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17 unusual facts about Billboard charts


Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits

Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits is a set of two Christmas-themed compilation albums released by Rhino Records in 1989, each featuring ten popular Christmas recordings from 1935 to 1983, many of which charted on the Billboard record charts.

Chart topper

Billboard charts, a ranking of the relative popularity of songs or albums in the United States

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George W. Dick

George W. Dick (born March 28, 1964, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) also known as "G-Wiz" is an American writer, actor, director, and musician who wrote the 1987 Billboard top ten R&B hit "She's Fly" (performed by Tony Terry).

Il Sogno

It peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Music albums chart.

Lenny LaCour

"Rock 'n' Roll Romance" was LaCour's biggest hit, described by LaCour as "the only million seller not to be on the Billboard charts".

Pam Pam

On October 26, 2006, "Pam Pam" took the number-one spot on the United States Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart from David Bisbal's "¿Quién Me Iba a Decir?" The song samples "Llorando se fue" by Bolivian group Los Kjarkas.

Phillip Martin III

In 1994, they released The Good, the Bad, the Mafia, which has sold 300,000 units to date and peaked at #64 on Billboard's album charts.

Shei Atkins

Her 2005 album The Lita Mae Show, released by Paid In Full Records, charted at number 47 on US Billboard's Top Gospel Albums chart, and also charted at number 86 on the US R&B Albums.

The Best of Buck Owens

It reached Number two on the Billboard Country Albums charts and Number 46 on the Pop Albums charts.

The Jesters

Their first three singles were all arranged by frequent Winley collaborator Davey Clowney, better known as Dave "Baby" Cortez, and all three—"So Strange" / "Love No One But You", "Please Let Me Love You" / "I'm Falling in Love" (both 1957) and "The Plea" / "Oh Baby" (1958)—made the outer reaches of the national Pop chart, and generated considerable New York interest.

Under a different line-up, The Jesters reached #110 on the Billboard chart in 1960 with a version of The Diablo's "The Wind" backed with "Sally Green".

The Parliaments

In 1967 the Parliaments released "(I Wanna) Testify" on Revilot and finally achieved a hit single, with the song reaching #3 R&B and #20 Pop on the Billboard charts.

The Velaires

The record leapt onto the Billboard charts and was a national hit reaching #1 in Los Angeles.

To Anyone

In the United States, the album peaked at number seven on the Billboard World Albums chart.

Trouble in the Hood

Trouble in the Hood peaked at #75 on the Billboard charts' Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and featured the bass guitar work of Matt McClinton and also guitar and keyboard work of producer/musician M.A.S..

ZZ Top: A Tribute from Friends

Upon release, ZZ Top: A Tribute from Friends debuted at number 121 on the Billboard 200, and number 8 on the Top Hard Rock Albums, selling 4,000 copies.


Craig Goldy

Performing on Giuffria's self-titled debut album, released in 1984, Goldy is heard on the band's biggest hit, "Call to the Heart," which hit #15 on the Billboard charts in early 1985.

Ella May Saison

Saison released a single with CeCe Peniston entitled "Reminiscin", which made the Billboard Charts under the "Powerpick Club Play" category, hitting number 30.

Jason Wilber

Jason and John Prine have produced two Grammy Award-nominated albums, Live On Tour and In Spite of Ourselves (which spent 32 weeks on the Billboard Country Charts), as well as the 2006 Grammy-winning album Fair & Square.

Joshua Kadison

It peaked at #19 on the U.S. Billboard charts, and Filipino actor/singer Jericho Rosales recorded and released a version of it on his own 2009 album Change. Painted Desert Serenade went platinum in the US and Germany, and went multi-platinum in Australia and New Zealand.

Mid-Hudson Civic Center

Mair Hall opened in the summer of 1976 with a sold out performance by the Bay City Rollers who at the time was enjoying worldwide fame and had the #1 song on US Billboard charts called "Saturday Night."

Songs About Jane

The album became a sleeper hit with help of five singles that attained chart success, including the Billboard hit "Harder to Breathe" and international hits "This Love" and "She Will Be Loved".

The Atacama Experience

It reached number 24 on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart, Ponty's first charting album since 1997's Live at Chene Park.

The Mocking Bird

The first version, made April 16, 1952, was released on Columbia's Okeh label in 1952 (reaching #23 on the Billboard chart that year) and re-released four years later on Columbia (#67 on the 1956 chart.) A new recording was made in 1958, entering the Billboard Hot 100 list on November 24, 1958, eventually reaching #32 on that chart.

Walk Hand in Hand

The biggest-selling version recorded of the song was sung by Tony Martin, reaching #2 in the UK and #10 on the United States Billboard chart in 1956.