
1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, from the likes of Blondie, Hall & Oates and Donna Summer. Presented by Billboard’s longtime partner Joel Whitburn at Record Research, the compilation features 30 songs, all No. It was first released in 2006 and reached the Billboard 200 at last thanks to a $1.99 Amazon MP3 sale-price. The set also opened atop the Top Catalog Albums chart (which ranks sales of albums released more than 18 months earlier). 11: Joel Whitburn Presents: Billboard #1s: The ’70s (March 16, 2013).

On the overall Billboard 200 albums chart, the highest a Billboard-branded title has charted is No. Andrae Crouch: Remembering the Gospel Great’s Immense Influence Most notably, Billboard-branded Latin titles have infused Latin album charts, with the 2012 Billboard Latin Music Awards Finalists release rising as high as No. 1 for a Billboard-branded title on a list measuring current releases in a long line of albums that sport the Billboard name (spearheaded by Billboard’s licensing department in conjunction with retail partners). In a design that avid chart-watchers will surely appreciate, the CD’s back-cover art even looks like a Billboard chart, listing all 20 songs in a title/artist grid, with peak positions, peak dates and weeks at No.
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1 on Billboard’s Gospel Airplay chart, including Ricky Dillard & New G‘s recent 30-week leader “Amazing,” the late Andrae Crouch‘s “Let the Church Say Amen,” with Marvin Winans, and Hezekiah Walker‘s “Every Praise.” Luther Vandross's Greatest Hits Full Album - Best Songs Of Luther Vandross - Nhng ca khc hay nht ca Luther Vandross1. Befitting its title, each of the album’s 20 tracks spent time at No.

Subtitled The Greatest Gospel Songs of All Time!, the compilation (released on the eOne label) starts with 2,000 sold, according to Nielsen Music. 1 on a Billboard chart for the first time on a current-based ranking, as Billboard #1 Gospel Hits enters at the Top Gospel Albums summit. Co-written with Richard Marx, “Dance with My Father” won Grammys for song of the year and best male R&B vocal performance in 2004 before being certified gold the following year.In a very meta achievement, a Billboard-branded album is No. 1 on the Billboard 200, it also became his eighth No. The singer’s first and only album to debut at No. In remembrance of the singer’s late dad, “Dance with My Father” is the title track from Vandross’ 2003 final studio album. Certified gold in October 1994, “Endless Love” was nominated for a Grammy the next year in the newly-created category best pop collaboration with vocals. That was followed in 1994 by another signature cover: his duet with Mariah Carey on “Endless Love.” Initially made famous by its writer Lionel Richie and Diana Ross in 1991, the Vandross/Carey reinterpretation reached No. Prior to that, the track became the singer’s fifth No. Of the three newly platinum-certified singles, 1989’s “Here and Now” gave Vandross his first Grammy for best male R&B vocal performance. Setting the stage for Vandross’ velvety, elegant tenor and subsequent stardom, Never Too Much earned the singer his first two Grammy Award nominations: best new artist and best male R&B vocal performance. 19 on the Billboard 200, Never Too Much also includes a cover of the Burt Bacharach and Hal David composition “A House Is Not a Home.” Originally recorded by Dionne Warwick in 1964, the newly minted RIAA gold single is the aforementioned album’s only song not written by Vandross whose seven-minute version of the song became one of his all-time classics. No one else has expressed this emotion in song to the level Luther did for over 35 years, and to have Google broadcast that around the world is a wonderful showcase of his immeasurable talent.” Luther made each of his songs about one simple, universal subject - love an emotion and feeling common to the human experience no matter who you are, where you’re from or what you look like.

“Never Too Much” also doubles as the soundtrack for an animated Google Doodle as the site’s contribution to today’s celebration.Īcknowledging Google’s salute, the Luther Vandross Estate commented, “It is a true reflection of Luther Vandross’ musical legacy around the world to be honored by Google with an animated Doodle that fittingly captures the joy Luther has brought the world.
