Archive for November, 2009
Chris Brown Denies Calling Jay-Z ‘Cornball’
November 30th, 2009
Singer called in to Shade 45 satellite station on Saturday.
By Gil Kaufman
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Chris Brown
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Chris Brown has been doing a lot of explaining lately, but on Saturday he called into DJ Whoo Kid’s show on Shade 45 satellite radio to dispel reports that he’s been taking shots at Jay-Z.
“My Twitter ain’t get hacked,” Brown told DJ Whoo Kid about a quickly picked-up post in which the singer appeared to refer to Jigga as a “cornball” during the American Music Awards on November 22 (the tweet was quickly taken down). “People blew [it] out of proportion. … I was also commenting on certain things that was going on on the AMAs. I was tweeting randomly about what was going on … so, the homies was at the house and everybody was like, ‘He’s making an excuse.’ All I twittered, I said, ‘cornball’ — I wasn’t talking about homie at all,” Brown explained.
“But the funny thing is, my homies was rapping and [I was like], ‘Ya’ll are just corny,’ and so I just typed it in, and at that moment I started seeing the comments: ‘Oh, you talkin’ about Jay?’ I was like, ‘Hell naw, what you mean?’ I said let me delete this before this be another story. I don’t need no more problems right now, I don’t need no more people cussing me out.”
Brown clarified that he has no beef with Jay — who happens to be Rihanna’s longtime mentor. “I’ve never really talked to homie,” he said. “Ain’t no beefs. I just get my money, [he] get his.”
During the interview, Brown also confirmed that in addition to the 13-track Graffiti that drops on December 8, an 18-track deluxe version will be released on the same day.
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Susan Boyle Snags Fastest-Selling Album In U.K. For 2009
November 30th, 2009
‘Britain’s Got Talent’ breakout star is poised to hit #1 in the U.S. this week as well.
By Gil Kaufman
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Susan Boyle’s <i>I Dreamed A Dream</i>
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Susan Boyle is mega. The once unknown, shy Scottish singer has completed her rocket ride from obscurity to worldwide fame by landing the fastest-selling album in Britain this year. According to Reuters, Boyle’s I Dreamed a Dream entered the British charts at #1 on sales of 410,000, giving her the biggest first-week sales for a debut album in U.K. chart history, beating out earlier big debuts by the Arctic Monkeys and Leona Lewis.
Boyle, 48, recently made news when the album, a mixture of her most famous covers and some holiday-appropriate standards, snagged the record for the biggest global CD pre-order in the 14-year history of Amazon.com. In addition to covers of the Rolling Stones’ “Wild Horses” and Madonna’s “You’ll See,” the 12-song disc — which sold more than 130,000 copies in its first day in England — features covers of the hymns “Amazing Grace,” “Silent Night,” and “How Great Thou Art,” the Monkees hit “Daydream Believer,” and one original song, “Who I Was Born to Be.”
The album has hit #1 in Australia and Ireland and is expected to be #1 in the U.S. this week as well, with experts predicting its 600,000-plus first week will easily outsell its closest competition, Adam Lambert’s For Your Entertainment. HITS Daily Double pegged potential Boyle sales between 625,000 and 675,000, which would also give Boyle the biggest first-week sales of 2009 in the U.S., easily beating Eminem’s 608,000 bow for the eagerly anticipated comeback album Relapse. HITS predicted that Lambert should easily take the #2 position with 210,000 to 230,000 in sales.
Boyle’s album has reportedly sold more than 2 million copies in its first week and will be the subject of an upcoming TV Guide Channel documentary, “I Dreamed a Dream: The Susan Boyle Story,” scheduled to air on December 13 and feature performances and an interview with Boyle as well as friends and supporters, including mentor and “Britain’s Got Talent” judge Simon Cowell.
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