Showing posts with label Best of the Decade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Best of the Decade. Show all posts

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Billboard: Album of the Decade

N'Sync may no longer be a group - but their 2001 album No Strings Attached has been named by Billboard as the Album of the Decade. Quite the accomplishment. The album sold a record-breaking 2.4 million copies its first week of release and over 11 million to date in the U.S. alone. Other albums found inside the Top 10 include Oops!.. I Did It Again by Britney Spears at #6 and The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem at #7. For a full list of the Albums of the Decade, click here.

Billboard: Country Album of the Decade

American Idol winner Carrie Underwood has scored quite the new achievement in her career. Billboard has named her debut album Some Hearts the Country Album of the Decade. The album has been certified 7x Platinum for shipments of over seven million copies in the U.S. alone. Other Country albums in the Top 10 include Breathe by Faith Hill at #5 and Fearless by Taylor Swift at #10. For a full list of Billboard's Country Albums of the Decade, click here.

Friday, December 11, 2009

Billboard: Best Artists of the 2000s

They strutted, they rocked and they grooved on the charts all decade; these are the 20 music stars with the best performance on the Billboard 200 albums chart and the Hot 100 over the last ten years.

Here's the Top 5, for the full Top 20 click here.
#5. Alicia Keys
#4. Beyoncé
#3. Nelly
#2. Usher
#1. Eminem

Monday, December 7, 2009

Billboard: Best One-Hit Wonders of the 2000s

They came, they conquered... they were never heard from again. After reaching the Hot 100's Top 10 with their very first singles, none of these acts managed to crack the Top 25 for the rest of the decade. But hey, four minutes of fame is better than nothing.

The one-hitmakers on this list have been ranked by how high their big song climbed on the chart compared to how far down the tally their subsequent highest-charting effort peaked.

Here's the Top 5, for the full Top 40 list, click here.

#5. D4L- Laffy Taffy
#4. Mims- This Is Why I'm Hot
#3. Crazy Town- Butterfly
#2. Terror Squad- Lean Back
#1. Daniel Powter- Bad Day