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- Fall Out Boy outsells Kid Cudi for top spot on Billboard chart
- Documentary on Amy Winehouse in the works
- Tina Turner becomes a Swiss citizen
| Fall Out Boy outsells Kid Cudi for top spot on Billboard chart Posted: 24 Apr 2013 09:12 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. rock band Fall Out Boy (pic) topped the Billboard 200 weekly best-selling album chart for the second time in their five-album career, besting rapper Kid Cudi. Save Rock And Roll sold 154,000 copies in its debut week, according figures on Wednesday from Nielsen SoundScan, outpacing Kid Cudi's Indicud, which sold 136,000 copies in its first week. Industry forecasters pegged both albums to sell about 150,000 copes last week, according to trade publication Billboard.com. Rock band Paramore, whose fourth album Paramore was last week's No. 1, fell to No. 12. Pop singer Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience and country singer Blake Shelton's Based On A True Story held at the third and fourth spots respectively on the chart for the second consecutive week. Indie rock trio Yeah Yeah Yeahs' fourth album Mosquito debuted at No. 5 on the chart. Pop singer Pink's Just Give Me A Reason topped the digital songs chart for another week with 262,000 downloads, a 7 percent decline from last week, while hip hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' Can't Hold Us was No. 2 again with 245,000 downloads, a 17 percent rise. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' Thrift Shop placed fourth, behind Rihanna's Stay and ahead of Justin Timberlake's Mirrors on the digital chart. French DJ duo Daft Punk's new song Get Lucky, which features singer-producer Pharrell Williams, sold 113,000 downloads last week on only three days of sales. It is the duo's first single in three years. Year-to-date albums sales stand at 90.5 million, a 5 percent decrease from the same period last year, while 2013 digital song sales of 434 million have declined 2 percent compared to last year. |
| Documentary on Amy Winehouse in the works Posted: 24 Apr 2013 08:51 PM PDT REUTERS - A documentary is in the works about the late British soul singer Amy Winehouse and it features previously unseen material, the film's distributor said on Wednesday. The film, which will include archival footage never seen by the public, will be directed by Briton Asif Kapadia, whose 2010 film Senna, about Brazilian auto racer Ayrton Senna, won a BAFTA for best documentary. The Grammy-winning singer died in 2011 at the age 27 from alcohol poisoning. Winehouse's 2006 album Back To Black made her an international star. London-born Winehouse, who struggled with drug and alcohol addiction, is credited in part with reviving the popularity of soul music. "Amy was a once-in-a-generation talent who captured everyone's attention. She wrote and sung from the heart and everyone fell under her spell," Kapadia and the film's producer James Gay-Rees said in a joint statement. "But tragically, Amy seemed to fall apart under the relentless media attention, her troubled relationships, her global success and precarious lifestyle," Kapadia and Gay-Rees added. "As a society, we celebrated her huge success, but then we were quick to judge her failings when it suited us." The film, which does not yet have a title, will be shopped to foreign buyers at the Cannes Film Festival in May, distributor Focus Features International said. |
| Tina Turner becomes a Swiss citizen Posted: 24 Apr 2013 06:30 PM PDT GENEVA: Tina Turner, the US-born singer famed for hits such as "Private Dancer" and "What's Love Got to Do With It", has become a Swiss citizen, the Swiss newspaper Blick reported. The 73-year-old retired entertainer, who has lived in Switzerland for nearly two decades, received her red Swiss passport with its distinctive white cross on it on Monday, the publication said. Swiss media reported in January that Turner was to hand in her US passport when she got her Swiss one. She was quoted as saying that "I cannot imagine a better place to live" than in the European Alpine state, where privacy laws are strictly enforced. Turner, who was born Anna Mae Bullock, lives in the picturesque town of Kuesnacht, on the shores of Lake Zurich in northern Switzerland. She had to learn German, pass a local civics test and interview to get her new citizenship. She moved to Switzerland in 1995 when her longtime partner, German record executive Erwin Bach, was transferred here. The couple is expected to marry in a few months' time, Blick reported.-AFP |
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