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Adele’s ‘21′ Matches ‘Titanic’ Soundtrack’s 16-Week Stay At #1
Wed Jan 18 2012 by Robbie Daw
Adele's 21 has finally caught up to the Titanic soundtrack's 16-week run at #1 on Billboard's Top 200 chart. The 1997 movie's score by James Horner (complete with Celine Dion's chart-topping hit "My Heart Will Go On") was the last LP to rack up as many weeks atop the main album chart. Prior to that, the 1992 Bodyguard soundtrack ruled with its staggering 20-week reign at #1. Can Adele also knock Whitney for a loop?
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Snow Patrol Chase Lady Gaga Duet
Sun Nov 20 2011 by Mike Wass
Everybody wants a piece of Mother Monster. The latest act to express their desire to work with Terry Richardson's BFF is Snow Patrol. Still best known for their 2006 hit "Chasing Cars", the UK rockers have Lady Gaga on their radar because she is "much smarter than your average pop star". We can't disagree with that! Read what else they had to say about the "Marry The Night" mental patient below.
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Project X By The Book
Fri Nov 14 2008 by Michaelangelo Matos
I admit it: I have a bias against literary novelists who write about music. It has to do with my appetite for immediacy. That’s what I like about pop, and pop writing, and it’s not a tendency always shared by literary fiction writers. So I see detailed explanations of milieu that I take for granted and I grow impatient. Obviously, this is my fault, but sometimes it’s the writers’ too. Once I showed a friend a piece a long music essay, by a well-known author, that seemed to spend its first page clearing its own throat. My friend summed up my response with hers: “Trying. Too. Hard.”
So it’s nice to have this bias knocked over, as happened with Hang the DJ: An Alternative Book of Music Lists (Faber & Faber), edited by Angus Cargill. I hadn’t known about the book before Simon Reynolds, who contributed two lists (“Deserving But Denied: Thirty-three No. 2s That Should Have Been No.1” and “The Dirty Dozen: Twelve Great Artists Who Are Terrible Influences”), mentioned the book’s blog on his own. I hadn’t looked beyond a couple of names before my copy arrived; I wanted to be surprised.
Snow Patrol Are Probably Not All That Concerned About Critics Anymore
Tue Oct 28 2008 by Dan Gibson
Snow Patrol Minus The Residents Of Seattle Grace
Fri Sep 5 2008 by Dan Gibson
Snow Patrol, The iPod, And Appliance Shopping
Tue Sep 2 2008 by Dan Gibson
I applaud new ideas. When you spend time trying to find interesting things to comment on for a music blog, anything that might appear to be innovative provides a brief moment of excitement. But when every corporate entity on earth tries to find a way to make some cash from the residuals of the iTunes empire, it’s inevitable that some ideas are, frankly, better than others.
A Nickelodeon-Groomed Star Brings Yesterday Back Around
Wed Jun 18 2008 by Maura
Could a Sugababes song actually get some airplay on American radio? Well, sort of. “About You Now,” which appeared on their 2007 album Change, is actually available outside of U.S. stores’ import sections thanks to some pandering to the 8-to-11 set: The track, co-written by Cathy Dennis and Dr. Luke, has been covered by tween star Miranda Cosgrove, who stars as a Webcam-wielding “online celebrity” (oh boy) on the Nick-com iCarly. “About You Now” is but one of the 29 tracks on iCarly’s soundtrack, which also includes a “Nickelodeon mix” of the Avril Lavigne/Lil Mama version of “Girlfriend” and that dreadful Good Charlotte track about not wanting to be in love. So how does Cosgrove stand up?
Tue Apr 8 2008 by Jess Harvell
“Britons like a dose of music from the rock band Coldplay to help them fall asleep, a survey from hotel chain Travelodge found on Monday…Other artists chosen for their slumber-inducing qualities were James Blunt, Snow Patrol, Take That, and Norah Jones.” More »
Snow Patrol Members Prepare To Cry Themselves To Sleep On Giant, Money-Stuffed Pillows
Thu Feb 22 2007 by Brian Raftery
Every few years, a new act is randomly selected as a go-to critical punching bag: Who can forget the great “Coldplay Cold Shoulder” of 2004, or the “Belle & Sebastards” backlash of 2002? Anybody? More »
