Submitted by Tom_breihan t3_yvbmb7 in IAmA
Hi, everyone! I'm Tom Breihan, and I write about music for a living. My book The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music is coming out tomorrow. For the past few years, I've been writing a Stereogum column called The Number Ones, where I'm reviewing every #1 hit in the history of the Billboard Hot 100. I've written almost 900 of those columns so far, and I'm only up to 2003. In the book, I'm focusing on a bunch of #1 hits that marked moments of big change on the pop charts and, in some cases, popular culture in general.
I've been a full-time music critic since 2005, and I've worked for places like Pitchfork and the Village Voice. For the past decade-plus, I've been the senior editor at Stereogum. I'm seven feet tall. If you feel like asking me questions about #1 hits, or being tall, or whatever else, then this is your day. Let's party.
