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Is that really an accomplishment though?
Comsidering how Hollywood, Love Profusion, Nothing Fails, Miles Away, Get Together, and Jump all missed the Hot 100. Yes!
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Canadian Hot 100:
Debuts at #56
Hot Canadian Digital Singles:
Debust at #71
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BILLBOARD HOT DIGITAL SONGS
-- 159 MADONNA CELEBRATION 10010 999 0 10010
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People here have no idea how the charts work.
Relax.
The song is being sent to radio today in the US!!!!
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The SoundScan tracking week ends Sunday night at Midnight.
Monday's sales will go to next week's chart.
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Remember we don't want this to sell well until Monday. More sales for next week.
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The second single is not going to be out in September.
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^He said the WEA website.
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Chart Beat at Billboard.com:
Here is a look at the legendary female artists to make the most visits to the Hot 100, followed by the dates of their first charted hits:
73, Aretha Franklin (March 4, 1961)
56, Dionne Warwick (Dec. 8, 1962)
54, Madonna (Oct. 29, 1983)
53, Connie Francis (Dec. 2, 1957)
48, Brenda Lee (March 2, 1957)
41, Barbra Streisand (April 4, 1964)
40, Diana Ross (April 25, 1970)
40, Mariah Carey (June 2, 1990)
The song is also Carey's 33rd top 40 hit, tying her with Francis. Among women, Carey and Francis trail only Madonna (48) and Franklin (43) for most top 40 titles.
Madonna (48)
Aretha Franklin (43)
Connie Franis (33)
Mariah Carey (33)
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1. Madonna (1982)
2. Like A Virgin (1984)
3. True Blue (1986)
4. Like A Prayer (1989)
5. Erotica (1992)
6. Bedtime Stories (1994)
7. Ray Of Light (1998)
8. Music (2000)
9. American Life (2003)
10. Confessions On A Dance Floor (2005)
11. Hard Candy (2008)
So it's official that "I'm Breathless" is considered as a soundtrack.
Yes, IB is NOT a studio album. It's a Soundtrack.
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http://www.billboard.com/#/news/madonna-s-...003996769.story
by Keith Caulfield
Madonna's 'Celebration' Hits Collection To Feature Two New Songs
Madonna will unleash the greatest hits album "Celebration" on Sept. 29 in the U.S.
The Warner Bros. collection will include hits from the Queen of Pop's entire career and boast two new songs. One of those, the title track, was recently recorded in New York and co-produced by Madonna and Paul Oakenfold. It will serve as the set's first single and is scheduled to hit radio airwaves on Aug. 3. Remixes of the tune will be serviced to dance club DJs tomorrow (July 24).
It is rumored that the effort's other new song is titled "Revolver" and is a collaboration with Lil Wayne. A demo version of the song -- without Madonna's vocals -- has been floating around YouTube since May.
While the tracklist for "Celebration" has yet to be announced, one can imagine a bevy of Madonna's Billboard Hot 100 hits will be included. On the Hot 100 chart, she has racked up a record 37 top 10 singles -- more than any other act in the tally's nearly 51-year history. Of those hits, 12 of them went all the way to No. 1.
In a press release, her label confirmed that "Celebration" will contain songs "remastered and selected by Madonna and her fans" including "Everybody," "Express Yourself," "Vogue" and "4 Minutes."
The album will be available in both single-disc and double-disc configurations and a DVD of the icon's music videos will also be issued simultaneously. It was unclear at press time if the DVD would be offered as a stand-alone product or come bundled in a CD/DVD package.
The press release announcing "Celebration" touts that the DVD is set to include some of Madonna's iconic video clips that have "never before been available on DVD." (Perhaps the too-hot-for-MTV "Justify My Love?")
"Celebration" is Madonna's last album owed to Warner Bros. Records. In 2007, she partnered with Live Nation for a long term, all-encompassing deal, which will include her future recorded music.
Madonna signed to the Warner Bros. label Sire in 1982 and released her first single, "Everybody," that year. Her eponymous debut album bowed in 1983 and carried with it her first Hot 100 hit -- "Holiday."
Since then has earned seven No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 chart, including her last four studio sets: 2008's "Hard Candy," 2005's "Confessions On a Dance Floor," 2003's "American Life" and 2000's "Music."
All told, every one of Madonna's 11 studio albums have reached the top 10 on the Billboard 200.
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Probably my most listened to Madonna album.
Waiting is perfection.
Words, Thief of Hearts and Why It's So Hard are my favorites.
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Confirmed partial lyrics from Mario (MadonnaTribe webmaster):
boy you got a reputation
but you're gonna have to prove it
i see a little hesitation am i gonna have to show you
that if it feels right, get on your marks
step to the beat boy that's what it's for
put your arms around me
when it gets too hot we can go outside
cos from now just come here, let me whisper in your ear
an invitation to the dance tonight
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My buddy heard Celebrate:
Heard it at the weekend - it's fantastic - I think you're all gonna be impressed. It has a great pop melody, very summery with a kinda Holiday-esque but more upbeat vibe, she sings all the way through it, so no rent-a-rappers, no long instrumental breaks or anything and a very very catchy chorus.
There's a funny spoken bit in the middle where she says something along the lines of 'You look better with your shirt off' which may explain all this silly 'take your shirt off' stuff she's been doing at the shows.
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Delilah played Cherish tonight.
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^TIC only had 2 new tracks. GHV2 none. STR only had 2, right?
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^Exactly. Holidayguy has been going on more months about it possibly being a 1cd album.
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Isn't it all a bit lazy? Celebrate? Celebration?
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Billboard.com:
BIRTH OF 'AUTO-TUNE': Jay-Z enters the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 24 with "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)." The track previews "The Blueprint 3," due Sept. 11.
The song marks Jay-Z's 55th Hot 100 appearance, breaking him out of a tie with Madonna.
Here is a look at the acts with 50 or more chart entries dating to the Hot 100's Aug. 4, 1958, inception:
108, Elvis Presley
91, James Brown
74, Ray Charles
73, Aretha Franklin
71, The Beatles
67, Elton John
63, Stevie Wonder
57, The Rolling Stones
56, Marvin Gaye
56, Frankie Valli
56, Dionne Warwick
55, The Beach Boys
55, Jay-Z
54, Madonna
53, Neil Diamond
53, Connie Francis
53, The Temptations
53, Jackie Wilson
51, Rod Stewart
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is Essential going to be on the regular chart?
No, it's Catalog.
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HITS:
YOUR JULY 4TH WEAKEND CHART PREVIEW: Six of the top seven titles on next week's SoundScan chart will be debuts. The Top 10 on the HITS album chart will include these six debuts, along with three Michael Jackson titles. Of course, with all the variables surrounding M.J. sales—including the wall-to-wall TV coverage—as well as the holiday weekend, it’s hard to say for sure what the leader board will look like until Monday. But we’ll give it a shot anyway:
* Now 31 (Sony Music) 140-145k
Thriller (Epic) 120-125k
* Brad Paisley (Arista Nashville) 120-125k
* Rob Thomas (Atlantic) 105-110k
* Wilco (Nonesuch) 100-105k
Essential Michael Jackson (Epic) 95-100k
Number Ones (Epic) 75-80k
Black Eyed Peas (Interscope) 60-65k
* Killswitch Engage (Roadrunner) 55-60k
* Jeremih (Def Jam/IDJ) 45-50k
Jonas Brothers (Hollywood) 35-40k
Eminem (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope) 30-35k
Dave Matthews Band (RCA/RMG) 30-35k
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (WB) 30-35k
Lady Gaga (Interscope) 30-35k
Kings of Leon (RCA/RMG) 30-35k
* Denotes debut
(7/3a)
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Billboard Catalog Chart
#1 Michael Jackson - Number Ones - 108,000
#2 Michael Jackson - Essential Michael Jackson - 102,000
#3 Michael Jackson - Thriller - 101,000
#4 Michael Jackson - Off The Wall - 33,000
#5 Jackson 5 - Ultimate Collection - 18,000
#6 Michael Jackson - Bad - 17,000
#7 Michael Jackson - Dangerous - 14,000
#8 Michael Jackson - Greatest Hits: HIStory - Volume 1 - 12,000
#9 Michael Jackson - Ultimate Collection - 11,000
#11 Jackson 5 - The Best Of Jackson 5: 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection
#13 Michael Jackson - HIStory: Past, Present And Future Book 1
#19 The Jacksons - The Jacksons Story: Number 1's
#21 Michael Jackson - Invincible
#22 Michael Jackson - Blood On The Dance Floor: HIStory In The Mix
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Week Ending June 28, 2009: He's Still Setting Records
Posted 6 minutes ago by Paul Grein in Chart Watch
You've heard the expression, "#1 with a bullet"? The Black Eyed Peas' The E.N.D. is "#1 with an asterisk." The album returns to the top spot on The Billboard 200 with sales of 88,000 copies, but three Michael Jackson albums sold more copies this week. Those albums, Number Ones, The Essential Michael Jackson and Thriller, were excluded from The Billboard 200 because they are classified as "catalog." As a result, they hold down the top three spots on the Top Catalog Albums chart. This marks the first time in Nielsen/SoundScan history (which dates to 1991) that the #1 Catalog album has outsold the #1 current album.
Michael Jackson always liked to set records. He sets quite a few of them this week.
He becomes the first artist to sell more than 1 million song downloads in one week. He far exceeded that total, running up a tally of 2.6 million. Jackson has a record 50 songs on the top 200 Hot Digital Songs chart, combining solo releases and hits he recorded with his brothers in the Jackson 5 and later the Jacksons. (I'm even throwing in "We Are The World," which he wrote and on which he was featured.) Last year, by way of comparison, David Cook and Joe Jonas each put 17 songs on the chart in one week. Jackson kind of leaves them in the dust.
Jackson has six songs in the top 10 on Hot Digital Songs. "Thriller" is #2, kept out of the top spot by the Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" (see item below). "Man In The Mirror" is #3, followed by "Billie Jean" at #4, "The Way You Make Me Feel" at #6, "Beat It" at #7 and "Don't Stop ‘Til You Get Enough" at #8. Nine of Jackson's songs topped the 100,000 mark in paid downloads this week-those six hits plus "Smooth Criminal," "Black Or White" and "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)."
Jackson has a record nine of the top 10 albums on the Top Catalog Albums chart (again, this counts a Jackson 5 album.) The old record of five of the top 10 was held jointly by the Beatles and AC/DC. Number Ones, first released in 2003, sold 108,000 copies this week. The two-CD The Essential Michael Jackson, first released in 2005, sold 102,000 copies. Thriller, first released in 1982, sold 101,000. It's the first time since at least 1992 that one artist has topped the 100,000 mark with three albums in the same week. Even Garth Brooks at his peak didn't do that. Jackson has a total of 16 albums on the top 200 Digital Albums chart.
Jackson has a record six of the top 10 albums on the Digital Albums chart, including the entire top four. His biggest digital seller, The Essential Michael Jackson, sold 80,000 digital copies. Most of Jackson's album sales this week came in the digital realm. He sold 422,000 albums this week, just counting his solo releases, 58% of them digitally.
Number Ones vaults from #121 to #1 in the U.K., where Jackson was slated to open a 50-date engagement later this month. Jackson is the first artist to top the British chart posthumously since Elvis Presley scored in August 2007 with The King. Number Ones debuted at #1 in the U.K. when it was first released in 2003. (In the U.S., it debuted and peaked at #13.)
Before this week, six catalog albums had sold enough copies to make the top 10 on The Billboard 200, but were ineligible to appear on the chart. These albums were Pearl Jam's Ten in March, Jackson's Thriller 25 in 2008 and the Grease soundtrack in 1998, as well as three resurging holiday titles: Kenny G's Miracles-The Holiday Album in 1995 and 1996, Il Divo's The Christmas Collection in 2006 and Josh Groban's Noel in 2008.
For the record, I think the top 10 on The Billboard 200 should consist of the week's 10 best-selling albums, whether they're current or catalog. (That all-inclusiveness is the great strength of The Billboard 200. The chart includes everything that sells, from Josh Groban to AC/DC; from a digital-only release to an elaborate box set.) In late 2007, Billboard and Nielsen/SoundScan wisely rescinded their policy that barred "exclusive" albums (albums sold in only one retail chain) from The Billboard 200. In the same spirit, I think they should modify their policy that bars catalog albums from the big chart. (The idea behind moving catalog titles off the chart is to give new albums needed visibility.) The ideal solution might be to allow albums that sold well enough to make the top 10 to receive the recognition they've earned. The top 10, after all, is the part of the chart that is reprinted in newspapers and websites around the world.
I don't usually like coulda-shoulda-woulda stuff, because it isn't real, but I'm going to make a rare exception. If Billboard had a policy in which catalog albums were eligible to make The Billboard 200, at least as far as the top 10 goes, Michael Jackson would have become the first artist to make a clean sweep of the top three positions since the separate stereo and mono charts were combined into one comprehensive listing in August 1963. The closest anybody came to a clean sweep before this week was on May 2, 1964, when The Beatles' Second Album was #1, Meet The Beatles! was #2 and Introducing...The Beatles was #4. But like I say, it didn't happen. So wipe this item out of your memory bank at once.
In death, Jackson has given a boost to the digital music phenomenon. This week's top 200 Digital Songs sold a combined total of 7,003,000 downloads, a big jump from last week, when the top 200 sold 5,361,000 downloads. Likewise, this week's top 200 Digital Albums sold 596,000 downloads, a big gain from last week's tally of 420,000.
This week's sales explosion is the second time that Jackson has come to the music industry's rescue. The industry was also in the doldrums in December 1982, when Thriller was released. Just before Thriller reached #1, Men At Work's Business As Usual topped the chart for 15 consecutive weeks. The Aussie group had a few appealing hits and videos, but the fact that a debut album by a group that left such light footprints on the pop scene was able to spend that much time at #1 suggests that there wasn't much else going on. But the release of Thriller kicked off a two-year period that was among the most exciting in pop music history. By the end of 1984, we also saw hit albums by David Bowie, The Police, Lionel Richie, Cyndi Lauper, Tina Turner, Bruce Springsteen and Prince & the Revolution.
I'll have more on Jackson at the end of this week's blog, but we should get to the top 10.
Here's the low-down on this week's top 10 albums.
1. The Black Eyed Peas, The E.N.D., 88,000. The album returns to #1 its third week. It's the first album to regain the top spot after losing it since Taylor Swift's Fearless. Two songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "I Gotta Feeling," which holds at #1.
2. Jonas Brothers, Lines, Vines And Trying Times, 68,000. The album slips to #2 after debuting at #1 last week. Three songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Paranoid," which falls to #86.
3. Regina Spektor, Far, 50,000. This new entry is Spektor's first top 10 album. She first charted in 2006 with Begin To Hope, which reached #20.
4. Dave Matthews Band, Big Whiskey And The Groogrux King, 47,000. The former #1 album dips from #3 to #4 in its fourth week. "Funny The Way It Is" slips to #129 on Hot Digital Songs.
5. Eminem, Relapse, 47,000. The former #1 album dips from #4 to #5 in its sixth week. Two songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "We Made You," which falls to #114.
6. Dream Theater, Black Clouds And Silver Linings, 40,000. This new entry is the hard rock band's first top 10 album in a career dating back to 1993. The band's previous highest-charting album was 1994's Awake, which peaked at #32.
7. Various Artists, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen soundtrack, 39,000. This new entry is the week's #1 soundtrack, displacing Hannah Montana: The Album. It has already climbed higher on The Billboard 200 than the initial Transformers soundtrack, which peaked at #21 in July 2007. The movie grossed $201 million in its first five days of release.
8. Lady GaGa, The Fame, 37,000. The album dips from #6 to #8. This is its 19th week in the top 10. Three songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Lovegame," which falls to #15. "Lovegame" tops the 1 million mark in paid downloads this week. GaGa is the only hit-maker to sell as many as 1 million digital copies of three different songs in 2009.
9. Ginuwine, A Man's Thoughts, 37,000. This new entry is the R&B star's fourth top 10 album.
10. Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana, Hannah Montana: The Movie soundtrack, 34,000. The former #1 album drops from #8 to #10. This is its 14th week in the top 10. It's the first theatrical movie soundtrack to spend its first 14 weeks in the top 10 since the Eminem-dominated 8 Mile in 2002-2003. Three songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "The Climb," which falls to #39.
Four albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Incubus' Moments And Melodies drops from #5 to #24, Chickenfoot's Chickenfoot falls from #7 to #15, Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown drops from #9 to #14 and Taylor Swift's Fearless dips from #10 to #11.
The Mars Volta's Octahedron opens at #12. This represents a sub-par opening for the band, which has had three top 10 albums, including last year's Bedlam In Goliath. (Memo to The Mars Volta: Please have mercy on writers. No more album titles like Octahedron and Amputechture where we always have to double-check the spelling. Thanks.)
The 2009 Broadway cast recording of Hair re-enters the chart at #63. The show won a Tony last month for Best Revival of a Musical. This is the third time that an album of the Hair score has made the top 100. The original Broadway cast album logged 13 weeks at #1 in 1969 (longer than any other album that year). The movie soundtrack, released in 1979, when the idea of a hippie-era musical seemed hopelessly dated, reached #65. (Often, what seems woefully dated 10 years down the line is enormously appealing a few decades later. See: "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," etc.)
The Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" is #1 on Hot Digital Songs for the third straight week, with sales of 203,000 downloads. This is the 13th consecutive week that the Peas have headed this chart, which enables them to tie the record for the longest continuous run at #1, which was set by Flo Rida featuring T Pain in 2007-2008. (The Peas, of course, needed two hits to stay on top this long, while Flo Rida did it with just one hit, "Low."). But the Peas have Flo Rida beat in one respect: The Peas have topped the 200,000 mark in paid downloads in all 13 of these weeks. Flo topped that mark in only two of his 13 weeks on top with "Low." (I've been telling you that the download market is exploding.) The Peas' initial hit, "Boom Boom Pow," tops the 3 million mark in paid downloads this week.
Song Scorecard: "Don't Trust Me" by 3OH!3 tops the 2 million mark in paid downloads this week. The song, with its irreverent line about Helen Keller, is one of the loopiest songs ever to become a smash. And I mean that in a good way.
A reissue of the Woodstock soundtrack, keyed to the upcoming 40th anniversary of the fabled festival, enters Top Catalog Albums at #10. It's the week's highest-ranking non-Jackson title, which means it would have debuted at #1 were it not for the Michael Jackson buying spree. The original soundtrack logged four weeks at #1 in 1970. It was the #1 movie soundtrack for 23 weeks in 1970-1971.
More Michael: Jackson ranks #8 among the hit-makers of the rock era in the upcoming 12th edition of Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008. Joel was kind enough to give me a preview of the top 10 list for his next edition, which is due in late August. The list is based on the artists' chart performance on the Hot 100. Here's the list: 1) Elvis Presley, 2) The Beatles, 3) Elton John, 4) Madonna, 5) Mariah Carey, 6) Stevie Wonder, 7) Janet Jackson, 8) Michael Jackson, 9) James Brown, and 10) The Rolling Stones.
You may be wondering if Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley ever appeared in the top five on the Hot 100 at the same time. Only once. On Oct. 14, 1972, "Ben" hit #1, while "Burning Love" climbed to #4. Both were milestone hits for these pop legends. "Ben" was Jackson's first #1 solo hit; "Burning Love was Presley's last top 10 hit. And both songs capture the performers' essences-Michael's child-like yearning and Elvis' sensuality and energy.
Last Friday, I posted a Chart Watch Extra in which I recounted Jackson's lifetime spent on the charts. If you missed it, here's a link.
Heads Up: Look for Rob Thomas and Brad Paisley to debut in the top 10 next week. Thomas is in line to pick up his sixth top 10 album (counting Matchbox Twenty releases) with Cradlesong, his follow-up to his chart-topping solo debut, ...Something To Be. Paisley is expected to pick up his fifth top 10 album with American Saturday Night, his first regular vocal album since 5th Gear hit #3 in 2007. Wilco, which has had two top 10 albums, may be back in the top 10 with Wilco (The Album). Also due: NOW 31, Killswitch Engage's Engage, Maino's If Tomorrow Comes, Jeremih's Jeremih and Ace Hood's Ruthless.
Shameless Plug: This week marks the end of the first six months of 2009. On Friday, I'll have a Chart Watch Extra in which I count down the top 10 albums and the top 10 digital songs for the first half. I won't spill the beans, but I will tell you that only two acts appear in the top 10 on both mid-year lists: Lady GaGa and Miley Cyrus.
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bks:
I'm still traveling and unable to post the chart into...sorry.
Celebration the single Around the World Charts
in ARCHIVE - Madonna
Posted
Can anyone confirm this?
European Airplay:
4 NEW Celebration