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The Chart Show: Big B-Day for Missy!

Missy Elliott performs in New Orleans in 2018.
Missy Elliott performs in New Orleans in 2018.Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for Essence

by Mark Wheat

July 03, 2019

Missy Elliott celebrated her birthday this Monday by going back to the top of our chart with Lizzo, who was over in the UK for Glastonbury last weekend. BET celebrated Missy by dissecting her biggest hits.

Bad Bad Hats are inducted for the fourth time taking them into the Top 50 All Time Hall of Fame Chart. Their tunes sounded gorgeous floating over the sculpture garden in the late afternoon haze on Saturday!

The Black Keys new album "Let's Rock" came out last week and our boss Jim McGuinn went down to Nashville to talk to the guys for a national radio special which we aired last Thursday.

Bon Iver are one of the biggest upward movers this week to #8 with one of the first songs released from 'Sincerity is Forever in Season'? Could that be the name of the new album, as suggested by a teaser this week.

Spoon are the highest new entry this week with a new single that will appear on a greatest hits album Everything Hits At Once which will be out July 26 on Matador.

The Avett Brothers have a brand new album coming in October, Scott Avett says, "... this band will probably never make a sociopolitical album, but if we did it would sound like this." The first single is in at #18.

Adrianne Lenker, of Big Thief, "at her best, is almost without peer in contemporary American music," says Mac Wilson in his glowing review of the Album of the Week. One of its stand out songs comes in at nineteen.

Tame Impala who've sold out their two shows here later in the summer and headline Lollapalooza, played the massive Glastonbury Festival at the weekend and the BBC does a great job of capturing the highlights. They're in basement.

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