Billboard Chart Beat: Madonna Ties Elvis

Billboard published the following article on their website today:

‘Hung’ Up: By moving up 14-7 on The Billboard Hot 100, Madonna’s “Hung Up” (Warner Bros.) generates a great deal of chart news this week. The most important feat is matching Elvis Presley’s 36 top 10 hits, the most for any artist in the rock era.Madonna racked up that tally in 21 years, five months and three weeks, counting back to the week that “Borderline” peaked in the top 10. Presley scored his 36 top 10 hits in 16 and a half years, from the first week in 1956 that “Heartbreak Hotel” made the top 10 of the Best Sellers in Stores chart until the week in 1972 when “Burning Love” entered the top 10.”Hung Up” is Madonna’s highest-charting single in almost five years, since “Don’t Tell Me” reached No. 4 in February 2001. It is her first top 10 hit since “Die Another Day” bonded to the No. 8 position in 2002. Madonna already held the record for the most top 40 hits by a solo female artist; she continues in first place as “Hung Up” becomes her 45th top 40 hit, out of 51 chart entries. Aretha Franklin is in second place with 43.

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The parent album to “Hung Up” debuts at No. 1 on The Billboard 200. “Confessions on a Dance Floor” is Madonna’s sixth album to achieve pole position. Her No. 1 albums to date are:

“Like a Virgin,” three weeks (1985)
“True Blue,” five weeks (1986)
“Like a Prayer,” six weeks (1989)
“Music,” one week (2000)
“American Life,” one week (2003)
“Confessions on a Dance Floor,” one week to date (2005)