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Post by Verisimilitude on Oct 8, 2014 17:19:24 GMT -5
Aretha Franklin Notches Milestone 100th Hit on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart
By Amaya Mendizabal, New York | October 08, 2014 5:26 PM EDT
Aretha Franklin becomes the first female, and just the fourth artist overall, to place 100 career titles on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart (since it became a multi-metric ranking in 1958), as "Rolling in the Deep (The Aretha Version)" debuts at No. 47.
Franklin trails only Lil Wayne (135 entries), Jay Z (127) and James Brown (111) among all acts during that span. The Queen of Soul first hit the list 54 years ago this month, when "Today I Sing the Blues" entered the Oct. 24, 1960, chart on its way to a No. 10 peak. She had last graced the ranking with "How Long I've Been Waiting," which reached No. 91 in February 2012.
Franklin's interpretation of Adele's hit (the top Billboard Hot 100 hit of 2011 after it spent seven weeks at No. 1), which incorporates a choral arrangement of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," made famous in 1967 by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, debuts at No. 9 on R&B Digital Songs with 12,000 downloads sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It also launches at No. 16 on Hot R&B Songs.
"Rolling" is the first cut from Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics, due Oct. 21 on RCA Records. The set reunites Franklin with longtime collaborator Clive Davis, who told Billboard, "She's on fire and vocally in absolutely peak form. What a thrill to see this peerless artist still showing the way, still sending shivers up your spine, still demonstrating that all contemporary music needs right now is the voice. What a voice."
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Post by Active Aggressive on Dec 14, 2014 19:16:44 GMT -5
Funniest shit I have ever read.
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Post by Khia on Dec 26, 2014 15:28:08 GMT -5
#1 on Billboard Dance Club Songs.
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Post by Relaxing Cup on Dec 26, 2014 15:54:11 GMT -5
Wow that's amazing. Go Aretha!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2015 12:47:59 GMT -5
The dance mixes go for adds at Dance radio next week.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Jan 3, 2015 12:51:41 GMT -5
This thread was robbed at the PMAs...for the Cissy gif ALONE and the sound of Aretha singing the song.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2015 10:17:25 GMT -5
This is HILARIOUS, especially the David Letterman performance. LMFAOOOOOO
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2015 16:17:32 GMT -5
Fourth most added at Urban AC this week with 6 more adds.
Top 30 Urban AC. Top 10 gainers. I think this is the highest it's been so far.
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Post by Mayman on Aug 19, 2018 9:38:07 GMT -5
Returns to the top 50 at Urban AC 1146 49 ARETHA FRANKLIN Rolling In The Deep 55 1 54 0.641
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Post by divasummer on Aug 19, 2018 12:40:24 GMT -5
I had been listening to this and watching her live performance of this on Letterman just a few days before it was announced she was very ill. I also recently revisited her "Diva's" cover album. It's better than I first thought. I like a decent amount of it.
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Post by George on Aug 19, 2018 14:14:29 GMT -5
I had been listening to this and watching her live performance of this on Letterman just a few days before it was announced she was very ill. I also recently revisited her "Diva's" cover album. It's better than I first thought. I like a decent amount of it. Me too, I listened to it on a mini road trip yesterday and some of the covers are pretty solid. Just not sure about the mashups. I wonder if Clive will be re-releasing this to radio.
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Post by Ling-Ling on Aug 20, 2018 7:38:42 GMT -5
For the sake of all that is holy and good, they need to leave this sh*t forgotten. She has plenty of other songs worthy of a re-release.
Legend that she is, this cover remains pure comedy. That first "rolling in the duuuEEEEEEEP!" I lose it every time.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 7:51:03 GMT -5
The only reason this charted again is because Urban AC has been playing a lot of her music in the past week, and this never went recurrent so it's the one song of her's that will actually show up on the chart.
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Post by SHOOTER on Aug 20, 2018 8:29:56 GMT -5
Yeah, please no.
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