Bruce Springsteen lands his 10th #1 album with Wrecking Ball, which allows him to both tie and surpass Elvis Presley. These two legends now share the record for most #1 albums by a male rock solo artist. So, in what way does Springsteen surpass Presley? Springsteen has lived to see all 10 of his #1 albums. Only Presley's first nine #1 albums (from 1956's Elvis Presley through 1973's Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite) occurred in his lifetime. The 10th, Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits, came 25 years after his death.

Two artists have had even more #1 albums than The Boss and The King. The Beatles lead the pack with 19 #1 albums. Jay-Z is in second place with 12.

Remember when Lady Gaga took some flak last May because digital copies of her then-new album, Born This Way, were sold for just 99 cents for two days at Amazon's MP3 store? The album sold more copies in one week than any album had in more than six years, but because some of them were sold for about the price of a candy bar or a newspaper, it diminished the achievement.

That almost seems like a steep price in light of bargain-basement pricing of 25 cents offered in the past week by Google Play (and matched by AmazonMP3) on digital copies of such hit albums as Now 41, Lady Antebellum's Own The Night, Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto, Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV and Drake's Take Care.

You may remember that Billboard altered its chart policy last fall in the wake of the Gaga incident. So you may be thinking that these 25 cent sales won't count toward this week's Billboard 200 chart (which will be released on Wednesday). Actually, unless Billboard rewrites its policy again in midst of this tracking week (which it almost never does), these sales will count.

"We Are Young" by fun. featuring Janelle Monae jumps to #1 in its 11th week on the Hot 100. The song received two tremendous boosts from high-profile TV shows. It was featured on Glee on Dec. 6 and was used in a TV commercial on the Super Bowl on Feb. 5.

A version of the song by the Glee Cast debuted and peaked at #12 on the Hot 100 in December, the same week that the fun. version debuted at #53. The fun. version dropped off the Hot 100 after two appearances, but it re-entered the chart in January. The subsequent Super Bowl usage (in an ad for Chevrolet's Sonic) really kicked the song into high gear. The song has sold 1,133,000 million copies in the four full sales weeks since the Super Bowl, which is 77% of its total to date of 1,480,000.

Three Whitney Houston albums crowd the top 10 on The Billboard 200. Houston is one of just six artists to have three or more of the 10 best-selling albums in the U.S. since August 1963, when Billboard merged separate mono and stereo charts into one comprehensive listing. (Coincidentally, that was also the month that Houston was born.) The five other artists to achieve this feat are Peter, Paul & Mary, The Beatles, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Simon & Garfunkel and Michael Jackson.

This makes Houston the first woman to achieve the feat, and the second (solo) star to achieve it posthumously. As happened after Jackson's death three years ago, fans are looking for a keepsake of a star they loved (or once loved). A CD is ideal for this purpose.

Davy Jones' death on Wednesday has put a spotlight on The Monkees, the group that was created to bring the spirit of the Beatles' 1964 movie A Hard Day's Night to network television. No one could have foreseen the success the Monkees would achieve. In 1967, the group became the only first and act in the history of the Billboard album chart (which dates back to 1945) to put four albums at #1 in a calendar year. Even the Beatles never did this.

The group's debut album, The Monkees was #1 for the first five weeks of the year (it had also been #1 for the last eight weeks of 1966). It was followed in the top spot by More Of The Monkees, which remained at #1 for 18 weeks (giving the group a remarkable 31-week lock on the top spot). After a solitary week in which the group was not #1, it returned to the top spot in June with its third album, Headquarters. That album had just one week on top (it spent the next 11 weeks mired at #2 behind the Beatles' blockbuster, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band). The Monkees spent the last five weeks of 1967 back in the top spot with its fourth album, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.

Of the hundreds of songs that have been released by artists who got their start on American Idol, Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" this week becomes the first to log three weeks at #1 on the Hot 100. The song accomplishes the feat by rebounding from #4, where it had fallen last week, back into the lead. (The song was covered last week on Glee, which tends to give a boost to the original version.)

Three songs by Idol contestants have each logged two weeks at #1: Clarkson's "A Moment Like This" (2002) and "My Life Would Suck Without You" (2009) and Clay Aiken's "This Is The Night" (2003).

Between them, Whitney Houston and Adele have half of the albums in the top 10 on the Billboard 200. Houston has three. The Greatest Hits holds at #2, The Bodyguard soundtrack vaults from #38 to #6 and Whitney Houston leaps from #37 to #9. This is the best showing by any artist since the Beatles had five of the 10 best-selling albums in the U.S. in September 2009, after their catalog was digitally remastered. Two months before that, Michael Jackson had six of the 10 best-selling albums in the U.S. (for two weeks running) in the wake of his death.

Adele has two albums in the top 10. 21 holds at #1 for the 22nd week. 19 drops from #4 to #7. For 21, this is the longest run at #1 by any album since Prince & the Revolution's Purple Rain soundtrack logged 24 weeks on top in 1984-1985. 21 is #1 for the ninth week in a row. It's the first album to log nine consecutive weeks at #1 since the Titanic soundtrack was on top for 16 straight weeks in 1998.

Female solo artists hold down seven of the top 10 spots on this week's Hot 100. Katy Perry leads the charge as "Part Of Me" debuts at #1 with first-week sales of 411K. Adele has three songs in the top 10 (a first for a female lead artist) in the first full week following her Grammy sweep. Whitney Houston, Kelly Clarkson and Nicki Minaj are also listed in the top 10. A female-led collabo, "We Found Love" by Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris, brings the tally up to eight.

Here's another indication of how dominant women are in pop these days. Five of the last six songs to enter the Hot 100 at #1 are by female solo artists: Britney Spears (twice), Ke$ha, Lady Gaga and now Perry.  The only male artist to debut at #1 in the last five years is Eminem.

Only one song by a female solo artist has had a greater first-week digital sales tally than "Part Of Me" rang up this week. Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" started with sales of 448K a year ago. (Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me" also bowed with