpert after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift just made Billboard history, again Drop everything now: Taylor Swift has just made history as the first woman \u2014 and third artist ever \u2014 to have four of the Top 10 albums in the Billboard 200 chart at the same time. Herb Alpert had four albums in the top 10 in 1966. Which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31236,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31235\/revisions\/31236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}