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- Rapper Too Short nabbed for drugs
- Bon Jovi edges out David Bowie on album chart
- Paul McCartney to kick off world tour in Poland
| Rapper Too Short nabbed for drugs Posted: 21 Mar 2013 12:17 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran U.S. rapper Too Short was arrested on Wednesday in Los Angeles on suspicion of drunken driving and narcotics possession, local police said. The Blow The Whistle rapper, who was born Todd Anthony Shaw, was booked shortly after 3am after a traffic stop in Hollywood, Los Angeles Police officer Cleon Joseph said. Joseph said the 46-year-old rapper, who is best known as a pioneer of West Coast hip hop in the late 1980s and 1990s, was still in custody but offered no other details. Too Short was being held on US$10,000 bail and charged with at least one felony, according to Los Angeles County jail records. A bail hearing had yet to be scheduled, the records indicated. Local media reported that the Oakland, California, native tried to run away but was immediately apprehended. |
| Bon Jovi edges out David Bowie on album chart Posted: 20 Mar 2013 08:36 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. rock band Bon Jovi beat British singer David Bowie to the top of the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday. Bon Jovi, fronted by Jon Bon Jovi, notched their fifth No. 1 album with What About Now, which sold 101,000 copies in its debut week, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan. Bowie, 66, a pioneer of Britain's glam rock movement in the 1970s and 1980s, came in at No. 2 with his latest album The Next Day, selling 85,000 copies. Bowie's album sold more digital copies than Bon Jovi, with 41,000 copies of The Next Day downloaded in comparison to 34,000 copies of What About Now, which was a bigger seller in retail shops, Billboard magazine said. Bowie has yet to score a No. 1 album in the United States despite having released 27 studio albums in his career. The Next Day marks the singer's unexpected return to music after a decade-long hiatus, and it topped the British album chart last week while Bon Jovi came in at No. 2. Bon Jovi and Bowie led among six new debuts in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 this week. Christian music compilation album Passion: Let The Future In landed at No. 4, R&B band Mindless Behavior debuted at No. 6 with All Around The World, and Eric Clapton's latest release, Old Sock, came in at No. 7. Sound City - Real To Reel, the star-studded compilation soundtrack to Foo Fighter frontman Dave Grohl's documentary Sound City, which features Paul McCartney and Stevie Nicks, landed at No. 8 this week. Legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix's People, Hell And Angels, the 12th posthumous album from the late rock star's label and which contained 12 previously unreleased studio recordings, rounded out the top 10 this week. Total U.S. album sales in the past week totaled 5.6 million units, while the year-to-date album sales tally of 61.4 million is down 7 percent from the same period in 2012. Music industry analysts expect Justin Timberlake's new album The 20/20 Experience to top the Billboard 200 chart next week and sell as many as 750,000 copies in its first week. |
| Paul McCartney to kick off world tour in Poland Posted: 20 Mar 2013 06:02 PM PDT LOS ANGELES: Paul McCartney will kick off a world tour in Warsaw on June 22, four days after he turns 71, the former Beatle's official website annouced Wednesday. McCartney's appearance at the National Stadium will be his first-ever show in Poland, said www.paulmccartney.com, adding that his "Out There!" tour would feature music from his entire career. McCartney will also perform in Vienna on June 27, the website said, with confirmed dates for concerts in other cities to be announced "in the coming weeks." Organizers of the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, on June 13-16 have previously announced that McCartney would be among its top attractions this year. - AFP |
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