Over 1.2 million copies of Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream have been sold in the US in just two weeks (it stayed at #1 in it’s second week with over 500K copies sold.) This begs the question; what in the hell is wrong with people? Who are these million+ idiots who would buy this [...]

Alright, this is my third Thursday of taking a look at the Billboard 200 album charts. I don’t list every single album on the chart, I just pick out a few that I want to ramble on about. #1 – Susan Boyle – I Dreamed A Dream (debut) The biggest single week sales of the [...]

I don’t know if I’ll be sticking with doing this silly little feature every week but I did do it last week as well. I’m particularly interested in this week’s album charts because this is the first week since way back in 1991 that older albums are allowed to be included in the Billboard 200 [...]

It’s time to take a look at this week’s Billboard charts. Why? Good question. I guess I’m just sort of a sick person, a real sick twisted kind of person who is interested in these kind of things even though I know I should not be. I’m not going to list every single album on [...]

As I noted many times when writing about the huge sales for Michael Jackson‘s albums in the weeks following his death, Billboard only allowed newer albums to be included on their Billboard 200 chart. Because of this, MJ’s Number Ones was kept off of it’s rightful place as the #1 album of the week for [...]

The soundtrack for the new Twilight movie is at #1 this week in it’s first full week of release (it was #2 last week despite being released on a Friday instead of the usual Tuesday.) I must admit that I bought this soundtrack even though I rarely buy movie soundtracks and even though I think [...]

I was thinking: “I wonder how many of the 200 albums on the Billboard 200 are by artists I dig?” This may seem like a rather thin concept for a blog post, but compared to a lot of the crap I post here, this is brilliant! #002 Twilight Soundtrack No, I’m not a fan of [...]

The new Billboard album charts are out for the week and The Flaming Lips newest album Embryonic debuted at #8 with 32,000 copies sold. This is the highest the band has ever charted in the US beating out the band’s last album At War with the Mystics which reached #11. But it should be noted [...]

Despite Michael Buble’s new album (Crazy Love) coming out on Friday (rather than Tuesday) he was still able to get the #1 spot on the new Billboard album charts. He beat out Kiss (which debuted at #2 with Sonic Boom) and Toby Keith (who debuted at #3 with American Ride.) Yes, there are people who [...]

The latest Britney Spears single “3″ (which is the only new track on her greatest hits compilation due out on November 24th) has debuted at #1 on the US singles chart. It’s the first non American Idol song to debut at #1 Lauren Hill’s “Doo Wop (That Thing)” accomplished the feat in 1998. “3″ is [...]