Today Michael Jackson extended his posthumous streak of being at #1 on the UK album charts to eight weeks (with The Essential Michael Jackson greatest hits compilation.) This week he beat out Beyonce at #2, Black Eyed Peas at #3, Paolo Nutini at #4, and a newly released remastered version of The Stone Roses self [...]

Michael Jackson has been at #1 on the UK album charts for all seven weeks since his death on June 25th and with the new Billboard numbers out today he’s made it 6 out of 7 weeks in the US (there was one week where he was at #2 behind Daughtry’s 2nd album.) Number Ones [...]

I missed posting this bit of music trivia yesterday because I was out of town: It was on August 8, 1969 (40 years ago yesterday) that the famous photo that was used for the cover of The Beatles Abbey Road album was taken. Today there’s a camera which sends a live video feed of the [...]

Michael Jackson is at #1 on the UK album charts for the 7th straight week since his death on June 25 with his greatest hits compilation The Essential Michael Jackson. He had a total of 6 albums (either solo or with the Jackson 5) in the UK top 40 charts including three studio albums: 1987′s [...]

The natural follow-up to my last post on the top 10 selling artists in the US of the soundscan era (from 1991 through 2008.) It will be in the same format (total sold and amount sold just in 2008) for the same reason (to see which albums are slowing down, actually this idea works a [...]

Yes, I’m a bit obsessed with the soundscan information I’ve come across. I don’t really know why I find these details of album sales so interesting. It’s not like I think that albums sales have much of anything to do with actual quality. A lot of my favorite bands and albums weren’t particularly good sellers. [...]

I came across a very interesting (to me) list of the top 10 selling vinyl albums of 2008 in the US (from soundscan’s data so it should be quite accurate.) Here it is: 01 – Radiohead – In Rainbows – 25,800 02 – The Beatles – Abbey Road – 16,500

The Beatles hold quite a couple pretty impressive US album sales records: Most #1 Albums: 19. Second place is Elvis Presley & Jay Z tied at 10. Most Total Weeks At #1: 132. Second place is Elvis Presley at 67. — I also think they are the all time leader in total albums sold in [...]

Today is the last day I can include The Soft Bulletin on my list of the top 10 albums of the past 10 years. I think this is The Flaming Lips best album and among the very best albums of the 1990s. It’s also aging quite nicely, in fact even though it’s a few years [...]

Billy Thorpe was born March 29th of 1946 in Manchester, England. His family moved to Australia when Thorpe was 9 years old. As the lead singer of Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs he had a lot of success in Australia during the 1960s and 1970s. They did not have success in the US. He is [...]