{"id":29685,"date":"2024-06-07T15:06:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T15:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-7-1975-elton-johns-captain-fantastic-becomes-the-first-album-to-debut-at-1\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T15:06:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T15:06:51","slug":"on-this-day-june-7-1975-elton-johns-captain-fantastic-becomes-the-first-album-to-debut-at-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-7-1975-elton-johns-captain-fantastic-becomes-the-first-album-to-debut-at-1\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, June 7, 1975: Elton John\u2019s &#8216;Captain Fantastic&#8217; becomes the first album to debut at #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-07\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, June 7, 1975 \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Elton John<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">became the first album in history to debut at #1 on the\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">chart. The album remained at #1 for seven weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The record, Elton\u2019s ninth studio album, included the classic \u201cSomeone Saved My Life Tonight,\u201d inspired by Elton\u2019s near marriage to his then-girlfriend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album was certified Gold by the RIAA before its May 19 release and went on to sell 1.4 million copies in its first four days of release.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album also went on to spawn the 2006 sequel,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Captain and the Kid.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In total, Elton has had seven #1 albums in the U.S., his last one coming in 2002 with the compilation <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Greatest Hits 1970-2002.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, June 7, 1975 \u2026 Elton John\u2019s\u00a0Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy\u00a0became the first album in history to debut at #1 on the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0chart. The album remained at #1 for seven weeks. The record, Elton\u2019s ninth studio album, included the classic \u201cSomeone Saved My Life Tonight,\u201d inspired by<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-7-1975-elton-johns-captain-fantastic-becomes-the-first-album-to-debut-at-1\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}