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Oldies Are Still Goldies 4

One thing Creedence Clearwater Revival never had a problem with, was charting a hit or finding a massive audience. These guys became huge stars almost overnight, and without approval of the music press. and though they weren’t together for very long, they produced an amount of work that has “classic hit” written all over them. Music, that survive to this day. The band’s recent performance on one specific ranking show that while their heyday may be long in the past, their work is still being consumed in huge numbers–and possibly by younger listeners as well.

A couple of weeks ago, Creedence Clearwater Revival hit a new career high on one of Billboard’s recently introduced rankings. “Creedence’s Chronicle”, the 20 Greatest Hits album went to No. 48 on the Top Streaming Albums ranking. OK, maybe that’s not a particularly lofty placement on the 50-spot tally, but the fact that CCR’s compilation was able to get in there at all is impressive.

The Top Streaming Albums measures exactly what its name suggests–the most-streamed albums in the U.S. The ranking is typically filled with the latest and most popular releases from the biggest stars in music today. The vast majority of titles that are present on the tally at the moment were released within the past five years.

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Oldies Are Still Goldies 4

One thing Creedence Clearwater Revival never had a problem with, was charting a hit or finding a massive audience. These guys became huge stars almost overnight, and without approval of the music press. and though they weren’t together for very long, they produced an amount of work that has “classic hit” written all over them. Music, that survive to this day. The band’s recent performance on one specific ranking show that while their heyday may be long in the past, their work is still being consumed in huge numbers–and possibly by younger listeners as well.

A couple of weeks ago, Creedence Clearwater Revival hit a new career high on one of Billboard’s recently introduced rankings. “Creedence’s Chronicle”, the 20 Greatest Hits album went to No. 48 on the Top Streaming Albums ranking. OK, maybe that’s not a particularly lofty placement on the 50-spot tally, but the fact that CCR’s compilation was able to get in there at all is impressive.

The Top Streaming Albums measures exactly what its name suggests–the most-streamed albums in the U.S. The ranking is typically filled with the latest and most popular releases from the biggest stars in music today. The vast majority of titles that are present on the tally at the moment were released within the past five years.

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Oldies Are Still Goldies 3!

Band on the Run Back In The Charts!

Paul McCartney and Wings’ Band on the Run made a classic return to Billboard’s charts of February 17 following the albums 50th anniversary re-issue release on Feb. 2. The album re-enters the Top Album Sales chart at No. 5, after entering at No. 7 on the Vinyl Albums chart re-enters at No. 6 on Tastemaker Albums and debuts at No. 37 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums. On the overall Billboard 200 chart, where the album logged four non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 in 1974, the set re-enters at No. 156 – its first appearance on the chart since Jan. 1, 2011.Band on the Run was reissued in a variety of formats, including a single-LP vinyl release cut at half-speed, a double-LP vinyl set at half-speed with a bonus “under dubbed” version of the album, and as a double-CD set (also with the under dubbed mixes). The 50th anniversary reissues are combined with the original album for sales tracking and charting purposes.

Band on the Run sold 8,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 8 (up 14,681%) according to Luminate.

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Oldies Are Still Goldies (Pt. Two)

Originally, McCartney II was released in mid-May 1980. The album debuted in UK at number one on the UK Albums Chart, becoming McCartney's first number-one there since Venus and Mars in 1975. The second single from the album, "Waterfalls", peaked at number nine in the singles chart.

In the US, initial sales were strong thanks to the hit single "Coming Up" and the album reached number three in its second week on the Billboard album chart where it remained for five weeks."Waterfalls" went virtually unnoticed in the US, only "bubbling under" the Billboard Hot 100 at number 106 for one week. The album quickly dropped down the charts and was off the Billboard chart after 19 weeks, McCartney's shortest run since Wild Life. It was one of his lowest-selling albums in the US up to that

But now Paul McCartney is also back on the Rock Streaming Songs chart, but it hasn’t been very long since he last appeared on the tally. This time around, his holiday smash “Wonderful Christmastime” reappears at No. 14. It has yet to top the ranking but came very close, once peaking at No. 2."Wonderful Christmastime" was added as a bonus track on the 1993 CD, and Special Edition reissue of “McCartney II “a longer, unedited version was also included on the Deluxe Edition.So, after 40 odd years, McCartney 11 is back!

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Oldies Are Still Goldies, (Pt.One)

Just goes to show, some music never fades away! As the Christmas season approached, what crept back in the charts? Elvis, McCartney, and Eagles.Firstly, the perennial Elvis Favorite “Blue Christmas” got to No. 6 on the Billboard chart.Written by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson, Elvis Presley cemented the status of "Blue Christmas" as a rock-and-roll holiday classic by recording it for his 1957 LP Elvis' Christmas Album."Blue Christmas" was also included on a 1957 45 EP, (ah yes, who can remember EP’s?) entitled Elvis Sings Christmas Songs, which also included "Santa Bring My Baby Back (To Me)" on side one, with "Santa Claus Is Back in Town" and "I'll Be Home for Christmas" on side two. Presley's original 1957 version was released as a commercially available single for the first time in 1964. This single was also a hit in the United Kingdom, reaching No. 11 on the British singles chart during the week of December 26, 1964.Elvis is baked by his usual team, Scotty Moore on guitar, Bill Black on Bass, D.J. Fontana on the kit, and Dudley Brooke on the keyboard. And of course, the Jordanaires with superb backing vocals,

In December 2023, the British Phonographic Industry certified the single with a platinum award, reflecting sales and streams in the UK in excess of 600,000 units since its release. On Billboard magazine's January 5, 2019 edition, the song reached the number 40 position inside the Billboard Hot 100, the latter for the first time since its release in 1964. Now, its back!!

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