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Quicks: Osbournes Return, Linkin Park Sales Drop, Bird’s Killing Joke.
04-9-03
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Linkin Park Sales Drop
Linkin Park will remain in the top spot
on the Billboard Album Charts this week despite a sharp drop off in sales
for the second week the album was in stores. “Meteora” had first week sales
of 811,000 in America but the second week sales dropped to 250,000
units according to a report from Undercover News.
Undercover
reports the following:
It's another good week for Link Park. 'Meteora'
is going to not only be the number 1 record in America again this week
but number 1 by a long shot. Sales of 'Meteora' will be over 250,000 this
week giving the title a 70,000 lead of 50 Cent's 'Get Rich Or Die Tryin'.
White Stripes bolted out of the post and yesterday looked like finishing
in the Top 3 but second day sales slowed their performance. They finish
up possibly at #6 with sales over 120,000.
Norah Jones, Celine Dion and the various
artist compilation Now 12 continued to storm out of stores giving them
dominance for Top 5 positions.
For White Stripes it is still a good win.
This week their album debuted at #1 in England selling around 80,000 units.
In Australia, they came in at #4 on 7,389 sales.
Linkin Park debuted at #1 in 18 countries
with 'Meteora'. The album current tops charts in the United States, Spain,
Slovenia, the UK, Japan, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Sweden, Austria,
Chile, Indonesia, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland, Taiwan, the Czech
Republic and Hong Kong.
Osbournes Third Season Set
Blabbermouth
Reports the following:
Season three of "The Osbournes" is set
to premiere on MTV on June 10, according to Launch. The new season will
include details of Sharon Osbourne's colon cancer recovery, and an"only-in-Hollywood"
incident that found "The Osbournes" camera crew face-to-face with
a crew following actress/comedienne Roseanne.
The third season of "The Osbournes" is
expected to be its last.
Bird’s Killing Joke
Birdtarget.com
Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke was recently
in California where Dave Grohl laid down drum tracks for the forthcoming
Killing Joke album, which will be released by Sony Records later this year.
While in California he stopped by a Birthday
bash for antiMUSIC’s founder Keavin Wiggins and caught a solo acoustic
set by former Bird3 frontman, Bird. Impressed with what he heard, Coleman
has invited Bird to his home in Prague to work on his new material for
his solo record.
Of note, the 3 members of Bird3 played
together for the first time in over a year as the encore to Bird’s set
during the above-mentioned show. They performed “Air Crisp” from their
self-titled debut album. Bird is currently in discussion with several labels
about a deal but has not yet settled on a new label home.
Wonderlove Win Big At OC Music Awards.
Wonderlove.net
Another local Los Angeles area band we
have covered here at antiMUSIC in the past, Wonderlove were big winners
at this year’s Orange County Music Awards, repeating their strong showing
at last year’s awards.
The walked away with awards for Best Rock
Group and Best Live Band.
Wonderlove self-released their sophomore
album, “My Submarine”, earlier this year and are currently in discussions
with several major and large indie labels about a deal to release a remixed
version of the album.
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