What’s Next For Metallica, Top Current Albums, and New Music..
Posted April 28, 2008 — in Music News
What’s Next For Metallica? Lars Ulrich, Metallica drummer, mentioned that the band only has one album left to record for Warner Brothers under their contract. Lars Ulrich insuinated that the internet plays an important role in Metallica’s future and stated that they were watching the moves of others including Radiohead and Trent Reznor. (cnet)
Top Current Albums:
Mariah Carey - TW (462,000)
Leona Lewis - TW (94,842) Total 300,232
R.E.M. - TW (29,985) Total 192,449
P.O.D. - TW (12,797) Total 42,385
NIN - TW (11,749) Total 50,019
Nickelback - TW (9,789) Total 6,736,276
Confused Idol: American Idol may look into serious changes after the ratings dip according to the New York Post. Since the ratings dip, staffers at Idol have created a survey asking viewers how they would react to possible changes in the show’s format. Even though the ratings have decreased, the show is still HUGE.
“We’re not in denial,” Fox exec Preston Beckman told Broadcasting & Cable, the TV business weekly. “It’s still the biggest show on TV, but that doesn’t mean there are things we can’t do.
iPod Slump: Check out this article in the New York Times how Apple will prepare for an iPod Slump. ‘Apple sold 10.6 million iPods in the first three months of 2008. It has a 73 percent share of the music player market in the United States and a growing share abroad’.
New Coldplay Single: Coldplay sent out an email informing the world that they will be giving away their new single, ‘Violet Hill’, as a free download beginning tomorrow. The free download will be available for a week.
New Music: Pop country artist Shannon Nicole has posted a new song
Buses and Trains on her myspace. St. Louis radio station KYKY just added the song.
Recommended Shows: Alternative band, My Getaway, will be performing this Tuesday, April 29 at 8:15 p.m. at the Knitting Factory in Los Angeles. They were voted as #1 unsigned band in Alternative Press.
Recommended Listening: Raincoats by U.S Royalty. For fans of Deathcab.
American Idol was great when it debuted but like anything… after a while the excitement begins to ebb. In a society constantly looking for the “next thing”… American Idol.. is getting old quick.
Comment by Universal Indie Records — April 28, 2008 @ 8:52 am
What’s country about Shannon Nicole? That she’s got her shirt tied?
Someone should tell U.S. Royalty that name dropping Leonard Cohen & Elvis Costello is a really bad idea unless you’re incredibly good. (They’re not.)
Metallica has always been good to the fans that were good to them. They get such a bad wrap from consumers for the Napster stuff (since that’s all the press ever bothers to mention), but they probably do more for their fans than any band I can think of. I was really upset when they sent cease & desist letters to all of the fan-run Metallica bootleg sites in ‘99/’00, but they did a super bitchin’ job with livemetallica.com to make up for it. They did absolutely everything right with that site… it’s easy to use, downloads are super fast, they offer mp3 & flac, the recording quality of the shows is fantastic, the library of shows is gigantic, the documentation along with each show is really good, etc. I have no doubt that they would pull off a full digital release flawlessly… I just wish they still wrote great songs.
Comment by Jon Cole — April 28, 2008 @ 11:07 am
Everyone knows AI is rigged! So, my suggestion to the producers would be to stop rigging the show and then perhaps the ratings would improve. It’s an insult to the viewers.
Comment by JJ — April 28, 2008 @ 12:22 pm
A free Coldplay song is still too expensive.
Comment by Stu Gots — April 28, 2008 @ 3:35 pm