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ALL THAT NO ONE WANTS: Ace Of Base will release a new album in 2009, along with a Greatest Hits compilation and a world tour. Now with the Backstreet Boys' comeback, the New Kids' comeback, and this album, 1990-2010 will be a palindrome. (Dlisted) NEW EXCUSE: Janet Jackson claims she is feeling "too nasty" to perform and is postponing a series of performances. That's odd, because whenever Prince feels "too nasty" he doubles his tour dates. (NY Daily News) BE ATTENTION WHORISH AND MULTIPLY: Jessica Simpson says she wants "six kids," figuring that (6 Kids) x (9 Months of Pregnancy) x (6 1st Birthday Parties) x (6 More Cowboys Playoff Collapses) = About 700 consecutive months of sustained worthless attention. (OK! Magazine) MAD HATTERS, YO: Find an Indy hat, keep an Indy hat -- Another Indiana Jones marketing campaign that's way more plausible and enjoyable than the movie itself. (Zoomdoggle) THIS IS LAME: Apparently, messing with a friend of a Facebook employee is more dangerous than messing with a friend of the mob. At least this way, you know what your assassin's Favorite Movie Quotes are. (Drunken Stepfather)

Publicado: 2008-10-14 Proveedor: Best Week Ever Etiquetas: Entertainment

LISTEN UP: Honestly, Who Didn’t Own the Ace of Base Album?

Brooklyn Vegan has two live Mountain Goats mp3s guaranteed to put a smile on your face, including a cover of "The Sign" by Ace of Base. Hipster Me and Nostalgia Me haven't clashed like this since the time someone poured Sparks on my Power Pad. Headphones On posts a really enjoyable track from on-and-off Blur guitarist Graham Coxon, titled "Bittersweet Bundle of Misery." Strange title, but it's fortunately still about six words shy of turning into a Panic! At the Disco song. The Punk Guy posts a bundle of mp3s from the only person who can rhyme "Tiddly Winks" with "Nipples is pink," Del the Funkee Homosapien. Besides every four year old, I mean. Woo-hoo! I've been writing this post for months and I finally have a chance to link The Bats! It took almost a year, but my music blog Bat Signal finally paid off. (Short Term MP3 Loss) Double Brooklyn Vegan linkage today, but what was I gonna do, not link Girl Talk mashing together Grizzly Bear and Clipse? I indie-ly think not.

Publicado: 2007-07-17 Proveedor: Best Week Ever Etiquetas: Entertainment

People Still Buying Metallica CDs; Not So Much Bobby Brown

CNN published an interesting article examining which classic albums are still selling well these days, and while my 1993 prediction in that "Pocket Full of Kryptonite" would go on to become the highest selling item in the history of human commerce isn't looking so good, the list is about as high-schooler-just-discovering-music-and-spending-summer-job-money-ey as you'd expect it to be. AC/DC's "Back In Black" sold a phenominal 440,000 copies in 2006, setting the pace on a list of top sellers that includes Metallica's Black Album, Guns N' Roses' "Appetite For Destruction," Bon Jovi's "Cross Roads" (greatest hits), and pretty much every Michael Jackson record. The part that absolutely shocked me, though, was this heartstopping revelation: Not everything maintains long-term success. Asia's self-titled 1982 album was the biggest seller of 1982, but only sold 5,000 copies last year. Whitney Houston's 1985 debut, also self-titled, was 1986's top album, but now sells about 7,000 discs a year. The same trajectory has befallen past mega-hits like Ace of Base's "The Sign," Bobby Brown's "Don't Be Cruel" and the Spice Girls' "Spice." Though one of the best selling artists of all time, Mariah Carey's self-titled debut sold a measly 5,000 copies last year. The Backstreet Boys' "Millennium" managed only 9,000 sales. Are you actually telling me that Asia isn't the most timeless band in contemporary music history? Well there is one thing album sales can't measure, CNN, and that's greatness. And Asia sells a billion trillion copies of that every time someone listens to one of their albums. So which albums are going to still be selling in the six figures two decades from now? Radiohead? Coldplay? Justin Timberlake? The Arctrick Monkeys, or whatever that one band was called? Asia, receiving renewed appreciation after a sea monster really does attack the world? Wyld Stallyns??

Publicado: 2007-07-17 Proveedor: Best Week Ever Etiquetas: Entertainment