Day: December 22, 2008

Due to the Christmas holiday, sales numbers may be few and far between this week, so I’m going to post what we get when we get ’em. Hits Daily Double collected all of their sales

David Cook and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Tony Gonzalez passed out shadow buddy dolls to seriously ill and medically challenged children at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City on Monday morning. Awww…

Kellie Pickler just returned from a USO tour where she squeezed in visits to 9 cities in 5 days including, Germany, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo and England. She posted a few thoughts on her tour yesterday

Carrie Underwood’s elegiac video for her hit country song “Just A Dream” takes the #1 spot on CMT’s list of Top videos for 2008. Carrie has also been named “most heard” country artist, and Billboards

Major Ka-Ching! for Simon Cowell as 3 versions of the song “Hallelujah”, for which he apparently owns the rights to the original recordings by Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley, hits the UK Christmas chart. From

Looking for some Idol music to augment that holiday playlist?   There’s a lot to choose from. Even more than you realize–the Idols love to release Christmas tunes. Let’s start with the new stuff.  

Constantine Maroulis performs at Joe’s Pub, in New York City, 12/23, Brandon Rogers, Chris Sligh and Blake Lewis perform at WinterFest in Albany, NY 12/27 and Ruben Studdard performs at the Papa Johns.com Bowl Pep

Idol Chartwatch, December 22: New Idol Albums on the Horizon Idols are all over the holiday charts and there good news for David Cook. In addition, Idol fans can look forward to a plethora of

Here are your very abbreviated Monday Morning Medibase Updates (Top 30/40/50/whatever in major formats only).