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Article: Looks Like They Made It: Barry Manilow's Greatest Hits of The Fifties Debuts at Number One.
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- PR Newswire
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- February 8, 2006
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Marks the First Number One Debut in Singer's Career
NEW YORK, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- In a career spanning more than 30 years and over 75 million albums sold worldwide, Barry Manilow broke brand new ground this week when his new Arista Records album, Greatest Hits of the Fifties debuted in the Number One position on the Nielsen SoundScan charts, moving a remarkable 155,630 copies in its first week of release.
This is the first time in the singer's career that one of his albums has debuted at Number One and marks only the second time a Manilow album reached the top spot on the chart --1977's Barry Manilow Live was the first. The 29- year stretch between ...