Thursday, May 21, 2026

Fans Show RESPECT to Aretha: Three Singles Hit iTunes Top 100, Greatest Hits Number 6 on Album Chart

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The reason I wrote my story on Saturday night about Aretha Franklin’s health crisis was simply to instigate a flood of messages of love for this remarkable woman. I am so thrilled by the response. Twitter is brimming over with messages to Aretha. Today she had visits from Stevie Wonder and from one of her two ex-husbands, actor Glynn Turman.

Now three of Aretha’s hits from the 1960s have hit the iTunes Top 100 Singles: “Respect,” “I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You),” and “I Say a Little Prayer.”

Additionally, Aretha’s greatest hits album is number 6 on iTunes’ album chart.

Over at amazon, it’s a similar story. Many of her albums and singles have popped up on the respective digital and physical charts.

What a stunning tribute to Aretha, the greatest singer of our time, an outstanding human being who blazed so many trails. I’m sure she feels the love.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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