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I don’t dance. It’s a language I don’t understand. It’s Swahili. It’s pollen. I am allergic to the dance – when I listen to music, I like to sing along and occasionally raise my head, like a dog enjoying the wind through a car window. I’m a still person, content when stretched flat on a banquette. I don’t dance, can’t dance and won’t dance. There is, however, one artist whose songs always make my legs twitch. And my arms. And slightly my nostrils.
Country star Jason Aldean’s platinum-selling fourth album is called “My Kinda Party.’’ Thanks to a smash duet with Kelly Clarkson on the ballad “Don’t You Wanna Stay’’ — which recently topped the Billboard country singles chart for three weeks — and its follow-up, the current top 20 hit, “Dirt Road Anthem’’ — a rapped-sung ode to country living — it looks like Aldean will have to welcome a whole slew of new party guests.
While this season’s final contestents, Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina, battle it out for the metaphorical championship belt on American Idol, marking the first time in the history of the show that two country-based artists will be squaring off in the finals.
That could prove to be a boon for whoever walks away the victor, because season four winner Carrie Underwood just became the top-earning contestant in the history of Idol.
Lady Gaga has revealed in a new MTV documentary that Beyoncé’s early music videos helped her overcome high school bullying
The record-breaking hitmaker says she was picked on by other students and vividly remembers being thrown into a bin by a school gang.
In Lady Gaga: Inside the Outside, Mother Monster tells MTV she used music as an escape and was particularly inspired by her recent duet partner’s old band Destiny’s Child. Full Story…..
Here’s wishing Adele a speedy recovery!
The Grammy winner has been forced to pospone five dates of her North American tour due to a case of laryngitis, her label, Columbia Records, announced on Tuesday.
Adele was initially diagnosed last Thursday in Minneapolis, causing her to cancel a show scheduled there that evening.
Radiohead drummer Phil Selway has labeled new album ‘The King Of Limbs’ a grower.
Released earlier this year, Radiohead’s new album ‘The King Of Limbs
Made available in an inventive ‘newspaper format’ the idea that the band were caught in motion quickly spread. Now drummer Phil Selway has entered the fray, labeling the album "a grower".
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Billboard projects that Lady Gaga’s "Born This Way" will debut with first-week sales of at least a million units, far outpacing earlier projections, thanks to explosive sales at Amazon, which priced the album at 99 cents for two days this week.
According to sources, "Born This Way," scanned 330,000 units at Amazon on Monday, even though the unprecedented traffic derailed the Amazon servers. While the Amazon experience left some consumers in a sour mood, the news on the technical glitch helped heighten awareness about the album (not that Interscope and Lady Gaga needed any help in that department).
Total recording sales: 20 million albums, 33 million song downloads. Swift is the top-selling digital artist in music history. In 2010, she sold more albums than any other artist in any genre of music.
First-week sales of "Speak Now," in October 2010: 1,046,718 in the United States, SoundScan’s biggest single-week sales total since 2005 and the biggest-debuting country studio album in history.
Back on this week’s chart, rock band Seether arrives at No. 2 with "Holding Onto to Strings Better Left to Fray" (61,000) marking a career-high chart peak for the band and its best sales week since "Karma and Effect" bowed with 82,000 in 2005 (No. 8).
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Adele‘s “Rolling in the Deep” continues to hold the top the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart this week, holding off former No. 1 track “E.T.” from Katy Perry (featuring Kanye West), which holds the No. 2 spot for a third week.
Pitbull‘s “Give Me Everything” (featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack, and Nayer) rises one spot to No. 3.
Following at No. 4 is the Black Eyed Peas‘ “Just Can’t Get Enough,” which, along with the No. 5 track, Jennifer Lopez‘s “On The Floor” (featuring Pitbull), both moved up one spot from their previous week’s position.
