Justin Timberlake Sells Nearly A Million Albums in Week 1
I don’t know what the industry projections were, but Justin Timberlake has turned the clock back to the N Sync days – his hair is now curly and stupid looking again new album sold a whopping 968,000 copies (via Billboard).
JT’s previous albums sold 684,000 (FutureSex/LoveSounds) and 439,000 (for the terribly named Justified). When he was with N Sync, Timberlake topped over 2 million in a debut week, which is the largest selling album in SoundScan’s history, since it started tracking in 1991. The 20/20 Experience becomes the 19th largest selling album in SoundScan’s history.
To all the negative headline writers who have been saying “Timberlake fails to sell one million copies” – I think 19th all-time is nothing to be ashamed up. I have the 19th highest score all-time in the original Donkey Kong and the ladies can’t get enough of me (note: one or all parts of this story may be made up).
Alex Turner Joins New Queens of the Stone Age Album
Arctic Monkeys frontman and secret crush of mine, Alex Turner, is joining the big cast of guest stars on the new Queens of the Stone Age album (via NME). Turner joins Josh Homme and a gang that includes Dave Grohl, Trent Reznor, Elton John, and Jake Shears. This is going to be weird and hopefully as awesome as it sounds as I’m typing it. The band’s 6th album will be out around the time my next scheduled shower is – June.
That Didn’t Take Long – Justin Timberlake Announces New Album Follow Up
It seemed like just the other day Justin Timberlake was making bizarre video trailers to announce that he is making music again. Today, he releases his first album since before Dick in a Box, with his 20/20 Experience album. Last night, he addressed rumours of another album in the works (or already in the bag), saying “I’ve got to clear up the rumors. This whole thing about this only being the first part … is true. There is another half. I’m not giving you a release date” (via Yahoo).
Pro-Radiohead and anti-Timberlake fans might not like this next statement, when talking about album closer Blue Ocean Floor, “I’m a huge Thom Yorke (Radiohead frontman) fan, and I was listening to some ‘OK Computer’ and ‘Kid A’ and this song just happened. This is probably the most unique so far and probably took me out of my comfort zone.”
I can see the headlines now – “British prog rock band inspires former mouseketeer from Mickey Mouse Club.”
Barenaked Ladies Move On From Making Beer, Sign New Record Deal
Barenaked Ladies are celebrating their 25th anniversary of being a band by signing with Vanguard Records, releasing a new album, and going on a tour with Ben Folds Five and Guster (via Hollywood Reporter). 25 years – does this mean the rock and roll hall of fame will be calling? And I don’t know about you, but I think I liked the band more when they were making yummy beers.
For the fourth time, we get more impressive rap medleys from late night talk host Jimmy Fallon and singer/actor/sexpot Justin Timberlake. If you want to see what these are all about, check out Parts One and Two, as well as Three.
The dapper white folks do rap tunes by acts such as Busta Rhymes, Beastie Boys, Eminem, Missy Elliot, Snoop Dogg, and more, with music provided by Jimmy Fallon’s house band, The Roots. I wonder how much practice go into one of their Glee-esque routines.
Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake – History of Rap Part 4
Giving the Fans What They Want – A Marcus Mumford and Justin Timberlake Collaboration?
Mumford & Sons frontman, Marcus Mumford, has recorded a song with pop singer, Justin Timberlake (via NME). I’ve always thought that pop music needed more banjos.
The track is for the soundtrack of the new Coen Brothers movie, Inside Llewyn Davis (which sounds like a p0rn movie I watched the other day). Coincidentally – or most likely, not – the film stars Carey Mulligan, who is married to Marcus Mumford. She is trying to make it as a musician in 1960s New York. So wait, there’s time travel, too?
Music Industry Isn’t Going Bankrupt!
Thanks to bloggers The music industry saw an increase in worldwide revenues last year for the first time in 13 years (via Consequence of Sound). The music biz (as cool kids call it) generated $16.5 billion last year, which is equivalent to the typical dinner bill for Axl Rose. The increase was 0.3% over the previous year.
The study by NPD Group notes that music file sharing has apparently dropped significantly, although no figures were provided. Digital downloaded accounted for a massive $5.6 billion of the revenue. This report comes at the same time that Live Nation announced a massive loss of $163 million in 2012 (via Hollywood Reporter). Apparently having double digit service charges doesn’t make a company profitable.
The Oscars were last night, and doesn’t my bookie know it, as I locked down on Christoph Waltz at 21:1 odds back in December, Argo at 5:1, and Ang Lee at 5:1 – true story. Maybe I should start up PeteHatesMovies, too? Music is an integral part of movies, and it was no different at the Academy Awards last night.
A personal favourite part of the night was the sound employed to force long-winded speech givers off the stage. Instead of having the orchestra subtly play in the background, the theme of Jaws was played, forcing immediate fear and urgency into the speaker. Perhaps it lacked tact, but it didn’t lack awesomeness.
Host Seth MacFarlane noted that there was a musical theme to the Oscars, and this was definitely the case, as there was plenty of boring songs throughout the night. The highlight was the Family Guy-esque, semi-offensive, “amazing if only for Naomi Watts’ AND Charlize Theron’s reaction” song, We Saw Your Boobs, sung by Seth MacFarlane himself. Check it out below (before those lawyers have YouTube take it down).
Seth MacFarlane – We Saw Your Boobs
An Arcade Fire Baby is On the Way
Arcade Fire singers Win Butler and his wife, Régine Chassagne, are expecting a baby (via Consequence of Sound). The City With No Children is about to have one. No Wasted Hours with those two. Was the baby conceived In The Back Seat? Or perhaps in an Empty Room? Will these lame puns ever end? Answer: yes!
The new Justin Timberlake song, Suit and Tie, has a throwback, brassy sound to it. It’s a bit of a different direction for him. He managed to rope in Jay-Z for the track. For the video, he landed David Fincher, director of Fight Club, Zodiac, and the JT-starring The Social Network.
Timberlake posted on his website, “We are pleased to present the OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO for ‘Suit & Tie ft. JAY Z’. Before Fincher directed his trademark edgy films like Seven, Fight Club, and Panic Room, he cut his teeth making iconic music videos, including Madonna’s ‘Express Yourself’ and The Rolling Stones’ ‘Love Is Strong’, amongst others.”
An old-fashioned song deserves an old-fashioned video, and that’s what we have in this video – sort of. We have an old club and tuxes, but we also have um, lasers. Check it out below, and see if their rumoured joint tour comes into fruition.
The Grammy Awards took place last night in Los Angeles. There were lots of performances, a few stand out moments, and even time for a few awards. I won’t rehash all of the winners – here is the full winners list – but The Black Keys, Fun., and Mumford & Sons all did very well.
Album of the Year went to Mumford & Sons, Record of the Year to Goyte featuring Kimbra, Song of the Year and Best New Artist to Fun., and Sir Paul McCartney even managed to knick a Grammy, too (hint: not Best New Artist).
There were some tributes, such as one to Dave Brubeck, one to Bob Marley (which featured a lot of non-Marley tracks), and at the end, a tribute to hip hop / MCA of the Beastie Boys. The super group who played at the end were Grammy host LL Cool J, Travis Barker, Chuck D, Tom Morello, and DJ Z-Trip, and they had a short nod to the departed MCA in their tune. Check it out below (it’s slightly cut off).
We have a whack of videos below courtesy of Mr. World Premiere. Check out the Black Keys spin on Lonely Boy – very impressive stuff.
Lots of new albums coming out and lots of release news, so don’t mind us as we power through them all. Oh, and some Coachella Festival announced it’s line up.
Coachella Announces 2013 Line Up
The famous festival in the California desert has announced it’s line up for April 12-14 and April 19-21. Coachella has announced it’s full festival, as shown above, and will include bands such as Blur, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phoenix, and the Stone Roses as headliners, plus Yeah Yeah Yeahs, How to Destroy Angels, Passion Pit, Beach House, Metric, The xx, Postal Service, Sigur Rós, Hot Chip, Grizzly Bear, Vampire Weekend, Wu-tang Clan, Grimes, and many, many more! As usual, there are tons of amazing bands, and there will be tons of conflicts. The headliners, as much as I like them, aren’t necessary jaw dropping or surprises in terms of what Coachella usually pulls out of its bag of tricks. Enjoy!
Sigur Rós To Release New Album, Force Me to Look for ó on my Keyboard
Those lovable, eclectic kids from Iceland gave us a billion videos for their Valtari Mystery Film Experiment. Now, Sigur Rós have said during a Reddit chat yesterday that they are working on their eighth studio album, and it will be out this year (via Consequence of Sound). There’s also a snippet of the track Brennisteinn that you can listen to below. It’s not ethereal and dreamy like their usual stuff – it’s heavy and different! Also of note – Kjartan Sveinsson (keyboardist / original member) has left the group, so now there are just three of them.
George Harrison’s Widow Olivia Stops Tribute Statue of the Beatle
A campaign to erect a statue in the town where George Harrison died, Hanley-on-Thames, has been stopped due to lack of support from widow Olivia Harrison (via Guardian). 2,000 people, which is about 20% of the population in the town, had signed the petition started by resident James Lambert. Oddly, they all said “James Lambert.”
Speaking to BBC News, Lambert said “[George] really is an icon in Henley. It seems strange that nothing has been created to acknowledge his presence and the work that he did for the town.” Olivia has said that a statue might bring “different types of fans turning up, the unwanted fans.” Unwanted fans – like One Direction fans?
Love Me Do is Now Public Domain in Europe
More Beatles news – is this the fucking 60s?! The classic Beatles tune (aren’t they all classics?!) Love Me Do is now public domain in Europe (via Associated Press / Oregon Live). This is because the song is 50 years old, which seems like a somewhat short about of time in this day and age of time machines. Apparently others feel the same way, as the European Union is voting to extend the copyright from 50 to 70 years. Since Paul McCartney is a robot, he will likely want the vote to push the copyright even longer, so he can be the first robot trillionaire.
As we mentioned last month, and tweeted last night, Dave Grohl has announced a shitload of great musicians for this Sound City Players super group, debuting at the Sundance Festival. Dave Grohl is bringing together Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear from Nirvana, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel and Chris Shiflett from Foo Fighters, Rage Against the Machine’s drummer Brad Wilk, Stevie Nicks, Chris Goss, Alain Johannes, Rick Springfield, John Fogerty and Rick Nielsen, and more. What, no more Paul McCartney?!
The band will play January 18 as part of the Sundance Film Festival, where Dave Grohl’s Sound City documentary will debut.
Justin Timberlake to Release New Music Very Soon?
This seems like it could be applied to guess that Justin Timberlake is releasing new music. JT tweeted “Thursday, January 10th, 2013 at 9:01 am PST…” so surely he must be releasing new music today, right? Maybe that’s when his next massage is scheduled and he was drunk and was trying to put it in Google Calendar – it happens.
Timberlake hasn’t released anything since 2006, and there are also rumours that he’s worked with Jay-Z and Beyonce. Let’s not forget that Timberlake has been busy with Myspace – maybe it’ll be a disappointing announcement from them instead.
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Morning Music Notes – Moving a Million
Justin Timberlake Sells Nearly A Million Albums in Week 1
I don’t know what the industry projections were, but Justin Timberlake has turned the clock back to the N Sync days – his
hair is now curly and stupid looking againnew album sold a whopping 968,000 copies (via Billboard).JT’s previous albums sold 684,000 (FutureSex/LoveSounds) and 439,000 (for the terribly named Justified). When he was with N Sync, Timberlake topped over 2 million in a debut week, which is the largest selling album in SoundScan’s history, since it started tracking in 1991. The 20/20 Experience becomes the 19th largest selling album in SoundScan’s history.
To all the negative headline writers who have been saying “Timberlake fails to sell one million copies” – I think 19th all-time is nothing to be ashamed up. I have the 19th highest score all-time in the original Donkey Kong and the ladies can’t get enough of me (note: one or all parts of this story may be made up).
Alex Turner Joins New Queens of the Stone Age Album
Arctic Monkeys frontman and secret crush of mine, Alex Turner, is joining the big cast of guest stars on the new Queens of the Stone Age album (via NME). Turner joins Josh Homme and a gang that includes Dave Grohl, Trent Reznor, Elton John, and Jake Shears. This is going to be weird and hopefully as awesome as it sounds as I’m typing it. The band’s 6th album will be out around the time my next scheduled shower is – June.
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Morning Music Notes – The Definitive Steve Jobs Movie, Made by Funny or Die
That Didn’t Take Long – Justin Timberlake Announces New Album Follow Up
It seemed like just the other day Justin Timberlake was making bizarre video trailers to announce that he is making music again. Today, he releases his first album since before Dick in a Box, with his 20/20 Experience album. Last night, he addressed rumours of another album in the works (or already in the bag), saying “I’ve got to clear up the rumors. This whole thing about this only being the first part … is true. There is another half. I’m not giving you a release date” (via Yahoo).
Pro-Radiohead and anti-Timberlake fans might not like this next statement, when talking about album closer Blue Ocean Floor, “I’m a huge Thom Yorke (Radiohead frontman) fan, and I was listening to some ‘OK Computer’ and ‘Kid A’ and this song just happened. This is probably the most unique so far and probably took me out of my comfort zone.”
I can see the headlines now – “British prog rock band inspires former mouseketeer from Mickey Mouse Club.”
Barenaked Ladies Move On From Making Beer, Sign New Record Deal
Barenaked Ladies are celebrating their 25th anniversary of being a band by signing with Vanguard Records, releasing a new album, and going on a tour with Ben Folds Five and Guster (via Hollywood Reporter). 25 years – does this mean the rock and roll hall of fame will be calling? And I don’t know about you, but I think I liked the band more when they were making yummy beers.
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Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake Do History of Rap – Part 4
For the fourth time, we get more impressive rap medleys from late night talk host Jimmy Fallon and singer/actor/sexpot Justin Timberlake. If you want to see what these are all about, check out Parts One and Two, as well as Three.
The dapper white folks do rap tunes by acts such as Busta Rhymes, Beastie Boys, Eminem, Missy Elliot, Snoop Dogg, and more, with music provided by Jimmy Fallon’s house band, The Roots. I wonder how much practice go into one of their Glee-esque routines.
Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake – History of Rap Part 4
Morning Music Notes – There’s Money in This Industry That We Blog In After All
Giving the Fans What They Want – A Marcus Mumford and Justin Timberlake Collaboration?
Mumford & Sons frontman, Marcus Mumford, has recorded a song with pop singer, Justin Timberlake (via NME). I’ve always thought that pop music needed more banjos.
The track is for the soundtrack of the new Coen Brothers movie, Inside Llewyn Davis (which sounds like a p0rn movie I watched the other day). Coincidentally – or most likely, not – the film stars Carey Mulligan, who is married to Marcus Mumford. She is trying to make it as a musician in 1960s New York. So wait, there’s time travel, too?
Music Industry Isn’t Going Bankrupt!
Thanks to bloggersThe music industry saw an increase in worldwide revenues last year for the first time in 13 years (via Consequence of Sound). The music biz (as cool kids call it) generated $16.5 billion last year, which is equivalent to the typical dinner bill for Axl Rose. The increase was 0.3% over the previous year.The study by NPD Group notes that music file sharing has apparently dropped significantly, although no figures were provided. Digital downloaded accounted for a massive $5.6 billion of the revenue. This report comes at the same time that Live Nation announced a massive loss of $163 million in 2012 (via Hollywood Reporter). Apparently having double digit service charges doesn’t make a company profitable.
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Morning Music Notes – Another Kanye West Rant, Thankfully Not at the Oscars
Oscar Wrap Up on a Music Site
The Oscars were last night, and doesn’t my bookie know it, as I locked down on Christoph Waltz at 21:1 odds back in December, Argo at 5:1, and Ang Lee at 5:1 – true story. Maybe I should start up PeteHatesMovies, too? Music is an integral part of movies, and it was no different at the Academy Awards last night.
A personal favourite part of the night was the sound employed to force long-winded speech givers off the stage. Instead of having the orchestra subtly play in the background, the theme of Jaws was played, forcing immediate fear and urgency into the speaker. Perhaps it lacked tact, but it didn’t lack awesomeness.
Host Seth MacFarlane noted that there was a musical theme to the Oscars, and this was definitely the case, as there was plenty of
boringsongs throughout the night. The highlight was the Family Guy-esque, semi-offensive, “amazing if only for Naomi Watts’ AND Charlize Theron’s reaction” song, We Saw Your Boobs, sung by Seth MacFarlane himself. Check it out below (before those lawyers have YouTube take it down).Seth MacFarlane – We Saw Your Boobs
An Arcade Fire Baby is On the Way
Arcade Fire singers Win Butler and his wife, Régine Chassagne, are expecting a baby (via Consequence of Sound). The City With No Children is about to have one. No Wasted Hours with those two. Was the baby conceived In The Back Seat? Or perhaps in an Empty Room? Will these lame puns ever end? Answer: yes!
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Watch! Justin Timberlake (featuring Jay-Z) – Suit & Tie
The new Justin Timberlake song, Suit and Tie, has a throwback, brassy sound to it. It’s a bit of a different direction for him. He managed to rope in Jay-Z for the track. For the video, he landed David Fincher, director of Fight Club, Zodiac, and the JT-starring The Social Network.
Timberlake posted on his website, “We are pleased to present the OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO for ‘Suit & Tie ft. JAY Z’. Before Fincher directed his trademark edgy films like Seven, Fight Club, and Panic Room, he cut his teeth making iconic music videos, including Madonna’s ‘Express Yourself’ and The Rolling Stones’ ‘Love Is Strong’, amongst others.”
An old-fashioned song deserves an old-fashioned video, and that’s what we have in this video – sort of. We have an old club and tuxes, but we also have um, lasers. Check it out below, and see if their rumoured joint tour comes into fruition.
Justin Timberlake (featuring Jay-Z) – Suit & Tie
Morning Music Notes – Boring You With News From the Grammys
So the Grammys Were Last Night…
The Grammy Awards took place last night in Los Angeles. There were lots of performances, a few stand out moments, and even time for a few awards. I won’t rehash all of the winners – here is the full winners list – but The Black Keys, Fun., and Mumford & Sons all did very well.
Album of the Year went to Mumford & Sons, Record of the Year to Goyte featuring Kimbra, Song of the Year and Best New Artist to Fun., and Sir Paul McCartney even managed to knick a Grammy, too (hint: not Best New Artist).
Remember that Frank Ocean / Chris Brown altercation not too long ago? Well Chris Frown lost out on an award to Frank Ocean, and was the only one not giving him a standing ovation. Douche bag!
There were some tributes, such as one to Dave Brubeck, one to Bob Marley (which featured a lot of non-Marley tracks), and at the end, a tribute to hip hop / MCA of the Beastie Boys. The super group who played at the end were Grammy host LL Cool J, Travis Barker, Chuck D, Tom Morello, and DJ Z-Trip, and they had a short nod to the departed MCA in their tune. Check it out below (it’s slightly cut off).
We have a whack of videos below courtesy of Mr. World Premiere. Check out the Black Keys spin on Lonely Boy – very impressive stuff.
The Black Keys – Lonely Boy
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Morning Music Notes – New Album Details Galore, and a Thing Called Coachella
Lots of new albums coming out and lots of release news, so don’t mind us as we power through them all. Oh, and some Coachella Festival announced it’s line up.
Coachella Announces 2013 Line Up
The famous festival in the California desert has announced it’s line up for April 12-14 and April 19-21. Coachella has announced it’s full festival, as shown above, and will include bands such as Blur, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phoenix, and the Stone Roses as headliners, plus Yeah Yeah Yeahs, How to Destroy Angels, Passion Pit, Beach House, Metric, The xx, Postal Service, Sigur Rós, Hot Chip, Grizzly Bear, Vampire Weekend, Wu-tang Clan, Grimes, and many, many more! As usual, there are tons of amazing bands, and there will be tons of conflicts. The headliners, as much as I like them, aren’t necessary jaw dropping or surprises in terms of what Coachella usually pulls out of its bag of tricks. Enjoy!
Sigur Rós To Release New Album, Force Me to Look for ó on my Keyboard
Those lovable, eclectic kids from Iceland gave us a billion videos for their Valtari Mystery Film Experiment. Now, Sigur Rós have said during a Reddit chat yesterday that they are working on their eighth studio album, and it will be out this year (via Consequence of Sound). There’s also a snippet of the track Brennisteinn that you can listen to below. It’s not ethereal and dreamy like their usual stuff – it’s heavy and different! Also of note – Kjartan Sveinsson (keyboardist / original member) has left the group, so now there are just three of them.
Sigur Rós – Brennisteinn (snippet)
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Morning Music Notes – Love Me Do, Free for All
George Harrison’s Widow Olivia Stops Tribute Statue of the Beatle
A campaign to erect a statue in the town where George Harrison died, Hanley-on-Thames, has been stopped due to lack of support from widow Olivia Harrison (via Guardian). 2,000 people, which is about 20% of the population in the town, had signed the petition started by resident James Lambert. Oddly, they all said “James Lambert.”
Speaking to BBC News, Lambert said “[George] really is an icon in Henley. It seems strange that nothing has been created to acknowledge his presence and the work that he did for the town.” Olivia has said that a statue might bring “different types of fans turning up, the unwanted fans.” Unwanted fans – like One Direction fans?
Love Me Do is Now Public Domain in Europe
More Beatles news – is this the fucking 60s?! The classic Beatles tune (aren’t they all classics?!) Love Me Do is now public domain in Europe (via Associated Press / Oregon Live). This is because the song is 50 years old, which seems like a somewhat short about of time in this day and age
of time machines. Apparently others feel the same way, as the European Union is voting to extend the copyright from 50 to 70 years. Since Paul McCartney is a robot, he will likely want the vote to push the copyright even longer, so he can be the first robot trillionaire.Click for more Monday Morning Music Notes -
Morning Music Notes – Grohl Gets By With a Little Help From His Friends
Dave Grohl and his Sound City Friends
As we mentioned last month, and tweeted last night, Dave Grohl has announced a shitload of great musicians for this Sound City Players super group, debuting at the Sundance Festival. Dave Grohl is bringing together Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear from Nirvana, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel and Chris Shiflett from Foo Fighters, Rage Against the Machine’s drummer Brad Wilk, Stevie Nicks, Chris Goss, Alain Johannes, Rick Springfield, John Fogerty and Rick Nielsen, and more. What, no more Paul McCartney?!
The band will play January 18 as part of the Sundance Film Festival, where Dave Grohl’s Sound City documentary will debut.
Justin Timberlake to Release New Music Very Soon?
This seems like it could be applied to guess that Justin Timberlake is releasing new music. JT tweeted “Thursday, January 10th, 2013 at 9:01 am PST…” so surely he must be releasing new music today, right? Maybe that’s when his next massage is scheduled and he was drunk and was trying to put it in Google Calendar – it happens.
Timberlake hasn’t released anything since 2006, and there are also rumours that he’s worked with Jay-Z and Beyonce. Let’s not forget that Timberlake has been busy with Myspace – maybe it’ll be a
disappointingannouncement from them instead.Click for more Morning Music Notes