Comments on: The Quick 10: 10 Billboard 200 Milestones

By: pb

pb — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:52:35 +0000

Jackie Gleason, Your love is lifting me higher? Lonely Teardrops? Come on people.

By: OkieMelissa

OkieMelissa — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:38:28 +0000

“Music for Lovers Only by Jackie Gleason”

ew. Assuming his “lovers” style is akin to the Ralph Cramden (sp?) “Honeymooners” style, I imagine it’s a lot of country banjo music and the sound of couples scream fighting on the front lawn ala “Cops” (’but I loooveee h-ehm!).

lol.

recaptcha “humorous and” … what?

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:39:04 +0000

Although Pink Floyd’s record is amazing, it is dubious at best. Prior to the SoundScan era, the Billboard 200 was compiled by record stores sending in a list of the “top selling” albums. I know because I worked in one at the time and keeping that Pink Floyd record going was more of an inadvertent, or intentional in some cases, phenomenon.

The Beastie Boys’ Licensed To Ill was #1 on the Billboard 200, but not on the R&B/Hip-Hop, because the methodology in determining the charts were different.

By: Freddy

Freddy — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:26:07 +0000

Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” never hit number 1, not on the Billboard Hot 100. It peaked at a lowly #9 in 1976, and an improved #2, based mostly on sales, in 1991. It went to #1 on the British charts, however, in 1975 and 1991.

In the U.S., the only single top top the charts in two separate runs was Chubby Checker’s “The Twist,” in 1960 and 1962. Unless you go back to Vernon Dalhart’s “The Prisoner’s Song” from 1925, which returned to #1 in a second run later the same year, but that achievement is based on reconstructed charts as there were no actual charts until 1940.

By: Robert Holdridge

Robert Holdridge — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:28:48 +0000

Adam and the Ants had 5 singles in the top 10, all in the same week, in Britian when he first exploded with Kings of the Wild Frontier LP.

By: roi_ratt

roi_ratt — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:30:45 +0000

Ok, I gotta comment on this one for no other reason than this…

Recaptcha: “horus plosions” – Say it fast.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:58:00 +0000

You forgot about one more 1st that I know of. In 1981 (or thereabouts), Styx became the first band to have four consecutive albums certified triple platinum – “The Grand Illusion” (1977), “Pieces of Eight” (1978), “Cornerstone” (1979), and “Paradise Theatre” (1980).

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:51:00 +0000

I wonder who came in at 200 the week, ending Pink Floyd’s 741 week run? It would be funny it were Paula Abdul. Also, I wonder if it ever dipped back into the Top 200 since then.

By: Elbobbo

Elbobbo — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:42:00 +0000

How is it possible that Licensed to Ill was the top selling album overall but not in its genre? that makes the sense that is none

By: Maria

Maria — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:55:00 +0000

Excellent work