Radio Gaga: Tony Bennett is 1 at 88

WHEN IT comes to statistics and sales in the music business, it's all about context.

According to Billboard, 88-year-old Tony Bennett has broken his own record as the oldest living artist to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart when his latest, "Cheek to Cheek," partnering him with Lady Gaga, ascended to the top spot.

"Cheek to Cheek," featuring the duo performing a selection of Tin Pan Alley classics, helped Bennett, at 88, beat the previous record holder . . . Bennett, at 85, and his 2011 "Duets" recording.

The new Bennett/Gaga CD barely beat out Kenny Chesney's "Big Revival," which entered the chart at No. 2 with sales of 130,000.

Here's why all this info has to be taken with a grain of salt. There's no question that Bennett is 88, and scoring a No. 1 record at that age is impressive no matter what the rules are, but the advantage that oldtimers, like Bennett, last week's No. 1 Barbra Streisand and previous first-time No. 1's "Weird Al" Yankovic and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have is that their demographic still buys albums.

In a summer in which Sia debuted at No. 1 with 52,000 albums sold, Lecrae scored a No. 1 with 88,000 and Wiz Khalifa had his first No. 1 at 90,000, AARP acts like Petty and Bennett topped the charts with 131,000 albums sold, and Streisand's No. 1 debuted with 196,000 sold, almost as many as male hottie du jour Ed Sheeran sold with "x."

Granted, none of these acts is 5 Seconds of Summer or One Direction when it comes to album sales, and the new Taylor Swift will likely blow everyone out of the water, but the takeaway is that if you have a longtime following and release your album during the right week, you, too, can debut at No. 1.

All that said, congrats to Tony Bennett, still going strong 62 years after his first album.

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