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Posted March 15, 2007 — in Music News
Former American Idol Star Daughtry’s self titled release is selling like hotcakes (#3 on Billboard). Its not suprising since his songs and voice resemble Scott Stapp of Creed. Creed sold millions in their HEYDAY. Daughtry isn’t GREAT, but its not BAD either. Considering the lack of HITS these numbers shouldn’t suprise you. It also shows you that the general public are salivating for good radio songs and that they still will pay 10 bucks for one song.
The new Nelly Furtado single ‘Say it Right’ is good.
Norah Jones is now platinum.
KORN’s MTV Unplugged sold 51,000K in its first week. This group knows how to stay alive.
Lastly…
Viacom is getting support from media rivals including Time Warner in Google-YouTube Battle.
New York-based News Corp. said companies are justified in asserting copyright claims, while Time Warner called on YouTube to clean up the site.
YouTube has become even more popular since we took down Viacom’s material,” Google General Counsel Kent Walker said yesterday in a statement. “We think that’s a testament to the draw of the user-generated content on YouTube.”
I personally think Daughtry is great .. should’ve won American Idol and puts “REFRESH” in the rock market right now. The mis-conception from true music loves, is that he is from American Idol .. which many people gawk at .. we need to look past that. Daughtry was due for a new single on the radio .. I will agree with that .. his co-written song was getting over saturated.
Comment by realmad — March 15, 2007 @ 7:55 am
Everytime a Nelly song from her current album comes on over the club’s speakers there is a rush to the dance floor. I’ve seen this first hand in three different states so far. People are loving it and it put a smile on my face to hear Kings of A and R thought it was good.
Comment by A2daC — March 15, 2007 @ 8:32 am
There’s more than 1 good song on the Daughtry album. He can release at least 4 good singles.
The Korn unplugged is terrible. That guy can’t sign. Korn might be staying alive but that’s not necessarily a good thing.
Comment by Dave — March 15, 2007 @ 9:45 am
Are you kidding me? JD has a unique voice .. all bands started to copy that style after.
Comment by realmad — March 15, 2007 @ 11:34 am
Chris Daughtry sounds nothing like Scott Stapp. His single sounds like “Hemmorhage” by Fuel, which is the song that made him so popular on Idol. Not to mention he can actually sing.
The new Nelly Furtado song is horrible. The entire album is horrible. “Whoa Nelly” was an incredible album. What happened?
You’re right, Norah Jones is Platinum.
Korn “stays alive” by making the same album over and over again. I guess its easier to “stay alive” than to take a chance and do something new. Keep on “staying alive” Korn.
Comment by Sid — March 15, 2007 @ 2:40 pm
Bands copied the musical style. Not his voice.
He’s good when he’s heavy and all but unplugged?! C’mon.
Amy outsings him on Freak On Leash.
Comment by Dave — March 16, 2007 @ 4:16 am
I guess it shows you how if you’re on a show with 60 million people watching at least 1 percent of them will buy your music.
Comment by Brett — March 17, 2007 @ 1:23 pm
I still think it’s funny that Chris Daughty turned down a position fronting Fuel and then released a Fuel album. I don’t think he sounds like Scott Stapp, although they do share a lot of the same cheese ball rock poses.
As for Korn, I think they’ve been relatively straight forward when it comes to why they’re releasing albums. They need money. They know people will buy what they sell, which would be why they haven’t had a decent song in about 10 years. These are the bands that keep the ‘record industry’ afloat. Same mentality.
Comment by AJ-KOAR — March 19, 2007 @ 12:38 pm