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- Lady Gaga launches youth empowerment foundation
- Coldplay's 'Mylo Xyloto' tops Billboard album chart
- CBS wins Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction ruling
| Lady Gaga launches youth empowerment foundation Posted: 02 Nov 2011 05:52 PM PDT [unable to retrieve full-text content]LADY GAGA on Wednesday launched the Born This Way Foundation to support programmes dealing with youth empowerment and help people facing bullying and abandonment. 
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| Coldplay's 'Mylo Xyloto' tops Billboard album chart Posted: 02 Nov 2011 05:47 PM PDT LOS ANGELES: Coldplay debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday with "Mylo Xyloto," while pop star Rihanna scored her 11th No. 1 single with "We Found Love" on the Hot 100 chart. "Mylo Xyloto," the fifth studio album from Coldplay, sold 447,000 copies in the first week of its release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It beat out stiff competition from "American Idol" alumnus Kelly Clarkson, who entered the charts at No. 2 with her fifth album, "Stronger," selling 163,00 copies. This is the third studio album for British rockers Coldplay to debut at No. 1, following their 2005 release "X&Y" and 2008's "Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends." Coldplay's latest record is the third biggest-selling album to top the charts this year, and the largest single-week sales for a rock record in nearly three years, according to Jim Donio, president of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM), a music business association. The band have also broken their own record, previously held by "Viva La Vida," for highest-ever first week album sales on iTunes stores worldwide, amassing over 500,000 copies sold across all 35 iTunes stores, a representative for Capitol Records said. "Mylo Xyloto" has received mixed reviews, despite its chart-topping success. Rolling Stone's Josh Eells gave the record three-and-a-half stars, saying "the choruses are bigger, the textures grander, the optimism more optimistic," but other critics were less impressed. Alexis Petridis of British newspaper The Guardian, criticized the lack of evolution in Coldplay's music and said that a lot of the album "just sounds like standard-issue Coldplay, replete with echoing guitars, woah-oh choruses and vocals that signify high drama by slipping into falsetto." British singer Adele, who has been dominating the album charts with "21," dropped to No. 4 as Michael Buble's holiday album 'Christmas," released last week ahead of the festive season, debuted at No. 3. Country singer Toby Keith rounded out the top five albums on the Billboard 200, with his 15th studio album, "Clancy's Tavern," also released last week, while singer-songwriter Tom Waits scored his first Top 10 album with "Bad As Me" entering the charts at No. 6. Completing the Top 10 albums were Scotty McCreery's "Clear As Day" at No. 7 followed by Lady Antebellum's "Own The Night," Tony Bennett's "Duets II," and Casting Crowns' "Come To The Well," in that order. In the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, Rihanna has become the fastest solo artist to earn 20 hits in the Top 10 in the course of her six year career, as her latest single featuring French DJ David Guetta, "We Found Love," took the No. 1 spot from Adele's "Someone Like You." The previous record for fastest solo artist to reach 20 Top 10 singles in her career was held by Madonna, whom Rihanna beat by 5 months. The single is the 11th No. 1 hit for the Grammy-winning Barbadian singer, who became the fifth female artist to reach 20 Top 10 singles, an achievement shared with Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson and Madonna. Rihanna's sixth studio album, "Talk That Talk," is due for release on Nov 21. Next week's album chart are likely to feature new entries from Justin Bieber, Miranda Lambert and Florence + The Machine, all of whom have released new albums this week. Full content generated by Get Full RSS. | ||
| CBS wins Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction ruling Posted: 02 Nov 2011 05:43 PM PDT A U.S. appeals court threw out Wednesday a federal agency's decision to fine CBS Corp television stations $550,000 for airing singer Janet Jackson's ''wardrobe malfunction'' during the 2004 Super Bowl broadcast. A divided 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia said that in imposing the fine, the Federal Communications Commission ''arbitrarily and capriciously'' departed from prior policy that exempted ''fleeting'' indecency from sanctions. In a statement, the FCC said it is disappointed by the decision, but plans to use ''all the authority at its disposal'' to ensure that broadcasters serve the public interest when they use the public airwaves. CBS spokeswoman Shannon Jacobs said the New York-based company is gratified by the decision, and hopes the FCC will ''return to the policy of restrained indecency enforcement it followed for decades.'' Jackson's right breast was briefly exposed to almost 90 million TV viewers after the singer Justin Timberlake accidentally ripped off part of her bustier during a halftime show performance. CBS was fined $27,500 for each of the 20 stations it owned. The 3rd Circuit in 2008 voided the fine, but that decision was vacated when the U.S. Supreme Court in 2009 upheld the FCC policy as rational, in an opinion involving News Corp's Fox TV stations. It did not decide whether the policy was constitutional, and returned the CBS case to the 3rd Circuit. Writing for a 2-1 majority, 3rd Circuit Judge Marjorie Rendell said that the FCC had for three decades maintained a ''consistent refusal'' to treat fleeting nude images as indecent, and that there was no justification to change policy for CBS. She said FCC regulations governing indecency treat images and words interchangeably, and ''it follows that the Commission's exception for fleeting material under that regulatory scheme likewise treated images and words alike.'' Judge Anthony Scirica dissented, saying the Fox opinion ''undermines'' the 2008 decision in the CBS case, which he had written. He said the CBS case should be sent to the FCC so it could apply the proper standards. The Supreme Court is expected in its current term to decide whether the FCC policy is constitutional. It is reviewing a decision by a federal appeals court in New York that voided the policy as unconstitutionally vague. That court said it was improper to fine broadcasters over expletives by the singers Bono and Cher on awards shows, or showing a woman's buttocks on ''NYPD Blue.'' Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
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