via Billboard:
With six debuts on the Billboard Hot 100 dated Oct. 16, to be released Thursday (Oct. 7), the cast of Fox’s “Glee” will pass the Beatles for most appearances among non-solo acts in the chart’s 52-year history.
The “Glee” cast will up their sum to 75 Hot 100 chart entries, surpassing the Beatles’ 71 charted titles. The series’ actor/singers bow with five covers of Britney Spears songs, as well as Paramore’s “The Only Exception,” as performed on last week’s (Sept. 28) episode.
How pathetic…
Yea but they’ll NEVER come close to the great albums and 20 #1′s that the Beatles accomplished during the 60′s/1970..
Am i the only one who shudders that this news is posted around Lennon’s 70th birthday?
So lame. If the Beatles released five songs a week for people to download, they would’ve had a bajillion hits.
This type of news is disgusting. It is as bad as Mariah Carey breaking Beatles records a few years ago. Really, if I wanted to listen to notes above my hearing range – which is very good, by the way – I’d buy a dog whistle.
It’s just a sign of the times changing. During my teen years, all of the “bubblegum pop” broke tons of records and you’d hear the same lamenting from everyone. Every generation has its thing, and this is theirs.
The hot 100 has turned into a joke chart now anyways.
To much reliance on digital sales & not enough on actual radio airplay.
The airplay charts Billboard also publishes are so much better.
Who cares? Quality is what is remembered, not quantity. My kids will listen to the Beatles and the Stones (as well as a bunch of other good artists after them), but I doubt they’ll ever hear Heather Morris sing Slave 4 U.
As a follower of music and the charts for a number of years, this is impressive, yes- but, with multiple releases weekly, it’s not surprising. In any event, most of the ‘Glee” Hot 100 entries spend just one week on the chart.
It also doesn’t mean much of anything- the “Glee” Cast will not go down as one of the greatest, most revered and important musical acts of all time, after all.
Just further evidence (not that we needed it) that commercial success by no means is related to greatness/importance.
The whole notice borders on the absurd. It’s like comparing apples and cauliflower. The categories are totally different. The parameters aren’t the same – there’s nothing but the most superficial similarities – I can hardly believe the news above was even posted.
@Romo
The Hot 100 computation is like 55% radio airplay then around 40% for sales then the rest are online streaming.The digital sales track actually made the chart more exciting since when physical singles sales dies in early 00s the The Airplay Chart and Hot 100 were basically the same.
Well the Glee tracks just charts a week or two at best then fall off so it’s not really that impressive.