At this point, we've all heard that
Lil Wayne is going to dominate the charts next week, approaching the long-forgotten one week/one million sold mark last achieved by 50 Cent in 2005. However, Plies (who, to me, is sullying the once proud Slip-N-Slide name) is also having a pretty good week, as he's on track to sell around 225,000 copies of
Definition of Real. Chris Molanphy favorite
Now 28 likely will jump past
last week's chart-topper Disturbed into third (140-150,000), with the bald guy and his anonymous band fighting it out with Usher for fourth (95-100,000). N.E.R.D. will likely debut in sixth with around 90,000 sold; Wal-Mart keeps the Journey wheel rolling, selling around 80,000 copies of their likely No. 7
Revelation; and 55,000 suckers will soon
regret purchasing the new Alanis Morissette. My Morning Jacket, Weezer, and the unkillable
Sex And The City soundtrack are battling for the last two spots in the top ten. Next week, some British dudes and the delightful Katy Perry hit stores. [
HITS Daily Double]
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Following a bumbled line during Coldplay's climactic performance of "Fix You" at their free Madison Square Garden show on Monday, Chris Martin improvised a couplet to acknowledge his occasional lapse in memory: "Lyrics to old songs that you don't know/And you embarrass yourself at MSG/But it doesn't matter one bit, everyone got in for free." At least one reviewer, The New York Times' Jon Caramanica, isn't sure it was done on the fly. "On first blush it was a clever save. But you couldn't avoid the creeping sensation that even this seemingly spontaneous trick was little more than a neatly executed, contrived stab at humility in a show measured to the last second." Did Chris Martin actually plan his screw-up? Say it ain't so, Chris! Check out video of the performance and decide for yourself.
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Bertelsmann is getting out of the music business earlier than originally planned: It's currently making the initial moves toward selling its 50% stake in Sony BMG back to Sony, according to a report in the Financial Times. Does this mean that their building in Times Square will finally take down the billboard advertising Christina Aguilera's Stripped? [
