Day in Pop Report for 03/03/2011
(Billboard) Christina Aguilera will be the third coach on NBC's new singing competition series "The Voice," joining Cee Lo Green and Maroon 5's Adam Levine. more (Jam!) Justin Bieber apologized Wednesday for angrily hoisting his middle finger at paparazzi who buzzed the squeaky-clean pop star and his girlfriend after his birthday dinner in Los Angeles. more (BBC) A screening of a documentary about Sir Elton John's last album will open this year's Tribeca film festival in April more (FMQB) Britney Spears has debuted another clip of one of the songs on her upcoming album Femme Fatale. You can hear 25 seconds of "Seal It With A Kiss" here. Plus some new album details came be found here (FMQB) Eminem and Rihanna will co-headline the V Festival in the U.K. here (BBC) Sibling movie executives Bob and Harvey Weinstein face a $50m (£30.6m) legal action over claims they "sabotaged" production of an animated film. more (Billboard) Beyonce's publicist has confirmed that the singer has donated the money she made for certain performances toward Haitian earthquake relief efforts after learning that Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi has been a third-party promoter of the shows. more (FMQB) Adele has proven that she is officially a star in the U.S. now as her new album, 21, debuted atop the U.S. sales chart this week. The album sold 352,000 copies in its opening frame, according to Nielsen SoundScan, making it the biggest selling album of 2011 so far. more (Billboard) Aretha Franklin says she's lost 85 pounds as part of an ongoing effort to drop weight. more (Billboard) Apple unveiled the next generation of the iPad, dubbed the iPad 2. more More money than brains or taste.... (Billboard) A lock of Justin Bieber's hair which he cut off last month was sold for $40,668 on eBay after being put on sale last week. more
During the call -- placed at 4:35 PM on Valentine's Day -- Paula cries and sobs hysterically and says, "I wanna go, and he won't let me!" Seconds later Paula says, "Are you gonna drop me off 'cause I have emergency on the phone" -- and shortly after that she says, "He's dropping me off." more on this story
Shania Twain rose to fame in the early 1990s with her debut album Shania Twain (1993), and achieved worldwide success with her 1997 album Come On Over, which became the best-selling album of all time by a female musician, and the best selling country album of all time. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Twain has also achieved major success as a songwriter, winning 27 BMI Songwriter awards. Despite the fact Twain has released very few albums, she has sold over 75 million albums worldwide to date, including 48 million in the U.S. Her docu-series on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network will debut in May. This is her first book. Preorder it here
Lee Aronsohn � an executive producer on "Men" and "Big Bang Theory" -- has been vocal about NOT wanting to cancel "Men" .. especially because Lee recently made a deal to leave his post on "Big Bang Theory" to focus on Sheen's show. But that was before the drama started. Now, sources connected to the production tell us Lee had a "big meeting" with Chuck and a mystery third party this week regarding the fate of "Men." more on this story
Kicking-off in Boston, MA "The Solo Show" tour will take the critically acclaimed artist coast-to-coast to showcase just how powerful her live solo show really is.
Say Anything tops list of 50 clips that totally rocked our world; Films starring Tom Cruise, John Cusack, Tom Hanks, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Julia Roberts, Adam Sandler, Patrick Swayze, John Travolta and Mark Wahlberg make list. They say music soothes the savage beast, but it seems to us that the best musically-driven movie scenes do just the opposite: They get our toes tapping, our hands clapping and our rumps shaking. The editors of AOL's Moviefone compiled their list ofthe 50 Best Music Scenes in Movies. Here is the Top 10
The 3 song EP will include remixes of tracks off the band's last release Congratulations. The EP features a full 10+ minute "Siberian Breaks" remix from the Ed Banger All-Stars, a group comprised of artists on Ed Banger Records which was founded by Justice. Also included is a remix of "Congratulations" by Erol Alkan, a London based DJ known as an originator of mashups and one of the most acclaimed dj's of the last decade, reworked the title track "Congratulations." The final track was remixed by Japanese artist/producer, Cornelius, who remixed the band's song"Brian Eno." These join the previously released remixes of "It's Working" by Air and Violens. more on this story
Ms. Perri spent the last month plus locked away at the famous studio with producer Joe Chiccarelli (White Stripes, Tori Amos, The Shins) working on the eleven songs that will be featured on lovestrong. � including her already platinum-selling single "Jar Of Hearts." The album was mixed by Michael Brauer (Coldplay, Regina Spektor).
The duo is currently offering a free download of the track "Raccoon," featured on the six-song release, available now at There Was An Old Woman Records. "The Shoe" will also kick off the EP release with a performance at Olive Hotel in Los Angeles on Monday, March 7th, additional show dates will be announced. more on this story
It all went down in North Carolina last week -- when Angelina decided to talk a whole lotta smack to a she-wrestler named Velvet Sky during a taping of TNA iMPACT ... scheduled to air tonight. As we previously reported, Angelina signed a deal with TNA to wrestle an entire match next week on Spike TV ... and if this footage is any indicator, she's gonna get WHOOPED ON. more on this story
The band is on the road with MillionYoung, which still has them passing through Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego & more. WYWH sees The Concretes in their new incarnation- former drummer Lisa Milberg has stepped out from behind the kit to take over lead vocals after the departure of Victoria Bergsman. The album has a dreamy, ethereal disco tinge, and features less guitar, more keyboards, bass, and deep grooves, while maintaining the irresistible melodies that give The Concretes the sound that they've come to define. Watch the video here
Sara Bareilles, will join MacFarlane and the band to perform their duet "Love Won't Let You Get Away."
Award winners and the groups co sponsoring their commissions are John Corigliano and the New York Philharmonic; Justin Dello Joio and Bargemusic of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Fang Man and Dolce Suono Ensemble of Philadelphia; David Felder and SIGNAL of Rochester, N.Y.; Eric Moe and Talujon of Sea Cliff, N.Y.; Augusta Read Thomas and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra of N.Y.; Jukka Tiensuu and New Paths in Music of Staten Island, N.Y.; and Bright Sheng and the Prism Quartet of Philadelphia. Celebrated American composer John Corigliano will score a new work for mezzo-soprano and orchestra for the New York Philharmonic. His Symphony No. 2, introduced by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Music. Corigliano has also won three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award and the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for music composition. One of the few living composers to have a string quartet named for him, Corigliano serves on the composition faculty at the Juilliard School and holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Music at Lehman College, City University of New York. more on this story
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