Madonna matches Elvis

[orwell1976]

With her latest escape "Hung Up" Madonna charted her 36th top ten hit. Now she has just as much top ten hits as our man. In other forums some people didn't like Elvis' record to be broken. What do you think of it?

[joanne]

Madonna is fabulous and deserves all her success but it is wrong to count the sales of today with what Elvis had back then, you had to sell a lot more records back then.

[Albert]

With her latest escape "Hung Up" Madonna charted her 36th top ten hit. Now she has just as much top ten hits as our man. In other forums some people didn't like Elvis' record to be broken. What do you think of it?

I don't believe this. In what country did she break Elvis' record?

[ComeBackChick]

Yo!!!! MADONNA!!!!

You goo girl!!! Or "You go, middle aged woman!!!!!"

Its possible to have a tight *** at 47, now that is good news!!!!!:clap:

[8mmlowa]

elvis have 38 top ten hits so this message is wrong!

but i still love madonna(y)

[orwell1976]

Not worldwide, but in the US. But Madonna is longer in the business now than Elvis was. But you have to consider that Elvis lived in a complete different sourrounding than we do live now. Today's sales are counted with a scanner wich wasn't the case back then. And during Elvis' lifetime you had to sell a few records more to hit the number one than you have to do now. But Madonna is one of the few wich is "allowed" to break Elvis' records. And "Hung Up" is a great release!

And to the one who broke the king's record: :notworthy

[KPM]

The sad truth is that today you can have a number one in sales and only sell 20,000 copies to do it. Single sales are not important to artists today. The album sales are what they are after. In the 50s and 60s the single was the big thing and to be number one you had to sell big. Billboard has a completely different way of determining there charts. Its a combo of sales and radio plays-not just sales. Elvis has had the number one in sales a couple of times since his America the Beautiful came out after 9-11 but none were officially a number one because they did not get the radio plays of less selling singles.
Good news is that Elvis's Dont Be Cruel is there top ranked single song from 55 to the early 90s( when the way of ranking them changed.) He also has several others in the top 100, the Beatles came in at 9th(if I remember correctly) with Hey Jude. In there point system of sales plays and jukebox hits he is number one

Here is a comment about the new ratings system I found in an article on line.
More than mere fan adulation is behind this era of megahits, many music-industry insiders say. They believe it has to do with the way Billboard began compiling chart positions in 1991, when the magazine started using a point-of-sale computer system. Soundscan of Hartsdale, N.Y., tallies sales of each record or compact disc at approximately 86 percent of the country's record stores. These numbers are combined with information from Broadcast Data Systems, a Billboard sister company that monitors some 800 radio stations to track a song's weekly airplay.