Miley Cyrus Makes History

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From Billboard.com:

THE STATE OF 'MONTANA': "Hannah Montana" isn't the first fictional character to appear on a Billboard chart, but the teenage singer portrayed by Miley Cyrus in the Disney Channel series of the same name is the first act to have six songs debut on The Billboard Hot 100 in the same week.

Just as "Sugar, Sugar" was released under the name the Archies and not Ron Dante and Toni Wine, the songs performed by Cyrus on the TV soundtrack are credited to the character of Hannah Montana. There is a duet on the soundtrack credited to Miley and her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, but that song, "I Learned From You" is not one of the seven "Hannah Montana" songs appearing on this week's chart.

You read that number right -- while six singles make their debut, another song from the album, "Who Said," makes a re-entry at No. 83 after debuting at No. 92 the week of Aug. 5 and falling off the chart the following week. The highest-ranked of the six Montana songs is the Hot Shot Debut: "If We Were a Movie" (Walt Disney) opens at No. 47. The other Montana debuts are:

"I Got Nerve," No. 67
"Pumpin' Up the Party," No. 81
"The Other Side of Me," No. 84
"This Is the Life," No. 89
"Just Like You," No. 99

The Beatles had three songs debut at once, as did Elvis Presley. While having seven "Hannah Montana" songs on the survey at the same time is impressive, it doesn't beat the 14 songs the Beatles charted in one week, or the nine Presley songs that charted simultaneously.

On The Billboard 200, the "Hannah Montana" soundtrack enters the chart at No. 1, the first TV soundtrack to do so. It is the first TV soundtrack to achieve pole position since "High School Musical" topped the chart earlier this year. While "High School Musical" was also on the Walt Disney imprint, it was a soundtrack to a TV movie. That makes "Hannah Montana" the first soundtrack from a TV series to reach No. 1 since "Miami Vice" in 1985-86. "Hannah Montana" is only the third soundtrack to a TV series to rule the Billboard album chart. The first No. 1 soundtrack to a TV series was "The Music from Peter Gunn" by Henry Mancini in 1959.