Disney continues its remarkable 2006 run with what sure looks like a chart-topping debut for its Hannah Montana album, a soundtrack to its hit cable show, which could even top 250k in first-week sales. That follows on the heels of the company’s top two sellers of the year in Rascal Flatts and the High School Musical albums. Look for
Lions Gate’s grisly Saw
Day 1 at the spectacular ocean course featured Irving Azoff getting tossed off the island shuttle service by the unsuspecting Jamaican Rasta driver who was later seen tied to a pole in a gator pond. Day 2 greeted duffers with a constant downpour at the Osprey course as they were relentlessly attacked by swarms of pesky gnats that found their way into every available orifice. Putting could only be done with eyes closed and Deek the Greek immediately regretted his decision to wear shorts as his legs became a mass of bleeding sores. In absentia, Rob Light and Mitch Rose were forced to confess that the
SHILLING FOR CHEVY: General Motors is taking some heat for its ubiquitous Chevy Trucks commercial featuring John Cougar Mellencamp’s song “Our Country,” interspersed with images of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and scenes of Hurricane Katrina destruction. See the N.Y. Times’ David Carr on using an American tragedy to sell cars here.
IN YOUR JEWFACE: MTV’s Courtney Holt, former WB Records exec David Katznelson, Slate music critic Jody Rosen and
ON THIS DATE:
In 1963: With the final mix of “Money (That's What I Want)” by George Martin, work was finished on With the Beatles, the group’s second album.
In 1967: Pink Floyd and The Sopwith Camel performed at
In 1970…A Miami court sentenced Jim Morrison to six months in jail and a five-hundred-dollar fine for indecent exposure after he allegedly flashed an audience.
In 1971: John Lennon’s Imagine was the #1 album in the
In 1972: Elton John performed for Queen Elizabeth II. He was the first rocker to do so since The Beatles entertained her majesty in 1963.
In 1973: John Lennon released his album Mind Games. The album peaked at #9.
In 1976: Led Zeppelin announced that they would embark on another world tour. However, the tour was later postponed due to Robert Plant’s tonsillitis.
In 1977: Poet Allen Ginsburg visited his old friend Bob Dylan and the two taped several interviews together.
In 1978: Kiss’ Phantom of the Park first aired on NBC.
In 1982: Paul Weller announced he was breaking up The Jam to form The Style Council.
In 1982: English singer Mari Wilson, best known for “Cry Me a River,” announced she was going to insure her beehive hairdo for $150k.
In 1984: Linda Ronstadt performed opera for the first time in a production of La Boheme at
In 1986: The Beastie Boys released their debut album License to
In 1995: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced the induction of David Bowie, Tom Donahue, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Jefferson Airplane, Little Willie John, Pink Floyd, Pete Seeger, The Shirelles and The Velvet Underground.
In 1997: Drummer Bill Berry announced he was leaving R.E.M. The band said that Screaming Trees’ Barrett Martin would fill in at the studio for him.
In 1998: Kiss guest-starred on Fox’s show Millennium, both with and without make-up.
In 1998: David Bowie kicked off a contest on his website Bowienet.com, asking users to help him finish writing the lyrics for the song “What’s Really Happening.” The winner was 20-year-old Alex Grant.
In 2003: Lionel Richie filed for divorce from his second wife, Diane, citing "irreconcilable differences” after she allegedly punched him out.
In 2003: Britney Spears canceled a French concert to promote her new album In the Zone after she came down with a flu and severe throat infection.
In 2003: Fans, family and friends of the late Jam Master Jay held a memorial in
In 2003: Guitarist Terry Corso left Alien Ant Farm, the punk/poppers best known for their hit cover of "Smooth Criminal."
In 2003: A
In 2003: Jennifer Lopez unveiled her new line of perfume Still Jennifer Lopez. She described the scent as “very true to my passions and my relationship to the public.”
In 2003: The file-sharing application Napster returned to the Internet as Napster 2.0, and offered a paid-for downloading service.
In 2003: Paul McCartney became a dad again as his wife Heather Mills gave birth to a baby girl, seven-pound Beatrice Milly. Ahhh, those were the good old days.
In 2005: Willie Nelson held a fundraiser on his
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THE NEW UMG
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TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
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