Monday, November 18, 2024

Music

Taylor Swift Marketing Rampage Will Bring Her a Whopping 1.3 Million in Music Sales

Taylor Swift has partied all week like it's 1989. The result is that she will likely have sold 1.3 million copies of her "1989"...

Case Against Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams Over “Blurred Lines” Can Go to Trial: Musicologists Cite Similarities to Marvin Gaye Song

Marvin Gaye's family got the go ahead to proceed to a trial over "Blurred Lines." The judge, named Kronstadt, rhymes with Ronstadt, made the...

Garth Brooks Sends Out Weird Email About New Album, Gives Wrong Date of Sister’s Death

Garth Brooks is trying to tie the free streaming of his new album to the first anniversary of his sister's death. He writes in...

Taylor Swift Will Sell More Copies of New Album This Week Than the Total Top 50 This Week

Taylor Swift, here to save the record business. Her new album, "1989," is on track to sell 1 million copies this week. That would...

Prince Will Play Unprecedented 8 Minute Jam Session on “Saturday Night Live”

Prince's set on this week's "Saturday Night Live" will be unusual. He's worked out an 8 minute jam session for the show. This will...

Taylor Swift Has Gotten Lena Dunham, Lorde to Tweet Pix and Endorsements of New Album

OMFG as they say on the interweb. Lena Dunham, the clever, heavily tattoed semi-annoying creator of "Girls"has fallen into some kind of social network...

Broadway: Sting’s “Last Ship” Tightens Up for a Big Hit Sunday Launch

"The Last Ship" is ready to sail. I stopped in to see a Tuesday night performance of Sting's musical, directed by Joe Mantello, last...

Bono Chart Bust: U2 Sells 23,142 Copies of New Album, Comes in at Number 12

UPDATE: "Songs of Innocence," the  new U2 album, did much less well than anyone thought. Hitsdailydouble says it sold 23,142 copies. That's the deluxe...