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This guy just keeps doing it over and over again.  His new album titled ‘Western Stars’ is his 20th top 10 album on Billboard 200.  His first top 10 album was Born to Run wayyyy back in 1975.   He’s on a list of 10 other groups that have had 20 or more top 10 albums:

The Rolling Stones – 37

Barbara Streisand – 34

The Beatles – 32

Frank Sinatra – 32

Elvis Presley – 27

Bob Dylan – 22

Madonna – 22

George Strait – 21

Elton John – 20

Paul McCartney/Wings – 20

Here’s the Top Album Sales for the week of June 15, 2019 per Billboard.com

1. Center Point Road – Thomas Rhett
2. Long Live Love – Kirk Franklin
3. When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? – Billie Eilish
4. Aladdin (2019) – Soundtrack
5. She Is Coming (EP) – Miley Cyrus
6. Diamonds – Elton John
7. Map Of The Soul: PERSONA – BTS
8. Rocketman: Music From The Motion Picture – Soundtrack
9. The Traveler – The Kenny Wayne Sheperd Band
10. Only The Generals Gon Understand (EP) – Kevin Gates

Here are the top 20 Album sales for week ending June 8, 2019

*NCT #127 We Are Superhuman: The 4 Mini Album (EP)
*Aladdin Soundtrack
*When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? – Billie Eilish
*Map Of The Soul: Persona – BTS
*40 – Stray Cats
*Rocketman: Music from the Motion Picture – Soundtrack
*California Son – Morrissey
*Father of Asahd – DJ Khaled
*Flamagra – Flying Lotus
*Escape From New York – Beast Coast
*IGOR – Tyler, The Creator
*My Songs – Sting
*Rammstein – Rammstein
*Cuz I love You – Lizzo
*I Am Easy To Find – The National
*Hurts 2B Human – P!nk
*43VA Heartless – Moneybagg Yo
*A Star Is Born (Soundtrack) – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
*Bohemian Rhapsody (Soundtrack) – Queen
*Diamonds – Elton John

You can find the rest of the top 100 Album Sales here:

Top 100 Album Sales – June 8

I’m definitely going to see Elton John’s movie ‘Rocketman’ in the next few days. Unfortunately what I’ve been reading about the movie is that it’s more fantasy than real. Characters breaking out in song and dance and the timeline being all over the place. While that’s a bummer I’m sure it will be a fun movie to watch.

Forbes has come out with their 2011 list of highest paid musicians of the year and of course at number 1 is U2 at $195 million for the second consecutive year. Overall they have made $700 million on their 360 degree tour. Here are the remaining:

Bon Jovi at $125 million
Elton John at $100 million
Lady Gaga at $90 million
Michael Buble at $70 million
Paul McCartney at $66 million
Justin Bieber at $52 million

Sir Elton John (I say that more as a joke really) will have his own radio channel called “Elton!” on Sirius/XM. It’s only going to last one week from today, 10/15/10. He will play some of his own music along with some interviews and guest DJ’s like Robert Downey Jr.

“Rod Stewart, Elton John and I were going to form a band called Hair, Nose and Teeth after the three of us. But it hasn’t happened because none of us can agree on the order of the words!”

Freddie Mercury

Neal Horsley was arrested on Monday for threatening Elton Johns life. Horsley posted a video of himself standing in front of Elton Johns apartment saying “Elton John Must Die.” This Horsley guy is quite the chump. I really don’t want to post the video here but here’s the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfROkZ9JDaw