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Chart Recap: The January Dregs
January has typically been no-man’s land when it comes to the music business. That’s never made much sense to me. I mean, wouldn’t you feel a bit more compulsion to release new music when there are folks running around with gift certificates and gift cards? It’s not like there’s not a precedent for music taking off at the beginning of a year. Way back in 1999, a young girl named Britney Spears released her first […]
Chart Action: Better Late Than Never
Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving.
This week’s chart is all about Alicia Keys, who tops the singles and albums charts in both the pop & R&B categories with her third studio album “As I Am”, and it’s first single “No One”. All of Keys’ four albums (including her 2005 “Unplugged” set) have topped the Billboard Albums chart, while “No One” marks her third #1 single, following 2001’s “Fallin'” and 2004’s duet with Usher, “My Boo”. […]
All Hail The King
It’s a country music week on Billboard’s album chart, due to the broadcast of the CMA Awards last week. Just about every album that takes a jump on this week’s chart comes from that genre, with the key beneficiary being new artist Taylor Swift, , who jumps from 26-8 with her self-titled debut. Taylor won the evening’s Horizon award, given to promising young entertainers in the biz.
The other big chart news comes from the top, […]