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THE BLACK EYED PEAS have tied Usher’s record for the longest successive stay at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart with 19 consecutive weeks at #1. “I Gotta Feeling” holds at #1 for 7 weeks and “Boom Boom Pow” spent 12 weeks at #1. This is the longest consecutive stay by a duo or group in the Billboard charts 51 year history. The Black Eyed Peas bypassed Boyz II Men’s 1994 record for successive stay at the top by a duo or group when they hit 17 weeks at #1. The Black Eyed Peas are also the first duo or group with consecutive #1′s on the Mainstream Top 40 chart since Maroon 5 in 2004.

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Demi Lovato’s sophomore album, Here We Go Again, debuts at # 1 on the Billboard 200 today, selling in excess of 107,000 units. With Here We Go Again Demi Lovato bested her debut album, Don’t Forget which debuted at # 2 selling 89,000 units in its first week a mere ten months ago. And what an exhilarating ten months it has been for Demi.

Demi headlines the hit Disney Channel series Sonny With A Chance and starred in the smash Disney Channel movie Princess Protection Program, which ranks as the year’s # 1 TV movie among Kids 6 – 11 and Tweens and cable TV’s # 1 movie telecast in Total Viewers and Households. She played to over 200,000 fans… Continue reading →

Daughtry’s second album, LEAVE THIS TOWN (19 Recordings/RCA), debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 269,299 copies sold in its first week of release. The record is also No. 1 on the Digital Albums Chart and the Rock Chart. Daughtry moves Michael Jackson from the top of the sales charts, where the late singer has dominated for the previous three weeks.

LEAVE THIS TOWN is Daughtry’s first album to debut at the top of the Billboard 200 and its second consecutive No. 1 album. The band’s self-titled debut entered the charts at #3, sold more than 4.5 million copies, spent two weeks at No. 1 and is still on the charts more than two years after its release.… Continue reading →

As an irresistible force of social and cultural change, Berry Gordy’s legendary Motown Records made its mark not just on the music industry, but society at large, with a sound that that has become one of the most significant musical accomplishments and stunning success stories of the 20th century. Diana Ross & the Supremes, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, the Temptations, the Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson & the Jackson 5, Lionel Richie & the Commodores, the Marvelettes, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Gladys Knight & the Pips, their music communicated and brought together a racially divided country and segregated society, around the world, touching all people of all ages and race. No other record company in… Continue reading →

According to Billboard Chart Beat columnist Fred Bronson (http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/yearend/2008/news/billboard-critic-choice-top-10.shtml), Amy Diamond takes the #8 spot with her “Music in Motion” album (Bonnier, Sweden). This is Amy’s third album and she is not even 18! Bronson states, “There’s something about Amy that the whole world could love!”
Amy Diamond (www.amydiamond.com) (http://video.mww.com/stone/admediakit2.pptx) has become a leading teen singer throughout Europe with multiple gold and platinum hits. At 15, she already has had a number of hits worldwide, including her most major hit “Shooting Star” and her most recent single “Stay My Baby” which went gold in only two days. Amy’s last album Music in Motion, which was released in late November of 2007 along with a MTV video, has already broken all… Continue reading →