Glee Breaks Beatles' Billboard Hot 100 Record

"Glee" is truly a phenomenon, just recently it was able to surpass the record of the legendary band the Beatles for the most appearance in the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Charts. The Beatles got 71 songs the made it to the Hot 100 Charts while the "Glee" casts' song renditions that made it to the chart are now counting up to 75.

According to the Billboard Magazine:

With six debuts on the Billboard Hot 100 dated Oct. 16, to be released Thursday (Oct. 7), the cast of Fox’s “Glee” will pass the Beatles for most appearances among non-solo acts in the chart’s 52-year history.

The “Glee” cast will up their sum to 75 Hot 100 chart entries, surpassing the Beatles’ 71 charted titles. The series’ actor/singers bow with five covers of Britney Spears songs, as well as Paramore’s “The Only Exception,” as performed on last week’s (Sept. 28) episode.

The cast’s update of Spears’ “Toxic” will arrive as the Hot 100’s highest debut (No. 16), having sold 109,000 downloads in its first week of availability, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The song will also bow on the Digital Songs survey at No. 9. Collectively, the six tracks sold 406,000 downloads

The “Glee” cast has sold 11.5 million downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Its remake of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’,” from the series’ pilot episode, is its best-seller (992,000 downloads). The song has tallied the highest Hot 100 peak (No. 4) and spent the most weeks (seven) of any “Glee” cast charted title.

The “Glee” cast has sold 2.8 million albums, with three sets having topped the Billboard 200 album chart: “Glee: the Music, the Power of Madonna (EP),” “Glee: the Music, Volume 3: Showstoppers” and “Glee: the Music, Journey to Regionals.”

Here are the acts withe the most appearances on the Billboard Hot 100 through the chart date Oct. 16:

108, Elvis Presley
91, James Brown
75, “Glee” Cast
74, Ray Charles
73, Aretha Franklin
71, the Beatles
67, Elton John
64, Lil Wayne
63, Stevie Wonder
61, Jay-Z

You can see that the record holder is the King of Rock and Roll Elvis Presley, it could just be a matter of time before the "Glee" cast also out seat the King. Wow! that's just so great. Here in the Philippines we have shows that has the same format with "Glee" but I think they will just  remain to be copycats.

But but but, there is a big But! It was phenomenal indeed for the Glee cast to beat the Beatles' record in the Billboard Hot 100, but Glee's 75 versus the Beatles 71 are just numbers. The Beatles are talented musicians who writes their own music while the Glee cast are just TV personalities who stars a musical TV show and they are just singing their own renditions of "great songs". They might have beaten the Beatles in numbers but is "Glee" gonna be remembered for a long time just like the Beatles' legacy? I think that "Glee" is just over rated, their voices does'nt sound so good in the radio, specially that rendition of the song "Faithfully", Rachel Berry's (Lea Michele) voice sounds so annoying.