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John Lennon Top 10

Today, December 8th is the day that for a generation, the music died.  John Lennon was murdered December 8th 1980 in New York city.

His music and legacy will never die as he remains one of the biggest selling artist of all time with the Beatles and as a solo performer.

From Billboard Magazine:

John Lennon's Top 10 Hits on the Hot 100

1 - (Just Like) Starting Over
(5 consecutive weeks at #1 Dec 1980-Jan 1981)



2 - Woman
(#2) 1981

3 - Instant Karma
(#3)  1970

4 - Whatever Gets You Through The Night
(#1 for 1 week 1974)

5 - Imagine
(#3)  1971

6 - Nobody Told me
(#5) 1984

7 - #9 Dream
(#9)  1975

8 - Watching The Wheels
(#10)  1981

9 - Mind Games
(#18)  1973

10 - Power To the People
(#11)  1971

John Lennon's Top Ten Albums

1 - Double Fantasy (1980)

(8 weeks at #1)

2 - Imagine  (1971)
(1 week at #1)


3 - Walls and Bridges (1974)
(1 week at #1)

4 - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)
(#6)

5 - Rock N' Roll  (1975)
(#6)

6 - Mind Games  (1973)
(#9)

7 - The Plastic Ono Band : Live Peace in Toronto 1969  (1970)
(#10)

8 - Milk and Honey  (1984)
(#11)

9 - Shaved Fish  (1974)
(#12)

10 - Acoustic   (2004)
(#31)

Billboard Top 100 singles of 1964 ( No.25 - No.1 ) - Billboard Year End ...

Top 5 - Music Edition

Album sales by artist.  


Here are the Top 5 acts in albums sales since 1991, when Neilsen Soundscan started tracking album sales for Billboard magazine.  (Sales totals as of the week ending 10/29/2011).

5 - Celine Dion - 51,368,000 

4 - Metallica - 53,025,000


3 - Mariah Carey - 53,406,000

2 - The Beatles - 63,017,000 

1 - Garth Brooks - 68,551,000
All 15 of his releases have been certified multi-platinum (sales of 2 million or more)

Top of the Pops

This week on Top of the Pops we go across the pond to the UK Top 5 for the week ending June 7th 1969

5 - My Way - Frank Sinatra


4 - The Ballad of John and Yoko - The Beatles


3 - Man of the World - Fleetwood Mac


2 - Get Back - The Beatles with Billy Preston


1 - Dizzy - Tommy Roe

Top of The Pops

Today our Top of the Pops survey is from December 30th 1967.
We have 2 things to mention about this day in music history.
First, the Beatles again topped the charts and 2 of the Monkees celebrate birthdays today. Michael Nesmith turns 68 and Davy Jones is 65.

Here are the Top 5 songs


5 - Woman, Woman - Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
on its way to a peak of #4


4 - I Second That Emotion - The Miracles
Peaking at #4 but soon to top the Billboard R&B chart


3 - Daydream Believer - The Monkees
Dropping down after 4 straight weeks at #1


2 - I Heard it Through the Grapevine - Gladys Knight and The Pips
Still holding at #2 and also topping the Billboard R&B chart for 6 weeks


1 - Hello, Goodbye - The Beatles
Once again the Beatles reach the top spot and hold it for the next 3 weeks.
The 15th of their 20 #1 singles.

Top of The Pops

Thought I would change things up a little and post a Top of the Pops segment over here for you all to enjoy.

This Top of the Pops goes back to this week in 1968 for an eclectic top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.


5 - I'm A Girl Watcher - The O'Kaysions
Peaking at #5 this week


4 - Little Green Apples - O.C. Smith
On his way to peaking at #2 is the former vocalist for Count Basie's band


3 - Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Also headed to a peak position of #2 with this psychedelic classic.


2 - Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C Riley
After one week at #1 this country/pop crossover classic written by Tom T. Hall, gives way to one of most successful songs in Billboard chart history


1 - Hey Jude - The Beatles
In the second of 9 consecutive weeks at #1, this is the most successful of all Beatles Top 40 charting songs. After debuting at #10 it was at that time the highest debut in the history of the Top 40 singles chart.