GT&D: Billboard Magazine 2005 "Top Blues Artist" and "Top Blues Album"

Can't find any sources for this other than this one...not even on Billboard's site, but it's big news!

With the new album and tour heating up, the band’s career retrospective GEORGE THOROGOOD: 30 YEARS OF ROCK has been certified Gold by the R.I.A.A. and was just named the #1 top Blues Album of the year by Billboard magazine, which also crowned the band the #1 Top Blues Artist of 2005. Featuring hits from throughout the brash and iconic Destroyers’ illustrious 30 years in the music business, the album has been a chart fixture since its May 18, 2004 release, holding the #1 spot for 42 weeks in 2005, and it’s still #1 on the current Blues chart.

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