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Post by 40fan on Sept 27, 2012 19:01:38 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2012 12:12:26 GMT -5
Congrats to Lil Wayne. I dont care and nor do I think most anyone else on this board will either, but congrats are still in order I guess.
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Post by mrjukebox on Sept 28, 2012 16:13:41 GMT -5
I read an article in today's edition of the NY Daily News about this amazing feat-I just can't believe it.
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Post by numberone on Sept 30, 2012 13:37:10 GMT -5
I must be in the minority because I can't name any of his songs. What song is he best known for?
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Post by saltrek on Sept 30, 2012 19:04:12 GMT -5
Lollipop? Maybe?
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Post by shadster on Sept 30, 2012 23:20:11 GMT -5
he's very forgettable. Even fans would be hard pressed to name half of is 100 hits.
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Post by numberone on Oct 1, 2012 20:54:16 GMT -5
I checked out Lollipop on YouTube and if that is the song he is best known for, then Elvis has nothing to worry about from a legendary status.
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Post by Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever on Oct 28, 2012 10:47:27 GMT -5
Announcements like that make BB worthless in the Y2k era as far as I'm concerned. Before then, chart statistics actually had some meaning because of the competition among the best music talent. Since 2000, the battles for the top have mostly been among artists with little or no talent. When historians look back on popular music, Elvis and the Beatles will always remain at the top. I doubt that they will even give Lil Wayne any notice at all.
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Post by 1palmerrides on Apr 15, 2013 9:57:46 GMT -5
I was twenty-two years old when Elvis died. We had records stores everywhere back then and I generally bought a record each payday (mostly eight-tracks). I was an Elvis fan, but I mostly bought contemporary gospel in those days. I did pay great attention to the record charts and where Elvis was on them. I witnessed the Aloha from Hawaii concert. It was most watched concert of all time and still holds that record today with over one billion watching it at its first showing.
I remember People magazine’s 1973 nationwide survey reporting Elvis as America’s favorite recording act. What surprised People magazine and many disk jockeys was the fact that Elvis received almost twice the number of volts as the second favorite recording act, the Beatles.
I also clearly recall RCA reporting that between the end of August and December 1977 they sold 250,000,000 Elvis albums and that many again the following year. This was also reported by Elvis’ step brother in a TV interview. These claims were never disputed. During that eighteen month period, one third of all albums sold worldwide were Elvis albums pushing album sells to well over one billion and surpassing the Beatles. As far as singles go, nobody is even close to Elvis. Record stores had as much as half their store dedicated to Elvis records.
The new announcement from Billboard that Elvis has been dethroned by Lil Wayne is not entirely true. “Presley's Hot 100 span encompasses the chart's Aug. 4, 1958, inception through Oct. 4, 2003 (45 years and two months), when "Rubberneckin' " ranked at No. 100 after peaking at No. 94.
First, most of us older folks know that, before the Hot 100, there was the Top 100 and those hits by Elvis are not counted, even though they were most certainly genuine hits. Songs like Heartbreak Hotel, Hound Dog and twenty more chart hits are not counted at all. So Lil Wayne is still twenty two hits behind Elvis.
Also, recent hits by Elvis such as, A Little Less Conversation and Rubberneckin were listed at number 50 and 97 by Billboard in the US, but both were number one on the sells charts with A Little Less Conversation hitting number one in some twenty countries (both were number one hits in the UK). In the good old days, number one in sells meant a number one record but not today, not in the good O` US of A. The fact that so many are anxious remove Elvis from the top shows just how great of an entertainer he was and the sad political state of our world today.
Surly someday, with the population growing, some great talent might surpass Elvis. If that happens, then so be it. But let it be by honest records sells and hits and not by excluding many of Elvis’s hits and not counting record sells. Today things are different and politics play more of a role than truth does. Elvis, equaled only by the Beatles, but second to none.
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Apr 26, 2013 17:38:38 GMT -5
I remember People magazine’s 1973 nationwide survey reporting Elvis as America’s favorite recording act. What surprised People magazine and many disk jockeys was the fact that Elvis received almost twice the number of volts as the second favorite recording act, the Beatles. Actually, People magazine didn't come into existence until March 1974. |
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Post by johnnywest on Apr 30, 2013 21:27:41 GMT -5
You got me curious, so I made a list of all of his charted hits on AT40 (both main act and featured) and I came up with 24. The only other solo male artist in Ryan's era I could find was Ludacris who also has 24 hits.
Lil Wayne:
1. Soldier
2. Gimme That
3. You
4. Lollipop
5. Sweetest Girl
6. Can't Believe It
7. Got Money
8. Let It Rock
9. Mrs. Officer
10. Down (w/Jay Sean)
11. Turnin' Me On
12. Give It Up To You
13. I Made It
14. Forever
15. No Love
16. How To Love
17. I'm Into You
18. Bow Chicka Wow Wow
19. Motivation
20. Look At Me Now
21. Dirty Dancer
22. Dedication To My Ex (Miss That)
23. I Can Only Imagine
24. The Motto
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