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This week Billboard published its final charts dated in the 2011 calendar year. All in all, there were 31 LPs that rose to #1 on the Top 200 in 2011, several of which we highlighted in both our Summer and Fall Music Previews. We dissected the 13 chart-toppers from the first half of the year back in late June. (Adele’s 21 still ruled when all was said and done, with over 5 million copies sold by the end of December.) Now flip through the gallery of the 18 albums that triumphed from July on! More »
Posts Tagged ‘Evanescence’
Evanescence Return To Top The Charts
Wed Oct 19 2011 by Becky Bain
A whole lot of people missed Amy Lee's brooding — after a five year break, Evanescence has made a kingly return to the Billboard charts, scoring their second #1 album with 127,000 copies sold. Meanwhile, Idol champ (and last week's chart-topper) Scotty McCreery's Clear As Day falls down a few spots to #4, saddled right on top of his Idol collegue Lauren Alaina's Wildflower, which debuted at #5. Lady Antebellum and Martina McBride also appear in the Top 10, making this a very country-leaning chart week, indeed. More »
Carly Smithson Gets Pulled Under
Tue Jun 23 2009 by Maura
Hooray, I qualified to get a free MP3 of “Bury Me Alive,” the first single from the Carly Smithson/Evanescence dudes project The Fallen! And it sounds… like a big, vaguely gothy, mooky rock song, complete with chorus that’s a bit of a Xerox of that from that band’s 2003 track “Going Under.” This is not a complaint–”Going Under” was actually one of my favorite tracks the year it came out, and it was way superior to their big hit with that vestigial tail of a “rap” verse”–but I figured it was worthy of mention. Smithson’s voice sounds in fine form, if a bit studio-massaged, and the band sounds, you know, like a band trying to get on modern-rock radio. I hope it works, because as has been mentioned before, that format is way bereft of ladies. More »
Carly Smithson’s New Band Throws Itself A Lottery
Mon Jun 22 2009 by Maura
The gates have been opened at the official site for The Fallen, the band featuring former American Idol Carly Smithson and a smattering of dudes who were booted from Evanescence. And the site’s even giving away a free MP3–although you have to sign up with an e-mail address and a mobile number, and then wait to see if you were one of the first 100,000 people to sign up and qualify for one of the free downloads. Dum de dum. More »
Amy Lee Would Like To Remind The World That Evanescence Still Exists
Fri Jun 19 2009 by Maura
Yesterday’s news that former American Idol contestant Carly Smithson would be joining up with a bunch of ex-members of nu-goth outfit Evanescence to form a band called The Fallen apparently got Amy Lee, Evanescence’s figurehead / Billy Corgan character, in a snit. So she released a statement on her band’s Web site letting everyone know that hey, she is still around and making music under the Evanescence name, and she would like some of that press attention that all of the people she once collaborated with to go in her direction! More »
Carly Smithson: The New Amy Lee?
Thu Jun 18 2009 by Maura
Carly Smithson–the 2008 American Idol contestant who was also the poster child for the record industry’s problems in a 2002 Wall Street Journal piece–is joining forces with all the dudes fired from Evanescence to form a new band called The Fallen, according to USA Today. (Any resemblance between the band’s name and the title of Evanescence’s 2003 breakthrough album is probably coincidental.) More »
YouTube’s Take On Columbine Is Predictable Yet Disturbing
Mon Apr 20 2009 by Mike Barthel
Today is the 10th anniversary of the Columbine shootings. I was curious to see if there were any tribute-style YouTube clips about the event, since it did take place before the advent of widespread online video. Surprisingly, there are quite a few; more surprisingly, most are not altogether different from the graduation montages I looked at a little while back. Both are sort of sad, wistful, and nostalgic, and accompanied by very similar tunes–but instead of fun in the sun, you get pictures of horror and loss and death. But then they take an odd turn. Let’s take a look. More »
Paramore Hitches Wagon To “Twilight” Star, Crosses Over To Top 40
Fri Nov 14 2008 by Chris Molanphy
A band with a charismatic frontwoman attracts a passionate young following, briefly with Contemporary Christian fans and then with a mass audience bewitched by their alternative-but-accessible vibe. While the group attracts certain emo elements and the tattooed-and-pierced set, their straight-up-the-middle pop sensibilities win over radio programmers looking for some femme-friendly rock content. Finally, after a steady build, the attachment of a key single to a preordained hit movie brings them into the Top 40 in a big way.
I’m not the first person to make the connection between Evanescence and Paramore, but the No. 34 Billboard Hot 100 debut of “Decode” from the chart-topping Twilight soundtrack makes it a bit more obvious. It’s Paramore’s highest-ever pop debut, and it finds them embracing the teen-goth subculture.
Evanescence’s Amy Lee could tell Paramore about how lucrative the black-wearing-girl demographic can be. But she also has the 2003 Ben Affleck comic-schlock movie Daredevil to thank for Evanescence’s breakthrough. “Bring Me to Life” probably would’ve been a hit eventually no matter what, but the Hollywood-fueled promotional boost—at a time when modern rock and even top 40 radio were allergic to female-fronted rock songs—didn’t hurt.
The only difference is that Evanescence went the Hollywood route with its first major-label single. One wonders why Paramore didn’t go this way sooner.
Reel Big Fish And Evanescence Visit “Jurassic Park”
Tue Sep 11 2007 by kater
Ed. note: Once again, Idolator intern Kate Richardson scours the video sites, looking for the best fan-made music videos. In this installment, she looks at two clips that venture into Jurassic Park, and come out alive–but with very different results:
Former Evanescence Drummer Ready To Move On, Cash In
Thu May 17 2007 by Maura
Elapsed time between Evanescence drummer Rocky Gray announcing his departure from the band and his placing of gold and platinum plaques from the band’s tenure on eBay: 10 days. Jeez, Rocky: Even Ben Moody probably at least waited a month before hocking his RIAA booty. More »
