I don’t think that any of us judge how successful a singer is by her place on the Billboard chart. In fact, most of us don’t know how hot someone is until they go platinum (or we’ve heard their single a million times and its repeats in our head over and over). But I was surprised when I took a look at Billboard’s list of the top 100 songs of the last 50 years and found only six sisters listed among all those slots. Sadder still, not one of our girls were among the top 20 album list by the magazine for the same time frame. Read the full story

After four years, Ashanti is back on the scene with a new project, “The Declaration.” According to The New York Times,it is not only her best effort to date but it may help propel her out of the shadows into the spotlight. Really? Now, that isn’t anything wrong with her music. In fact, I like “The Way That I Love You.” But there nothing that really makes her stand out as an artist. She doesn’t have the gritty back story of Keyshia Cole, or the star-making dream team that has carefully crafted Beyonce’s amazing trajectory, nor does she have the muscial chops of an Alicia Keys.  (Look being linked to producers and rappers doesn’t count in the long run).
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