RECORDS AND FACTS

• The Writing’s On The Wall debuted at #6 on the Billboard 200 Album chart.
  Nine months after its release, the album was #5 on the chart, having just
  experienced its best sales week ever.More than a year after the album’s
  release, The Writing’s On The Wall was still in the Top 20 (#11), selling
  upwards of 70,000 units per week.In the first year of its release, The Writing’s
  On The Wall spent 47 out of 52 weeks in the Top 40 or better of the Billboard
  200 Album chart
• The week of October 24, 2000, Destiny’s Child had two singles on the Billboard
  Hot 100 Airplay chart: “Independent Women Part I” at #9, reaching
  65 million listeners & “Jumpin Jumpin” at #5, reaching 75
  million listeners.
• In 2000, Destiny’s Child had three #1 records on the Billboard Hot 100:
  “Bills, Bills, Bills,” “Say My Name,” and “Independent
  Women Part I.”
• At the end of November 2000, during its fourth straight week at #1 on
  the Billboard Hot 100 chart, Destiny’s Child’s “Independent Women Part
  I” also reached the largest audience (140.4 million listeners) in the
  history of monitored airplay, breaking the record set in May 1999 by TLC’s
  “No Scrubs.”
• When “Independent Women Part I” hit #1 on the U.K. charts, Destiny’s
  Child became the first American all-female group to hold that position since
  1989, when the Bangles hit it with “Eternal Flame.”
• With “Independent Women Part I,’ Destiny’s Child became the first
  American all-female group ever to debut at #1 on the U.K. charts.

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