Healthy Habit Productions & other: June 2008

Friday 27 June 2008

Coldplay's 'Viva La Vida' tops Billboard 200

Album sells 721, 000 copies in the U.S.

NEW YORK -- As expected, Coldplay tops the Billboard 200 with "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends," which shifted a whopping 721,000 first-week U.S. copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
The Capitol release sold nearly as many copies as the band's other chart-topper, 2005's "X&Y," which moved 737,000. Only one other rock band has had a 700,000-plus week since the release of that effort. Last November, the Eagles' "Long Road Out of Eden" began at No. 1 with 711,000.
With the million-plus debut of Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter III" last week, this marks only the second time the chart has seen back-to-back debuts of more than 700,000 since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991. The first time it happened was way back in the summer of 2000, when Britney Spears' "Oops! I Did It Again" (1,319,000) was followed by Eminem's "The Marshall Mathers LP" (1,760,000).
Forty% of "Viva La Vida" sales, 288,000 copies, were digital downloads, making it the biggest sales frame ever registered for a digital album. It surpasses the previous record, set earlier this year when Jack Johnson's "Sleep Through the Static" (139,000).
With a 69% sales decrease, "Tha Carter III" (Cash Money/Universal) slips 1-2 with 309,000 units.
The soundtrack to the Disney Channel film "Camp Rock," featuring the Jonas Brothers, debuts at No. 3 with 188,000. The movie premiered on June 20 and averaged 8.9 million total viewers according to Nielsen, making it the network's second-most-watched original movie after 2007's "High School Musical 2."
The multilabel "Now 28" compilation continues its decline from third to fourth with 81,000 (39%), while Plies' "Definition of Real" (Big Gates/Slip-N-Slide) falls from No. 2 to No. 5 with 68,000 (-68%). Selling 65,000, Usher's LaFace/Zomba set "Here I Stand" descends 5-6 with a 36% sales decrease.
Flying up the chart from No. 124 to No. 7, Rihanna's "Good Girl Gone Bad" (SRP/Def Jam) experiences a 930% sales jump to 63,000; a reissue of the 2007 album hit shelves with three additional tracks. Disturbed's former chart-topping Warner Bros. set "Indestructible" declines from No. 4 to No. 8 with 59,000 (a 42% drop).
Capitol pop newcomer Katy Perry has a No. 9 start with her debut album, "One of the Boys," which sold 47,000. The single "I Kissed a Girl" has been climbing its way up the Hot 100 and sits currently at the No. 2 spot, behind Coldplay's "Viva La Vida."
The Offspring's first album in five years, "Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace" (Columbia), debuts at No. 10 with 46,000. The veteran rock act's 2003 album "Splinter" peaked at No. 30.
Metal mainstay Judas Priest's "Nostradamus" (Epic) begins at No. 11 with 42,000, the highest charting album of the band's career. Its previous best came with 2005's "Angel of Retribution" at No. 13.
Blood Raw's first album for Def Jam, "CTE Presents: My Life: The True Testimony," debuts at No. 30 with 17,000, and rapper 2 Pistols' debut "Death Before Dishonor" (J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League) bows at No. 33 with 16,000. Indie rock act Wolf Parade earns its highest chart position with "At Mount Zoomer" (Sub Pop), moving 13,000 to open at No. 46.
Album sales are down 10.6% from last week's sum at 8.30 million units, and are down 6.7% compared to the same week last year. With 196.98 million units sold this year so far, sales are down 10.9% overall compared to last year.

I Wayne

Artist: I Wayne

   Genre(s):
Reggae

Discography:

The Demo

Year: 2005
Tracks: 17

Lava Ground

Year: 2005
Tracks: 18

Untitled

Year: 2004
Tracks: 16

Edwin Bonilla

Artist: Edwin Bonilla

   Genre(s):
Jazz

Discography:

Pa' la Calle

Year: 2004
Tracks: 8

Red Sparowes

Stern Warning: Steakgate's a Load of Bull

NBA commissioner David Stern didn't want to hear about our theory that a steak dinner was responsible for Boston Celtics star Paul Pierce's atrocious game three.
Play video

You'd think he'd welcome any question that didn't involve fixing NBA games.

See Also

Thursday 26 June 2008

Courtney sparks health fears

COURTNEY LOVE stepped out in Malibu this weekend looking shockingly pale and
thin.
In better times ... Courtney back in 2001Enlarge
The Hole singer has been under huge strain since the disappearance of her
ex-husband KURT COBAIN's ashes, recently admitting she felt suicidal
after they were allegedly stolen from her home.

She said last month: "I can't believe anyone would take Kurt's ashes from
me. I find it disgusting and right now I'm suicidal. If I don't get them
back I don't know what I'll do.

"They were all I had left of him. Who has their husband's ashes stolen?"

Most of the NIRVANA singer's ashes were scattered at a Buddhist temple
in New York and in the Wishkah river in Washington state.
But Love says she kept some for herself, in a pink bear-shaped handbag,
hidden in a wardrobe at her home in Hollywood.
The star, who has been linkled with comedians STEVE COOGAN and RUSSELL
BRAND, has had weight issues in the past, recently shedding 52 pounds
after a strict diet regime - and of course her weight yo-yo'd during her
wild, drug filled years.

However, these shocking new pics have worried many observers.

Like Father, Like Baby Seal

Little Henry may be as cute as his mom Heidi Klum, but his temper is all compliments of daddy dearest Seal.
Henry and Seal

The two-year-old tyke threw a fit while out with his mom and siblings in NYC on Tuesday. If you think he's angry now, just wait until his pop teaches him how to drive!

We're just sayin'!

See Also

Def Con Dos

Artist: Def Con Dos

   Genre(s):
Latin
   Rock
   Folk

Discography:

Recargando

Year: 2004
Tracks: 13

Alzheime

Year: 2002
Tracks: 22

Dogmatofobia CD2

Year: 1999
Tracks: 19

Dogmatofobia CD1

Year: 1999
Tracks: 20

Ultramemia

Year: 1996
Tracks: 17

Armas Pal Pueblo

Year: 1993
Tracks: 14

De poca madre

Year:
Tracks: 13

A rap/metal act as from Spain, Def Con Dos started acting covers of Public Enemy and Beastie Boys while touring Madrid's clubhouse setting under the distinguish of Freddy Krueger y los Masters del Universo. Soon they recorded a demonstration called Primer Asalto, signed up to local label Dro, and released Segundo Asalto in February of 1990. A good probability to leave the underground came when Def Con Dos, likewise known as DCD, had the opportunity to candid for Run-D.M.C. while the American tap band was touring Spain. Julian HernÃ¡ndez and J. Al Andalus produced 1994's Armas Pal Pueblo, close to the same clip guitarist Juanjo Melero, aka Mala Fe, and Juanjo Pizarro, aka El Mercenario, joined in. To promote that album, the lot went on tour on with Lagartija Nick. Kamarada Nikolai became DCD's novel member before recording Alzheimer, released in April of 1995. Def Con Dos' lineup changed at one time again when Argentine guitarist JuliÃ¡n Gautxito replaced Manolo El Guanche; soon subsequently, they recorded the main statute title for Alex de la Iglesia's pic El DÃa de la Bestia. A year by and by, the mathematical group started touring Europe, including live performances at France's Printemps de Bourges and Belgium's Dour festivals, and issued Ultramenia in September of 1996. The prospect of being known in America came in 1998 when DCD joined the Warped Tour, acting along with Bad Religion, Deftones, and Rancid, among others. After issuance De Poca Madre in 1998, a compilation of their greatest hits, called Dogmatofobia, was released in 1999.

Dixie Hummingbirds lead singer Ira Tucker Sr. dies

PHILADELPHIA —

Ira Tucker Sr., longtime lead singer of the gospel group the Dixie Hummingbirds, which influenced many other performers and backed up Paul Simon on "Loves Me Like a Rock," has died. He was 83.

Tucker had severe heart problems and died Tuesday in Philadelphia, where the group was based for many years, according to his son, Ira Tucker Jr.

Among those influenced by the band were the Temptations, James Brown, Stevie Wonder and Al Green, according the National Endowment for the Arts, which honored the Hummingbirds in 2000.

They became widely known to Top 40 radio listeners in 1973, when Simon's "Loves Me Like a Rock" reached No. 2 on the Billboard chart. Besides singing backup with Simon, the Dixie Hummingbirds also produced their own version, which won a Grammy for best soul gospel performance.

In 2007, the group's "Still Keeping It Real" was nominated for the Grammy for best traditional gospel album.

The Dixie Hummingbirds traces its history to 1928, when founder James B. Davis formed it as a student quartet in Greenville, S.C. Tucker, born in 1925 in Spartanburg, S.C., was still in his teens when he auditioned for Davis in the late 1930s.

He was the band's lead singer for decades thereafter, bringing a mixture of gospel and blues to the group's style, and adding an energy and versatility to their performances, according to the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, which inducted the group in 2000.

"Tucker, in particular, wowed audiences with his flamboyant theatrics, rejecting the long tradition of 'flat-footed' singers rooted in place on stage in favor of running up the aisles and rocking prayerfully on his knees," the hall of fame says on its Web site. "By 1944, he was even regularly jumping off stages."

After World War II, as the sound of gospel changed, the Hummingbirds added guitar, bass and drums.

"He was an extraordinary performer," Tucker Jr. said. "I recognized that from the time I was little. Having his name didn't help me, because I couldn't sing."

Davis died last year.

See Also

David Allan Coe

Artist: David Allan Coe

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Penitentiary Blues

Year: 1969
Tracks: 11

17 Greatest Hits

Year:
Tracks: 17

A lifelong deserter, singer/songwriter David Allan Coe was one of the most colorful and irregular characters in country music history. One of the pioneering artists of the illicit country movement of the '70s, he didn't hold many heavy hits -- only if trinity of his singles hit the Top Ten -- simply he was among the biggest cult figures in country music passim his career.

Born in Akron, OH, Coe kickoff got into trouble with the law at age baseball club. As a resultant, he was sent to reform school. For the next 20 days, he never played out more than a handful of months out-of-door of a correctional facility -- he spent a great deal of his mid-twenties in the Ohio State Penitentiary. Released from prison in 1967, the wild-haired, earring-wearing, heavy tattooed Coe went straight for Nashville, where he lived in a hearse that he parked in figurehead of the old Ryman Auditorium, the place of the Grand Ole Opry. Although he didn't adapt to Nashville's professional standards, he soon gained the attention of the sovereign label Plantation Records, which released his debut album, Penitentiary Blues, in 1968. Followed within a year by a second intensity, all of the songs on these albums were based on his prison experiences.

Coe so toured with Grand Funk Railroad, a Soon, he began playing in a rhinestone suit disposed to him by Mel Tillis, as well as a Lone Ranger block out, and began vocation himself the "Masked Rhinestone Cowboy." Coe's concerts became notorious for their capriciousness -- ofttimes he would howl up onstage astride his enormous Harley, swearing at the audience. He cultivated a large religious cult next with his roleplay, only he couldn't break into the mainstream. However, other artists establish success with his songs -- in 1972, Billie Jo Spears had a pocket-sized bump off with his "Souvenirs & California Mem'rys," and in 1973, Tanya Tucker had a number one hit with Coe's "Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)." After Tucker's attain, Coe of a sudden became one of Nashville's hottest songwriters; some of the biggest area artists -- including Willie Nelson, George Jones, and Tammy Wynette -- recorded his tunes, leading to his possess contract with Columbia Records.

Coe's first deuce singles for Columbia didn't do close to the area Top 40, merely his 1975 cover of Steve Goodman's "You Never Even Called Me by My Name" roughened the Top Ten. Although a strand of moderate hits followed, he rarely nuts the area Top 40, although in 1977 Johnny Paycheck took Coe's "Adopt This Job and Shove It" to number matchless. During his 13-year tie-up with Columbia, Coe released 26 albums, including the double-album set For the Record: The First 10 Years (1984), 1986's Boy of the South (featuring Willie, Waylon, Jessi Colter, and other "outlaws"), and the highly regarded A Matter of Life and Death (1987).

Although Coe had a successful life history, it was one plagued with many setbacks. The conservative Nashville euphony manufacture often snubbed him and he had tax problems with the IRS; at one time, they seized his Key West home, and he went to live in a Tennessee undermine until he got back on his feet. Toward the end of the '80s, Coe remarried and began to settle down. Throughout the '90s, he was a popular concert draw in America and Europe. In addition to his melodious calling, he also acted in a few movies, including The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James. He also published a novel, Psychopath, and an autobiography. The LP Recommended for Airplay was issued in 1999. The unexampled millennium saw the exit of Long Haired Country Boy in 2000; Ballad maker of the Tear appeared on Cleveland the undermentioned year.

Steve Backley out of Dancing on Ice