Craig Rosen is the author of The Billboard Book of Number One Albums and R.E.M. Inside Out: The Stories Behind Every Song. His writing has been published on numerous websites and publications, including AARP the Magazine, TIDAL, Yahoo! Music, Menshealth.com, The Hollywood Reporter and the Los Angeles Times. The former West Coast Bureau Chief of Billboard magazine and Managing Editor, News, of Yahoo’s LAUNCH was also the Senior Editor of Premiere Networks News and Morning Prep Service and Evening News Editor for The Messenger. He lives in Los Angeles.