Rebecca Black isn't going to rest on her laurels after the online storm she's caused with 'Friday' – she's making a full album.
The much-derided singer has already planned the follow-up to the internet smash single: a number called 'LOL'.
She's recording the single and album at the Flying Pig Productions studio in Los Angeles, although she's working without a record deal.
And despite her lyrics being slammed for being mundane, Black has said that she’s not about to change tack now. "I like the fact I am singing like a 13-year-old girl, not trying to be anything else," she told The Sun. "I would consider some [songs on the album] teenage love songs but I want to keep it appropriate and clean."
She also had some words for those who have taken a pop at her.
"People were saying, 'You're the worst singer, this is the worst song'," she outlined. "They criticised my voice and the lyrics. But I call them negative Nancies. They can try to rain on my parade but as far as I'm concerned they are raining on their own parade."
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Adele's 21 matches Madonna's album chart record
As her new album continues to roll through the charts, Adele has matched Madonna as the female solo act with the most consecutive weeks at No 1. 21, released in January, has now spent nine weeks at the top of the album charts – tying the record set by Madonna's greatest hits collection more than two decades ago.
At just 22 years old, Adele is on a commercial tear. Last month, she became the first act since the Beatles to have two top five singles and two top five albums in the charts at the same time. This week, not only is 21 still at peak position on the album charts – her debut record, 19, released about two years ago, remains at No 2. 21 sold 56,000 copies last week, according to the Official Charts Company, bringing total sales to 1,496,588.
It's an enormous accomplishment for a second album, but Adele still has a long way to go beat the all-time heavy-hitters. Although Madonna holds the record for the most consecutive weeks at No 1 by a female solo act, the Beatles' Please Please Me spent 30 weeks in the top slot. The all-time record-holder, the original South Pacific soundtrack, spent 70 weeks at the top of the UK album charts. To match this record, 21 would have to stay at No 1 well into 2012.
On the bright side, Adele's new single, Someone Like You, is back at No 1 after playing second fiddle for a week to Nicole Scherzinger's Don't Hold Your Breath.
Adele also has two other singles in the top 40, and is enjoying success in the American charts, after topping Billboard's album chart last week.
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At just 22 years old, Adele is on a commercial tear. Last month, she became the first act since the Beatles to have two top five singles and two top five albums in the charts at the same time. This week, not only is 21 still at peak position on the album charts – her debut record, 19, released about two years ago, remains at No 2. 21 sold 56,000 copies last week, according to the Official Charts Company, bringing total sales to 1,496,588.
It's an enormous accomplishment for a second album, but Adele still has a long way to go beat the all-time heavy-hitters. Although Madonna holds the record for the most consecutive weeks at No 1 by a female solo act, the Beatles' Please Please Me spent 30 weeks in the top slot. The all-time record-holder, the original South Pacific soundtrack, spent 70 weeks at the top of the UK album charts. To match this record, 21 would have to stay at No 1 well into 2012.
On the bright side, Adele's new single, Someone Like You, is back at No 1 after playing second fiddle for a week to Nicole Scherzinger's Don't Hold Your Breath.
Adele also has two other singles in the top 40, and is enjoying success in the American charts, after topping Billboard's album chart last week.
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Miley Cyrus announces first Australian tour
Cyrus will play Rod Laver Arena on June 23.
Special pre-sale tickets go on sale via Visa Entertainment at noon on Monday until 5pm next Thursday, with general tickets on sale on April 12 through Ticketek.
Promoter Paul Dainty has ensured all tickets to the concerts will be under $100 for Cyrus's young fanbase, built up thanks to her hit TV show Hannah Montana.
The 18-year-old wants to remind Australian fans she's a musician, not just a celebrity, with her new Gypsy Heart tour, created especially for countries she's never visited.
"I want to show people who I really am more than just what they see on TV," she said.
"It's going to be different to all my other tours. It's all about the music. There'll be acoustic things, songs I've never done on tour before.
"I want to make it special. I've never toured Australia before. It's going to be really personal. I want to take requests from the fans.
"My last tour was all about how many costume changes we could do. This tour is not about that."
Cyrus has weathered a storm in the past year, with her parents splitting (they have since reunited) and making headlines after being photographed smoking a legal herbal substance in a bong.
"I mess up. There you go," she said.
"But if you live your life trying to be perfect you don't really live your life ever, because you don't really make any mistakes and at the end of your life you won't be very smart or wise."
Cyrus also revealed she is still friends with her Australian ex-boyfriend Liam Hemsworth, whom she met on a film set.
Cyrus visited Australia last year, staying at Hemsworth's home on Phillip Island, where she was introduced to some local cuisine.
"Liam's delicacy is those macaroni pie things. When I came home my mum was like, 'Oh it's like you've been to Nashville again'. It was almost like Southern food.
"Liam told me Phillip Island would remind me of home but by the sea and I'd die when I see it.
"There's nowhere as cool as my house or where I'm from in Nashville."
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Special pre-sale tickets go on sale via Visa Entertainment at noon on Monday until 5pm next Thursday, with general tickets on sale on April 12 through Ticketek.
Promoter Paul Dainty has ensured all tickets to the concerts will be under $100 for Cyrus's young fanbase, built up thanks to her hit TV show Hannah Montana.
The 18-year-old wants to remind Australian fans she's a musician, not just a celebrity, with her new Gypsy Heart tour, created especially for countries she's never visited.
"I want to show people who I really am more than just what they see on TV," she said.
"It's going to be different to all my other tours. It's all about the music. There'll be acoustic things, songs I've never done on tour before.
"I want to make it special. I've never toured Australia before. It's going to be really personal. I want to take requests from the fans.
"My last tour was all about how many costume changes we could do. This tour is not about that."
Cyrus has weathered a storm in the past year, with her parents splitting (they have since reunited) and making headlines after being photographed smoking a legal herbal substance in a bong.
"I mess up. There you go," she said.
"But if you live your life trying to be perfect you don't really live your life ever, because you don't really make any mistakes and at the end of your life you won't be very smart or wise."
Cyrus also revealed she is still friends with her Australian ex-boyfriend Liam Hemsworth, whom she met on a film set.
Cyrus visited Australia last year, staying at Hemsworth's home on Phillip Island, where she was introduced to some local cuisine.
"Liam's delicacy is those macaroni pie things. When I came home my mum was like, 'Oh it's like you've been to Nashville again'. It was almost like Southern food.
"Liam told me Phillip Island would remind me of home but by the sea and I'd die when I see it.
"There's nowhere as cool as my house or where I'm from in Nashville."
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Monday, March 28, 2011
Kylie Minogue wants Britney Spears for duet
Kylie Minogue has said doing a duet with pop princess Britney Spears would be "awesome".
The Australian singer, who is on tour in the UK at present has said she thinks Britney Spears "is great"'
Kylie Minogue has even tweeted her appreciation of Britney Spears songs from her new album. She told Metro: "I tweeted that there’s a song from the deluxe edition, He About To Lose Me, that’s in my head before I go to sleep,’ said Minogue. ‘I just wanted to say I am excited about it. She was glad to hear it!’
If ever Kylie Minogue and Britney performed together, pop fans across the globe would go bananas. It would be the biggest pop princess collaboration since Madge and Britney sang "Me against the music."
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The Australian singer, who is on tour in the UK at present has said she thinks Britney Spears "is great"'
Kylie Minogue has even tweeted her appreciation of Britney Spears songs from her new album. She told Metro: "I tweeted that there’s a song from the deluxe edition, He About To Lose Me, that’s in my head before I go to sleep,’ said Minogue. ‘I just wanted to say I am excited about it. She was glad to hear it!’
If ever Kylie Minogue and Britney performed together, pop fans across the globe would go bananas. It would be the biggest pop princess collaboration since Madge and Britney sang "Me against the music."
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Adele's '21' Ties Beatles, Madonna U.K. Album Charts Record
Adele's epic reign on the U.K. sales charts strengthened again yesterday (Mar. 27), as her "21" album (XL) started a ninth week at No. 1 and its single "Someone Like You" climbed back to the top, 2-1, giving it five of the last six weeks at the summit.
It's just over ten years since any album spent nine weeks in a row at No. 1 in the U.K.; the Beatles' "1" compilation achieved the feat from November 2000 to January 2001. "21" is the first album by a solo female to spend this long at the U.K. peak since Madonna's "The Immaculate Collection" exactly ten years before that, from November 1990 to January 1991.
"21" sold another 156,000 copies last week, according to the Official Charts Company, to take its total sales to Saturday night (26) to 1,496,588. "Someone Like You" sold a further 82,000 units and Adele's first album "19" another 47,000, to post another week at No. 2.
The Strokes' new album "Angles" (Rough Trade) debuted at No. 3, selling 35,000 units. There were also top ten debuts for "When Ronan Met Burt" (Polydor), the collaboration between Irish singer Ronan Keating and songwriting giant Burt Bacharach, at No. 5; Nicole Scherzinger's "Killer Love" (Interscope/Universal) at No. 8 (containing last week's No. 1 single "Don't Hold Your Breath," now down into runner-up spot); and Chris Brown's "F.A.M.E." (Jive/Sony Music Entertainment) at No. 10.
Arriving inside the album top 20 were Duran Duran's "All You Need Is Now" (Tape Modern/Edel) at No. 11, blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa's "Dust Bowl" (Provogue) at a U.K. career-best No. 12, Green Day's live set "Awesome As F**k" (Reprise/Warner Music) at No. 14, and "Up On The Roof - The Very Best of the Drifters" (Rhino/Sony Music Entertainment) at No. 17. "Massive R&B - Spring 2011" (Rhino/UMTV) started a second week atop the compilation chart.
The singles chart also registered a 15-3 rise for Black Eyed Peas' "Just Can't Get Enough" (Interscope/Universal) and a No. 11 debut for the Comic Relief charity fundraiser "I Know Him So Well" (Syco Music/Sony Music Entertainment) by comedian Peter Kay and Susan Boyle.
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It's just over ten years since any album spent nine weeks in a row at No. 1 in the U.K.; the Beatles' "1" compilation achieved the feat from November 2000 to January 2001. "21" is the first album by a solo female to spend this long at the U.K. peak since Madonna's "The Immaculate Collection" exactly ten years before that, from November 1990 to January 1991.
"21" sold another 156,000 copies last week, according to the Official Charts Company, to take its total sales to Saturday night (26) to 1,496,588. "Someone Like You" sold a further 82,000 units and Adele's first album "19" another 47,000, to post another week at No. 2.
The Strokes' new album "Angles" (Rough Trade) debuted at No. 3, selling 35,000 units. There were also top ten debuts for "When Ronan Met Burt" (Polydor), the collaboration between Irish singer Ronan Keating and songwriting giant Burt Bacharach, at No. 5; Nicole Scherzinger's "Killer Love" (Interscope/Universal) at No. 8 (containing last week's No. 1 single "Don't Hold Your Breath," now down into runner-up spot); and Chris Brown's "F.A.M.E." (Jive/Sony Music Entertainment) at No. 10.
Arriving inside the album top 20 were Duran Duran's "All You Need Is Now" (Tape Modern/Edel) at No. 11, blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa's "Dust Bowl" (Provogue) at a U.K. career-best No. 12, Green Day's live set "Awesome As F**k" (Reprise/Warner Music) at No. 14, and "Up On The Roof - The Very Best of the Drifters" (Rhino/Sony Music Entertainment) at No. 17. "Massive R&B - Spring 2011" (Rhino/UMTV) started a second week atop the compilation chart.
The singles chart also registered a 15-3 rise for Black Eyed Peas' "Just Can't Get Enough" (Interscope/Universal) and a No. 11 debut for the Comic Relief charity fundraiser "I Know Him So Well" (Syco Music/Sony Music Entertainment) by comedian Peter Kay and Susan Boyle.
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Lady Gaga to Receive "Always Next, Forever Now" Award at Logo's Fourth Annual "NewNowNext Awards" 2011
Logo, the entertainment network for gays, lesbians and their families and friends, announced today that award-winning, multi-platinum recording artist and provocative, dynamic entertainment personality Lady Gaga will be honored with the "Always Next, Forever Now" Award at the "NewNowNext Awards" 2011. Given annually, this special award pays homage to a beloved pop icon. Due to her tour schedule, Lady Gaga will accept the award remotely unveiled in front of a live audience at the show's taping at the Avalon in Hollywood on April 7th.
Past recipients for the "Always Next, Forever Now" Award include Britney Spears, Janet Jackson and Paula Abdul.
Past recipients for the "Always Next, Forever Now" Award include Britney Spears, Janet Jackson and Paula Abdul.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Enrique and Britney on tour?
The website, Tour Design Creative, known for creating the promotional materials for popular concert tours have shown that Britney Spears and Enrique Inglesias are going on some sort of tour together. Promotional commercial and rumored tour dates under the cut!
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