Word: billboards
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...general manager of the newly formed Buddah record label, he set the formula with a recording called Simon Says. It sold 1,700,000 copies. The latest in a line of 28 similar disks is Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, by the Ohio Express, which last week was No. 15 on Billboard's bestseller chart...
...only the beginning. Aretha embarked on a remarkable year. She collected four more gold single records, sold a total of 1,200,000 albums, won two Grammy awards for record performances, and was cited by Billboard magazine as the top female vocalist of 1967. She toured Europe and was hailed in England as the new Bessie Smith?the first (1894-1937) of the great blues belters. Ray Charles called her "one of the greatest I've heard any time." Janis Joplin, 25, probably the most powerful singer to emerge from the white rock movement, ranked her as "the best chick...
...jazz club anywhere. Starting with Coin' Out of My Head, Wes's pop-jazz albums have brought a huge, diverse new audience thronging to his in-person appearances. For a solid nine months, one or the other of his recordings has held the No. 1 spot in Billboard's bestseller chart of jazz LPs. This week A Day in the Life, which has sold a whopping 250,000 copies, is at the top of the chart for the 32nd consecutive week...
Obviously, it is. Their record albums have sold 3,000,000 copies in a little over three years, and their Graduate sound track, released in March, shot quickly to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard chart, where it sits stubbornly in happy alienation from its competitors...
Released posthumously in January, Dock of the Bay has already sold 1,400,000 copies, and was No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart last week for the fourth straight week. "All this acclamation for Otis is new," says Atlantic Records Executive Vice President Jerry Wexler. "It's his epitaph, and it proves that a singer can do his own thing and still be commercially successful. Otis is tremendously responsible for the fact that so much of the young white audience now digs Soul the way the black does." In the vaults are 40 or so sides...