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The show has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers. The series won the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series—Musical or Comedy and received three additional nominations for Best Actress (Lea Michele), Best Actor (Matthew Morrison), and Best Supporting Actress (Jane Lynch). The show won a People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Comedy in 2010. Its first season also earned a Peabody Award. It received a comedy writing award at the Just for Laughs conference in Montreal in July 2010.[3] It won four Emmy Awards including Outstanding Supporting Actress – Jane Lynch, Outstanding Guest Actor for Neil Patrick Harris and Outstanding Direction of a Comedy Series for Ryan Murphy's direction of the pilot episode. It was also nominated for 15 other Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Actress – (Lea Michele), Outstanding Actor – (Matthew Morrison), Outstanding Supporting Actor – (Chris Colfer), Outstanding Guest Actress – Kristin Chenoweth, and Outstanding Guest Actor for Mike O'Malley. It also received one writing nomination and one other nomination for directing.

Lipsynching

Are all routines recorded in a music studio and lipsynched during choreographed routines? Ricky Martin definitely looked that way yesterday.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 16:54, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, all songs are lip-synced to studio recordings, as is Hollywood tradition. But don't worry, they are lip-syncing to their own pre-recorded voices. - Jasonbres (talk) 17:04, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cast are also a musical act/group.

They go on tours to perform and release musical material. Together they have broken some records already. Don't they also qualify as a "musical act" or a group as well? After all they are all recording artists right? They're not just actors. Bleubeatle (talk) 23:01, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Glee song sales

Is there an article that lists which Glee songs have sold the most on iTunes?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 03:04, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't run across anything like that lately. You might want to try a specific search, as that data might well exist in a specialized article. However, by definition, first week sales of Glee Cast singles are iTunes sales, since iTunes has exclusive one-week release of singles starting the day an episode is broadcast. The only exception to this is if a song is released on an album the same days as the single, or even prior to—some albums or EPs have been released a week before the episode airs. Off the top of my head, "Teenage Dream" is first at 214,000 (actually, it's a Tuesday through Sunday total starting the day of broadcast and going through the end of the Billboard week), followed by "Loser Like Me" at 210,000, and then the original "Don't Stop Believin'" in the 180s; these are, not coincidentally, the three songs that have made the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. All three did even better on the Billboard Digital Songs list, since their Hot 100 rating was based almost entirely on digital sales. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:35, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Is there like a fan page to submit song themes. Suppose I would like to see a show of James Bond theme songs when the movie comes out in the fall. Could I suggest that somewhere?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:12, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No idea. You might have luck somewhere in the corners of the official Fox Glee site. They have pages for fans there, and one might include suggestions. I gather that Ryan Murphy makes the ultimate decisions about what songs are used, and he and Falchuk and Brennan decide about special theme shows. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:29, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Google Scholar sources

I haven't had a chance to sift through these entries just yet, but in case anyone wanted a bunch of great sources to help flesh out the article, heres the page of reults for Glee - not as easy as it looks by the way, as the search had to be narrowed down to only relate to the Fox TV show. It's still not perfect, but I was okay with keeping false positives if it meant keeping all the useful sources :)--Coin945 (talk) 09:59, 26 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Jonathan Coulton

Glee performed a cover of Baby Got Back that many have claimed is just a rip-off of Jonathan Coulton's cover of the same song. It's not just a few people. Much of the internet (and Coulton himself) are abuzz with claims. I understand the situation is still in the early stages of development, but even if it turns out to be bogus, shouldn't the accusation of the similarities between the two songs be in the article? Riffraff913 (talk) 14:23, 19 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A section called controversies should be added to include both Jonathan Coulton and Pedra Haden who Glee may have also ripped off in their pilot episode. 69.43.88.2 (talk) 15:17, 19 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is mentioned in the reception section of the article and that is perfectly fine. We don't need to create a controversy section.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 17:08, 19 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Having repeated issues of the same controversial practice represented by a single throwaway line about a single event, clipped on at the end of "Music" section, could be viewed as an attempt to hide and misrepresent such practices.

Jonathan Coulton incident is not the first time this show was criticized for its "liberal understanding of copyright".

Or should we call it stealing, piracy, intellectual murder or whatever the buzzword is today?

Besides Jonathan Coulton there had AT THE VERY LEAST been two more cases of controversial use of other people's intellectual property by the producers of the show. The above mentioned Pedra Haden's case and the case of Greg Laswell.

http://www.pleasewelcomeyourjudges.com/2011/11/greg-laswell-not-glee-ful-about.html

http://www.avclub.com/articles/jonathan-coulton-says-glee-ripped-off-his-cover-of,91305/

None of those are mentioned in the wiki article, when clearly they should be.

Also, the number of repeated controversial cases, along with the other kind of controversies already mentioned in the article, clearly warrants the need for a separate section for controversies.--92.36.134.212 (talk) 06:19, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]