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After a crazybusy week, I finally got some time this weekend to sit down with Adam Lambert's For Your Entertainment. I'll tell you right up front: This album pushes so many of my buttons -- good buttons and bad ones -- that I no longer trust my own reactions to it. My listening equilibrium is so ...
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After hearing that Hits Daily Double predicted Kris Allen's album would move between 75,000 and 80,000 units its first week, yesitsme posted the debut-week sales for each of the previous Idol winners. The numbers are fascinating, especially in light of how the artists went on to perform ...
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Jennifer Hudson gets cast as Winnie Mandella. Jordin Sparks gets her appendix out. Plus, news on Adam Lambert, Chris Daughtry and Carrie Underwood
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After getting a good listen to the songs Danny Gokey has recorded, RCA Records Nashville has decided to go with an uptempo song called My Best Days Are Ahead of Me as Danny's first single instead of the ballad It's Only.
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Check out the interview with Syesha Mercado that USA TODAY's Kristin McGrath has in today's paper. Syesha plays Deena Jonas in the national tour of Dreamgirls, which opens Sunday at the Apollo Theater in New York and wraps up July 25 in Kansas City.
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Yahoo Music has the premiere of Allison Iraheta's Friday I'll Be Over U video. And it feels like it's 1983 all over again.
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Good news for several Idols in this week's digital tracks numbers from Nielsen SoundScan. Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson both pass download milestones with their latest: Cowboy Casanova is the week's best-selling Idol single, its 74,000 downloads pushing it past a half-million overall, and ...
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Last week's Country Music Association Awards gave country music sales a much needed shot in the arm. Just about every country act saw a nice sales boost except, well, Carrie Underwood. I'm thinking Carrie's profile was so high in the weeks before the CMA Awards that one more TV performance more ...
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”I was getting bored with my life" before American Idol, says Adam Lambert, whom USA TODAY's Edna Gundersen profiles for Wednesday's paper. "Like, this is it? I was hungry for more. I got my wish!"
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Kris Allen's album is out today, and early opinion on American Idol's Season 8 champion is decidedly mixed. You've seen my track-by-track assessment of his self-titled album. Today, we look at what other critics have to say about it.
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Several Carrie Underwood fans hoping to meet their favorite singer at a CD signing before her Grand Ole Opry appearance Saturday decided to take the message of Carrie's song Change seriously -- right down to the Coke-sticky floorboard coins. While waiting overnight on the sidewalk at the corner ...
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This week, the top four positions on our American Idol chart remain the same. Kelly Clarkson's Already Gone continues to pick up spins -- it's currently in the top 10 of both the Hot AC and Top 40 formats. Carrie Underwood's Cowboy Casanova also increased its spins, though Lady Antebellum's Need ...
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Nearly six months after Kris Allen scored a remarkable upset victory on American Idol, he still feels like an underdog. "Some people still don't know I won the show," Kris deadpans, in an interview that runs in today's paper. The final piece runs somewhat shorter that my original draft, so I've ...
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My apologies if I've been a bit on the incommunicado side today. With the Country Music Association awards show Wednesday, everything else kind of piled up into yesterday and today. I ended up doing six interviews today, four of which directly related to what goes on in this community. Some of ...
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The same songwriting team that penned country trio Lady Antebellum's breakthough hit I Run to You also wrote Danny Gokey's single, It's Only. Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood of Lady Antebellum -- which won Vocal Group and Single of the Year at Wednesday's Country Music Association Awards -- ...
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Chris Daughtry credited '80s pop star Richard Marx with bringing his band together with country singer Vince Gill for Tennessee Line. The two acts recorded the song for Daughtry's Leave This Town album and performed it together for the first time on Wednesday's Country Music Association Awards.
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Talked to Kellie Pickler on the red carpet. This is sort of the industry coming-out week for her new red 'do. "This is my big reveal, I guess," she says. "Around town, nobody recognizes me. Even my grandpa didn't know who I was the other day."
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content.usatoday.com - 10 days ago
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It was a pretty good week for several
Idols on the download front: Carrie Underwood's Cowboy Casanova
remained the best-selling Idol track, taking a 66 percent jump on the back of her album release. She also had four other tracks from Play On make ...
Your weekly sales fix: Carrie Underwood, Kris Allen, ...
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Carrie Underwood's day is starting off well. Not
only does she get to co-host the CMA Awards
tonight with Brad Paisley, but she's also got the best-selling album in the country. (We already knew she had the No. 1 country single.) Play On debuted atop ...
Carrie Underwood tops country, pop album charts
Congratulations to Carrie Underwood, Daughtry, Jennifer Hudson, Kris Allen and Adam Lambert, all of whom picked up People's Choice Awards nominations Wednesday. Carrie's up in two categories -- Favorite Female Artist and Favorite Country Artist. Daughtry's up for Favorite Rock Band, and ...
