Attention Britney fans: you’ve officially helped make music history!

This week, Britney Spears debuted “Hold It Against Me” at #1 on Billoard’s Hot 100, joining Mariah Carey as the only artists to ever debut multiple singles at #1.

“Hold It Against Me” is the 18th song to debut at the #1 spot, joining Brit’s other #1 debut song “3.” Mariah Carey holds three #1 debuts with her songs “Fantasy,” “One Sweet Day,” and “Honey.”

The achievement marks Brit’s 4th time atop the Hot 100, as previous hits “3,” “…Baby One More Time,” and “Womanizer” all topped the chart at one point or another.

Last week’s #1, Bruno Mars’s “Grenade” fell to the #2 spot.

Check out the original story here via Billboard.

Is “Hold It Against Me” worthy of the #1 spot? Let us know your take in the comments.

Reports Billboard.biz:

Susan Boyle’s “I Dreamed a Dream” reigns for a sixth straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 137,000 (down 73%) according to Nielsen SoundScan, bringing her cumulative sales total up to 3,104,000. However, while that is a huge sales sum — especially considering it was totaled in just six weeks time — it’s not enough to overtake Taylor Swift’s “Fearless” as 2009′s top selling album. The latter is at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 this week, selling another
60,000 — bringing its 2009 total to 3,217,000.

Of course, Boyle can rest easy in knowing that her “Dream” is but one of just two albums to sell at least 3 million copies in the U.S. last year — something that hasn’t happened since 2006, when three albums did it. Boyle’s “Dream” is also 2009′s top selling album released last year (Swift’s “Fearless” dropped in late 2008), and was also the top selling physical album of 2009. Of its overall 2009 total, physical CDs accounted for 3,019,000 copies, whereas digital downloads made up a rather tiny 86,000.

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Billboard’s got some amazing year-end round-ups right now, and looking at them inspired us to see what else was out there. It turned out that everyone is doing it, so why shouldn’t we? In the spirit of comprehensive coverage, here are the Top 10 Top 10s for music in 2009:

1. Billboard’s round-up of round-ups. Charts, stories, trends, and more. Billboard’s got lists galore!
2. Pitchfork’s Top 50 Albums of 2009 and Top 100 Tracks of 2009. There are more than 10 items on each list, but they’re definitely in the spirit.
3. Rolling Stone’s 25 Best Songs of 2009. Another longer-than-ten list, but this one has players for each song, so you can listen while you reminisce.
4. MTV asked Lady Gaga for her tops of 2009. MTV has a bunch of other great year/decade-end wrap ups, but their report on Lady Gaga’s faves for 2009 is the one that makes our list.
5. VH1′s Best of 2009 catch-all. So maybe nobody limits their lists to 10 anymore, but who cares? VH1 has become the go-to for retrospective lists, so how could we exclude them from ours?

Did we miss anything? Which lists make your best-of?

Susan Boyle, the big winner of “Britain’s Got Talent” who’s taken YouTube by storm with the video of her first performance of “I Dreamed a Dream” from “Les Miserables,” is celebrating the success of her first album, “I Dreamed a Dream.” According to Billboard:

This past week, Boyle’s “Dream” held on to the No. 1 slot for a second frame with 527,000 — down just 25% — after bowing last week with 701,000. Now, with 1.23 million sold in its first two weeks, “Dream” is chasing after Taylor Swift’s “Fearless” (2.53 million sold this year) for the title of 2009′s best-selling album.

With four sales weeks left in the SoundScan tracking year, and with industry gurus suggesting “Dream” will have yet another blockbuster week, Boyle could overtake Swift’s sales figure by year’s end.

Congratulations, Susan! If you’ve somehow been under an Internet rock for the past few months and missed it, here’s the video that made her n international star:

Paramore’s song Ignorance is featured on the MetroLyrics home page this week on the Billboard chart, which is topped by Lady GaGa’s Paparazzi. After reading the lyrics to Ignorance, I wondered how difficult it would be to link the two in a lyrical game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Here we go:

Degree ONE- From Ignorance: “Ignorance is your new best friend“

Degree TWO- From “My Best Friend’s Girl” by The Cars: “My best friend‘s girlfriend“

Degree THREE- From “Girlfriend” by Avril Lavigne: “Hey, hey, you, you, I don’t like your girlfriend“

Degree FOUR- From “Pinhead” by The Ramones: “I just met a nurse that I could go for, Gabba Gabba Hey“

Degree FIVE- From “Lace and Leather” by Britney Spears: “baby let’s go, Watch me apply the pressure, all decked in lace and leather“

Degree SIX- From Paparazzi: “Leather and jeans, garage glamorous”

What do you think? Too much of a stretch? But did you ever think about The Ramones and Britney Spears being only one degree removed before?

Our Events Page includes a comprehensive list of links to all the major awards shows, and each link takes you to an amazing archive of past awards information and a countdown timer to the next event. Take a look at this list of Billboard Music Awards ceremonies, for example. The next one is coming up in 55 days, 11 hours, 47 minutes, and 22… 21… 20… (well, you get it) seconds. And if you want to know for some reason that David Spade hosted the 1997 Billboard Music Awards, you can just click on the link to that year’s show. Amazing!

david spade puckers up

What is your favorite music awards show? Did you look up a random year? Find anything interesting? We love to hear from you!

Miley Cyrus holds the top position this week on both MetroLyrics.com’s chart and on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary Chart. Something’s got people curious about the lyrics to “Party in the USA,” and you can satisfy your curiosity and the curiosity of others with the handy, embeddable lyrics scroller above. Use it for bedroom karaoke, and sing along with the music video, handily available below!