Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Last week, Billboard’s purchase-only charts were flooded with new ...

Cosmo’s Factory spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It also topped the charts in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Finland, and Norway. It was a top 10 hit in Italy, Japan, Germany, ...

The absences didn’t matter. CCR’s profile was unaffected. Green River, their totemic third album, was issued a week-and-a-half before Woodstock. It was the second of three LPs they released in 1969.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1970: Photo of Creedence Clearwater Revival ...

You don’t make a chart-topping, award-winning record without a little bit of hard work, which would explain how the tongue-in-cheek album title for Creedence Clearwater Revival’s fifth album, Cosmo’s ...