 His five-album deal was worth $8 million. Back then, that was the biggest advance in history in the record industry. After that, Stevie re-signed with Motown for $13 million. And that was just, it was huge. Anyway, and in 1974, years before that, Elton John started a two-week run at number one. With his eighth studio release, Caribou, his third number one album,