Seriously? OMG! WTF?

DANIEL POWTER’s BAD DAY hit has become the best-selling digital song ever thanks to US fans. The 2005 international hit became a smash all over again earlier this year (06) in America when it was used as a weekly theme on hit reality TV show AMERICAN IDOL. Canadian Powter even performed his debut during the show’s finals and then watched as the track climbed to number one on the Billboard charts, where it stayed for five weeks.Now, the tune has reached another milestone – the single has sold more than 1.6 million downloads in the US. The track has become one of the biggest debuts of all-time around the world it was the most played song in 2005 in Europe and it reached number one in 12 countries including Powter’s native Canada, Britain, Australia and Japan. The news of Powter’s latest milestone could not have come at a better time for the singer/songwriter – he began his first US tour on Monday.

PR-Inside 

Even in death, Johnny Cash is still mighty enough to top The Billboard 200. "American V: A Hundred Highways" earns the Man in Black his first No. 1 album since 1969’s "Johnny Cash at San Quentin" with 88,000 copies sold in the United States, according to Nielsen Soundscan.
The American Recordings/Lost Highway effort also crowns the Top Country Albums tally, knocking the Dixie Chicks’ "Taking the Long Way" (Columbia) to No. 2 after seven weeks on top.
Though the top debut is a great posthumous achievement, the Rick Rubin-produced "American V" sold the fewest copies of a No. 1 debut since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991. The previous low for a No. 1 debut belonged to Destiny’s Child’s "#1’s" in 2005, which started with 113,000.

Billboard 

Eight years after his solo debut, Sean Lennon will return Sept. 26 with the Capitol album "Friendly Fire," which features contributions from Jon Brion, session drummer Matt Chamberlain, Cibo Matto’s Yuka Honda, Paul Simon’s son Harper and actress Bijou Phillips.
Lennon describes "Friendly Fire" as "an experiment to see what it might be like to do music more publicly again" after limiting his recent recorded output to collaborations with artists such as Handsome Boy Modeling School, Money Mark, Ben Lee and Ryan Adams.
The 10-track "Friendly Fire," which includes a cover of Marc Bolan’s "Would I Be the One," is the follow-up to 1998’s "Into the Sun." That album, issued by the Beastie Boys’ now-defunct Grand Royal label, debuted at No. 4 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart.
In conjunction with the new album, Lennon and director Michelle Civetta have created short films for each song. They feature appearances by Phillips, Lindsay Lohan, Carrie Fisher, Asia Argento and Jordana Brewster, among others. A trail is available from Lennon’s Web site.

Billboard 

Is it just me or does he look so much like his dad? 

Prince’s official Web site, NPGMusicClub.com, closed suddenly last week with no advanced notice. The club simply sent around an email that said, in part, they decided to "put the club on hiatus until further notice."The announcement went on to say, "In its current [form] there is a feeling that the NPGMC gone as far as it can go." It ended, "The future holds nothing but endless opportunity and we plan on seizing it wholeheartedly. Don’t u want 2 come?"In a possibly related story, Prince filed for a trademark on the mark "NPG Music Club" last year. An opposition was filed against that claim by HM Publishers Holding Limited, which owns the Nature Publishing Group, or NPG. The opposition was filed on the same day that NPGMusicClub.com was put on "hiatus."

TMZ 

Bet you a K-Fed penny it is because no one was reading it. 

New York’s legendary club CBGBs is set to close on September 30.
The venue is due to relocate to Las Vegas in 2008.
CBGBs, which has been open for 30 years, is best known for housing many of the key bands who made up New York’s punk and new wave scene of the late 70s. Bands like The Ramones, Talking Heads and Blondie played some of their first gigs there.
However, according to the club’s founder Hilly Kristal, the venue has to close because of the soaring rent costs in New York.
Of the relocation to Las Vegas, Kristal said: "I am taking the bars with me, I am taking the stage – I’m taking the urinal that Joey(Ramone) pissed in with me. I going to take a lot of things – anything that makes this place CBGBs."
The club is set to announce its final live schedule shortly, and it’s expected to feature some of the performers who made the venue famous.

NME 

That just seems so wrong. I wonder if 3 out of the 4 Ramones are turning over in their graves over this news?

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