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Adam Lambert Becomes Nation’s First Out Performer With #1 Billboard Pop Album

Gay performers have had numerous #1 albums, of course, but none of them hit the top spot again after they came out. Billboard has the numbers: For the first time, one “American Idol” replaces another at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart as Adam Lambert’s “Trespassing” debuts atop the list with 77,000 sold according to Nielsen SoundScan. His arrival …

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Another Chart Record For Adele

Tomorrow Adele’s 21 returns to the top of Billboard’s Top 200 album chart for the 24th week, placing it in the stratosphere of only seven other albums with #1 runs of six months or longer. It was the album of the year for 2011 and is on track to repeat in 2012. 54 weeks: West Side Story – Soundtrack (1962–63)37 …

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Madonna Lands Eighth #1 Album

Billboard reports: Madonna’s “MDNA” and Lionel Richie’s “Tuskegee” bow at Nos. 1 and 2 this week on the Billboard 200 albums chart, selling 359,000 and 199,000 copies, respectively (according to Nielsen SoundScan). Madonna has now etched a total of eight No. 1 albums: three in the ’80s, four in the ’00s and now one in the ’10s. She missed scoring …

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150 Number Ones For Madonna

As of this week, Madonna has topped Billboard’s various charts 150 times. (Times, not weeks.) Leading the list are the 41 songs that have hit #1 on the Dance/Club chart. Of more mainstream interest are her twelve #1 pop singles and her seven #1 pop albums, the latter of which will become eight with next week’s #1 debut of MDNA.

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The 50 Looks Of Madonna

You can look at any old photo of Madonna and instantly know about what year it was taken. You can’t say that about about anybody else. Billboard Magazine has a 50 photo trip down memory land. My favorite period was the Erotica years. Least favorite: the Guy Ritchie years.

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Billboard Mag Rejiggers Hot 100

In recognition of the way many people listen to music these days, Billboard Magazine this week began compiling its famed Hot 100 singles chart with the inclusion of data about the tracks that are the most popular on streaming services such as Spotify. They’ve also added a new chart that exclusively ranks the most-streamed songs. Billboard, Nielsen and NARM’s digitalmusic.org …

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Satan Breaks Billboard Record

Blue Ivy Carter, the daughter of Beyonce and Jay-Z, is less than a week old and she’s already broken an all-time Billboard record as the youngest credited vocalist to ever be on the charts. Shortly after his infant was born at New York City’s Lenox Hill Hospital Saturday, Jay-Z, 42, headed into the recording studio to put his emotions into …

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Top Hit Songs Of 2011

By weeks at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart, here are the longest-running chart toppers of the year. This year saw an unusual number of long-lasting #1 singles, hence a fewer number of songs reached the top overall. Seven Weeks: Adele – Rolling In The DeepSix Weeks: LMFAO – Party Rock AnthemSix Weeks: Lady Gaga – Born This WayFive …

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Ten With Ten Or More

Rihanna has just her scored eleventh pop chart topper, prompting an update in Billboard’s list of acts with ten or more #1 pop singles. 1. Beatles – 202. Mariah Carey – 183. Elvis Presley- 174. Michael Jackson – 135. Madonna – 126. The Supremes – 127. Whitney Houston – 118. Rihanna – 119. Janet Jackson – 1010. Stevie Wonder – …

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Shocking Study Reveals Almost Every Hit Record Is About Having Or Wanting Sex

Via the Atlantic: “Approximately 92% of the 174 songs that made it into the [Billboard] Top 10 in 2009 contained reproductive messages,” says SUNY Albany psychology professor Dawn R. Hobbs in Evolutionary Psychology. That’s right–“reproductive messages,” our newest favorite euphemism. Those 174 top-selling songs were analyzed in order to determine how many sexy messages they contained in any of 18 …

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Adele – Someone Like You

Almost a year after her sophomore album topped every chart in the world, we finally have a production video for Adele’s tear-jerker Someone Like You. Trivia: This is the first purely vocal + piano single to reach #1 in the 53 year history of Billboard’s pop singles chart. Many similarly sparse ballads also reached #1, but according to Billboard, all …

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Lady Gaga Sells 1.1M In First Week

The first week of sales for Lady Gaga’s Born This Way are the highest for any release in the last six years. Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” album debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 1,108,000 copies sold in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It’s only the 17th album to sell a million in a …

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Quote Of The Day – Tim Winter

“I cannot imagine what would possibly lead the ABC television network to air a profanity-laced, S&M sex show on primetime broadcast television. The overtly sexualized performance by Rihanna and Britney Spears was no accident or mishap, but a deliberate effort to target teens with images and lyrics that that glamorize whips, chains and other sexual fetishes.” – Parents Television Council …

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Remixer & Blowoff DJ Rich Morel Scores 20th Billboard #1 Dance Hit

Blowoff DJ Rich Morel has scored his 20th number one remix on Billboard’s dance chart with his latest work for 78 year-old Yoko Ono. Along with numerous hits with Ono, Morel has notched chart topping remixes for Depeche Mode, New Order, The Killers, Pet Shop Boys, Cyndi Lauper and many others. Rolling Stone reports on Yoko’s streak: Yoko Ono has …

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Five Seconds Of Every #1 Pop Single

You might enjoy this bit of music trivia – five seconds of every #1 pop song ever. You may surprised to realize that you can sing along to every bit of it. Part two begins in 1983.

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Gaga Lands Billboard’s 1000th #1 Single

The 1000th number one single in the 52-year history of the Billboard Hot 100 is Lady Gaga’s Born This Way. “It is a tremendous honor,” Gaga tells Billboard of the milestone. “To be the 1000th no. 1 on Billboard…I would be silly not to say this is the greatest honor of my career.” “I am so humbled and so honored …

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Billboard Issues 2010 Year-End Charts

Billboard Magazine has issued its annual rankings of the biggest hits of the year. Here’s the 2010 pop Top Ten. 1. Tik-Tok – Kesha2. Need You Now – Lady Antebellum3. Hey Soul Sister – Train4. California Gurls – Katy Perry5. OMG – Usher6. Airplanes – B.O.B.7. Love The Way You Lie – Eminem/Rihanna8. Bad Romance – Lady Gaga9. Dynamite – …

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Glee Cast’s Gay Cover Of Teenage Dream Debuts At #1 Digital, #8 Billboard Pop

The Glee cast’s cover of Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream, sung memorably on last week’s episode from one boy to another, has debuted at #8 on Billboard’s top ten, becoming the highest debuting single of the show to date. The single has also bowed at #1 on the Digital Sales chart with 214,000 downloads in one week, become the show’s first …

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Remixer & Blowoff DJ Rich Morel Scores 15th Billboard #1 Dance Hit

Remix artist Rich Morel, also one-half of the Blowoff DJ team, notches his 15th Billboard dance chart topper this week with his reworking of Yoko Ono’s Wouldnit (I’m A Star). Morel has previously reached the dance summit with remixes for Pet Shop Boys, Seal, Cyndi Lauper, Depeche Mode, New Order, Vivian Green, and t.A.T.u. Morel is currently writing songs with …

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Glee Cast Joins Pop Chart Royalty

In less than one year, the cast of Glee has scored 43 (mostly minor) hit singles on Billboard’s Hot 100, placing them among the top ten most charting non-solo acts of all time. Here’s the current ranking of group acts by number of charting Hot 100 singles: Beatles (71), Rolling Stones (57), Beach Boys (55), Temptations (53), Chicago (46), Miracles …

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