NEW YORK (Billboard) – Pop singer Ke$ha led Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart for a fourth week on Thursday with her debut single “TiK ToK,” and also grabbed the No. 7 spot with her new follow-up, “Blah Blah Blah.”
Both tracks come from her album “Animal,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday. Two other tunes, “Your Love Is My Drug” and “Take It Off,” debuted at No. 27 and No. 85, respectively.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Scottish singer Susan Boyle narrowly failed to claim honors for the year's best-selling album in the United States on Wednesday, but still has another sales week to wrest the title from country starTaylor Swift.
Boyle's debut album “I Dreamed a Dream” already the year's best seller in Britain, has sold 2.98 million copies after five consecutive weeks at No. 1, tracking firm Nielsen SoundScan
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Alicia Keys' album “The Element of Freedom” topped the R&B chart in its first week of sales, but fell short of Susan Boyle to land at No. 2 on the Top 200 Albums chart, her label said on Wednesday.
The album, which is Keys' latest release since her 2007 “As I Am,” sold more than 417,000 copies in the week since it hit stores, earning the singer her fifth straight chart topping debut, said Sony
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – There's just no stopping Susan Boyle on the U.S. pop chart.
Her debut album “I Dreamed a Dream” claimed the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 for a fourth week in a row Wednesday, denying Alicia Keys a shot at the top.
It sold 661,000 copies during the week ended December 20, according to Nielsen SoundScan, taking its total to 2,465,000 copies — the second-best selling album of 2009.
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – Susan Boyle led the U.S. pop album chart for a third week Wednesday, while Chris Brown's new album debuted at a disappointing No. 7.
The British reality-TV show contestant sold 582,000 copies of “I Dreamed a Dream” during the week ended December 13, according to Nielsen SoundScan. So far, her debut album has sold 1.8 million copies and is racing after Taylor Swift's “Fearless,” currently the
NEW YORK (AP) — Move over Beyoncé. Step aside Taylor Swift. There’s a new queen of pop, and her name is Susan Boyle.
The British talent contestant-turned-singing sensation sold just over 700,000 copies of her debut album, “I Dreamed a Dream,” debuting at No. 1. Her record label, Columbia Records, says that not only gives her the best first week sales of 2009, but also the best-selling album
NEW YORK (Billboard) – Jay-Z earned his fourth No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart Thursday with “Empire State of Mind,” his collaboration with Alicia Keys.
All of Jay-Z's four chart-toppers have been collaborations, but this is his first No. 1 as a lead or co-billed vocalist. His prior chart-topping entries came as a featured vocalist on Mariah Carey's “Heartbreaker” (1999), his now-wife Beyonce's “Crazy
NEW YORK (Billboard) – With its 14th week at the summit of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, the Black Eyed Peas' “I Gotta Feeling” matched Mariah Carey's 2005 hit “We Belong Together” for the longest No. 1 stay this decade.
The hip-hop band has now held firm at No. 1 for 26 straight weeks, with “Boom Boom Pow” preceding “Feeling” with a 12-week run, making the Peas the second act in the 51-year history of the
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Billboard) – Pearl Jam topped the U.S. pop album chart for the first time in 13 years on Wednesday, ending the two-week reign of rapper Jay-Z.
The veteran Seattle rockers sold 189,000 copies of their ninth studio album “Backspacer,” during the week ended September 27, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
The band had ruled the Billboard 200 on three other occasions, most recently in 1996 when “No
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Billboard) – The Black Eyed Peas led Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart for a 12th week on Thursday with “I Gotta Feeling,” while the new season of Fox's “Glee” enlivened proceedings.
The Fox musical's cast recording of Rihanna's hit “Take A Bow” was the top debut at No. 46. “Don't Stop Believin',” another song covered by the motley crew of musical misfits, re-entered the chart
