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Yahoo! Music blogger Paul Grein came up with this interesting factoid when looking at the latest Billboard chart:
John Mellencamp's No Better Than This, which debuted and peaked at #10 last week, is available only in mono. It's the first mono-only release to make the top 10 since James Brown's Pure Dynamite! Live At The Royal, which peaked at #10 in April 1964. Brown's album, which was recorded at the Royal Theater in Baltimore, was his second live album in less than a year, following his 1963 smash Live At The Apollo. (My thanks to Paul Haney of Record Research for coming up with the answer.)
Read the rest of the blog: http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/65105/week-ending-aug-29-2010-lifes-upsdowns/
