Madonna's Hard Candy was last week's top-selling album, shifting 280,000 copies in its first week of release and leaving every other commercially available offering in the dust. Candy was the only album on this week's chart to break the six-figures-sold mark; Mariah Carey's E=MC2, the runner-up to Hard Candy, sold 95,000 copies.
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You didn't want the worst, you didn't get the worst! The Roots have caved to public disgust and removed "Birthday Girl," their collabo with omnipresent Fall Out Boy troubadour Patrick Stump, from their upcoming album Rising Down. "Birthday Girl" is still the album's first international single, but it's been reduced to "iTunes-only" status in America. I don't really see what makes the song so heinous. It might be a little Sublime for hardcore fans of the band, but if it lacks crossover potential, it's due to the Roots' milquetoast albatross Black Thought, not Stump (ladies on YouTube seem to like the track just fine). If the vocal was credited to Cody ChesnuTT, would the Internet have been so put off? [Nah Right / Photo: AP]
Whether they're petroleum-based or digital downloads, singles remain pop's most fascinating format. Twice a week in Single Spin, a singles-focused twist on Second Spin, we'll take a look at a song, sound, scene, or star that we think deserves more than two lines and a Rapidshare link—whether it's CMT country, underground dance, unfriendly noise, or anything else served up one tune at a time. Today we listen to the latest grim banger from a Philadelphia hip-hop institution, a decidedly less grim groove from not-so-sunny London, a music critic delivering a mournful techno remix, and something totally, unexpectedly, ridiculously astounding: Andrew WK's new mash note to a TV roundtable legend (!), which comes complete with MP3 so you can download and boggle along.
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And now a brief correction regarding our post about the Roots' "75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction)" below: "The 'bass' on 75 bars is actually tuba. It's played by the dude with the best name in all of music: Tuba Gooding Jr." Our apologies to Mr. Gooding Jr. for the slight and a hat tip to commenter thatsoraven. [Idolator]
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