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Blake Shelton Scores His First #1 Album On The Top 200
Wed Jul 20 2011 by Becky Bain
Attention Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine and Christina Aguilera - good thinkin' signing back up for a second helping of The Voice. The show's country star coach Blake Shelton's sixth studio release, Red River Blue, scored the singer his highest-charting album to date on the Billboard Top 200, selling 116,000 copies in its first week. This is great for Shelton, but also comforting for whatever album Cee Lo, Maroon 5, and Xtina drop next. Check out the rest of the Top 10 albums, and see how last week's chart-topper Beyonce faired in her LP 4's third week out below.
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Tours That Actually Could Be Kinda Good
Thu Apr 16 2009 by Maura
“THE DUKE SPIRIT ANNOUNCE SUMMER TOUR WITH INCUBUS.” The British blues-rock outfit the Duke Spirit is supposed to rip it live, and I have a soft spot for the recent run of singles by the California rock-radio stalwarts. Click the Duke Spirit’s pic for dates, and the video for the Duke Spirit’s outstanding “The Step And The Walk.”
Two-Hit Wonder Flo Rida Owns Charts, Reminds Us He Exists
Fri Feb 20 2009 by Chris Molanphy
Obviously, we need to talk about the new song that takes over the top of Billboard’s Hot 100, and the mind-blowing record it sets.
But before we do that, let’s talk about Hilary Swank.
I find Swank’s movie career totally incomprehensible: She either wins Oscars, or she tanks. Not even Meryl Streep has won two Best Actress statues, yet in under a decade Swank has gone to that podium twice, like some kind of modern-day Katharine Hepburn. You’d think that would make her one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, or at least its most respected. Sure, she wins roles in some blockbuster-type stuff (The Core) or prestige-like stuff (The Black Dahlia), but these movies are invariably flops. Swank’s successes seem to have had no impact on her career, or the way she’s regarded by the general public. She’s some kind of metaphor for the in-and-out nature of post-millennial fame.
All this leaps to my mind when I consider Flo Rida, the rapper who reaches No. 1 on the Hot 100 for the second time, with the kind of sales total that you’d think would make Lil Wayne, Kanye West or Jay-Z bow respectfully.
But if I were them, I wouldn’t. Because after all, who is this clown? How did Flo Rida become the Hilary Swank of pop music?
Swift Kick: For Country’s New Teen Megastar, Every Song’s A Hit
Fri Nov 21 2008 by Chris Molanphy
In the annals of popular music, certain albums stand out for their sheer percentage of hit-bound material. Michael Jackson’s Thriller is the most famous, not just because it spun off seven Top 10 singles—the first album to do so—but because the whole disc had only nine tracks. That’s a stunning 78% hit ratio. Shania Twain’s Come on Over, roughly 70% of which charted on the country and pop charts over the course of two years, is nearly as legendary. More recently, Rihanna has mined just over half of Good Girl Gone Bad for a string of hits.
Normally, feats like these are the result of months of patient promotion, as singles are promoted one by one—lined up for release to radio like planes on a slow-moving runway.
When you’re an 18-year-old country-pop phenomenon, however, things move a lot faster.
For the first time in months, the most oft-recurring name on Billboard’s Hot 100 isn’t ubiquitous rapper Lil Wayne. It’s Taylor Swift, who appears with seven songs this week, six of them brand-new to the chart.
We’ve seen this chart ubiquity happen several times this year—not just with Weezy but with American Idol winner David Cook and the Jonas Brothers. What’s unprecedented is just how much of an individual Swift album has now made the chart.
Eat your heart out, Michael: just one week after it debuted in stores, Swift’s Fearless is 85% hit.
Hollywood Undead Crawl Out Of MySpace To Invade Your Space
Fri Oct 24 2008 by Al Shipley
A while back, when Maura noted that one of the few albums that had experienced a sales increase during a particularly grim week on the Billboard 200 was by the MySpace-spawned mask-wearing rap metal goofballs Hollywood Undead, I cracked, “I don’t know if I’m dreading or anticipating this ridiculous band cracking a radio chart so that I have to write about them.” And so it is with a strange mix of horrified glee that I report to you that Hollywood Undead has debuted on Billboard’s Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart this week with “Undead” at No. 36. As it turns out, as of the time of my comment, they’d already begun their climb on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart; “Undead” has since ascended to No. 21.
Celebrating 20 Years Of Modern-Rock Countdowns, From Siouxsie To Staind
Wed Sep 10 2008 by Al Shipley
Many people find it hard to tell the great from the godawful when it comes to 21st-century mainstream rock. To help figure out which is which, here’s “Corporate Rock Still Sells,” where Al “GovernmentNames” Shipley examines what’s good, bad, and ugly in the world of rock and roll. This time around, he celebrates the 20th anniversary of Billboard’s Modern Rock chart by cherry-picking some of its most oddly notable chart-toppers:
Modern Rock Programmers Ponder What They’ve Done In 2007
Thu Dec 27 2007 by Al Shipley
Since many people find it hard to tell the great from the godawful when it comes to 21st-century mainstream rock, welcome to “Corporate Rock Still Sells,” where Al Shipley (a.k.a. Idolator commenter GovernmentNames) examines what’s good, bad, and ugly in the world of Billboard’s rock charts. This time around he takes a look at Billboard’s Top 40 Hot Modern Rock Songs Of 2007 to see just what “rock” meant to radio this year:
Who Charted?: Incubus Takes Top Spot, Jay Takes A Tumble
Wed Dec 6 2006 by Maura
We had a hunch that nu-metal survivors Incubus would have a solid debut this week, but we honestly didn’t think their album would slide into the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200. But hey, there’s Light Grenades, their fifth album, sitting pretty in the chart’s top spot, with 165,000 copies sold. More »
On The Shelf: Tomorrow’s New Releases Revealed Today
Mon Nov 27 2006 by Maura
Welcome to On The Shelf, Idolator’s weekly look at the new releases hitting stores on Tuesday morning. The end-of-year slowdown is in full force this week; the roster of new albums is dotted with a lot of greatest-hits collections and reissues, although there are a few big-name artists dropping records–including one duo whose latest album has been laying in wait for a few years.
After the jump, we look at new releases by Clipse, Incubus, Ying Yang Twins, and Our Lady Peace.
Incubus Fan’s Bad Taste Goes Beyond Musical Leanings
Wed Oct 25 2006 by Maura
Helpful hint: if you’re going to go to all the trouble of eating a cockroach that was vomited up by someone else, you should at least make sure the prize is something more valuable than Incubus tickets. More »
