Three weeks ago, Charice outdid Beyonce’s original version of “Listen” when her cover of the same song charted higher in the Billboard Hot 100. It’s a good thing Glee decided to release her amazing performance as a single immediately after the episode’s airing since this is actually Charice’s highest charting solo entry to the Billboard Hot 100 chart at no. 38 (her hit, “Pyramid” peaked at no.1 in the Billboard Dance chart); while her “Telephone” duet with Glee co-star, Lea Michele, charted at no. 23.
Recordbreaking
To the people behind Glee, Charice’s “Listen” is just one of the many song covers that the Glee stars have already done that took the charts by storm. Last October 7, 2010, BBC reported that Glee has already knocked down the Beatles’ record of 71 placements in the Hot 100 chart. Overall, Glee’s in third place behind Elvis Presley with 108 and James Brown with 91. If the current trend of at least 2 Glee covers charting in Billboard per episode continues, then Elvis’ record of 108 might just be beaten by next year.
And it’s not only single sales that Glee is dominating in. The five compilation albums that Glee has released have already achieved over 1.8 million sales. Jo Piazza from popeater.com puts this into perspective by emphasizing that on the average, only four albums a year goes over the million copies mark. Add to this the fact that a Glee album is cheaper to produce than an original album of a famous artist, even if Glee needs to pay for the license of the song and the artist’s royalty fees.
Plus, Keith Caulfield perfectly says it, “the complete album package is irresistible to ‘Glee’ fans because it is nothing but hits…so you know you will like the album as opposed to buying a new album where the consumer is taking a chance with their dollar on something they might not entirely enjoy.”
Groundbreaking
Surprisingly, Glee has not yet lost steam after a massively successful first season, when just a while back, critics were unsure that Glee would even last for a full first season. Leave it to the people at Fox for a never before seen marketing campaign, as detailed here in CNN. After a sneak peak of the pilot episode Fox had to work hard to maintain interest for four months until the series’ premiere. “To help maintain the buzz, it delved into social networking, maintained a strong online presence, dispatched the show’s actors to malls across the country and held a fan contest,” CNN’s Lisa Respers said.
Glee’s risky marketing strategy coupled with its new TV formula of musical, dark comedy, and drama, is really paying off, even now in its second season. It had just scored its highest audience rating yet with the Britney Spears tribute, the second episode of season two.
Charice and Glee
With Charice’s casting as the exchange student, Sunshine Corazon, Glee’s rabid fans and large audience share might just be the thing to help propel Charice into mainstream America’s radar. Gleeks all over the world will definitely hear more from Charice as she returns in episode six, as part of the rival glee club, Vocal Adrenaline.
Hopefully, Charice benefits from the huge popularity of Glee just as her singing adds something new and incredible to this wonderfully fresh show. So Chasters, are you gleeful that Charice is part of this trendsetting show? Are you newly converted Gleeks? Or are you still waiting for Glee to live up to all the hype? Tell us what you think! Just leave a comment below.
By Sofia Carrera, charicemania.com
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Well, the next question is when will Charice really re-appear in Glee. All web sources including this article got wired and busted in announcing Ep6 as her next appearance. What seems to be the reason why there’s a news black out involving from the Glee management? Did she recorded some episodes when she returned to USA after her Asian Tour with DF? She claimed this before but surprisingly, she returned to Manila for an unscheduled one-week vacation. No clear cut news after that…..
Any scoops and spoilers for this matter?….anyone.
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guys, all of u are right!!!
this is the fact, glee is a popular tv show but not for all. i heard that show but i was not interested to watch. but when charice got in, i am so crazily looking for the way how can i watch this tv program which we dont have like this channel here in saudi arabia. i am just searching youtube if there i anyone who post every episode. i love charice the way she sings…
so, i will support her in anyway…
so this is what it looks like. glee is a huge tv program, but they need charice to make a better show. i mean their concept as of now is to find rival of the main cast (lea) so, she is perfect to the role. for charice, she really needs this show to make here more popular!!!
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Glee is fun. can’t wait for the ep 6. wheww!
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but definitely in love with them both!
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FYI glee is known for covering great songs.
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@THEO
By ‘walking KARAOKE’ did you mean:
A) she still sings a lot of COVER SONGS
B) she just sings whatever song she’s told in any given gig where she was brought to and after she’s handed the mic, waits for music then execute. Then, leaves the stage after being done.
C) BOTH A & B
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Why people can’t accept the fact that Glee doesn’t need Charice, but Charice needs Glee. Even she will not join Glee still the show is huge. Proof is 19 Emmy nominations. There are lots of more popular actors out there who will come and grace the show. Can you imagine if Justin Timberlake, Celine Dione, Mariah Carey and other so-called Superstars agreed to guest on this very popular show. And they can sing too! Charice’s career has just started (it’s a fact), so no need to brag about not watching Glee if Charice wasn’t there.
Let’s just be grateful and thankful to the Glee creators who gave her this rare chance to show to the whole world her amazing talent.
Hope my english is OK.
I LOVE GLEE, GLEE IS FUN!!!
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excuse my typo…
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G L E E F U L Yes I am !!!
G L E E F U L for Charice !!!
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Both will benefit from each other.
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I can still remember when we stormed Jojo’s Top9of9 show just to help Charice to be on the No.1 spot and we succeeded! We promoted Charice on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube because we love her and we want the world to recognize her incredible talent. That’s what the real Chasters do. Our princess knew how it feels being embarassed and being turned down. For sure, she wouldn’t allow us to hurt other artists/performers.
She’s now a gLee star! Let’s welcome gLeeKs-turned-new-Chasters!
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Another subject, just found out Charice will be performing in Los Angeles area for FREE at the Citadel Outlets in the City of Commerce
with Cody Simpson at 5 pm. on Saturday Nov. 20, 2010. This is the link to Citadel Outlet page:
http://mallimages.mallfinder.com/poolB/citadelOutlets/Untitled2.jpg
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I can’t wait to see episode 6 when Charice returns.
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Many people in my part of the world (South Central U.S.)do not know Charice yet, I can assure you. However, I have yet to find someone who is not familiar with Glee. Add it up, if I am a Glee fan wanting to know more about Charice, here is where I come. Can Chasters say the same about Glee? How many have visited Glee’s fan sites to learn about Fox’s No. 1 ranked show?
Chasters MUST recognize that you cannot say something derogatory without hurting Charice’s popularity with a nationwide audience of 15 million people.
And to say “I am not watching Glee unless Charice is on” is derogatory toward Glee…..my two cents.
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@ Max – How did you know that many people in your part of USA do not know Charice? Did you conduct some sort of house to house verification as to whether or not they know Charice? The mere fact that you come from the same area and know Charice only disproves your statement. I agree with you though that GLEE as we all know is a very popular TV show in America. As such, Charice addition to the show, even only on a recurring role, certainly provides Charice greater exposure to GLEE viewership as far as USA is concerned. But we have to admit that to some extent Charice’s appearance on GLEE also brought additional viewership for GLEE. It might interest you to know that Yahoo! reported a phenomenal surge of Yahoo searches for GLEE to over 500% on and after the day of the showing of the first episode of season 2 where Charice first appeared. Common sense would dictate that these searches emanated from the CIA (Charice Internet Army) outside of USA. Take note that GLEE is not well known outside of America. Btw, Charicemania is not busting its butt trying to recruit new fans for Charice. Charice herself auditioned for GLEE and Mr. Murphy, GLEE’s creator smelled the star on her and got her for a GLEE role. What followed next is history.
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