NEW YORK – Attila the Hun invaded the stage of the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday night, and he brought with him a welcome accomplice: Riccardo Muti, making his long-overdue conducting debut.
Welcome as well were the terrific cast of singers the company assembled for its first staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s 10th opera, “Attila.” Led by Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov in the title role and Lithuanian soprano Violeta Urmana as his nemesis,
NEW YORK (AP) — Move over Beyoncé. Step aside Taylor Swift. There’s a new queen of pop, and her name is Susan Boyle.
The British talent contestant-turned-singing sensation sold just over 700,000 copies of her debut album, “I Dreamed a Dream,” debuting at No. 1. Her record label, Columbia Records, says that not only gives her the best first week sales of 2009, but also the best-selling album
LONDON (AP) — In the contest, she finished second. But on the charts, she’s number one.
Susan Boyle’s debut record, “I Dreamed A Dream,” entered the British album chart in the top spot Sunday. The 48-year-old Scottish songstress famously finished second on “Britain’s Got Talent,” but the variety show launched a career that has seen her win success on both sides of the Atlantic.
According to the Official Charts
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NEW YORK (AP) — The first song from the upcoming Michael Jackson music documentary will make its debut online.
Sony Music says “This Is It” will have its premiere late Sunday, at midnight, on http://www.MichaelJackson.com.
The song plays during the closing sequence of “Michael Jackson’s
NEW YORK (AP) - The first song from the upcoming Michael Jackson music documentary will make its debut online. Sony Music says “This Is It” will have its premiere late Monday, at midnight, on www.MichaelJackson.com.
The song plays during the closing sequence of “Michael Jackson’s This Is It” and will be included on a companion two-disc CD set. The unreleased single features backup vocals by Michael’s brothers, The Jacksons.
The documentary opens Oct. 28 for a two-week (more…)
The “Melrose Place” remake opened to just 2.3 million viewers on Tuesday night, according to Variety.com.
The first new series of the fall television season debuted after the second season premiere of 90210, which had 2.56 million viewers overall.
Both shows performed decently among its intended target - young women. They finished second in their time slots with females aged 18-34.
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Over the past six years, Mitchel Musso has been establishing himself as a rising TV, movie and music star. He is best known for his role as Oliver “Smokin’” Oken on the Disney Channel series, Hannah Montana; but at just 17 years old, Mitchel has been in numerous movies (Secondhand Lions, Monster House) and TV shows (”Phineas and Ferb”, Stacked and Oliver Beene) and has already had 3 hit songs on Radio Disney. “The In Crowd,” his latest, reached #2 on the Radio Disney chart and his cover
Kid Cudi, whose unique multi-format breakout hit single, “Day ‘N’ Nite” is a radio and digital smash, is joining the artist roster of Universal Motown, the label recently announced.
“Kid Cudi is at the vanguard of a game-changing new generation of artists,” said Universal Motown President Sylvia Rhone. “He crosses musical boundaries with an appeal that goes beyond genre, format, race, language, and culture. Cudi lives easily in the hip-hop, indie rock, pop, and R&B worlds
Pop star Christina Aguilera has signed on to play a burlesque dancer in her first big screen film.
The singer will play the lead role in Burlesque, a musical about a small-town girl who lands a job dancing in a strip club while seeking fame and fortune in Los Angeles.
The project will be directed by actor/filmmaker Steve Antin, brother of choreographer Robin Antin, who founded the burlesque troupe-turned-girl band The Pussycat Dolls.
Burlesque will begin
Daughtry will debut “No Surprise,” the first single from the band’s second album, during the Wednesday, May 6 episode of American Idol. It is the first track from their 19 Recordings/RCA July 14 release. Daughtry is currently in the studio finishing the yet to be titled album, which follows the band’s Grammy-nominated, quadruple-platinum debut.
“American Idol fans have been so loyal to this band, we wanted to give them the first listen to our new single,” says singer Chris
