Interesting chart trivia

[mrjukebox]

I was watching the news this morning & an announcer said that Billboard's Top 3 Singles Of 2012 were by newcomers:
1)."Somebody That I Used To Know"-Gotye
2)."Call Me Maybe"-Carly Rae Jepsen
3)."We Are Young"-Fun
It was also mentioned that Adele's "21" was the top album for the second year in a row-The only other album to achieve that distinction was Michael Jackson's "Thriller".

[rayshae3]

According to the following year in music column on Billboard webpage:
www.billboard.com/column/year-in-music-2012/the-year-in-pop-2012-adele-repeats-as-top-1008051062.story#/column/year-in-music-2012/the-year-in-pop-2012-adele-repeats-as-top-1008051062.story
Adele’s 21 is the 4th time in Billboard history there’s been the same year-end number one album for 2 years in a row.
The previous cases acording to this article:
1960&1961: ‘The Sound of Music’ cast
1962&1963: ‘West Side Story’ Soundtrack
1983&1984: Thriller
But I think it’s really the 3rd time. 1961’s number one of the year was ‘Camelot’ original cast, not the Sound of Music cast recording (according to Billboard’s own data.) Which one’s right?

[mstgator]

Hard to tell, since BB published multiple LP charts (separate for mono and stereo) from 1959-1963. So I'm not sure if their year-end charts combined both, or if not, which one they now use for historical data.

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Dec 28, 2012 18:59:34 GMT -5 mrjukebox said:

I was watching the news this morning & an announcer said that Billboard's Top 3 Singles Of 2012 were by newcomers:
1)."Somebody That I Used To Know"-Gotye
2)."Call Me Maybe"-Carly Rae Jepsen
3)."We Are Young"-Fun
It was also mentioned that Adele's "21" was the top album for the second year in a row-The only other album to achieve that distinction was Michael Jackson's "Thriller".

More chart trivia. That same top 3 is the Top 3 of best selling singles , according to the Official Charts Company in The UK:

The official top ten biggest selling singles of 2012 so far are as
follows:

1. Gotye ft. Kimbra - 'Somebody That I Used To Know'
2. Carly Rae Jespen - 'Call Me Maybe'
3.Fun. ft. Janelle Monae - 'We Are Young'
4. David Guetta ft. Sia - 'Titanium'
5. Nicki Minaj - 'Starships'
6. Jessie J - 'Domino'
7. Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa - 'Payphone'
8. Flo Rida ft. Sia - 'Wild Ones'
9. Psy - 'Gangnam Style'
10. Emeli Sandé - 'Next to Me'