KISS, OZZY OSBOURNE Among Artists Who Have Never Topped BILLBOARD Album Chart

April 3, 2007

James Montgomery of MTV.com reports: Landing the #1 spot on the Billboard albums chart is pretty easy — provided your name is ELVIS, THE BEATLES or, uh, "Now That's What I Call Music!" For anyone else, it's a rather difficult thing to accomplish because, despite some of the "luminaries" who've occupied the top spot this year (PRETTY RICKY, DAUGHTRY),the #1 album club is a pretty exclusive one.

Among the artists who have never topped the Billboard album chart:

KISS: As the commanders of the Kiss Army — and the sheer purchasing power contained therein — it's rather shocking to learn that Gene Simmons and company have never made it to #1. Thanks to the crossover appeal of "Christine Sixteen", 1977's "Love Gun" got to #4 on the chart, and it wasn't until 1998's "Psycho Circus" that they made it higher: That album topped out at #3.

OZZY OSBOURNE: Whether running solo or as a member of seminal metal act BLACK SABBATH, the Ozzman never managed to battle his way to the top of the Billboard albums chart. SABBATH's "Master of Reality" made it to #8, and a host of Osbourne's solo albums landed in the top 10 (most notably 1995's "Ozzmosis", and his 2001 follow-up, "Down to Earth", both of which debuted at #4).

MOTÖRHEAD: OK, while this one doesn't exactly fall into the "shocking" category, we'd like to state for the record that it's a crime of monumental proportions that Lemmy and his mates have not had a #1 album on the Billboard chart (though 1991's 1916 did reach #142). In fact, Mr. Kilminster's biggest chart success came in 2001, when "WWF: The Music, Vol. 5" — featuring MOTÖRHEAD's "The Game", which wrestler Triple H used as his entrance music — sold 176,000 copies and debuted at #2, proving once again that you should never doubt the broad cross-market appeal of Hunter Hearst Helmsley.

Read the entire report at MTV.com.

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