Billboard Update: Decade-End Billboard 200 Albums (2000-2009)

With the year of 2009 coming to a close, we also see the 2000s coming to a close. So it was time for everyone to list the best things of this decade. For EdgeMusic, we only began in 2007, so we're going to take a look at what made other decade-end lists. No one had their lists more eventful than Billboard. For the next two weeks, we will present to you the outcome of most of the decade-end charts. We start off with the Billboard 200 charts. The #1 album this decade was *NSYNC's "No Strings Attached" (2000). They never were an EdgeMusic Artist of the Week, but we wanted to point out how much the music industry has suffered ever since they got that boy band out of their sights. Anyways, here's how our alumni did:

#29. KELLY CLARKSON "BREAKAWAY" (2004) - HIGHEST POSITION
#34. BACKSTREET BOYS "BLACK & BLUE" (2000)
#38. PINK "M!SUNDERSTOOD" (2001)
#45. BACKSTREET BOYS "MILLENNIUM" (1999)

Also, the list includes two soundtrack entries which include EdgeMusic alum, Ashley Tisdale (June 21 - 28, 2009):

#44. HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK (2006)
#102. HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 SOUNDTRACK (2007)

Yet Another Interesting Showing Of Affection For Ashley Tisdale

We really love how Ashley Tisdale's fanbase operates at their headquarters. The EdgeMusic alum (June 21 - 28, 2009) has taken the #1 spot on the FM Box countdown, which is a radio countdown in Chile. And you said foreigners were boring. Anyone across the country can vote, and you can vote until the next countdown on Tuesday. Here's another interesting fact: another EdgeMusic alum, The Backstreet Boys (May 4 - 11, 2008), have occupied the #2 and the #3 spot with both their singles from "This Is Us". Note that "Bigger" is at #2. It's great for us that both artists can do mediocre in the US, and they can do a lot better overseas. I can only hope to go on an airplane trip soon to see how they operate.

Ashley Tisdale Hits #7 In Both Billboard Readers' Top 10 For 2009 And For The Past Decade

The Billboard Top 10 of 2009 as chosen by Billboard readers have revealed their results today. We were flattered to see "Guilty Pleasure" by Ashley Tisdale (June 21 - 28, 2009) cracked the top 10 list at #7. Even though #1 was "The Fame" by Lady GaGa, it did do a lot better than most other talentless albums, like Rihanna's "Rated R", which did no better than #9. And if that wasn't enough, #7 was also the lucky number for Tisdale in the readers' poll for the Billboard Top 10 of the past decade. The #1 album on that poll was Michael Jackson's last ever album, "Invincible". For an album that did poorly on the Billboard 200, we are glad that "Guilty Pleasure" at least made an impact with somebody. And the fact that it was chosen by readers once again shows why she was the chosen one on our website in the first place.

Artist Of The Year Introduces The Wildcards

Alright, we haven't been giving a lot of people any updates on the Artist of the Year Faceoff, but it's still running. Right now, half of our semi-final spots are filled up. Locksley is our representive for January, Seymoure will support our February winners, Kelly Clarkson is representing March, Junior Doctor won our April preliminaries, Jimmy Wayne is in it for May, and one of our June winners Wake the Light is our recent semi-finalist.

Last year, we had 12 semi-finalists, which became three finalists. This year, with our very special weeks this year, we are opening up a Wildcard slot. There will be three Wildcard preliminaries because two polls this year will produce seven winners, including next week's Lollapalooza sequel.

First, we will go through the winners from our Bamboozle week. The nominees are:

*Demi Lovato

*Closure in Moscow

*Care Bears on Fire

*Tiffany Giardina

*Runner Runner

*Single File

*All The Day Holiday

Now in this preliminary and in the Lollapalooza preliminary, we will run each for 6 days. Each poll also begins on a Monday. The poll is right below at the end of this article

EdgeMusic Artist of the Year Preliminary Wildcard

Wildcard Group #1: Bamboozle Festival Winners

Who should represent the Bamboozle winners in our Wildcard Semifinals?

Demi Lovato
Closure in Moscow
Care Bears On Fire
Tiffany Giardina
Runner Runner
Single File
All the Day Holiday

View Results

Myspace polls

Week 98 Results

Okay, the poll has been closed, and the votes have been counted. It's time to reveal who won last week's contest.

Last week, we had 332 votes come in. Winning by more than 46% of the vote...

KRIS ALLEN IS THE NEW EDGEMUSIC ARTIST OF THE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to Kris Allen on the win, and thanks to everyone who voted. Kris will be featured on EdgeMusic starting now and ending on Saturday, December 12th. The new poll will be up shortly.

Final Results:

KRIS ALLEN - 46.69%

Crosby Loggins - 34.94%

Hot Chelle Rae - 13.86%

311 - 3.01%

Amie Miriello - 1.51%