Beyoncé sees bump in album, single sales following baby reveal
Beyoncé’s revelation — each on the red carpet and throughout her performance — that she and her husband, Jay-Z, are expecting their 1st little one undoubtedly stole the display at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday.
The big warm-and-fuzzy second also has supplied the diva with a main bump, pun intended, on record sales.
Soon after telling the audience that she desired them “to feel the really like that’s growing inside,” she dived into “Love on Top rated,” a cut from her album “4.”
The efficiency boosted the nonsingle into the iTunes best 5, although her actual single, “Best Issue I Never ever Had,” is at present languishing at No. 23. The album has also made its way back into the top ten on iTunes, coincidentally landing at the No. four spot.
Despite becoming herald by critics, the disc has struggled a bit commercially.
Katy Perry makes Billboard history with ‘Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)’
Katy Perry continues her hit-filled year, as the singer has notched her fifth No. 1 single from the platinum-promoting “Teenage Dream.”
With present single “Last Friday Evening (T.G.I.F.)” set to hit the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s pop chart, according to the Nielsen BDS-primarily based pop radio-airplay ranking, the singer’s sophomore effort is the 1st album in the far more than 15-year historical past of the Adult Leading 40 mainstream chart to log that numerous No. 1 singles.
“Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” with its kooky ’80s-inspired video, joins the Kanye West-assisted “E.T.,’ “Firework,” “California Gurls,” featuring Snoop Dogg, and the title track, which was ranked the fourth-very best single of 2010 by Rolling Stone -– “Glee’s” version of the single also went on to turn into a large hit. If “Last Friday Night” hits the leading spot on the coveted Hot 100 chart — it really is presently No. two — it would be only the second album to obtain that ranking. The other? Michael Jackson’s 1987 disc, “Undesirable.”
“Teenage Dream” leads Justin Timberlake’s “FutureSex/LoveSounds” and Lady Gaga’s “The Fame,” which both featured 4 Mainstream Top rated 40 No. 1′s.
Perry, who performs at the Nokia Theatre on Friday, recently received a major nine Video Music Awards nominations, including video of the year.
Soul singer Amy Winehouse found dead in her London home
British police are confirming that Grammy Award-winning singer Amy Winehouse has been discovered dead at her property in the Camden Square district of London. According to the Guardian, Winehouse was found by emergency workers at 3:54 p.m. London time. The singer, who rose to prominence with a soulful voice and a defiantly reckless attitude, had struggled with substance abuse for most of her expert existence.
– Randall Roberts
Photo: British singer Amy Winehouse performs at the Brit Awards at Earls Court in London in February 2008. Credit: Alessia Pierdomenico / Reuters
DMX released from Arizona prison
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Soon after seven months in prison, embattled rapper DMX (Earl Simmons) was released from an Arizona prison in Yuma earlier nowadays. His manager Nakai Walker confirmed to Reuters .
X was imprisoned in December soon after pleading guilty to breaking the guidelines of his probation and consuming alcohol for the duration of a concert in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The rapper, 40, whose got solid albums like It is Dark and Hell is Hot to boast, is no stranger to legal issues. In between drug violations, driving violations, and fraud attempts, his rap sheet has been a lot more prevalent than his music as of late. He was also cited six instances for guidelines infractions in the course of his most current prison remain, like failing to submit to a drug check, which additional a week to his jail stint.
“I can tell you a single thing, he’s not going to be going back there (to prison) yet again,” Walker stated. Let’s hope she’s correct.
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Sting cancels Kazakhstan concert over ‘repression’ of striking workers
Sting has thrown his assistance behind striking Kazakh oil and gas workers, cancelling a gig that was to take spot on Monday evening in the country’s capital of Astana. At the final minute, the singer announced he would not cross a “virtual picket line” to execute at the government’s Astana Day festival.
“The Kazakh gas and oil employees and their households need to have our support and the spotlight of the international media on their scenario in the hope of bringing about positive change,” Sting stated on Sunday. These were the singer’s first comments on a labour action that began on 26 Could Sting mentioned he had been provoked by Kazakhstan’s “hunger strikes, imprisoned workers and tens of thousands on strike”.
Sting is in the second year of his Symphonicity world tour, which came to the UK in October 2010. The Astana concert had been on his calendar for months, alongside dates in Russia, Hungary and Ukraine. But Amnesty International drew the singer’s attention to events in Kazakhstan, especially the “repression and crackdown against oil employees, their union leaders, their legal representatives and of the human rights NGOs”. “Amnesty International really feel [Sting's] presence in Astana will be interpreted as an endorsement of the president’s administration and absolutely will go against every little thing he has stood for,” they mentioned.
Kazakh oil workers began protesting against their poor treatment practically six weeks ago, saying their salaries have been cut and their lawyer imprisoned on false charges. Estimates of the quantity of employees on strike differ from two,500 to 16,000, and the country’s second-largest oil producer, KazMunaiGas EP, has claimed three,000 barrels per day in lost production. “Their demands are groundless and illegal,” a KazMunaiGas spokesperson told Reuters.
The economic system of Kazakhstan is the largest in central Asia. It has been ruled by president Nursultan Nazarbayev considering that its 1991 independence from the Soviet Union.
Buju Banton sentenced to 10 years in prison for drug trafficking
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After becoming located guilty in February for conspiring to deal cocaine, reggae superstar Buju Banton (né Mark Myrie), 38, has been sentenced to ten years in prison, Yahoo reports.
The Jamaica native was given the lowest sentence possible for his crimes, conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, and utilizing a telephone to facilitate a drug trafficking offense.
“The days that lie ahead are filled with despair, but I have courage and grace and I’m hopeful, and that is enough to carry me via,” he mentioned in the statement. “The man is not dead. Do not call him a ghost.”
Prior to becoming located guilty in February, Banton scored a controversial win at the Grammys for Greatest Reggae Album for Ahead of the Dawn.
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Enrique Iglesias: ‘Latin music is here to stay’
Enrique Iglesias has said that he never understood why people thought that the infusion of Latin artists into mainstream pop would be “a fad”.
Iglesias revealed that when singers like himself and Ricky Martin entered the mainstream during the so-called ‘Latin explosion’ of 1999, many thought that they wouldn’t last long in the industry.
“It always used to be mind-boggling to me, because it almost always sounded like we were a fad and that we were going to disappear, and I never saw it that way,” Iglesias said, according to Reuters. “Latin music and Latin artists are here to stay, whether they’re singing in English, Spanish, or changing styles.”
Iglesias recently announced a fall tour of the US across 17 cities, on which he will be supported by Pitbull and Prince Royce, both of whom have Latin roots.
“There are no rules to music anymore,” Iglesias added. “You can turn on Top 40 radio and listen to Latin artists, and you can turn on a Latin radio station and listen to American artists too.”
