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  • Beyonce, T.I. Head List of BET Award Nominees

    beyonceJamie Foxx-who will be hosting- and a slew of other artists were on hand last night to announce the nominees for the 2009 BET Awards, and Beyonce and T.I. turned out to lead the pack with 5 nominations each. Beyonce scored 2 nods in the Best Video category and also was nominated twice in the Best Female Actress category. T.I. picked up nominations for Best Male Rapper and Best Video (for “Live Your Life”) among others.

    Lil’ Wayne, T-Pain and Keri Hilson are right behind with four nominations apiece.

    As usual, I’m left scratching my head at some of the nominations. Why have categories like Best Group and Best Female Rapper if the pools are so thin? The nominees for Best Group are Day26, The GS Boyz (of “Stanky Legg” fame), N.E.R.D., The Roots and Three Six Mafia, while the Best Female Rapper nominees are Trina, Lil’ Mama and M.I.A., who is also curiously nominated for Best New Artist, although she’s already on her second album. Looks like the BET Award nominating committee is sipping on the same sauce as the folks who do the noms for the Grammy Awards.

    Ne-Yo and Maxwell are among the artists scheduled to perform on the show, which will air on June 24th. SonicClash will, as usual, be live-blogging the event.

  • Chart Chat 5/7/09: Chillin’ Like Bob Dylan

    dylanSurprising no one, Bob Dylan makes his second straight entry at the top of the Billboard charts with his latest album “Together Through Life”. The album scans just under 125,000 units in it’s first week. The remainder of the chart is pretty mellow, with a couple of baby bands (Playing for Change and Heaven & Hell) debuting at #10 and #8, respectively, and the remainder of the Top 10 remaining relatively static.

    Lady GaGa continues her upward momentum, as “The Fame” rises to #5 this week with a 1% increase to 40K scanned. With 775,000 copies having crossed record store shelves (or the virtual equivalent), GaGa should be crossing Platinum territory very soon.

    “American Idol” and “Dancing with the Stars” continue to drive sales, as three of the four biggest increases of the week are due to performances on those shows. Taylor Hicks’ “The Distance” re-enters the chart at #180, with a 148% increase over the previous week’s sales. Robin Thicke and Jamie Foxx also make big increases, and Foxx’s “Blame It” single reaches a new peak on the singles chart, landing at #2 behind The Black Eyed Peas’ “Boom Boom Pow”.

    The biggest drop of the week comes from Depeche Mode, whose “Sounds of the Universe” falls from 3-18 on a 73% decrease to 22,000 units. However, this week’s epic fail has to go to Mike Jones (who??). The Texan rapper, who scored platinum sales several years ago with his debut, “Who is Mike Jones?” can only manage a #12 debut with his latest album, “The Voice”, which opens with a weak 25K.

    Next week, expect Ciara and Chrisette Michele to challenge for the #1 spot. Ciara might have an edge due to the fact that she’s performing on “Saturday Night Live” this weekend. The week after that, the real fireworks start, as Green Day’s album will hit the charts, followed by Eminem a week after that.

  • American Idol Season 8 – Who Is In The Top 4?

    Last night was a very interesting show, but it left me a bit empty, because I’m very worried that even though she was awesome last night, Allison might very well be going home tonight. I brought this up way back in the beginning. There was something missing about her personality and it was going to cost her. She’s become a bit more comfortable and that’s helped. But man, she’s turned her game up and deserves to go home less than ever. I’m crossing my fingers for Allison tonight.

    Last night, they dressed the part and it enhanced their performances. Tonight, it’s back to the old lazy button ups and sneakers for Kris. They performed I Don’t Mean A Thing and I Got Rhythm. It was a fun, but very simplified performance. I guess after Paula put them through the ringer last week, they didn’t want to go back for more.

    My kids think that Matt wears a hat to hide the wart on his forehead which they call his “third eye”.

    All five are in the center awaiting their fate. Matty Ballgame is sent to the right side of the stage. Danny is sent to the left side of the stage. Allison is sent next to Danny, while Kris is sent next to Matty.

    By the way, my wife Kara’s hair is terrible tonight. Sometimes, she just doesn’t listen.

    In a shock, the bottom three are Adam, Kris, and Matt. Well, it’s not that much of a shock unless Adam is really in the bottom two. But at least Allison is safe.

    Kara says her mouth drops for Adam and she even showed us how. I think she meant that she’s in awe from his performing and is in shock when she saw him in the bottom three. Because if she meant the other way, Adam might be in shock on his own. And plus, this ain’t Paula and Corey Clark.

    Natalie Cole’s skeleton is performing. Ok, that was a bad joke now that I found out it’s because of Hep C and failing kidneys. She’s just way skinny, but she still sounded good.

    Taylor Hicks is back on stage and singing a track from his new album. I thought they kicked him out of the American Idol alumni along with Diana Degarmo, Blake Lewis, Kat McPhee, Sanjaya, and William Hung. I guess he’s back. And he looks older than ever.

    I’ll give it up for him though. If anyone reminds me of the kind of music Huey Lewis & The News was putting out when I was a kid, it’s Taylor. My youngest just told me that Taylor was “too Western” for his taste.

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    Ok, now Kara can open her mouth again. Kris is sent over to the other group which leaves Matty Ballgame and Adam in the bottom two.

    Jamie Foxx is out performing everyone’s favorite excuse to touch a girl’s butt without her permission. According to Jamie, you can Blame It on the alcohol. Actually, I thought the song was originally written about Jamie being tricked by the club lights, taking someone home ugly early, and then the next morning using the goose and the henny as an excuse.

    Ryno tells Matty Ballgame that Carrie Underwood is going to sing him home sweet home. I’m sad to see Matty going home, but it’s time. Don’t feel badly for Matt, there’s a market for white dudes who can sing R&B.

    Tonight’s the night, I’m on my way, set me free, home sweet home.

    Photo of Jamie Foxx by Rafael Amado Deras and shared via creative commons.