Honor Roll: Highlights & Records Achieved by the ‘Glee’ Cast on Hot 100, Billboard 200 & Other Charts

The “Glee” cast built a record-setting presence on Billboard charts through songs released alongside episodes of the Fox series, which ran from 2009 to 2015. The figures show how the show’s television audience translated into an unusually large number of chart entries and substantial listening and sales.

The cast amassed 207 Hot 100 entries, the most for a non-solo act, including 80 in 2010, a single-year record. Its songs have sold 48.4 million downloads in the United States and received 4.5 billion official US streams; the cast also leads the Digital Song Sales chart with 235 entries. The article reviews 10 chart achievements, including covers of 58 songs that had previously reached No. 1.