'Glee' is greater than the Beatles

Yes it is. Billboard tells us so.

Comments

[onthemark]

Don't know that I agree with the premise. It used to be record 'sales' were based on people actually getting out and going to a record store and purchasing a physical product. Nowadays they count downloads, and that is not the same thing at all.

[Clint]

I am sure people will still give a s&*# about Glee 30 years from now. I am never watching this show since it is obviously not for me, but can they even sing these songs or is the Milli Vanilli 2.0?

[dmiller]

I think you meant to say that Glee is more popular than the Beatles. Just like the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Just because more idiots buy something doesn't speak to its inherant value.

[Tim Finn]

uh, the headine is facetious

[dmiller]

So was my post :-)

[K-Rocket!]

Wow. Comparing 4 guys writing AND performing hundreds of their own songs (may I add extraordinarily well) to a the cast of a TV show?
This is why I hate the music "industry".
Oranges and Apples.
How did the Partridge Family's chart positions compare with the Rolling Stones in 1973?
At the end of the day what does the concept of Billboard's charts mean to you and I? Someone sold more "records" than someone else that particular week therefore I MUST run out and buy it or download it to be like (or liked by) everyone else. Do those numbers mean more to you or I than the actual songs? Apparently in Billboards world the answer would be yes. To me it's pointless therefore they can fvck-off!
I am SICK AND TIRED of seeing artists with the desire, talent and ability to write incredible music be kicked to the fvcking curb due to "the charts". The Beatles wrote and performed Yesterday, In My Life, Eleanor Rigby, Let It Be and countless other songs FROM THEIR HEARTS.
Hmmm, how do you put that on a chart? How do you measure that kind of success?
Longevity perhaps.
Will any of the cast members of Glee being playing arena's around the world in 40+ years? Perhaps Branson in about 5...
Billboard, do you have a chart for that?

[Green]

Billboard is a joke, the covers speak to how much they care about music, nuff said.

[mankvill]

There's a point where this (Glee) needs to stop, and we've clearly passed it.

[Vandelay]

I feel the need to take a midnight train, goin' anywhere.

[NEW]

And I am sure Miley Cyrus has sold more records than Bob Dylan. What does that tell you? Pretty much the same thing as this article....People are idiots.

[Mike A]

They haven't caught Lil Wayne, though!

[ha]

Wow. People took the bait way too easily.

[fiddler]

i'm sure there's gotta be an appropriate line to quote here out of the film "A Hard Day's Night" but alas, it's been too long since i've last seen it.

vandelay had a good one...

[K-Rocket!]

Sorry... I did kinda go off the edge.
Anyway Fiddler here's a scene From A Hard Days Night...
Simon Marshall (TV executive): If you don't cooperate, you won't get to meet Susan.
George: And who's this Susan when she's at home?
Simon Marshall: Only Susan Canby, our resident teenager.
George: Oh! You mean that posh bird who gets everything wrong?
Simon Marshall: Excuse me?
George: Oh, yeah. The lads frequently sit around the telly and watch her for a giggle. One time, we actually sat down and wrote these letters saying how gear she was and all that rubbish.
Simon Marshall: She's a trendsetter. It's her profession.
George: She's a drag. A well known drag. We turn the sound down on her and say rude things.
Simon Marshall: [horrified] Get him out of here! He's knocking the program's image!
George: Have I said something amiss?
Simon Marshall: Get him out!
George: Sorry about the shirts!

[Tom]

This is what the music industry has come to. It's no accident that most soundtracks and movie themes are going back in time when real musicians wrote real songs, played real instruments and yes did their own vocals. Influenced by their past yes, but sampling is another word for plagurism and whats most popular is what's easiest to steal.

[Darrell]

The music industry is only a reflection of it's customers. Rather than bemoan what a money machine does to gather money, perhaps we should think about what it means when musical products that appears so trite and meaningless to some are rewarded with attention at this level.

I gave up TV at the beginning of 2010. I wouldn't know a "Glee" song if it bit me on the backside.

[Kurt]

Billboard online has changed a lot in recent years. They've changed the entire system of how albums are charted now.

The RIAA has changed the system of how albums are certified now. They should follow the IFPI charting methods in the rest of the world.

[Frebird]

Sadly, only the Stones are left from the 60's to sell the arenas and stadiums. They continue writing and performing their own brand of music. 2012 will be the Stones 50th anniversary! Long live the Kings of Longevity and Swagger