NEW YORK -- How's this for a twist: Of all the No. 1 songs in the 50 years of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, Chubby Checker's "The Twist" ranks as the most popular single. Elvis and the Beatles didn't even make the top five.
Weekly charts for the nation's best-selling recorded music as they appear in next week's issue of Billboard magazine. Reprinted with permission. Billboard Hot 100: Top 20
MORRISTOWN, Ohio - Most of the attention for the 2011 Greenbrier Classic Concert Series has been heaped upon the Black Eyed Peas. Fewer than six months after performing at Super Bowl XLV, the Los Angeles-based hip hop act - one of only 11 acts ever to have songs simultaneously hold the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on the Billboard Top 100 - will perform Friday night at the State Fairgrounds in Fairlea.
Weekly charts for the nation's best-selling recorded music as they appear in next week's issue of Billboard magazine. Reprinted with permission. Hot 100: Top 10
Every year WSEN comes down a year and the playlist keeps getting refreshed, which has created a lack of '50s and '60s music," said Judy Kelly, general manager of Baldwinsville-based WSEN and WFBL. "We were getting many requests from listeners saying, 'I wish you'd play the real oldies, the golden oldies,' but unfortunately those songs weren't part of our newer format. "The car clubs are a huge source for us," said Kelly. "We addressed them that the change was happening, and the Syracuse Nationals and Regional Market, along with all other events WSEN sponsors, will be cobranded with WFBL." The Regional Market hosts the "Cruise 'In" nights held inside the Park Street venue. In previous years, they were held Thursdays from 5 to 9 p.m., but that has changed to Tuesdays for 2008. Most of t...
..."I took a look at me Billboard Top 100 from '55 on and tried to grab the best of ...
It's not about just me giving out toys and giving out money," [Ludacris] told a screaming crowd. "It's about me being here. . .during this holiday season. I want everybody to be happy and reach as many people as I possibly can. "I thought Santa Claus was coming. It's unexpected, and I'm very proud of (Ludacris)," said Nicole, who brought her daughter, Monaye, out to the evenL Nicole didn't know about the surprise visit that Ludacris was making at the Christmas' party and found out from a park district director. Ludacris used his celebrity as a deejay (DJ Chris Lova Lova) and the success of a surplus of Billboard Top 100 songs like What's Your Fantasy? to create the Ludacris Foundation in 2001. The Ludacris Foundation donated over $500,000 to grassroots organizations, food baskets to o...
BANGOR - Waterfront Concert promoters announced on Tuesday that the next concert in the series will be former Maine resident Ray LaMontagne and his band the Pariah Dogs, scheduled for Thursday, May 26. Brandi Carlisle and the Secret Sisters will open. Tickets will go on sale on March 5. LaMontagne is fresh off a Grammy win for Best Contemporary Folk Album for "God Willin' and the Creek Don't Rise." The album debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard Top 100 and No. 1 on the Digital Album chart. This marked a personal sales best for LaMontagne and tied his debut chart position at No. 3 with his 2008 release "Gossip in the Grain.
[Louis Armstrong] died in 1971 but his memory lives on in his evergreen music that is still as popular as ever. His recordings continue to appear on Hollywood film soundtracks, including "Good Morning, Vietnam" in 1987, "Driving Miss Daisy" in 1989, "Sleepless in Seattle" in 1993 and "Something's Gotta Give" in 2003. He has also been awarded such prestigious honors, many posthumously, as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, induction into both the Jazz and Rock & Roll Halls of Fame, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and his visage on a U.S. postage stamp. His home in Queens was made a National Historic Landmark in 1977 and is now a museum. Louis Armstrong's New Orleans features conductor Jeff Tyzik leading the DSO and trumpeter/vocalistByron [Byron Stripling] in some of the hits ...
... knocked the Beatles off the top of the Billboard Top 100, "Hello Dolly." At 63, Louis Armstrong bec...
When sang the earth stood still so that none of her vocals would be missed. She had no equal in performing "gospel" and as an inspiration to gospels singers in general, she was "artistically" referred to as "the true queen of spiritual singers." Jackson was bom in New Orleans, the third child of John A. Jackson and Charity Clark. Her father was a preacher and her mother, a homemaker who died at the age of 25 when young Mahalia was just about five years old. About the same time, dip began singing in the choir at Plymouth Rock Baptist Church. She had a booming voice for her age and quickly learned to belt out hymns and old-time gospel tunes at the Sunday morning services. The fint label she recorded for was Decca Records in 1937; then in 1946, she moved to Apollo Records. ...
... Whole World in His Hands" (this entered Billboard's Top 100 singles chart), "How I Got Over," "I Bee...
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