Glee is a musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States. It touches on the high school Glee club New
Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its
members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues. The unique
characteristic is that the series features numerous song covers sung
onscreen by the characters. Several albums were relished to accompany
the four seasons with the show's musical performances being a commercial
success.In Fact, over twenty-one million copies of Glee cast single releases purchased digitally, and over nine million albums purchased worldwide.
In 2009, the Glee cast had 25 singles chart on the Billboard
Hot 100, the most by any artist since The Beatles had 31 songs in the
chart in 1964.In February 2011, Glee surpassed Elvis as the artist with
the most songs placed on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, though fewer than
one-fourth have charted for more than one week. The cast performance
of "Don't Stop Believing'" was certified gold in November 2009 achieving
over 500,000 digital sales. The series' cover versions had a positive
effect on sales of Rihanna's "Take a Bow" increasing by 189 percent
after the song was covered in the Glee episode "Showmance".
Fans of Glee are commonly referred to as "gleeks", a portmanteau of "glee" and "geek". Fox ran a "Biggest GLEEK" competition, measuring fans' Glee-related
activity on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace,
and found that the growth of the fanbase outpaced the network's
science-fiction shows. The cast's Hot Topic tour was titled "The Gleek Tour". Glee is one of the most tweeted-about TV shows. Fans have recreated many of its musical numbers in tribute to the show, sharing them on YouTube.
Considering
that the 2nd season has just finished, all you have to do is to wait
100 days for the new episodes and songs performed by the talented Glee
cast.
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