Idol Headlines for 10/23/09
David Archuleta Celebrates An Early ‘Archmas’ with Carols at MTV News
They don’t come sweeter than David Archuleta. I know Paula Abdul got a lot of flack for saying she wanted to decapitate the boy and dangle his head from her rearview mirror (as a compliment), but after spending time with him this week I know exactly where Paula is coming from. By the end of our hour together, I was looking all over MTV for a hacksaw.
David just released a (fantastic) new Christmas album, so I thought it would be fun to don a set of Holiday sweaters, load up a satchel with recycled promo CDs and go caroling around MTV with the “Idol” runner-up.
Ryan Seacrest to Host Atlanta Ronald McDonald House Charities Hearts and Hands Gala October 24th
Atlanta Ronald McDonald House Charities (ARMHC) announces its Hearts and Hands Gala at 7pm on Saturday, October 24, at the World of Coca-Cola. Atlanta`s own Ryan Seacrest of “American Idol” will serve as host of the sold out black-tie dinner which will feature a special performance by “American Idol” season six finalist, Melinda Doolittle and a silent auction. The Coca-Cola Company is the event`s presenting sponsor. The Event Chair is Javier Goizueta, Vice President, The Coca-Cola Company and President of the McDonald`s Division Worldwide. Muhtar Kent, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Coca-Cola Company is Honorary Chair.
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Adam Lambert Calls Michael Jackson’s Musical Style ‘Groundbreaking’
During season 8 of “American Idol,” Adam Lambert became known for blurring boundaries, mixing elements of pop, ’70s glam rock, metal, musical theater and more into his live performances. It’s just that capacity to take risks that he so admires in Michael Jackson, whose “This Is It” documentary hits theaters on October 28.
“[H]is music so groundbreaking because he really brought a lot of rock into [it],” Lambert, who grew up listening to MJ and watching his videos, told MTV News. “He had initially set himself up with this R&B presence and he brought so much rock into it and I think it was really groundbreaking how he fused all those different styles together in a pop format. I’m very inspired by that musically.”
Chart Beat Thursday: Happy (Early) Holidays
IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE …: More than a week before Halloween, and five weeks before Thanksgiving, the Billboard 200 is being decorated with a sleighful of yuletide albums.
Five new holiday sets enter the Billboard 200, led by Bob Dylan’s “Christmas in the Heart” at No. 23. On Holiday Albums, the legend earns his first No. 1, as the collection vaults from No. 21 after street-date violations placed it on the list a week early.
David Archuleta starts at No. 30 on the Billboard 200 with “Christmas From the Heart,” which opens at No. 2 on Holiday Albums.
Grizzlies Opening Night
The Memphis Grizzlies have finalized the opening night entertainment at the FedEx Forum. To open the season the Grizzlies will have Memphis artists Academy award winning Three 6 Mafia, American Idol Finalist Lil Rounds and JabbaWockeez, America’s Best Dance Crew, performing.
Opening night will also be the first Beale Street Blue-Out Game as the first 10,000 fans in attendance will receive Beale St Blue T-Shirts presented by First Tennessee in honor of the new third alternate uniform that the Grizzlies will be wearing.
In overdrive: Years of hard work paying off for Chris Daughtry
‘It’s been a long three years’ since making the top four on ‘American Idol,’ said the North Carolina rocker, ‘but it’s flown by.
‘I was always in bands before, but on ‘American Idol,’ it was about getting my voice out there,’ Daughtry said. ‘It was always my goal, though, to get a band together again. It was just a matter of finding the certain people who see the music the same way.’
It’s not that his first album, recorded with session players, wasn’t a winner for Daughtry and RCA, the label that wasted no time in signing him after he was eliminated from the ‘American Idol’ competition.
Daughtry wants Toledo to dress up for Halloween
Chris Daughtry has a request for fans who will be at his band’s Oct. 31 concert in Toledo.
‘I want everybody in the crowd to dress up as something because I think that would be extremely entertaining for us on stage to look out and see everybody in different costumes,’ he said. ‘It would look like a huge Halloween party we’re playing. I think that would be a lot of fun.’
The singer-songwriter-guitarist took a few minutes to call Toledo Free Press from a tour stop in Omaha, Neb.
Blake Lewis’ Top 10 Influential Albums
Season six ‘American Idol’ alum Blake Lewis joins us this week as our guest blogger, revealing his favorite records — most having an influence on his second studio album, ‘Heartbreak on Vinyl’ (released Oct. 6). From the BT-inspired electronic pulses to the poppy Depeche Mode melodies, the songs on Lewis’ sophomore album tackle the hardships of a break-up (which Lewis refers to as his rendition of Maroon 5’s ‘Songs About Jane’). Be sure to check out his picks, which show his intrinsic love for ’80s, pop, indie and electronic music.
This is really tough for me!!!!!!!!!!! How can I pick 10? I have hundreds. I get inspired so easily by so many great artists out there.
David Archuleta Christmas CD Review: Beautiful, But…
If there was ever an ‘Idol’ who was meant to record an album of traditional Christmas songs, it’s David Archuleta.
It’s probably no surprise that the songs all sound gorgeous and have beautiful arrangements. Regardless of whether you’re an Archie fan or not, you have to admit he has a beautiful voice and Christmas carols are a great way to showcase it.
Now here comes the but’ ¦
Pickler set to open for Country Crossing
DOTHAN, AL. – Country Crossing says it has signed a deal with Kellie Pickler to headline its first concert on Dec. 12. Pickler’s performance is part of the opening of Celebrity Station Amphitheatre. Other acts include Houston County and Matt Kennon.
Pickler made it to the top six on the 5th season of American Idol. She also signed a recording contract in Nashville. Her debut album, Country Girl, was released in 2006. Just three months later it was certified Gold. It went on to yield 3 top 15 singles.
David Foster appears to be in good company
The best shows this week are by veteran artists: a producer, a rock and soul crossover singer, a pop icon and a soul legend.
David Foster, who appears Saturday at the Prudential Center at 165 Mulberry St. in Newark, is better known for the stars he produced over the years than the songs he performed himself.
Yes, he had a No. 15 hit with the instrumental “Love Theme from St. Elmo’s Fire” back in 1985, but most people won’t remember his other chart hits – “The Best of Me” and “Winter Games.”
Taylor Swift to Perform on ‘Dancing With the Stars’
Taylor Swift premieres her new single ‘Jump, Then Fall’ on the ‘Dancing With the Stars’ results show on Tuesday, Oct. 27 (8 p.m. CST on ABC).
She will also sing her worldwide chart-topping hit ‘Love Story,’ accompanied by professional dancers Cheryl Burke, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Tony Dovolani, Jonathan Roberts, Edyta Sliwinska and Anna Trebunskaya.
Swift sold more records in 2008 than any artist in the world.
Also appearing will be Cuban superstars Tiempo Libre performing ‘Tu Conga Bach’ from their new Sony Masterworks album entitled ‘Bach in Havana.
Songwriters find that radio is tried-and-true
Songwriter Nina Ossoff, who has worked on songs for Daughtry and Phil Stacey, says because declining sales have hurt everyone in the industry, she now has to “deal in volume,” trying to get as many songs placed wherever she can to make up for lower sales and a lack of radio exposure.
“The business is so singles-driven now,” Ossoff says, adding that the new trend is for songwriters to submit only a verse and a chorus to execs, who will tell them to finish songs that have hit potential.
What Does Susan Boyle’s Amazon Record Really Mean?
If you put together the two charts, it’s not too much of a stretch to posit that an album’s ranking on CD-selling sites is little more than a leading indicator that it appeals to an that’s slightly more classicist (classic rock, classic pop) in its tastes than buyers of the New Moon soundtrack (No. 7 on the Internet chart, 2,700 sales) and Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 (No. 11 on the Internet chart, 1,100 sales). Perhaps this constant cawing about Boyle’s Amazon ranking is actually Sony’s way of reminding the public that she has an album coming out, and that people really liked to watch her on the Internet back in the day! (You know, in May.)
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I have the same wonder. Maybe Jive wants to promote the second single.
Is it too late to comment on Alex Trugs? I think he’s effing hilarious! I don’t think he’s going to be a pop star, but he sure could be a comedian. Don’t have a problem with him at all.
Speaking of outspoken…loved Blake’s influences. Did he write it or was it transcribed? My copy editing finger was itching.
Kanye West got more heat than Jamie Foxx because it happened in front of Taylor Swift in a more public way. Jamie’s rude comments weren’t in front of Miley on a stage. I think Jamie’s comments were worse, but people reacted more with Taylor standing there. It doesn’t hurt that she has a better reputation than Miley.
Gotta start some time. This should give them some feedback on how the different songs were received to decide on future singles. Also, televised is good, more people who might want to buy his album. It should be plenty of time for the band to learn a few songs. It really isn’t that many and I suspect the band had been practicing the songs before Kris himself started rehearsing with them. Even if the sound isn’t that good live, the worst that would happen is that they wouldn’t get additional fans. But it won’t turn those people off for good. If they don’t enjoy him, it wouldn’t be important enough for them to remember his name.
If anyone is still here (!), and for whomever asked about LLWD going for adds at Christian stations, here is the blurb on the Christian page at All Access (it is the 3rd featured “Cool New Music” listing):
“The debut single “Live Like We’re Dying” from “American Idol” winner Kris Allen gives a potent reminder to find the purpose in (the) moment. Going for adds at Christian radio now!”
Also has a picture of the album artwork.
No, I’m thinking there’s a segment of the Lambert fandom that are psychos in training, if not already there. And yes, it is true with all the fan bases. In this case it was Adam’s. Trugs owes thanks ONLY to Adam for tweeting about his YT. It doesn’t earn the nutters a free pass. There’s no reason Trugs, or any of the AIers should have to keep silent if they are being annoyed or harassed by OTT fans. If the normal fans couldn’t separate themselves from the fans AWT was talking about, then maybe they weren’t as normal as they think.
Bottom line is some fans are way too full of themselves and think they have way more power than they do. This whole thing about “if you want a career don’t knock so and so’s fans” and “if you want a career you’d better suck up on Twitter to so and so’s fans” is beyond dumb.
Trugs tweets a lot of funny and random things. He makes me laugh. I really don’t think this is a big deal. Some OTT fans tweet some pretty outrageous and ridiculous things to the Idols. This stuff about keeping track of who tweets support to whom at what time and how many days after an important event is cray cray. If people get so worked up about something so insignificant like tweets by someone they don’t even know, maybe they should not be on twitter anymore. Why get yourself all worked up over meaningless things?
Not really. He sang on SNL 2 weeks before the album dropped just one song we didn’t hear yet off the album along with LO. I think this should be good for Kris in terms of getting early feedback on the songs.
Seriously what happened to RedOne? That was one of Adam’s big collaborators from the beginning. I’d much rather have a few RedOne tracks than Cavallo tracks, not sorry to say.
Did I miss something? Has Adam’s track listing already come out??
ETA: If you’re talking about what’s been posted here in the comments that’s just what people know about based upon tweets and other leaks. A lot more tracks were likely recorded.
I just know that Adam only gets 12 album tracks and that there have been a lot of songs people seem to be sure will make the album, with no mention of a RedOne track or title yet. It makes me sad. I know the deal isn’t sealed, I’m just wondering why I haven’t heard anything from him in magazine featured songs, or recent interviews, or anything. I’m hoping he will get some songs on the album, still.
Since we’re still talking about Trugs, my feeling is he dug his own hole with Adam’s “psycho fans” months ago when he compared Adam to a witch with lots of shrieking, too much drama and too much makeup – all on twitter. Then he got defensive and bitchy when the psycho fans predictably attacked. I guess he still doesn’t get that twitter is not the same as texting.
My impression of him at the time was that he lacked certain social graces and seemed to think he was above criticism from anyone.
They will get some Redone tracks on the album even if it’s only for promo reasons.
Maybee they just don’t like the tracks because they are too far away from his image on idol and want to focus more on the tracks that have more of a rock vibe. At least that’s my interpretation of his extensive work with both Cavallo and Benson at the end of the recording process.
TFM is now #24 on itunes, it has stayed very high on itunes for 4 days and now is slowly falling, wonder how many will he sell first week and how much the This Is It premiere will affect the charts.
Ah. Well, my take is that there are only 4 songs that people know for sure are on it. The TfM and the 3 that Lyndsey reviewed (which we knew nothing about until her review). All the others have been talked about but not necessarily by anyone deciding which ones will make the album. They’re going to be looking at which ones best serve the album as whole, best represent a type of sound for Adam to take forward.
Even if the songs are good and people are confident, it doesn’t mean they’ll make the album. While I personally think that neither Strut nor the Red One tracks will make the album, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. They were recorded early in the process and Adam and Co might not have figured out the type of sound they were going for. But it’s all speculation. Don’t give up hope yet. Quiet does not mean off the album.
I’d like to see at least one Red One song on the CD, but jms has a good point about how the focus seemed to change quite a bit towards the end and veer more in the rock direction. I was really surprised that Cavallo did so many songs. I’m not completely sold on him based on my impressions of Cook fans’ feelings about his CD.
And now the GaGa song may be in the mix too. Does anyone know who produced that one?
Eta: I do want the Linda Perry song on the CD, especially if it’s a haunting ballady type song. Thinking ‘beautiful’.
LLWD peaked at #24 for a while then slid down and it sold 30,000 the first (half) week, so I’ll guess 150,000 for TFM. It’s just my uneducated wild guess.
I think you are going way too high on that one, Archie went straight to n °1 with Crush and sold 160,000 first week.
If I had to put an over/under, I would put it at 80, 000.
And I think you’re wrong, Kris sold 15,000 for his first half week.
Eeep. I hope nothing like that makes the album. I’m good with the ballady bit, just not with the depressing. I’m expecting this album to have pretty, uplifting, positive or defiant lyrics and will be very disappointed if the ballads have painful lyrics. I’m more a fan of the “What’s Up” Linda Perry.
I don’t want painful, but maybe eerie and ghostlike? Maybe Ring of Fire-ish is what I’m thinking (the wailing/keening part).
Trying to remember if this song had a descriptor – was it the floating in space one or the loaded smile one? I might be mixing up the Linda Perry and the Pink songs. Obviously my brain is scrambled tonight; I need to sleep.
That’s not going to happen. Not this week.
Here were the Top 10 Numbers for last week:
1 1 SPEARS*BRITNEY 3 171583 -33 254640 426223
4 2 OWL CITY FIREFLIES 156343 13 138428 681259
2 3 CYRUS*MILEY PARTY IN THE U.S.A. 155670 -5 163276 1824741
3 4 DERULO*JASON WHATCHA SAY 149855 -1 152050 1239195
17 5 BLACK EYED PEAS MEET ME HALFWAY 127413 119 58238 317525
6 6 SEAN*JAY FEAT. LIL WAYNE DOWN 120246 -2 122323 1763125
8 7 JAY-Z, RIHANNA & KANYE WEST RUN THIS TOWN 111308 3 108240 1345586
5 8 LADY GAGA PAPARAZZI 108303 -12 123223 962135
10 9 IYAZ REPLAY 106704 1 105564 478307
– 10 MAYER*JOHN WHO SAYS 101939 999 77 102016
Time for Miracles has been all over the map this week, so it’s tough to predict. It will probably be in the 60-75K range (a couple of days in the top 10, a couple of days in the average mid-teens, a couple of days in the average mid-20s). A few weeks ago, Glee got two songs into the top 9 and 10 positions and held them a little longer and they did 74K and 63K respectively. Maybe TfM will go as high as 80K. It’s really hard to tell with Pop bars and the changing fortunes of the chart each week.
I think TfM is a bonus track and won’t count toward the 12.
Ayla Brown, the 13th place finisher on season 5 was personally invited by David Foster to join the Boston Show,
David Foster & Friends!! Along with X-Idol winner Ruben Studdard.
Other performers include,
Philip Bailey (Earth, Wind and Fire) Peter Cetera, Charice, Michael Johns, and more. Below is a synopsis of the show:
Foster will perform with some of his talented friends the hits that have paved the way for the many artists he has worked with over the years including Whitney Houston, Barbra Streisand, Josh Groban, Chris Botti, Celine Dion, Michael Buble, Andrea Bocelli, Chaka Khan, Madonna.
What a great opportunity for Miss Ayla Brown, who has 2 new albums coming out!
Agganis Arena
Boston, MA
Sun, Oct 25, 2009 08:00 PM
tickets!
The term was overshadow and no matter how you look at it Adam has overshadowed everyone from S8.
I think strut might be a redone song. it was much earlier on when he was working with redone.
It’s all circular. You keep calling someone a big success, then someone else picks up on it and the story keeps snowballing. (Sort of like the way Fox “news” makes stories out of half truths and the other news networks pick up on it and repeat it over and over until no one can remember what’s true and what isn’t.) And, the media never likes to be wrong.
What the HECK?? The link funtion is working, so you can just cut and paste this:
http://nonemoreblakk.blogspot.com/2009/10/daily-metal_28.html