Susan Boyle got an early Christmas present yesterday, when her album The Gift shot to the top of the charts.
Her second No 1 album confirms the Britain’s Got Talent star as one of music’s most lucrative brands.
The Gift sold 102,993 copies in its first week, almost double the total of nearest contender Bon Jovi’s Greatest Hits collection.
These days, Alicia Keys is in a motherhood state of mind. The singer and her husband, Swizz “Kaseem Dean” Beatz, “joyfully welcomed their first child,” son Egypt Daoud Dean, on Oct. 14 in New York City. This is the couple’s first child, though Egypt “is welcomed by Beatz’s three other children,” the statement adds. Keys, 29, and Beatz, 32, are not only new parents together – they are also newlyweds. The singer and the rapper-producer were married in a private ceremony overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in July. At the time, the two didn’t know the gender of their child, but Swizz Beatz said they were excited to start a family together.
Jonas Brothers might be getting “Camp Rock 3” on their sleeves, if Zack Taylor can be trusted. According to the celebrity blogger, Disney executives have reached out to some of those on board the “Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam” after the TV movie sequel opened to a major success upon its TV premiere.
On the first “America’s Got Talent” semi-finals results show, Australian pop star Kylie Minogue performed her new single “Get Outta My Way“, complete with big hair, black minidress and half-dressed cabaret backup dancers.
“Get Outta My Way” is Minogue’s second single from her 2010 album “Aphrodite.” “Way” will officially drop on Sept. 27. “All the Lovers” was the first single and it debuted in June at No. 1 on the U.K. charts. Minogue can also be seen in a cameo role as a rock star in the lesbian werewolf movie “Jack and Diane” starring Juno Temple (“The Other Boleyn Girl”) and Riley Keough (“The Runaways”).
“America’s Got Talent” airs Tuesday and Wednesday nights at 9 p.m. ET on NBC. See the video from this live below ..
John Mellencamp has released his new album No Better Than This to global radio via AirPlay Direct. The Rounder Records album was recorded at a variety of historically significant locations around the South and was produced by T Bone Burnett, who earlier collaborated with Mellencamp on the much-lauded Life Death Love and Freedom.
No Better Than This was recorded on vintage equipment – a 55 year-old Ampex tape Mellencamp_Canvasrecorder with just one microphone at various locations including the First African Baptist Church in Savannah; Sun Studios in Memphis, and in room 414 of the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio.
