Adele, Katy Perry and Whitney Houston combine to set all kinds of records on the Billboard charts this week.
Posts tagged "top 100 singles"
The Popblerd Chart Report 11/3/11: A Good Day for Coldplay (BTW, That Rhymed)
Coldplay scores the biggest debut for a rock album in nearly three years. How did the other albums that came out last week fare on the Billboard charts?
Chart Stalker 9/15/11: Strait to…#3?
A country superstar he may be, but the legendary George Strait couldn’t topple Lil Wayne or Adele from their perches at the top of the Billboard album charts this week. His Here For A Good Time makes a pretty respectable debut with 91,000 units sold, but lands at #3 on the list, behind Weezy’s 219,000 (a pretty steep dropoff in The Carter IV‘s second week…blame it on bad word of mouth) and Adele’s 121,000. Adele’s numbers continue to be mind-blowing. […]
Chartstalker 5/13/10: Billboard Gets Godsmacked!
That was fairly innocuous as far as groan-inducing puns go, right? Anyway, Boston-based hard rock band Godsmack lead off the Billboard 200 Album chart this week, selling 117,000 copies of their latest album, “Oracle”. I don’t really have much to say about this development. They’re a pretty popular band so a #1 debut isn’t unexpected. My only real experience with the band was seeing them last summer at Crue Fest (from, like, the second row), and being really impressed by […]