Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

For those interested-the highlights from Billboard Top Pop Singles 1955-2008 (way more information than listed here per title in the book):

DEDICATION TO MICHAEL JACKSON FROM JOEL WHITBURN

Back in the mid-1980's, I (Joel Whitburn) received a call from Michael Jackson's agent wanting to order several of my books. He told me that Top Pop Singles was Michael's favorite book and he used it to compare his chart stats with those of other top artists. It's said that his title as the King Of Pop was self-proclaimed. However, in perusing this book, I believe he got it right. Who else could write a wealth of great songs, sing with enormous passion and dance like no one else. If he did indeed scan through the book looking for comparable artists, he surely did realize that he alone should hold the crown. Michael's passing was shocking, however his great songs and performances will live on and be hard to match in future generations. Since his death, Michael's 2003 album Number Ones has been the top seller in the nation for over 5 weeks and may be the biggest selling album of 2009. An incredible achievement for a singer and performer who is "Gone Too Soon." May he now rest in peace.

JACKSON, MICHAEL

Got To Be There #4, 1971 Rockin' Robin #2 (2 weeks), 1972 I Wanna Be Where You Are #16, 1972 Ben #1 (1 week) 1972 With A Child's Heart #50, 1973 We're Almost There #50, 1975 Just A Little Bit Of You #23, 1975 Ease On Down The Road (w/Diana Ross) #41, 1978 You Can't Win Part 1 #81, 1979 Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough #1 (1 week) 1979, Rock With You #1 (4 weeks) 1980 Off The Wall #10, 1980 She's Out Of My Life #10 1980 One Day In Your Life #55, 1981 The Girl Is Mine (w/Paul McCartney) #2 (3 weeks) 1983 Billie Jean #1 (7 weeks) 1983 Beat It #1 (3 weeks) 1983 Wanna Be Startin' Something #5, 1983 Human Nature #7, 1983 P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) #10, 1983 Say Say Say (w/Paul McCartney) #1 (6 weeks) 1983, Thriller #4, 1984 (would have charted higher had single been released earlier than over a year after album had been released-released as a single as an afterthought), Farewell My Summer Love #38, 1984 I Just Can't Stop Loving You #1 (1 week) 1987 Bad #1 (2 weeks) 1987 The Way You Make Me Feel #1 (1 week) 1988 Man In The Mirror #1 (2 weeks) 1988, Dirty Diana #1 (1 week) 1988 Get It (w/Stevie Wonder #80, 1988 Another Part Of Me #11, 1988 Smooth Criminal #7, 1989 Black or White #1 (7 weeks) 1991, Remember The Time #3 (4 weeks) 1992 In The Closet #6, 1992 Jam #26, 1992 Heal The World #27, 1993 Who Is It #14, 1993 Will You Be There #7, 1993 Scream (w/Janet Jackson) #5, 1995 Childhood (charted B-Side) 1995 You Are Not Alone #1 (1 week) 1995 They Don't Care About Us #30, 1996 Blood On The Dance Floor #42, 1997 Stranger In Moscow #91, 1997 You Rock My World #10, 2001 Butterflies #14, 2002 One More Chance #83, 2003 Wanna Be Startin' Something 2008 (w/Akon) #81, 2008

FEATURED ON

We Are The World (w/USA For Africa) #1 (4 weeks) 1985 Whatzupwitu (w/Eddie Murphy) #121, 1993 Somebody's Watching Me (w/Rockwell) #2 (3 weeks) 1984 Why (w/3T) #112, 1996

JACKSON 5/JACKSONS

I Want You Back #1 (1 week) 1970, ABC #1 (2 weeks) 1970, The Love You Save #1 (2 weeks) 1970, I Found That Girl (charted B-Side) 1970, I'll Be There #1 (5 weeks) 1970, Mama's Pearl # 2 (2 weeks) 1971 Never Can Say Goodbye #2 (3 weeks) 1971, Maybe Tomorrow #20, 1971 Sugar Daddy #10, 1972 Little Bitty Pretty One #13, 1972 Lookin' Through The Windows #16, 1972 Corner Of The Sky #18, 1972 Hallelujah Day #28, 1973 Get It Together #28, 1973 Dancing Machine #2 (2 weeks) 1974 Whatever You Got I Want #38, 1974 I Am Love Parts I & II #15, 1975 Forever Came Today #60, 1975 Enjoy Yourself #6, 1977 Show You The Way To Go #28, 1977 Goin' Places #52, 1977 Blame It On The Boogie #54, 1978 Shake Your Body Down To The Ground #7, 1979 Lovely One #12, 1980 Heartbreak Hotel #22, 1981 Can You Feel It #77, 1981 Walk Right Now #73, 1981 State Of Shock #3 (3 weeks) 1984 Torture #17, 1984 Body #47, 1984 Nothin That Compares 2 U #77, 1989

JACKSON, JANET

Young Love #64, 1983 Come Give Your Love To Me #58, 1983 Don't Stand Another Chance #101, 1984 What Have You Done For Me Lately #4, 1986 Nasty #3 (1 week) 1986, When I Think Of You #1 (2 weeks) 1986 Control #5, 1987 Let's Wait Awhile #2 (1 week) 1987 Diamonds (w/Herb Alpert) #5, 1987 The Pleasure Principle #14, 1987 Miss You Much #1 (4 weeks) 1989, Rhythm Nation #2 (2 weeks) 1990 Escapade #1 (3 weeks) 1990 Alright #4, 1990 Come Back To Me #2 (2 weeks) 1990 Black Cat #1 (1 week) 1990 Love Will Never Do Without You #1 (1 week) 1991 State Of The World #5, 1991 The Best Things In Life Are Free (w/Luther Vandross) #10, 1992 That's The Way Love Goes #1 (8 weeks) 1993 Where Are You Now #30, 1993 Throb #66, 1993 If #4, 1993 Again #1 (2 weeks) 1993 Because Of Love #10, 1994 Any Time Any Place #2 (1 week) 1994 And On And On #38, 1994 You Want This #8, 1994 70's Love Groove (charted B-Side) 1994 Scream (w/Michael Jackson) #5, 1995 Runaway #3 (5 weeks) 1995 Got Til It's Gone (w/Q-Tip & Joni Mitchell) #36, 1997 Together Again #1 (2 weeks) 1998 I Get Lonely (w/Blackstreet) #3, 1998 Go Deep #28, 1998 Every Time #125, 1998 Doesn't Really Matter #1 (3 weeks) 2000 All For You #1 (7 weeks) 2001 Someone To Call My Lover #3 (2 weeks) 2001 Son Of A Gun I Betcha Think This Song Is About You (w/Missy Elliott & P. Diddy) #28, 2001 Just A Little While #45, 2004 I Want You #57, 2004 All Nite Don't Stop #119, 2004 Call On Me (w/Nelly) #25, 2006 So Excited (w/Khia) #90, 2006 Feedback #19, 2008 Luv #102, 2008 Rock With U #121, 2008

FEATURED ON

Luv Me Luv Me (w/Shaggy) #76, 1998 What's It Gonna Be?! (w/Busta Rhymes) #3 (1 week) 1999 Girlfriend/Boyfriend (w/Blackstreet) #47, 1999 Feel It Boy (w/Beenie Man) #28, 2002

JACKSON, JERMAINE

That's How Love Goes #46, 1972 Daddy's Home #9, 1973 You're In Good Hands #79, 1973 Let's Be Young Tonight #55, 1976 Let's Get Serious #9, 1980 You're Supposed To Keep Your Love For Me #34, 1980 You Like Me Don't You #50, 1981 I'm Just Too Shy #60, 1981 Let Me Tickle Your Fancy #18, 1982 Dynamite #15, 1984 Do What You Do #13, 1985 When The Rain Begins To Fall (w/Pia Zadora) #54, 1985 Closest Thing To Perfect #67, 1985 I Think It's Love #16, 1986 Do You Remember Me? #71, 1986 Don't Take It Personal #64, 1990 Word To The Badd!! #78, 1991

JACKSON, LA TOYA

If You Feel The Funk #103, 1980 Heart Don't Lie #56, 1984

JACKSON, REBBIE

Centipede #24, 1984


Hi

Oh man have you hit it on the head about not wanting someone to contact you-the girl who is the central character in Cutting Confessions, Tamar, and myself are going through this right now and have been for quite some time. It's detailed in the blog entitled Toilet Humor and Ladies Underwear In The Shower/The Asshole Who Killed A Kitten With Drugs (Crystal Meth, in this case.) We have two stalkers-one, believe it or not, a former psychologist assistant for Scripps-Howard San Diego-a Harvard graduate-whose license to practice was rescinded by the state following an arrest for driving under the influence of crystal meth in 2001 while wearing ladies underwear (which has nothing to do with the ladies underwear in the shower story.) The other is a sociopath whose father is a retired Los Angeles Homicide Detective-probably a very crooked one since two of his sons are convicted felons. This one thinks he can do whatever he likes and has been physically and electronically stalking us for a couple of years.

Michael Kevin McGee, the Harvard graduate, is fast going downhill. He makes insane demands of Tamar when she wants absolutely nothing to do with him-for sex, for specific food orders, for rides, and on and on. Besides wearing ladies underwear, he also enjoys dumpster diving. His mother was a prison psychologist in Colorado and Christ knows he's fucked up. Anybody can clearly see that-except for him.

As to the original question, any May-December relationship has drawbacks-I'm thinking of Usher, who I'm not sure is even married anymore, and his severe mother issue complex. I don't know what Ashton Kutcher's motivation is, but he isn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer. One of the luckiest, for certain, in that they could very well have made him finish out his parole for breaking into a school in Iowa rather than giving him the chance to model in Italy. Which would have saved us from countless hours of That 70's Show. Mark Wahlberg's another one, I'm sure he doesn't go around town bragging about the immigrant he blinded back in Boston. I'm off the track, though-bottom line is a May-December relationship faces difficulties especially as the partners grow older and one may lose certain abilities and interests. When drugs are involved, any drugs, that worsens everything. (referring to the original question regarding DJ AM and his younger girlfriend which was about May-December relationships when male is older than female and especially so where a fragile ego is involved, as in his case. To be fair, Ashton Kutcher got Demi Moore with a ready made family-clearly ego was not the issue and he does have genuine affection for his ready made family.)

Head Case Season 1 and the Head Case shorts are available on the same DVD. I do not know if Starz will be showing a Season 3-the story line left it there will be, but NOBODY knows about this show-and its star is Alexandra Wentworth, Schmoopie of Seinfeld and husband of ABC News honcho/former Clinton administration executive George Stephanopolus.) Jerry Seinfeld has actually appeared as one of her patients in a pretty decent Season 2 episode. She is a completely clueless Beverly Hills psychologist to the stars with a personal life that is beyond the shambles state-I like it, it's pretty amusing. Over the top, but creative. I gave my copy to my psychiatrist, Dr. Howard Shapiro of Beverly Hills, who is nothing like this. He's a top notch guy-very ethical-and had Michael Jackson's handlers actually cared about him, Michael Jackson should have been one of his patients-he's also an expert on Lupus. I discussed it with him briefly in a session and all he said was "They were afraid I'd help him". So he was never asked by Klein or Metzger or whoever-he is a really good doctor and a very nice guy, though-friend of Kirk Douglas, who is one of my MySpace friends. (I write him about various things-also Dr. Shapiro treated his son Eric for awhile when he was alive and they're friends.)

Of course, the deal is I'm writing a fate driven love story partially set in a psychiatric hospital (in real life Las Encinas) and Michael produced One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest-in all honesty, I think Cutting Confessions also has the potential to be excellent in the right hands-besides being an entertaining and bizarre story, its also a story of love, hope and redemption-Tamar grew up abused in Beverly Hills, became a cutter, and yet she's one of the most incredible people I'll ever know. The story becomes a love story with our characters getting together at the very end in an unusual way, but I don't know how it will play in real life. The reality is I care about her and only want the best for her, and there are other women I can find-if I can meet them. Of course, if this project follows a natural course and does become what I believe it can be, then I'll be very active socially with a very full life.

A number of my blogs are bizarre-such as the Tila Tequila/Stalking Celebrities one-that's just for fun, I like black comedy but I'm not really completely unbalanced as clearly some people think I am. I really don't care, though-I think a little eccentricity is a good thing. And I can't change who I am, anyway.

I hope we get a chance to talk more and of course I'm interested in finding out more about you.

Best

Rodney Peterson










 

i dont know if i already asked this or not but: why does everyone have to be weird as fuck that reads and follows the Twilight saga? are there any normal people besides myself?


raise your hand if you hate me - hahahahahahaha
 

i like twilight...
but i'm sorry..
you guyss need too get over yourselves...
you should not get mad at someone for voicing their opinion and you should not make fun of people who like twilight..
if you don't fine! you don't but there are people who do...
so please stop making really rude comments bryce....


 

 

Are you just upset cause you can't read?..... :[
 

 

whus gooddd with u
 

you're so my new fuckin hero dude 
 

YES THERE IS AND I'M 1
 

 

that is nasty
 

who would want to see that on myspce?
 

I THINK I'M NORMALLY AND MY FRIENDS ARE NORMAL. SO YES THERE IS NORMAL PEOPLE WHO LIKE THIS MOVIE. I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY WEIRDOS YET WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN LOOKING? LOL
 

lol wow is right.

this is going to be one sexual soundtrack.

; P

 

Def!!! I mean DCFC, killers,tom yorke, muse...!
 

i've never heard of any of those bands other then muse & the killers, so i'm a bit "iffy" about the sound track.

i just hope the movie lives up to it's hype. [can't wait for breaking dawn!]

& btw: what's "normal" now-a-days?! 


 

wow dont be "iffy" just cuz your since in music sucks! They are all great bands/ artists! And the sound track will rock just sad to see paramore not on there!
 

spell much?? since??lol think u ment sense

 

your since?  you mean sense...

 

woh buddy, dont get all crucial because i've never heard of the other bands. thats why its called waiting on the soundtrack.
geeze don't you know how much music is out there, no need to go criticizing my music taste. because if my music taste sucks, then yours does too because im a fan of paramore too [& im disappointed just as you are in their absence from the soundtrack].
so please dont be so hasty with judgement buddy.
 

whus goooodddd with u
 

Don't feel bad, out of that whole list I have only heard of two of the bands, and my son has only heard of three of them. So not only do I agree with you on the band thing, but I'm also iffy on the music.

 

rad.

 

now this is rad


 

you know what, usually when people are like "oh, im twilight's number one fan" i snap. lol but hands down, she twilight's number one fan and no im not just saying that because she scares me ;p lmao.
 

dude i didn't even have too watch half it too start laughing!!!


 

andd she did soung like a horse ahahahahhahaha!

 

i love twilight, but i'm not THAT obsessed, shit! LMFAO 
 

whus goooooooodddddddddd
 

that is not normal. ha ha ha
 

LMFAO! That girl is crazy! I wonder how she's reacting to the New Moon trailer, because it looks a thousand times better than Twilight. 
 

Seriously... what the heck?! i thought i was crazy.... lol... i have never seen someone go that crazy over twilight...lol
 

woooooow. ur a queer. why woukd you be tht obsesed. ik wt hapens. the movies gonna suck! hahaha jk
 

HOLY... COW!

 

hahahahaha shit is fucking hilarious!
 

damn lol im scared of this chick XD

 

Spaz... wow.

 

lmfao dont ask me why but when i see her i see jula stiles.

 

P.S. I would not want to sit by that crazy ass chick when the movie comes out in the theaters lol
 

Lol i think she would get kicked out... lol
 

hahahaha!!! around 5:20 she sounds like a horse lol.i understand the books are written very well and the movies are great but when are people going to accept reality. its like star wars all over again. next thing you know there will be a a made up religion like the freaks of star wars did.

 

Haha, she does, what a freakkk.
 

lmao....what the hell that was amazing....lol
 

I think she's going to eat me. Literally. And not in the vampire way. In the "Yum, you're made of chicken" way.
 

baha omfg dude this is hilarious!!!

 

haha wow,  i thought i was a freak.....but shes a nuts!!!
 

ok no.

 

She scares me!. o_0
 

yesss, awesome. I can't wait. :)