Buzzfeed recently published a list entitled 21 Thoughts You Have When Your Friend's Dad Is Hot (entry number nine: "I wonder if he'd let me do a little dance for him. Ya know, something simple").
"It has come a long way," Helen Shipp, president of the Orange County Black Historical Commission, said of the parade, which her group has sponsored since its inception, when the entries numbered eight.
There was another new entry at number two in the top-selling albums, with Turn Blue by American rockers the Black Keys.
"It was three years solid work but so worth it!" He pipped rapper Frank Ocean, a member of US hip-hop collective Odd Future, who was a new entry at number two with his first solo album, Channel Orange, selling just 3,000 copies less than Write It On Your Skin.
Rod Stewart's festive album Merry Christmas Baby was a new entry at number two.
There is another new entry at number two, Green Day's Uno, the first of a trilogy of albums.
The Rolling Stones beat Faithless's latest release The Dance, which was a new entry at number two on the albums rundown.
Three of the five highest new entries are from the new super-regulator - David Currie, this year's highest new entry at number three, chief executive Stephen Carter at eight, and its deputy chairman, Richard Hooper, at number 20.
Dark Water, Walter Salles's English-language overhaul of the Japanese horror classic, was the week's second highest new entry at number four ($10.1m).
Heat editor Lucie Cave said: One Direction will be thrilled to hear that they've burst into Heat's Rich List as the highest new entry at number five.
