Wed Jun 22 2011 by Robbie Daw
With summer officially underway, the spring's
flip-flopping chart queens Adele and Lady Gaga are bumped from the upper reaches of the
Billboard Top 200 album chart this week in favor of Eminem and Royce Da 5'9"'s collaborative Bad Meets Evil effort and young Pittsburgh diva Jackie Evancho. In addition, three other artists crash their latest LPs into the Top 10. See how things played out below!
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Wed Feb 3 2010 by Robbie Daw
Best Country Performance
Grammy winners Lady Antebellum can keep the bubbly flowing, as the trio's LP
Need You Now will land at #1 on the new
Billboard Top 200 Albums chart published tomorrow. The band's sophomore set ended up shifting 481,000 copies, making it the biggest sales week for a new album since Susan Boyle's
I Dreamed A Dream barreled out of the gate back in November.
So where does that leave trilling Scottish tart Boyle and the rest of the players this week? Hop below to see how things shook out.
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Fri Aug 28 2009 by Maura
Do any of you out there watch Bridezillas? I think it’s a telling commentary on the current moment that so many of the crazyperson weddings featured within are pretty low-budget affairs—hell, there was even one woman on the show who catered her own reception as a way of cutting costs. But really, who has money to throw around anymore in an era where Vh1’s “Fabulous Life Of…” specials are more interesting for the aftermath of their feature-ees, many of whom are currently broke and/or in jail and/or definitely not as “fabulous” as they were back in the day? Which is why this just-released list of “the most expensive wedding bands” (topped, of course, by the Rolling Stones) seems so oddly timed. I know August is a tough time for the music-news feature well, but in the post-Madoff era is there anyone with $8.176 million to blow on just the band? At least with that sort of food budget, you can get, like, an ice sculpture of the married couple. Anyway, the list of the big-money artists—which somehow includes Jennifer Lopez?!—after the jump. More »
Tue Mar 3 2009 by Christopher R. Weingarten
The New Zealand town of Christchurch has a bigger problem than the orcs in the Mines of Moria. It’s being overrun by mall rats! With their texting gizmos and saggy pants and Sbarro breath and fat silent friends in trenchcoats giving life lessons about relationships! The Central City Business Association has seen an uptick in litter, graffiti, drunkenness, drugs, and worst of all, swearing. Their solution: Playing Barry Manilow. I’m glad someone finally had the bright idea to play crappy music over a mall sound system, because if I go to the Palisades and hear Big Black and Amon Duul II one more time, I’m gonna toss my Cinnabons.
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Wed Feb 4 2009 by Maura
Last night’s episode of American Idol was the first installment of Hollywood Week’s semifinalist winnowing process, and boy did it seem like not a lot had changed at all since we were last in the cozy confines of Southern California. Barry Manilow as a mentor who basically gave an inspirational speech! There was a Ford commercial by a bunch of unnamed hopefuls who haven’t even made it through to the second part of Hollywood Week yet! Well, I guess Fox needs to squeeze as much money out of its sponsors as it can in these rough times.
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Fri Nov 21 2008 by Maura
Between the forever-in-the-making epics and the tossed-off odes to sadness and the crazy ’80s radio pastiche and a bunch of other albums, next week is going to be something of a big one for the music business. How should one navigate their way through the music-consumption choices they’ll be forced to make next week? Might I suggest a friendly game of Buy/Download/Kill, in which each album receives one of the three fates outlined by the game’s title. My personal preferences after the jump.
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Fri Oct 17 2008 by Maura
In the latest mission of his quest to milk the nostalgia of any group that has disposable income, Barry Manilow is releasing an all-covers album of songs from the 1980s next month. Manilow will take on “Careless Whisper,” “Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now),” “Islands In The Stream” (with Reba McEntire), and… “Never Gonna Give You Up.” Yes, that’s right: We’ve evolved as a society in such a way that even Barry Freakin’ Manilow has to pander to those people on the Internet who still think the phenomenon of “Rickrolling”–in which you make yourself laugh by surprising whoever you’re engaged in instant-messenger chatter with a link to a clip of Rick Astley singing his 1987 hit–is funny. You’d think that the man who sang on many a McDonald’s ad would deserve a break today, but I guess this is the time we live in. Anyway, it’s time to figure out how Manilow will fare against other people who have tried to hop on the Rickrolling bandwagon! I’ve placed five other covers of Astley’s signature track after the jump.
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Wed Nov 8 2006 by Maura
It’s a good thing the Idolator flophouse doubles as our “office,” because if we had to face this one-two punch every morning, our will to work, and to exist, would be slowly, but surely, sapped away. More »
Mon Oct 30 2006 by Maura
Welcome to On The Shelf, Idolator’s weekly look at the new releases hitting stores on Tuesday. This week’s slate is curiously light on both holiday music–although we do kind of want to hear the Bootsy Collins Christmas album–but it has what may be a surefire No. 1 contender in the new collection of ’60s songs from Barry Manilow. (Hey, it worked for Rod Stewart.) We’ve already given you a chance to suffer through Playing With Fire; after the jump, we look at Manilow’s new full-length, as well as offerings from Deftones, Willie Nelson, Birdman & Lil Wayne, and Lady Sovereign.
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