09 December 2011
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Billboard marked the 31st anniversary of the murder of John Lennon with a list of his ten biggest albums and singles based on their charts.
There are not a lot of surprises. Double Fantasy leads the album list as it stayed number one for eight weeks starting in December of 1980. What's more surprising is that Lennon only had three number 1 albums after the breakup of the Beatles, Double Fantasy, Imagine and Walls and Bridges. No other album even reached the top five.
John Lennon's Top 10 Singles
(Just Like) Starting Over
Woman
Instant Karma (We All Shine On) (John Lennon & Yoko Ono)
Whatever Gets You Through the Night (John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band)
Imagine
Nobody Told Me
#9 Dream
Watching the Wheels
Mind Games
Power to the People (John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band)
John Lennon's Top 10 Albums
Double Fantasy (John Lennon & Yoko Ono) (1980)
Imagine (John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band) (1971)
Walls and Bridges (1974)
John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band (John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band) (1970)
Rock 'N' Roll (1975)
Mind Games (1973)
The Plastic Ono Band: Live Peace in Toronto 1969 (John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band) (1970)
Milk and Honey (John Lennon & Yoko Ono) (1984)
Shaved Fish (1974)
Acoustic (2004)
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Artists Change European Tour Plans Based on the Financial Crisis
It isn't just the rich and the financial gurus who are considered about the Eurozone crisis. It is also making music acts think twice about touring the continent.
Stadium rockers such as Metallica and Red Hot Chili Peppers have changed their touring plans fixated by worries of Europe's debt problems will translate to non payments.
Metallica's manager Cliff Burnstein revealed to The Wall Street Journal that the crisis has prompted the band to move their European tour to next year, instead of 2013 as planned.
"You have to ask yourself, what's the best time to be doing what, when and where," he said.
As a result, Metallica have signed up to play festivals in Germany as well as dates in Britain and Austria at which they play the classic record, 1991's The Black Album in full.
"Over the next few years, the dollar will be stronger and the euro weaker, and if that's the case, I want to take advantage of that by playing more of these shows now, because they will be more profitable for us," he said.
Live performances have become the music industry's bread and butter as illegal downloads continue to impact sales of albums.
