On June 6, 2009, the 'Glee' cast's 'Don't Stop Believin'' bowed at No. 4 on the Hot 100, marking the act's first of a record 207 total entries.
, nearly a year after the Fox series’ cast made its chart debut. Wrote Ann Donahue that issue, “Still in its first season, the program has sucked in young fans with its inventive mix of musical-theater brio, pop-chart savvy and outsider empathy.”dated June 6, 2009, the troupe’s covers of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’ ” and Amy Winehouse’s “Rehab” entered at Nos. 4 and 98, respectively, the former with a hefty 177,000 downloads sold in the U.S. in the tracking week, according to Luminate.
“I remember I talked to Dante Di Loreto and Ryan Murphy and said, ‘If all works well, we should see records in the top 10 and we should sell albums,’” Geoff Bywater, then-head of the music department at 20th Century Fox Television, said in the 2010Any such doubts were extinguished over the show’s nearly-six-year run . In addition to its Hot 100 haul , thealbum chart entries, 14 of which hit the top 10, including three No. 1s. Its to-date U.S. album sales stand at 8 million.
The series also received 22 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, winning four. Among series regulars, Lynch was honored for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series and Murphy won for outstanding directing for a comedy series, while stars Chris Colfer, Dot-Marie Jones, Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison and Mike O’Malley earned nominations., a high among cast members on their own, after Morrison had reached No. 24 in May 2011 with his self-titled set.
Fifteen years after its premiere, the show’s fandom endures, in part on platforms that didn’t exist when it originally aired. After reaching No. 93 on the Hot 100 in May 2010, the cast’s “Rose’s Turn,” sung by Colfer, bounded to No. 3 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 this March. Fan fervor among “Gleeks” was evident from the start, Bywater recalled in 2010. “We saw it in the in-stores we did in the beginning of the project. We did a Hot Topic tour right after the pilot, and there were 3-, 4-, 500 people. Within a couple of months, we were talking 1,500 people outside the Borders in New York.
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