A producer who wouldn't cut Fancy, a farewell album nobody knew was a farewell, and the longest number one Alabama ever had.
A songwriter stuck two verses in, a comeback nobody saw coming, and the number one hit that wasn't the one you remember.
The death of the man who invented bluegrass, a song written on a bar napkin, and a title lifted from a 19th-century poem.
The software that rewrote the charts, a session guitarist who beat everybody, and the song two women released by accident on the same day.
An album by a man who didn't exist, the fastest rise of the decade, and the guy who hosted the whole thing.