Posted Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:34pm PST
Bon Jovi lands its second straight #1 album with "The Circle." This is the second time that the group has had back-to-back #1 albums. It last did this in the late '80s heyday of "hair bands." 
Posted Wed Nov 11, 2009 5:00pm PST
Billboard has seen the light. Starting in two weeks, the magazine's flagship album chart will include older "catalog" albums. The move was prompted by Michael Jackson's phenomenal success this year. 
Posted Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:29pm PST
Carrie Underwood’s Play On sold 318,000 copies, the biggest weekly sales tally for an album by a woman so far in 2009. She's the second American Idol alum to top the 10 million mark in career album sales. 
Posted Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:49pm PST
The odds are four out of five that history will be made when the Entertainer of the Year is announced at the Country Music Assn. Awards on Wednesday. 
Posted Wed Nov 4, 2009 12:00pm PST
Michael Jackson's This Is It enters The Billboard 200 at #1, with first-week sales of 373,000 copies. This is the biggest weekly sales tally for a Jackson album since HIStory in 1995. 
Posted Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:42am PDT
"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" jumps to #1 this week. It's the 20th rock-oriented soundtrack to top the chart. Here's the complete list, from Elvis' "Loving You" to the "Twilight" sagas. 
Posted Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:43am PDT
The soundtrack to The Twilight Saga: New Moon moves up to #1, less than a year after the initial Twilight soundtrack debuted in the top spot. Also: it's feast or famine in the music business. 
Posted Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:16am PDT
Taylor Swift is on the brink of accomplishing something that I was starting to think we might never see again: topping the 4 million mark in sales with back-to-back studio albums. 
Posted Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:17pm PDT
Want to sell albums in a down market? Go on "Oprah." Four of this week's top 10 albums got a boost from Winfrey's top-rated talk show. The roster includes Michael Buble, who debuts at #1. 
Posted Fri Oct 9, 2009 11:42am PDT
Barbra Streisand, who returns to #1 this week, is one of two dozen artists who have had #1 albums spanning 20 or more years. Here's a complete list, from Frank Sinatra to U2. | Select a Blog | Posts |
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