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The star continues at the top for week two.
Jamie Foxx has retained the Billboard Top 200 Albums No.1 for the second week, despite a continued challenge from Mary J Blige’s new album.
Foxx’s “Unpredictable” stole the top spot from Blige’s “The Breakthrough” last week and there’s no change for a second week. However, the remainder of the top 10 looks marginally different, with a new entry for the Strokes’ “First Impressions Of Earth” landing at No. 4, behind Eminem’s “Curtain Call: The Hits”.
Carrie Underwood’s “Some Hearts” rounds out this week’s top five, with Mariah Carey (”The Emancipation Of Mimi), Notorious B.I.G (”Duets: The Final Chapter”), the Black Eyed Peas (”Monkey Business” and Nickelback (”All The Right Reasons”) completing this week’s top ten.
There were no further new entries in this week’s top fifty.
Across to the singles chart, and there’s a big change at the top as Nelly’s “Grillz” ft. Paul Wall and Ali & Gipp jumps four places to No. 1 this week.
The track dislodges D4L’s “Laffy Taffy”, which drops to No.6, and is Nelly’s fourth singles No.1, reports Billboard/Nielsen SoundScan.
At two is Chris Brown’s “Run It!”, with Beyonce’s “Check On It” ft. Slim Thug jumping a huge seven spots to three. The track is the title theme to the new Pink Panther movie.
Mariah Carey’s “Don’t Forget About Us” rises to No.4, while Nickelback’s “Photograph” rounds out this week’s top five.
Highest new entry this week goes to Sean Paul’s “Temperature” at No. 74, while other new entries include Dem Franchize Boyz’ “Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It” featuring Lil Peanut and Charlay at 91, Rob Thomas’ “Ever the Same” one spot back, Toby Keith’s “Get Drunk and Be Somebody” following at 93 and Kelly Clarkson’s “Walk Away” at number 97.
January 15th, 2006
Pop singer Britney Spears on Tuesday topped an annual Hollywood worst-dressed list compiled by a fashion designer who called her an “over-the-hill Lolita.”
Mr Blackwell’s list, which also slammed starlets Mary-Kate Olsen, Jessica Simpson, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton, summed up 2005 as a particularly bad year for “couture chaos, wardrobe wrecks and stylistic sleaze.”
Spears, who gave birth to her first child last year, has been a favorite on Blackwell’s list for the past five years. He described her on Tuesday as going from “princess of pop to the ultimate fashion flop.”
The self-appointed fashion guru’s lists are a Hollywood tradition. Over the years they have poked fun at everyone from Queen Elizabeth to Elizabeth Taylor.
In his 46th report, Blackwell said that Olsen, 19, who with her twin, Ashley Olsen, heads a multimillion-dollar entertainment empire appealing to young girls, looked “depressingly decayed” in her “bag lady rags.”
He called Simpson, 25, a “cut-rate Rapunzel slingin’ hash in a Vegas diner” and said Lohan, 19, was “drowning in grown-up groaners” that added 30 years to her looks.
Blackwell said hotel heiress Hilton looks “like yesterday’s cheesecake,” criticized “Desperate Housewives” television star Eva Longoria for “garish taste” and described Oscar winner Renee Zellweger as looking like a “painted pumpkin on a pogo stick.”
Blackwell urged the women on his list to emulate the “effortless beauty and memorable style” of Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Kate Moss, Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman and Dionne Warwick.
Blackwell’s worst-dressed women of 2005 are:
1) Britney Spears
2) Mary-Kate Olsen
3) Jessica Simpson
4) Eva Longoria
5) Mariah Carey
6) Paris Hilton
7) Anna Nicole Smith
8) Shakira
9) Lindsay Lohan
10) Renee Zellweger
January 12th, 2006
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are planning to hit the road together again beginning this spring, according to Billboard. The couple last toured together in 2000 on the Soul II Soul tour. The co-headlining in-the-round arena tour will reportedly begin on April 21 and run through Labor Day. McGraw and Hill will perform about 70 dates in all. There will no opening acts on the tour.
McGraw’s latest studio album, Live Like You Were Dying, was released in 2004.
Hill’s Fireflies album as released in 2005.
“Like We Never Loved At All,” Hill’s latest single featuring McGraw, is a recent Top 10 hit on the country charts.
January 10th, 2006
Jennifer Lopez is reportedly having trouble getting a backer for a film musical based on the George Bizet opera Carmen. According to the New York Daily News, investors aren’t willing to put up the $50 million needed for the project, even though Ray director Taylor Hackford was tapped to direct the film. Hackford said Thursday (December 29), “Carmen is on its last legs. Studios are so frightened at the moment that they are looking for outside money.”
Hackford thinks that there’s a lot of fear in Hollywood because so many films aren’t doing well at the box office. But, he also admits that studio heads think audiences won’t accept JLo as the legendary vixen who is murdered by her jilted lover. He said, “[Carmen] is not a sweet, nice girl. This is a piece about a criminal. We want to do a tough, hard version, but Hollywood thinks the audience [for Jennifer Lopez] is 13-year-old girls. …It has an ending that Hollywood does not like to make.”
MTV did a musical special based on the opera called Carmen - A Hip Hopera in 2001. It starred Beyonce Knowles in the title role opposite Mekhi Phifer, Mos Def, and Joy Bryant.
Lopez will be in Puerto Rico this month filming El Cantante, which stars her husband, Marc Anthony.
January 10th, 2006
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