As expected. Carrie Underwood enters the Billboard Album chart at the #1 position with her new album “Play On”. 318,00 country fans made their way over to the cash registers for this one, making it Carrie’s third consecutive chart topper. While it’s less than the 527,000 scans her second album, “Carnival Ride” garnered in it’s debut week, it’s about on pace with what her debut, “Some Hearts” scored in it’s first week (314,000). That particular […]
I had no use for Lady GaGa just a few short months ago. Her songs were mindless dance-pop, I didn’t think she had any discernible talent, and she was a protege of Akon, one of my least favorite “artists” in any genre. She’s also Perez Hilton-endorsed, and Perez is the gay equivalent of T-Pain, who sets black folks back about 200 years.
I’ve gotta admit, though, she’s winning me over. First, there was her bizarre VMAs […]
In my roundup of this week’s new releases, I inadvertently left off Britney Spears’ “The Singles Collection”. As advertised, this compilation rounds up Ms. Spears’ numerous hit singles and adds the new single “3”, which made history when it became the first single this decade not by an “American Idol” finalist to debut at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart.
I really didn’t mean to leave this off, but I can’t help but think […]