Glee Squashes Elvis's Billboard Record

Their 113 entries on the Hot 100 beat his 108
By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff
Posted Feb 17, 2011 10:32 AM CST
Glee Beats Elvis Presley's Record on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart
In this 2010 publicity image released by Fox, the cast of "Glee" is shown.   (AP Photo/Fox, Adam Rose)

Between 1958 and 2003, Elvis Presley saw 108 of his songs land on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. But he's officially been bested ... by Glee. With six songs debuting on the Hot 100 released today, the cast of the Fox TV series has now logged 113 entries on the chart—since June 2009. But, Billboard notes, the King of Rock and Roll's songs had also scaled other Hot 100 charts in the two years before Billboard's debuted. (More Billboard charts stories.)

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