In today’s Blerd Briefs: Lil Wayne topples a chart record, The Beatles arrive on vinyl, and…the “Always Sunny” cast changes?
Posts tagged "Hot 100 singles"
The Popblerd Chart Report 10/27/11: Casting Crowns Come Up Short
Adele racks up a 13th week at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, bouncing back into pole position with her album 21. It’s the longest run at the top for an album in 12 years-since the “Titanic” soundtrack held sway for 16 long, LONG weeks. Unlike the Celine Dion-led film memento, something in me doubts that we’ll be seeing Adele’s album in $2 discount bins within half a decade. Adele’s return to the top blocks contemporary Christian act Casting […]
Chart Stalker 5/27/10: Exile on My TV
The biggest news on this week’s album chart? A TV show. The second biggest news? A 40-year old album. First things first. “Glee: The Music: Showstoppers” bows atop the Billboard 200 this week, with 136,000 copies sold. It’s the second chart-topper to boast the “Glee” brand in the past 6 weeks. The hit FOX show is now a true phenomenon, with no end in sight. A distant second goes to the reissue of the Rolling Stones’ 39-year old classic “Exile […]
Chartstalker 3/17/10: It's Ludacris!
(now say that in a Mike Tyson voice. That’s what I was going for.) This week’s Billboard album chart is led by a pair of new entries. Atlanta rapper Ludacris bows on top with his latest album, “Battle of the Sexes”. Bolstered by the hits “How Low” and “My Chick Bad”, Luda scans 137,000 units in his opening salvo. If that number sounds a little low, well, it is. Luda’s last album, “Theater of the Mind” opened with 213,000 units […]