Sökresultat för: ”Billboard 200”
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Sade Takes Command of US Billboard 200
As we previously reported on the blog, Sade claimed the top spot immediately with the new album Soldier of Love. According to Billboard, this was the best sales week ever for the group. The album follows Lovers Rock, which peaked at No.3 back in 2003. The set has sold 3.9m in the US alone. Last…
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Ed Sheeran Album Tops Billboard Folk Chart
The Ed Sheeran album “+” vaults into No.1 on this week’s Billboard Folk Albums chart. I wrote about it just ahead of its UK release.
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Sade’s the Biggest UK Success on Billboard Since Coldplay
According to Music Week, Sade is the first group since Coldplay to enjoy such success on the Billboard 200 album chart. As previously reported, Sade tops the album chart for a third week with Soldier of Love. That hasn’t happened since Coldplay’s X&Y topped the same chart for three weeks in 2005. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMOOHGhB_b4]
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Tony Awards Fuels The Book of Mormon Sales
CHART SPOTLIGHT. “The Book of Mormon” re-enters the Billboard 200 album chart at No.3 following its nine Tony Awards wins. This is the highest charting Broadway cast album since 1969 when “Hair” topped the chart for 13 straight weeks.
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Mumford & Sons Sigh No More
The British group Munford & Sons remains at No.3 this week on the Billboard 200 with the debut album Sign No More. Add that it spends its 50th week on the tally and an amazing story unfolds. Surely there are albums of late that have had lengthy chart runs.
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Daft Punk Breaks Chart Record in the US with Disney Soundtrack
The TRON: Legacy soundtrack bows at No.10 on the Billboard 200.
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Will Susan Boyle De-throne Kanye West?
Kanye West might be de-throned from the Billboard 200 album chart
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How Bananarama Revived the Dutch Venus in the ‘80s
Wow! They really got it! ‘Venus’ was the track that became the start of the collaboration with Stock Aitken Waterman. Original members Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward rocked the charts with the successful Shocking Blue cover back in May 1986. Bananarama – Venus Formed in The Hague back in 1967, Shocking Blue was…
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Counting Crows Introduced Mr. Jones to Us
CHART REWIND. “Mr. Jones” was the breakthrough hit for Counting Crows back in 1994. It was also the lead single off the debut set August and Everything After which was released the year before.
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Danger Mouse Resurrects Spaghetti Western with Norah Jones
CHART SPOTLIGHT. By and large, spaghetti western in the style of Sergio Leone and Guisseppe Tornatoro owes a lot to the music composed by Italian 80+ veteran Ennio Morricone.