i can’t beleive what happend what a jip i mean how un professional of them to do that especially how they did it. Anyway.. Britney will 4ever be number 1 in our hearts and well.. i don’t even know who the eagles are to tell u the truth but i know who Britney is and i call this a rip off!!! Britney deserved to be number 1 and for some weird reason she’s not but whatever

Make room for new artists…

I suggest we put the eagles, britney , garth brooks , elton john and anyone ever on american idol ( I said artisits - not human jukeboxes) in a bus and blow it up.
That would free up millions of record buyers to get fresh material from new artists. Please let new artists get there time in the sun. If Elvis and the Beatles and the acts from 20 years previous had dominated the charts in the 1970’s - there would be no elton john or eagles - they would have been pushed out.

Billboard changed their policy because up until now Walmart has refused to release sales figures. Not that Walmart has agreed to release these figures the sales should be counted. They are sales after all.

Wow, the younger generation is very whiny today. Here is a summary of what I’ve read in this forum: “I hate anyone who is not from my generation, only my generation is relevant, everyone else is just garbage.” Get a grip people.

Britney sold less that half of what the Eagles sold. Deal with it.

Know one even knows these people… way too many old grannies buying their stuff

this is ofcourse 100% unfair, even eagles fans should see this…. It’s a unfair race… Blackout is a great album and rocking other charts. Atleast Brintey has her loyal fans, and celebs like ellen, mary j, rihanna, neyo who’ve got her back

the album of bsb is so great and these guys don’t support to mtv and the radios but they are unbreakable and no matter what happend alway be a your fan cause this is music britney suck and the eagles who is the eagles fuck off mtv backstreet backssssssss

This about is the staying power of the Eagles. First album in almost thirty years and sells over 300k than bspears, an American media obsession at the moment. These American Media Obsessions have quick turn around– kind of like pornography– and grow old quick. Her PR department is scrambling to keep her relevant but it’s only matter of days before they sharp their knifes for their next kill. These numbers prove how relevant the Eagles’ music has been for over a generation. bspears has a shorter shelve life and that is dwindling by the second. Her album is a slick affair reflecting of the quick one liner punch lines of today, and will most certainly be forgotten in a few years while the Eagles music will stay cemented in American vernacular forever. Congrats boys and good see some hope that taste can triumph over such manufactured soulless tarnished trash

It was argued in another thread on RS that if Billboard would NOT have changed the rules and reported BS as number 1, all the media would have fired at them once the WalMart Eagles sales figures had leaked for false reporting. So Billboard (to me) was in a lose-lose position. Whatever they do they’re gonna get flak. But let’s face the facts: 700k is more than 290k, if you don’t understand that you can sue your math teacher.

And of course the rule should ahve been changed long ago, because the business strategies are changing. There are more artists choosing different new ways of distribution, not just the Eagles. It’s just that they sell their new album in figures that are relevant at the top. Whether an album that might have been number 57 gets listed simply is not that important to the general public. I guess that’s why it happened now (after the Garth Brooks disaster in 2005 - the man sold 500k on the first day!).

Better late than never!

Just some facts:
1. Tastes are subjective. Opinions on music are just such: opinions, not facts. If I find Britney more relevant than the Eagles and everybody else, I’m not an idiot or an ignorant person. It’s a matter of interests, tastes and point of views, be they more or less shared.
2. The Billboard people still need to certify that copies weren’t counted twice, since many retailers different from Wal-Mart sold the album, too

The whole thing is suspect. If a band announces their album will be found ONLY at Wal-Mart, why can I found it when I go shop at Virgin Megastore? Isn’t there some kind of catch or contradiction in that? And the last-minute policy change is quite suspect, too… Weren’t the Billboard people aware of the consequences of their policy before the Eagles’ album was released? Did it dawn on them like this just hours before publishing the chart?

However, the band announced it would be their last album. I guess Britney won’t find herself in the same exact situation in 2-3 years’time…

hey. i am no fan of ms. spear, but this is too funny.
don’t tell me that the eagles didn’t know about this rule change the day they signed a contract with walmart. allowing walmart the only chain to carry their music, in exchange for a multi million dollar ad chamgpain AND (i nelieve) knowing what would happen to their placement of the charts.

blah, blah, blah. bottom line: fuck britney. we all know she fuckin sux as a “musician”, a “dancer”, and most tragically a “mother”. her 15 minutes should have been over before she started. excellent (and fair) decision billboard.

Britney Spears just needs to go away. The media keeps foisting this mindless chunk of meat on us, and it is time it ended.

Who gives a fucking fuck about all this anyway?

This is not fair for Britney Spears, Question: are they going to recall all those “false” number ones CDs from before? If they do that, I agree in the new rule, dubbed “The Screw Britney Clause” by industry insiders. But this last minute issue, it is all a pre-frabicated thing to destroy Britney Spears. Shame on them

who sells more, regardless of where or thru which method it’s sold, just simply get the top position, this is what data collecting / statistics is all about, isn’t it? why bother arguing how great brit’s new album is? who really cares? her new album just sold 290K as comparing to the eagle’s 700K (i’m not the eagle fans, i prefer brit to eagle, but c’mon brit hard core fans r ridiculous! just live with it!)

BRITNEY RULES!!! SHE DID HER COMEBACK. SHE DID GREAT DESPITE ALL THE HARRASSMENT FROM THE MEDIA AND HER HUSBAND. KFED CAN NOT BE AS GOOD AS HER. PEOPLE ARE JEALOUS.BRITNEY WAS ALWAYS GREAT FROM THE START. SHE DOES NOT NEED THE BILLBOARDS FOR THAT TO HAPPEN. CONGRAD BRITNEY. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF AND YOUR CHILDREN. SAD ALL THOSE JEALOUS PEOPLE OUT THERE.

NO MATTER NUMBER ONE OR NOT. BRITNEY ALBUM IS GREAT!!! DESPITE ALL THE HARRASSMENT SHE HAS TAKEN AND ATTACKS ESPECIALLY FROM HER HUSBAND. BRITNEY WILL STILL RULE. SHE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE NUMBER ONE CUZ SHE IS ALREADY!!!! CONGRADS BRIT FOR YOUR COMEBACK. PEOPLE ARE SO JEALOUS. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF AND YOUR CHILDREN. PEOPLE DO CARE ABOUT YOU!!!! HELL WITH THE MEDIA.

I can’t believe people actually argue on behalf of Britney Spears, calling it good music is just a terrible statement first of all, second she doesn’t even write it so it’s not really her work, she’s just the breasts on the album art

Billboard has been keeping their policy UNTIL Right the last minutes before they declare chart position. Does it not trigger any questions in your mind? This is so unprofessional of Billboard directors. Why did they change the policy now and not last year or next week? Are they afraid that the tabloids will stab back at them for declaring Britney Spears is number one again although she sold 290,000 records compared to the Eagle? Now, everyone (maybe not everyone but the ones who really THINK before they act and who are DARING, not easily SCARED) thinks that they are one of those losers who care so much about what the tabloids say and just want to secure their chair at their so-called Billboard company. I personally would never think they can do such a thing like that just over a night. Now, they officially disgustingly paint black ink on not only their face, the whole Billboard’s staff face, but also the entire Billboard company, their magazines and all their other merchandise. They will soon see people turning their back at them, “Billboard”.

I couldn’t care less which album is # 1 album on the chart but I have to admit that this whole situation is shady. Changing your policy at the last minute and applying it retroactively is frankly ridiculous. Add to this the fact that apparently the Eagles album wasn’t so exclusive after all and it’s obvious that it’s Britney who’s getting screwed.

JP, it’s not hard to sell more copies when your CDs are being bought out by major retailers like Virgin Megastore!

to all the idiots who made posts about “old farts liking the eagles” and “baby boomers ruining the world for us”

first off, I’m 22 years old…don’t think I’m considered a baby boomer asshole. How are you going to judge somebody and make all sorts of assumptions about them? You’ve never met me? Stop making blanket statements about people…it makes you look like an ignorant tool.

As for the Eagles being irrelevant… Classic Rock is never irrelevant moron. That is why it is classic rock.

There is an irony (or perhaps just a hypocrisy?) to the Eagles (Henley in particular) making business deals with such a large, criticised corporation like Wal-Mart. I’m just saying..

Anyhow, I love the Eagles and the new record actually sounds pretty good.

I also echo Mir’s sentiments.

Are the whiny record company insiders are from Britney’s label? The rule they changed was more like “Screw The Eagles” rule. It went against an artist/band who found a nonconventional way to promote themselves successfully.

I’m not a big fan of either The Eagles or Britney Spears. I think it’s a no-brainer that an act who sold more than twice as much as the next act should get the recognition for doing so. So everybody, stop your whining!

By the way, congratulation to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss for being in the top ten 2 weeks in a row. Hopefully, their songs will start getting some mainstream airplay. So, we won’t be talking about mediocre or worse acts like The Eagles and Britney Spears.

such endless drama. this thread is for the birds.

Wow, some very mature responses over here… Wheter you like Britney the persona or not, her album is very good. Production-wise it’s brilliant and it’s just plain and simply what it’s supposed to be: POP music. Everything has to be “relevant, meaningfull and important” these days. I have a wide variety of genres in my CD and mp3 collection and I acknowledge and appreciate good music, regardless of the artist. Should I disregard Britney because of her image when her songs make me feel great? Should I disregard Tori Amos because she is boring as hell but makes some of the greatest music ever made? Fact is The Eagles haven’t been relevant for years now, and that has NOTHING to do with their talent. Times change, the industry changes etc. Kudo’s to them for selling that much. It’s kinda funny how Billboard changed it “all of a sudden” and what’s even funnier is that some of you are spewing fire at Rolling Stone for actually sticking up for good MUSIC. Step back and take a look at the big picture here people. And try, for just one second , to seperate the image from the music. I know it’s hard, but I’m sure you are all intelligent enough to manage that. Accept that people are different and will have different tastes in music. Period. And please stop shoving your opinion on what is “great” music down other people’s throats. Thanks

Brit’s next single is “Ugly Flappy Shaved Meat Curtains”. I’ve heard it and it’s soooooooooooo totally hot! Gimme more Brit-Brit!

Thank GOD Britney got knocked off the “top”

Brit’s new single “Medicated Douche” is like soooooooooo totally awesome.

I hate the baby boomers, they fucked up everything and now we have to clean up their messes while we listen to old farts like the Eagles. Don’t they have a seperate chart for old farts?

Gimme More Britney!

Hi, I’d just like to add:

Britney still is the worst major recording artist ever and I hope she becomes so ugly and out of shape so that nobody will want to put her face on our tv screens or magazines - and subsequently, and most importantly, never hear her music - ever again

hi “mule”,,,i might be a dumbass for calling eagles irrelevant,,,,,or there are 700,000 dumbasses buying this shit hasbeen music,,,,like you. i mean really, maybe in 1977 when i was at the roller skating rink the eagles were kinda cool, but who listens to them now, dumbass old fucks like you who cant find anything better to do with your life,,,,,,,,”Hey man,,,lets go buy the new eagles album,,,,im so cool”. what a dumbass.

I think it is sad that in this day and age that people who can actually sing and have talent can’t catch a break, but people like Ms. Spears, Ms. Hilton and Ms. Lohan get soo much coverage for being untalented. The only way we know they exist is when they do something stupid and the reporters and tabloids just eat it up. Britney cannot sing, she can only simmulate masterbation and she cannot dance. All she has ever done is lip sync thru every supposed live performance. What is wrong with you people?

too much inaccurate information, SPECULATION & CONJECTURE has been implied about me — However let me make this clear I do enjoy diversity,it was folk Dan Fogelbergs first 4 lps that got me thru being 13&14 yrs old-I do instrumentaly appreciate various work that has come out of nashville-I do like The Eagles and may even catch their performance on tonights awards as a band they harmonize very nicely

What position did the new Loverboy CD “Just Gettng Started” come in?

Who cares!!!
Music is an art, and sales statistics mean absolutely NOTHING in the realm of art.
Just because Britney, or the Eagles sold a few CDs doesn’t mean that they’re the most talented musicians out there, it means that their music is appealing to a wide audience and therefore makes good BUSINESS sense to market it.

Let’s see. One artist sold 711,000 copies of a record, and the other sold 290,000, and the one that sold the 290,000 got screwed? It’s not like the Supreme Court made this decision.

Everyone is so cynical these days. There’s room for all types of music. It does seem everyone is coming down on poor Britney these days. I love The Eagles, but the kids need to have fun (especially these days). I’ve listened to the album and it’s better than her past efforts. I bet most people commenting didn’t even listen to the album. Chill out, be positive, and have some fun listening to what you like.

Oh, dear God…this message board looks like I’m on a Tiger Beat board! WTF??? And please, people, stop arguing “relevance” with regards to a subjective form such as art or music!!!! Just a word of advice: Saying the Eagles are NOT relevant when they sold OVER SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND COPIES of their NEW album in THEIR FIRST WEEK makes you look like a complete dumbass.

Regardless of who you like better, isn’t this about who sold more albums? So Britney would have sold more if you don’t count Wal-Mart sales? Sounds like a loophole that got closed.

ok eagles sells more than brit but why billboard change their policy a day before they were to release the chart not even carrie would have won them so if she will have sell the cd in the same week will billboard would have took the same decision? I don´t think so

Yow! It’s hard to see which is worse for the state of music; lame manufactured tunes sung by wind-up dolls who look good on CD covers, or pasteurized and censored music sold only by one retailer.
It’s kind of like having to award custody of children and having K-Fed and Britney as the only choices.

Eagles music wouldn’t be relevent to idiots, wannabes, or people who think lyrics get in the way of the music.

,,,davie buk boyd is a long winded blowhard. first of all, just how does one “snort crack”? the rest of his bitchy little rant tells us that he does not like britney (suprise, who really does). from the lenth of his post, it seems that someone else just might have a little crack problem,,,yack yack yack….

,,,and “um”,,,the eagles are relevant?? lets all call our friends up and invite them over to listen to our new eagles album,,,fun fun fun,,,then we can listen to REO Speedwagon,,,,i cant wait

^^ I think Bruce Springsteen is relavant music, don’t forget.

Not a fan of her music but was curious to hear the “Gimme more” single after reading about the #1 “snub” so I watched the youtube video. Hey, the song is just as good or bad as everything out there today the kids are dancing to and the song is catchy so I think it will get a lot of play and sell a lot. It would seem everyone involved in making the recording did a great job despite her being the artist.

Can’t very one just leave her alone, she want’s to be with her children and you guys gave them to kevin federline thats not father materal

Can’t very one just leave her alone, she want’s to be with her children and you guys gave them to kevin federline thats not father materal

Can’t very one just leave her alone, she want’s to be with her children and you guys gave them to kevin federline thats not father materal

rolling stone….

do you see how many people you’re pissing off by covering that “corporate wind up doll” you call britney spears? Do you care?

If you do care, it sures doesn’t seem like it. This coverage makes us long-time readers fell like we are being run out of town…and all for sales. Shame on you rolling stone. No…worse. FUCK YOU ROLLING STONE FOR PANDERING THIS BULLSHIT.

You should be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

The eagles want her in jello.

Can people just drop it. Britney Spears latest album isnt a comeback album its just another Britney Spears album, meaning its out dated behind the times. In no way does she branch further or expand her self instead she comes off like a rich little 16 year old who has snorted to much crack in the back of the trailer.

Its just sad, it is a true statement on the current condition of the music industry. A record can be sold not on the merrit of its music but rather on how much tabloid covers the artist (if you can even call her that) is on. The reason people have bought this album is curriosity and nothing more, there is no depth to her music. Spears is a dinasuar and a hold over from the 90’s who unlike many of her contemporaries is unable to evolve with the times and change her imiage as well as her musical style to show any maturity or creativty. THose people who bought her music years ago have grown up, so why cant she? Many pop artist have been able to change and evolve with the times and still stay relevent and poplular while showing great depth, but it seems that spears (or should i say the people who controle her or tell her what to do) wish not to take a risk and stick to the same formula she used when she was 17 (Low browl radio friendly sexuality that boarders more on cheap back alley prositition then it does on true sex appeal, easy to digest none complicated dance beats, and simple verse chorus verse song structure, all in a simple 4 minute or less radio format)

The use of auto tuner on this record is sickening, it just goes to show how many in the music industry use the studio not as a tool to enhance the artist and the music but as a crutch to support them and hide their all to evident flaws. This is all to visible in her inability to perform her own music on stage (let alone fake it) Since when was it more important to dance then sing in the context of populat music? Is her music that shallow that people go to the shows to see crappy dancing (if she was a good dancer she wouldnt need coreographers to tell her every sigle move to make on stage) rather then listen to the music. She is nothing but a little doll that record exucutives hope to wind up and play so they can try to save their failing industry.

The 90’s are over and so is this farce that has been sold to us as something resemballing talent. Spears needs to stick to what she is good at, being tabloid fauder.

geez rolling stone…we know which side you’re on. so much for fair coverage of music.

The fact that Rolling Stone is mad an artist like the eagles reached number 1 is unexcusable.

They have proven to be relevant for three decades now. The fact they nreached number 1 should be a sign of rejoicing that decent music is still around.

I know rolling stone needs to sell magazines (even though that is a poor excuse for pandering), but shit rolling stone. I can’t take anything you say seriously.

I have to read every review with a grain of salt and ask myself the question: why is rolling stone giving this a good review? Do they want to promote this artist to sell magazines to their fans? Is the music actually good?

The fact I have to question every word written on this website shows how far Rolling Stone has fallen…

cant the poor girl catch a break.jesus her best album ever comes out and its not no1,i guess athere’s just too many old granny’s running to buy the eagles new album,britney is still no1 in her REAL fan’s eyes.luv u brit