Katy Perry Makes Billboard History With Five No. 1 Hits From 'Teenage Dream' Album

Katy Perry Makes Billboard History With Five No. 1 Hits From a Single Album

This oft-cited fact is a bit misleading.

1. The list she topped has only been in existence since 1992. On the old Billboard list, MJ also had five #1 hits from Bad.

2. Going farther back in time, the Beatles could not have had five #1 from the same album because all the singles were released at the same time, so they had to compete against one another.

But ...

On April 4, 1964, the Beatles had all five of the top five. In other words, they had five hits that outsold every other artist, and they had them all at the same time, although they came from two different albums. (They had 14 of the top 100 songs during the following week.) Katy had also five hits that outsold every other pop artist, but they happened in sequence. Is that more impressive than the moptops, or less?