What's a #1 Record? / Justin Bieber Watch

So it came out last week that indie band The National scored a #3 record on the Billboard 200 Albums chart by selling 51,000 copies of their latest record, "High Violet."  This seems to us to be both a) great for them and b) a shockingly low number to be able to score #3 on the chart.  It seems that albums don't sell millions of copies anymore, let alone hundreds of thousands.  As a kid, I remember looking at those charts and seeing what records had turned platinum, gold and so forth; it doesn't seem like anyone's achieving those sorts of numbers anymore.  There are probably a million reasons for all that, but the interesting bit about this is that even a band on an indie label like 4AD can rocket to the top of the chart and get noticed. 

Of course, the person keeping them out of the #1 slot is the now-legendary subject of our fascination, Justin Bieber.  Justin had the baffling honor of being nominated for a BET award in the "Best New Artist" category, as BET considers him a crossover artist:
http://new.music.yahoo.com/justin-bieber/news/justin-bieber-among-black-entertainment-nominees--62001833

In other Bieber news, this new blog about Bieber lookalikes... well, as Elvis once said, "It will fascinate you."
http://lesbianswholooklikejustinbieber.tumblr.com/