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Jessica Biel isn’t being selfish with her exclusive access to Justin Timberlake‘s thirst traps. To prove that sharing is caring, the actress posted two photos on Instagram of her husband sporting a form-fitting white tank top Wednesday (March 13), two days ahead of the pop star’s new album Everything I Thought It Was. In one […]
From singing to acting, producing, beauty and philanthropy, Selena Gomez keeps an extremely busy schedule. The multi-hyphenate has done almost everything there is to do in and around the entertainment industry, picking up a number of awards and chart accolades along the way. One place where the Texas native has thrived since making her musical […]
Zayn is finally back! The star revealed on Wednesday (March 13) that he will be unveiling his fourth solo album, Room Under the Stairs, on May 17. He shared the news alongside a photo of the album’s cover art, featuring a silhouette of the 31-year-old singer’s face with a depiction of the space beneath the […]
Ariana Grande‘s “Focus” music video has now captured people’s undivided attention more than a billion times. The 2015 visual has joined YouTube’s billion views club, as confirmed by the platform. It marks her eighth time reaching the milestone, following “Into You,” “No Tears Left to Cry,” “Break Free,” “Side to Side” with Nicki Minaj and […]
Travis Kelce is becoming quite the global jet-setter thanks to his relationship with Taylor Swift. Most recently, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end flew across the world to be with his superstar girlfriend during her six-night run of Eras Tour shows in Singapore, a trip he opened up about in the latest episode of his […]
Olivia Rodrigo is walking the walk. At her concert in St. Louis Tuesday night (March 12), the 21-year-old pop star welcomed the Missouri Abortion Fund to Enterprise Center to hand out free emergency contraceptive pills to fans who wanted it – just the latest step she’s taken to back up her support for reproductive rights. […]
Although it’s been just under two years since J-Hope launched Jack in the Box, his debut studio album, and the BTS member is already gearing up for two massive new projects. On Wednesday (March 13), the “Chicken Noodle Soup” rapper unveiled the main trailer for his upcoming Hope on the Street docuseries, which will arrive […]
Saying goodbye is death by a thousand cuts, but luckily, the Eras Tour film is forever. Now that it’s coming to Disney+, Taylor Swift’s blockbuster concert film will be available to stream as many times as fans want, complete with the pop star’s previously scrapped acoustic performance of one of her Lover fan favorites. Swift […]
“Did She or Didn’t She? Cher She Did!”
Underneath that headline, Fred Bronson wrote in the Chart Beat column in the March 13, 1999, Billboard, “The big question this issue is whether you looked here first or at the Billboard Hot 100 to discover if Cher went to No. 1 with ‘Believe.’ I won’t keep you in suspense: Cher rewrites the record books in many ways, as her international hit seizes the summit in her own country.”
That week, “Believe,” with its trademark AutoTune-enhanced vocals, rose to No. 1 on the Hot 100 “just 10 days shy of a quarter-century since Cher was last on top,” Bronson noted. “‘Dark Lady’ spent a frame at No. 1 for the week ending March 23, 1974. That means Cher has the longest gap between No. 1 hits” in the chart’s history.
To date, Cher maintains the mark for the longest break between Hot 100 No. 1s excluding holiday fare. Overall, only Brenda Lee has waited more patiently between time on top: 63 years, one month and two weeks between the reigns of “I Want to Be Wanted” in 1960 and “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” this past December.
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With “Believe,” Cher also claimed the record for the longest span of Hot 100 No. 1s: 28 years, four months and one week, dating to her first leader, “Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves,” in 1971. Similarly, she continues to boast the lengthiest span of No. 1s outside of holiday hits; Lee leads with a span of 63 years, five months and three weeks of ruling the chart.
(If including Sonny & Cher’s 1965 No. 1 classic “I Got You Babe,” Cher’s span atop the Hot 100 would stretch 33 years, seven months and three weeks.)
Meanwhile, Cher was 52 when “Believe” crowned the Hot 100. “As William Simpson of Los Angeles points out,” Bronson wrote, citing Cher’s impressive longevity, “that’s even more dramatic when one notes the ages of the three most recent artists to reach No. 1: Monica (18), Britney Spears (17) and Brandy (19 when she was No. 1).”
“It’s not that amazing, OK?,” Cher, now 77, laughed on NBC’s Today in November regarding the 25th anniversary of “Believe” leading the Hot 100. “I’d give anything to be 70 again …”
Cher is currently working on a memoir. “It’s very difficult because I’ve lived too long, and I’ve done too many things,” she said on Today. “It would have to be, like, an encyclopedia.”
After channeling her inner rage and nu-metal bona fides on the 2022 album , Willow is going in the opposite direction on her just-released meditative new single, “Symptom of Life.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news In an Instagram post announcing the song’s release on Tuesday (March 12), […]