With six debuts on the Billboard Hot 100 dated Oct. 16, to be released Thursday (Oct. 7), the cast of Fox's "Glee" will pass the Beatles for most appearances among non-solo acts in the chart's 52-year history.

The "Glee" cast will up their sum to 75 Hot 100 chart entries, surpassing the Beatles' 71 charted titles. The series' actor/singers bow with five covers of Britney Spears songs, as well as Paramore's "The Only Exception," as performed on last week's (Sept. 28) episode.

The cast's update of Spears' "Toxic" will arrive as the Hot 100's highest debut (No. 16), having sold 109,000 downloads in its first week of availability, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The song will also bow on the Digital Songs survey at No. 9. Collectively, the six tracks sold 406,000 downloads.

The Beatles tallied their 71 Hot 100 titles between 1964 and 1996. With Fox and Columbia Records having released multiple songs to digital retailers following each episode of "Glee," the series' cast will have passed the Fab Four's chart output in one year, four months and two weeks.

The "Glee" cast will claim the third-most appearances among all acts since the Hot 100 launched in August 1958 as the premier survey gauging songs' U.S. popularity. Only Elvis Presley (108 charted titles) and James Brown (91) rank ahead of the ensemble. The troupe will additionally pass the sums of Ray Charles (74) and Aretha Franklin (73).

The Beatles' songbook has aided the "Glee" cast's Hot 100 haul, with the latter act having peaked at No. 49 in May with a cover of the Beatles' 1967 No. 1, "Hello Goodbye." Another Beatles' remake will likely debut on the Hot 100 next week: the cast's cover of "I Want to Hold Your Hand," which premiered on last night's (Oct. 5) episode.

The "Glee" cast has sold 11.5 million downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Its remake of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'," from the series' pilot episode, is its best-seller (992,000 downloads). The song has tallied the highest Hot 100 peak (No. 4) and spent the most weeks (seven) of any "Glee" cast charted title.

(Largely due to the availability of new releases accompanying each new episode, only 14 of the "Glee" cast's recordings through last week have spent more than one week on the Hot 100. Through the Oct. 16 ranking, the cast's titles have totaled 105 cumulative chart weeks. The Beatles' Hot 100 catalog amounts to a combined 617 chart weeks. The Beatles additionally boast 34 Hot 100 top 10s, compared to the "Glee" performers' one).

The "Glee" cast has sold 2.8 million albums, with three sets having topped the Billboard 200 album chart: "Glee: the Music, the Power of Madonna (EP)," "Glee: the Music, Volume 3: Showstoppers" and "Glee: the Music, Journey to Regionals."

Here is a recap of the acts with the most appearances on the Billboard Hot 100 through the chart dated Oct. 16:

108, Elvis Presley

91, James Brown

75, "Glee" Cast

74, Ray Charles

73, Aretha Franklin

71, the Beatles

67, Elton John

64, Lil Wayne

63, Stevie Wonder

61, Jay-Z

(Billboard.com)

OK Armageddon is definitely upon us...

whitesockedfunk said:

OK Armageddon is definitely upon us...

Yeah, this makes me a little sad. Not because it involves the Beatles. Rather, because it's Glee. I don't get it. But I guess I may be in he minority in that regard.

Fuck a Glee.

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Timmy84 said:

Fuck a Glee.

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Timmy84 said:

Fuck a Glee.

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Glee sucks ass. It's a shame because the creator also did Nip/Tuck which is one of my favorite shows of all time. The acting is Disney-Channel-terrible and all of the singing is auto-tuned. Listening to auto-tuned karaoke doesn't interest me at all. I think off-key notes sound better than auto-tuned ones.

Yaaaaay! I'm not alone!

I watched one episode of Glee and couldn't get into it at all. Maybe it's my age (38) but I hated the Sue Sylvester character and thought the rest of them bursting out into songs by Journey, etc was incredibly cheesy. I would NEVER buy a Glee CD or download; not even if it was Prince songs they were butchering.

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Wowugotit said:

I watched one episode of Glee and couldn't get into it at all. Maybe it's my age (38) but I hated the Sue Sylvester character and thought the rest of them bursting out into songs by Journey, etc was incredibly cheesy. I would NEVER buy a Glee CD or download; not even if it were Prince songs they were butchering.

yeah i tried to watch two episodes but the manipulating wife and the Jane Lynch character got on my nerves too much.

FYI, that means they are better than the Beatles

NDRU said:

FYI, that means they are better than the Beatles

They ain't better than my nutsack.

"Yesterday" owns them bastards.

They're breaking all the chart records with nothing original?

It's all cover songs? Lame.

I actually liked much of the first season of Glee, but it looks like it's already jumping the shark. Ever since the Madonna tribute episode, the producers have been more focused on what huge star's songbook they can cover at the expense of the storyline. Now I'm not expecting the show to be on the level of Lost, Mad Men, or even Two and a Half Men, but they need to get their focus back on advancing the storyline before the show devolves into a steaming pile of crap.

I don't care what anyone says, Glee is ridiculous, over-the-top fun. Love it! It's like everything good about American Idol without any of the crap. Some of the covers aren't great, but most of them are pretty well done. I still say Amber Lewis did a better job singing "Hate on Me" than Jill Scott did.

AlexdeParis said:

I don't care what anyone says, Glee is ridiculous, over-the-top fun. Love it! It's like everything good about American Idol without any of the crap. Some of the covers aren't great, but most of them are pretty well done. I still say Amber Lewis did a better job singing "Hate on Me" than Jill Scott did.

I probably don't dig it because I hate American Idol. Plus I hate people doing covers of songs and I hate musicals.

Vendetta1 said:

AlexdeParis said:

I don't care what anyone says, Glee is ridiculous, over-the-top fun. Love it! It's like everything good about American Idol without any of the crap. Some of the covers aren't great, but most of them are pretty well done. I still say Amber Lewis did a better job singing "Hate on Me" than Jill Scott did.

I probably don't dig it because I hate American Idol. Plus I hate people doing covers of songs and I hate musicals.

That ^^ , and I hated high school. I do like some OLDER musicals, though. And the occasional cover song. But for the most part I agree.

Cerebus said:

Vendetta1 said:

I probably don't dig it because I hate American Idol. Plus I hate people doing covers of songs and I hate musicals.

That ^^ , and I hated high school. I do like some OLDER musicals, though. And the occasional cover song. But for the most part I agree.

I hated high school, too.

AlexdeParis said:

I don't care what anyone says, Glee is ridiculous, over-the-top fun. Love it! It's like everything good about American Idol without any of the crap. Some of the covers aren't great, but most of them are pretty well done. I still say Amber Lewis did a better job singing "Hate on Me" than Jill Scott did.

You just gave me the reasons why I hate it.

chewymusic said:

They're breaking all the chart records with nothing original?

It's all cover songs? Lame.

To me it's not really even music.

Like the American Idol Performances. It is music, technically, but it wouldn't be popular without the television show attached to it.

Vendetta1 said:

Cerebus said:

That ^^ , and I hated high school. I do like some OLDER musicals, though. And the occasional cover song. But for the most part I agree.

I hated high school, too.

Fuck high school.

Vendetta1 said:

AlexdeParis said:

I don't care what anyone says, Glee is ridiculous, over-the-top fun. Love it! It's like everything good about American Idol without any of the crap. Some of the covers aren't great, but most of them are pretty well done. I still say Amber Lewis did a better job singing "Hate on Me" than Jill Scott did.

I probably don't dig it because I hate American Idol. Plus I hate people doing covers of songs and I hate musicals.

Oh, I hate American Idol as well (with a passion). But I liked seeing what songs people chose to sing when I watched the first 3 seasons.

I loved high school so much I work there. Now I get to laugh at crazy kids at work and at home!

AlexdeParis said:

Vendetta1 said:

I probably don't dig it because I hate American Idol. Plus I hate people doing covers of songs and I hate musicals.

Oh, I hate American Idol as well (with a passion). But I liked seeing what songs people chose to sing when I watched the first 3 seasons.

I loved high school so much I work there. Now I get to laugh at crazy kids at work and at home!

You work at a high school? God bless your heart.

Timmy84 said:

AlexdeParis said:

Oh, I hate American Idol as well (with a passion). But I liked seeing what songs people chose to sing when I watched the first 3 seasons.

I loved high school so much I work there. Now I get to laugh at crazy kids at work and at home!

You work at a high school? God bless your heart.

I'm a teacher. Best job ever!

AlexdeParis said:

Timmy84 said:

You work at a high school? God bless your heart.

I'm a teacher. Best job ever!

That's because you're teaching at a safe school.

Timmy84 said:

AlexdeParis said:

I'm a teacher. Best job ever!

That's because you're teaching at a safe school.

It's only really safe when the kids aren't there.

Is it wrong that I want to make a copy of one of those Glee pamphlets and sneak it into the guidance office? My favorite is Divorce: Why Your Parents Stopped Loving You.

AlexdeParis said:

Timmy84 said:

That's because you're teaching at a safe school.

It's only really safe when the kids aren't there.

Is it wrong that I want to make a copy of one of those Glee pamphlets and sneak it into the guidance office? My favorite is Divorce: Why Your Parents Stopped Loving You.

@ Glee pamphlets.

@ "it's really safe when the kids aren't there." No shit.

this show has managed to take Jane Lynch down a peg or two in my estimation. unthinkable.

Vendetta1 said:

Cerebus said:

That ^^ , and I hated high school. I do like some OLDER musicals, though. And the occasional cover song. But for the most part I agree.

I hated high school, too.

I'm sure I've told you this before, but I only went to one year of public high school. I did the final three years on independent study. I had the same teacher the whole time and she fuckin' rocked! (She also ended up being my sister's teacher after she got pregnant.... my sister... not the teacher...) The social games involved with high school just DID NOT work for me. I'd already been raising my sister, taking care of the house, working in the family meat stores and at the ranches as well as being a parent to my drunk mother and her equally abusive drunk boyfriend on the rare occasion that I actually saw them. The first time somebody gave me shit in high school... well, it didn't really work out how they had planned it. Neither did the second or third time. I ended up LOVING independent study, though (which thankfully gives you an actual diploma, not a half-assed "you passed a test" version). Me, my teacher and another of her students started a school paper and I ended up taking every math class the state of California offered, even though I didn't need to (wouldn't have been able to do that in regular high school). Anyway, babble, babble! The point is that I HATE shows about high school because that's JUST not the way it is. Particularly the breaking out in song part. Shit pisses me off.

Cerebus said:

Vendetta1 said:

I hated high school, too.

I'm sure I've told you this before, but I only went to one year of public high school. I did the final three years on independent study. I had the same teacher the whole time and she fuckin' rocked! (She also ended up being my sister's teacher after she got pregnant.... my sister... not the teacher...) The social games involved with high school just DID NOT work for me. I'd already been raising my sister, taking care of the house, working in the family meat stores and at the ranches as well as being a parent to my drunk mother and her equally abusive drunk boyfriend on the rare occasion that I actually saw them. The first time somebody gave me shit in high school... well, it didn't really work out how they had planned it. Neither did the second or third time. I ended up LOVING independent study, though (which thankfully gives you an actual diploma, not a half-assed "you passed a test" version). Me, my teacher and another of her students started a school paper and I ended up taking every math class the state of California offered, even though I didn't need to (wouldn't have been able to do that in regular high school). Anyway, babble, babble! The point is that I HATE shows about high school because that's JUST not the way it is. Particularly the breaking out in song part. Shit pisses me off.

A few of my teachers hated me because I would not go to their classes and then show up on test day and get the highest score in the class.