It wasn’t too long ago that Nashville became victim to a terrible flood and the city is still hard at work to rebuild all that has been damaged. Part of the relief effort was given a huge helping hand by Justin Bieber who was in town late last week to perform a concert at the Bridgestone Arena. Before the show, the teen pop singer presented a check to the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee for $31,620, which came from the ticket sales from his sold out show. As he handed his donation over, he said “I’m really glad to be here and to help out something that’s really important to me. Music has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember, and you know Nashville, there’s so much music history here.”
Gennaro Castaldo of HMV stores in the UK is of the belief that sales for Cheryl Cole’s next album will skyrocket after her split from cheating husband, football player Ashley Cole. I could have told you that. Some people are even saying that the album could even go straight to the top if people rally enough to support the Girls Aloud singer. It’s a good possibility and something to look forward to for Cheryl. However, if the music isn’t really that good, all those hopes of getting a number one would just go down the drain so I still wish her some good luck.
It looks like Steve Wynn really knew what he was doing when he offered Garth Brooks a place to perform at the Wynn in Las Vegas… and a personal jet. The singer’s first twenty shows sold-out in five hours at 125 dollars per ticket with no extra charges. Every singer is probably wishing they will be able to have as successful a return from retirement as Garth Brooks apparently has. Now all that remains to be seen is how he will do in his first show back… hopefully the strings from his guitar aren’t as rusty as one might expect. If they are, Steve Wynn is probably the one that’s going to get it.
Rocker Courtney Love has taken a leaf out of the hat of Radiohead and now wants to let her fans decide how much to pay for her forthcoming album. Courtney is currently busy putting the final touches to Nobody’s Daughter, her first album in five years.
She posted this message on her MySpace blog and wrote to her fans telling them: “There’s millions of people worldwide waiting on this record. Well, maybe, there’s 10! But in any case, I assume there are millions because in the past there have been millions. My strategy is to make it available to people in every country for free and for what you feel I deserve…”
I’ll give her $5 to block my IP so I CAN’T download it. My New Year’s resolution is that no matter what happens I would not listen to any kind extra-terrestrial crap artist like her have to offer.
Based on early sales last week, Britney Spears’ latest album ‘Circus’ was expected to debut with over 450,000 copies sold. It was up from the original prediction of around 300,000. But just as she’s been proving that miracles can happen, the recovered pop singer has surpassed the expectations. According to Hits Daily Double, Brit has now sold 504,507 copies of her newest album and has already made it to the top o the US album charts. Britney has outsold Kanye West and Beyonce by selling more albums in her first week than the other two artists did. Congratulations on a job well done.
Britney Spear’s new album “Circus” might make it big in the album charts with an estimated 450,000 copies to be sold a week after the album is up on the racks. This is almost the same number of copies sold for the “808’s & Heartbreak” album of Kanye West which made it to the top of the chart this week. This is indeed one hell of a birthday gift for the pop star who celebrated her 27th birthday last week with the launch of her album. And if estimates are right and the album would indeed make it to the top then this could be Britney’s fifth outing on the chart’s top spot , a feat that only the likes of Janet Jackson, Madonna, Barbra Streisand and Mariah Carey has achieved.
The album’s success can be attributed to the aggressive stance taken by Britney Spears who has been promoting the album in various venues including “The X Factor” talent search show in the United Kingdom, and the Christmas Tree Lighting at the NBC. She also promoted the product during the Bambi Awards in Germany where she was named Top International Pop Star. The album will also be widely publicized as Britney Spears goes on tour starting March 2009.
Britney has shown a lot of confidence, skin and cleavage while promoting her album. She wore a Madonna-like costume during her Bambi Awards performance and was recently seen wearing sexy outfits with very low necklines. With her career resurrected and her relations with her two sons, 3-year old Sean Preston and 2-year old Jayden, Britney seems to be coming to terms with her monsters.
Good for Taylor Swift, she’s making it BIG while her ex’s band is not.
The blonde beauty is projected to move huge numbers of her new CD, out yesterday.
Numbers from her first day sales show that Swift is projected to sell about 600,000 copies of her album.
Thank goodness for that. Now all the young girls have a real role model to look up to, as opposed to, ehem, slutty ones.
Oh, speaking of her ex, his band, Jonas Brothers, most recent album, A Little Bit Longer, debuted to 525,402 copies sold in its first week.
If Taylor’s numbers hold up, she will easily beat ex-boyfriend Joe and his siblings!
Way to go girl!
The Jonas Brothers are going to top the album charts in the US in the coming weeks. That’s not really much of a surprise but the predictions of how well they’re going to do are. The band of brothers released their new album ‘A Little Bit Longer’ last week and it’s debut numbers are bigger than Miley Cyrus’. Miley topped the album charts by selling 371,000 copies of her album ‘Breakout’. The Jonas Brothers are poised to top the charts with a debut week in the 725,000 area. That’s double what Miley did! The brothers are also the first group ever in history to sell more than 100,000 digital downloads for 3 consecutive singles with ‘Burning Up’ at 183,000, ‘Play My Music’ at 109,000 and ‘Pushin Me Away’ at 116,000.
It’s a good thing that Ashlee Simpson can keep herself busy with planning a wedding and having a baby with Pete Wentz because her music career isn’t going to be going anywhere anytime soon. Ashlee’s new CD ‘Bittersweet World’ was released on Tuesday and is only projected to sell around 50,000 – 55,000 in its first week. Her last CD ‘I Am Me’ opened to 220,000 on its first week in 2005. Her debut album ‘Autobiography’ sold 398,000 on its first week. Apparently, we’re gradually losing love for her. She’s a sweet girl, maybe a liar, but a sweet girl nonetheless. It sucks for her and it’s very disappointing.
Canadian rocker Bryan Adams is teaming up with Wal-Mart for his next album release. The musician’s eleventh album, aptly titled ‘11’ will be released in the United States on May 13th exclusively via Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores. Congrats to Bryan as his publicity stunt is working. His last album only sold 44,000 in the US. But with Wal-Mart on his side, it may go up – even if just a little. They were probably the only people who wanted to release a Bryan Adams album after his last disaster anyway. But hey, if the Eagles album is anything to go by…
This one is a little bit hard to believe but based on the first day sales, Making the Band winners Danity Kane will have the number 1 album on next week’s charts as reported by HITS magazine. Their record is expected to sell anywhere between 250,000 to 275,000 units. Really? I’m wondering how this happened. A reality show winner is on top of the charts. The other top debut is said to be rapper Flo Rida with expected sales of 70,000 to 80,000 units to be moved. I’m no longer wondering why the record business is headed for the crapper, nay, in the crapper already.
Considering that her single ‘Feedback’ hasn’t done that well on radio, I applaud Janet Jackson for claiming the top spot on the charts. Miss Jackson’s new CD ‘Discipline’ is the number 1 album in America. The record is projected to have sold 178,000 copies. It’s a measly number but it still got her to number 1 so who cares? This is actually Janet’s first top ranked album since her 2001 effort ‘All for You’. 7 years is a mighty long time. It’s a good thing she got out of that funk. Congrats to you Miss Jackson – or should I say Miss Bitch?
Thanksgiving is over for everyone and while most have a lot to be thankful for, Britney has one less thing on her list. Because if the numbers are anything to go by, the pop wreck is not thankful for the support of the record-buying public. It’s minimal.
FOX News is reporting that ‘Blackout’ is not a certified flop as it has only sold a total of 430,000 copies after a whole month of release and it’s going nowhere fast. While that number is still pretty high compared to some of the more obscure artists, well, Britney’s hardly obscure. And consider that each of her first 3 albums sold over 10 million copies, the first 2 selling more than 20 million, and the fourth sold 609,000 in its first week of release.
If you bought your mum/aunt/gran the Il Divo CD last Christmas and G4 the year before, then new classical boyband Blake should be top of this year’s shopping list.
Blake are Jules, Stephen, Dominic and Ollie, four former choristers who found each other on online networking site Facebook and swiftly bagged themselves a record deal. They’ve got the well-bred good looks and classically trained voices to deliver the perfect pop-classical package, but the formula is totally anodyne. Backed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and produced by Nick Patrick (Hayley Westenra, Russell Watson) this is a slick recording brimming with cliché, from syrupy strings and tinkling cymbals to arpeggiating guitars and an angelic chorus.
Blake lack the novelty value of G4 or the cheesy charisma of Il Divo, but they do steal the latter’s trick of translating pop songs to give them classical weight. So Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away” becomes “Toglimi Il Resparo” and the Boyz II Men track “I’ll Make Love to You” is renamed in Spanish, “Yo Te Voy a Amar”. The passion is all in the song titles though, not the production.
The biggest travesty is a complete misunderstanding of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”, where they manage to extract the song’s deep soul and turn it into a sugary music box ballad. Blake fare better with film soundtracks, and this album takes in Vangelis, Morricone and a reworking of Hans Zimmer’s theme from Gladiator. The music is all shameless button-pushing of course, but maybe that’s why it suits them.
Britney Spears has been proven to be uninterested in her kids and promoting her new album. It actually seems like she cares more to be put in the middle of some sort of controversy. And it seems to work for her.
Britney is not doing anything to promote her new album but it doesn’t look like she has to anyway. Because based on the first day sales of her latest album ‘Blackout’, the pop wreck is expected to debut at #1 on the US album charts.
Right now, it’s being projected that the album would sell around 350,000 copies. It’s nowhere near Carrie Underwood’s first week sales of 527,000 but it’s respectable none the less. It’s still more than what I can say for her.
Attention all Britney Spears fans! Her album “Blackout” is officially available for purchase. While your out buying Britney’s album, Brit-Brit is attending her parenting classes with K. Fed. The two had their second scheduled parenting session yesterday at the Four Seasons hotel in Beverly Hills. Britney’s legs have NEVER been that skinny?? well, there was a time when her legs were skinny!! i do think that even though she gained weight, her legs are still amazing if you look at pics from paparazzi and all, not the photoshopped ones. …or you could spend your money on something more entertaining.. Like the new backstreet boys album out today!! –or forgo it altogether and get that much needed home-lobotomy kit.. lol What ever you decide to do there is bad news for Britney already and that is she hasn’t been given 50/50 custody rights, so I think she could be partying this moment and checking out from the reps for the number of copies sold in the first few hours.
Carrie Underwood is still generating hits from her six-million-selling debut, “Some Hearts,” but she’s front and center with a new effort this week. Her sophomore album, “Carnival Ride” (19 Recordings/Arista Nashville) is led by the single “So Small,” which made Underwood the first female to debut in the Hot Country Songs top 20 in 43 years.The pressure to follow up such as successful debut could creatively paralyze an artist, but Underwood has worked her way through it. “‘Is there really anywhere to go but down?’ There was that fear in my head,’” says Underwood, who was much more involved in the songwriting process this time around. “Then we started picking songs and I realized it was more [about] making an album for myself that I love and I know I have a huge hand in making. Whatever happens, it’s icing on the cake.”
Besides “So Small,” new tracks include “Last Name,” “Just a Dream” (about a soldier dying and the emotions his fiancé experiences as she comes to terms with the tragedy) and a remake of Randy Travis’ “I Told You So.”
We all have heard about 50 Cent’s infamous bet with Kanye West. Unfortunately, it seems like it wasn’t a real bet because 50 Cent who was the loser is not quitting music. He got fans worried when he cancelled his entire European tour earlier this week, but now he is trying to make it up to his disappointed fans by doing a series of UK shows later in the year. He’s is the one who will make a 1000 promises, commitments and bets and if he is the one on the winning side then he will go and tell the whole that he made the bet because he knew he will win and that self promoting stuff. But the real fun is when he loses and fails to fulfill his commitments then he will go into a hiding and cancel concerts and tell that he wasn’t supported well by his record company and so on. The funny thing is that his new UK tour is just about the same time when his rival Kanye will be hitting up the UK for his own tour. Now will this be another loss in terms of ticket sales or can 50 Cent turn the table on Kanye.
The American Idol contestant Chris Daughtry has just landed the biggest selling album in America of 2007. It has recently reached the three million mark in sales. He told reporters that it’s still hard to get used to ever since the record reached platinum status. He is currently touring with acts like Nickelback and enjoying every minute of it. He has also now reached the fastest selling rock debut on Billboard in sixteen years. For someone who got started on American Idol, he’s doing pretty well for himself. It almost seems like the people that win the Idol show don’t do as well as some of those who have not won. Jennifer Hudson is a great example of that. It also goes to show that talent is so much more than singing a song so that Simon Cowell likes it.
These days, Bon Jovi’s a little bit country, a little bit rock ‘n’ roll and the biggest band around. After nearly a quarter-century together, the Garden State quintet landed its first chart-topping bow thanks with the country-infused Lost Highway. For the week ended Sunday, Lost Highway found its way to the top by selling 291,000 copies. These the music is more of fusion and mixing and remixing tunes to try and get something that the fans and audience shall take to. The other thing is that musicians need to be at their creative best at all times to woo the fans. They might folk to your album on your past record but what will eventually drive sales is the quality of the album. ‘It’s my life’ from Bon Jovi is a song that I keep mumbling quite often and surely the singer is one of the best in the business.
Thanksgiving is over for everyone and while most have a lot to be thankful for, Britney has one less thing on her list. Because if the numbers are anything to go by, the pop wreck is not thankful for the support of the record-buying public. It’s minimal.
