Comments on: The Quick 10: 10 Billboard 200 Milestones

By: anthenning

anthenning — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:52:49 +0000

Oh well, turns out it’s Elvis according to everyhit.com (http://www.everyhit.com/record1.html)

By: anthenning

anthenning — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:48:56 +0000

Got me thinking, and this may seem morbid, who has had the most posthumous hit records on the Billboard charts? Surely Buddy Holly must be up there…

By: i

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:20:19 +0000

HELLO! what about Michael Jackson! Um he had a bunch of #1 hits!!

By: eggsalad

eggsalad — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:59:02 +0000

@pb. You’re thinking of Jackie WILSON. Jackie GLEASON was a television star of the 50′s and 60′s.

By: M

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:35:03 +0000

@Brent – hehe, nice Simpsons reference. I believe it was Homer that got that tattooed on his arm?

and to relate to the article…go Beatles!

By: jamie

jamie — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:35:15 +0000

Where does Alanis Morrisette’s ‘Jagged Little Pill’ fall in here? I thought there were several #1 singles on that CD.

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.