Slipknot Strangles Game's Shot at No. 1

Who knew The Game and Al Gore had so a great deal in common?

Sadly for them, both have now wounding up on the wrong end of a recount.

This morning, the rapper appeared to have a Phelpsian tip-of-the-finger come through on the album charts as initial figures showed his LAX topping Slipknot's All Hope Is Gone by 13 copies�238,285 to 238,272�prompting sites such as RollingStone.com to declare the Game the biggest vendor of the week.

But ahead you could say wall hanging chad, the tallies were rerun, resulting in a stunning transposition of fortunes.

Slipknot ended up with its first ever No. 1 album, marketing a revised 239,516 copies, per what we hope are the final, official numbers from Nielsen SoundScan. The Game, wHO hoped to go 3-for-3 with chart-topping albums, rather got downgraded to No. 2 with sales of 238,382.

The SoundScan folks do realize this guy's got felony weapons charges on his rap sheet, don't they?

Regardless, the two-time Grammy nominee mustiness now settle for his first No. 2 album after topping the charts with 2005's The Documentary and 2006's Doctor's Advocate. He must take some consolation in being the only West Coast rapper with a multiplatinum album (Documentary) this side of Y2K.

Slipknot, meanwhile, can celebrate the strange turn of events. The costume-happy Hawkeye State bikers previously scored a No. 3 obeisance with 2001's Iowa and a No. 2 bow with 2004's Grammy-winning Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses).

The Jonas Brothers, who held the top spot for the past two weeks, slipped to No. 3, selling some other 80,000 copies of A Little Bit Longer.

In all, there were four Top 10 debuts for the calendar week ended Sunday. The inauguration Now That's What I Call Country collection sold 50,000 copies at No. 7. The latest Now! series offshoot features 20 tracks by artists like Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift and Sugarland.

Solange Knowles didn't quite match the success of big sis Beyonc�, only still managed to undefendable at No. 9 as her second solo album, Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams, moved 46,000 copies. That's a marked melioration over her 2003 debut, Solo Star, which scored an underwhelming No. 49 debut.

Coldplay's Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, which dropped to No. 11 last week, inched back up to No. 10. But a duet of Disneyfied Top 10 regulars, Miley Cyrus' Breakout and the Camp Rock soundtrack, fell to 11 and 16, respectively.

Outside the Top 10, the Verve debuted at No. 23 with 21,000 copies of the comeback album Forth, the Brit band's first new release in 11 years. The group, which broke up soon after their orbicular hit "Bitter Sweet Symphony," received an even grander welcome crosswise the pool earlier this week with a No. 1 debut on the U.K. charts.

Other notable debuts included Luis Fonsi's Palabras del Silencio at No. 15, Dragonforce's Ultra Beatdown at No. 18, Jimmy Wayne's Do You Believe Me Now? at No. 27, Lost Trailers' Holler Back at No. 32 and B.B. King's classical sound revival, One Kind Favor, at No. 37.

Overall, album gross sales were up 2 percentage from the previous week but down nearly 7 percent compared to the same period of time in 2007, when High School Musical 2 logged its third base week at No. 1.

Next week, America gets a better gauge of the New Kids reunion plug when their new album The Block makes its debut.

Here's a recap of the Top 10:

1. All Hope Is Gone, Slipknot
2. LAX, The Game
3. Rock N Roll Jesus, Kid Rock
4. A Little Bit Longer, Jonas Brothers
5. Mamma Mia! soundtrack, respective
6. Tha Carter III, Lil Wayne
7. Now That's What I Call Country!, versatile
8. Love on the Inside, Sugarland
9. Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams, Solange
10. Viva La Vida, Coldplay

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'Now! 70' biggest iTunes seller in U.K.

Compilation benefited from lour price




A quarter of a century and 70 installments down the line, the evergreen "Now That's What I Call Music!" series has achieved the biggest ever iTunes sale in the U.K. for a compilation.

As easily as beingness the biggest seller, "Now! 70" (EMI Virgin/UMTV) has also become the fastest selling digest on iTunes U.K. since its tone ending last month. The double-length set has also benefited from a 10.99 euro ($20.50) iTunes price tag compared to 15.99 ($29.80) euros for "Now! 69".

"'Now That's What I Call Music! 70' is the fastest marketing compilation always on iTunes in the U.K.," said director iTunes Europe Oliver Schusser in a statement. "It's besides the starting time time the No. 1 album on iTunes has contributed 25 of the top one C selling tracks, which shows the strong consumer demand for timber compilations."

Tracks on the record album include Estelle's "American Boy", "Warwick Avenue" by Duffy and "S.O.S" from the Jonas Brothers.

"Now 70" has as well been a major physical seller with a four-week tally of 647,752, including CD and download sales, according to the Official Charts Company. It opened with sales of 383,000 in the week of its July 21 release and is currently the second biggest compilation of the year, behind the 822,513 total for "Now! 69," which was released in March.

Apple did not give away its U.K. sales figure for "Now! 70."

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Miriam Stockley

   
Artist: Miriam Stockley

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Celtic
   

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Discography:


   
 Second Nature

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 10


   
 Miriam

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 13

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Moka Only and Ishkan are...

   
Artist: Moka Only and Ishkan are...

   Genre(s): 
Rap: Hip-Hop
   

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 Nowfolk- Style Gangstas

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Tracks: 13

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Red Carpet

   
Artist: Red Carpet

   Genre(s): 
House
   

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Discography:


   
 Alright Bootleg

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 1

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Galaxie 500

   
Artist: Galaxie 500

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   

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Discography:


   
 Uncollected

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14


   
 Today

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 10

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Though reprehensively unmarked in their own lifespan, Galaxie 500 later emerged as one of the polar subway groups of the post-punk earned run average; lackadaisical and enigmatical, their minimalist dirges presaged the heighten of both the shoegazer and slowcore movements of the 1990s. The grouping formed in Boston, MA, in 1986 and comprised vocalist/guitarist Dean Wareham (a transplanted New Zealand aboriginal), bassist Naomi Yang and drummer Damon Krukowski, longtime friends wHO first base met in high shoal in New York City before all trey attended Harvard University. Wareham and Krukowski ab initio teamed in the passing Speedy and the Castanets, which split after their bass actor experient a religious conversion; upon re-forming, the pair recruited Yang to play bass part, although she had no prior musical live.


Named after a friend's car, Galaxie 500 began playing live end-to-end Boston and New York before recording a three-song demonstration tape which they sent to Shimmy Disc foreman Kramer, wHO in agreement to become the trio's producer. After bowing in early 1988 with the singles "Tower" and "Oblivious" (the latter track featured on a flexi-disc included in an exit of Chemical Imbalance mag), they issued their uncut debut, Today, which highlighted the group's distinct, evolving legal roughness Wareham's eerie, plaintive tenor, ovoid songs, and slow motion guitar textures against Yang's warm, unstable bass lines and Krukowski's lean drumming.


After signing to the U.S. subdivision of Rough Trade, Galaxie 500 issued its defining consequence, 1989's evocative On Fire, a unco assured and fat record book including the superb singles "Blue Thunder" and "When Will You Come Home." After a limited edition 7" spillage featuring live renditions of the Beatles' "Rainfall" and Jonathan Richman's "Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste," the grouping returned in 1990 with This Is Our Music, a fan out compendium spotlighting the wry, gay exclusive "Fourth of July" and a persistent cover of Yoko Ono's "Listen, the Snow Is Falling." Following a subsequent circuit, Galaxie 500 disbanded after Wareham phoned Yang and Krukowski to say he was quitting the grouping.


A few months later, after Wareham formed his unexampled dance band, Luna, Rough Trade went insolvent, and with the label's dying went the trio's trey albums, as well as their royalties. In 1991, at an auction bridge of Rough Trade's assets, Krukowski purchased the skipper tapes for the group's music, and five years later the Rykodisc label issued a boxwood set containing Galaxie 500's complete recorded end product; a antecedently unreleased 1990 hot put, dubbed Kobenhavn, followed in 1997. In the lag, after first base resurfacing under the refer Pierre Etoile, Krukowski and Yang later recorded as Damon and Naomi; to boot, the duette served as the rhythm section for the Wayne Rogers-led Magic Hour.

Mcfly - Mcfly Leave Record Label

British pop band MCFLY have parted ways with their record label.

The band has reportedly turned down a lucrative new deal with Island Records after a row over their image.

A source tells British newspaper The Sun, "MCFly are a huge money spinner for Island Records, so they were desperate for them to stay.

"They offered them better contracts with a bit more money, but the lads have grown up and realise the label don't want to take them in the same direction they do."

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Kevin Michael

   
Artist: Kevin Michael

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   R&B: Soul
   

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Discography:


   
 YaDig?

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 4


   
 Kevin Michael

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 15

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Pet Shop Boys: 'We're not working with Amy Winehouse'

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The Sun newspaper printed a story this morning (May 21), claiming that Neil Tennant, one half of the band, had said that the band had a selection of songs that they would like her to appear on.

A spokesperson has since explained that the newspaper "totally made up" the story.

Indradyumna Swami

   
Artist: Indradyumna Swami

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Param Gati

   Year:    
Tracks: 6


   
 Pada Kamalam

   Year:    
Tracks: 8

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Thriller starts filming in Belfast

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The Death Set, The Macbeth, London

There is a tiny stage in this east London pub, but the Death Set regard it as far too bourgeois a construct to actually use it. Instead, Johnny Siera and Peter O'Connell set up shop in the midst of the teeming mosh-pit. "The closer you get," Siera coyly advises his flailing fans, "the more fun it is!"Siera and his former cohort Beau Velasco moved from the Australian suburbs to Baltimore two years ago in search of punk-rock kicks. They recorded a thrilling debut album, Worldwide, at which point Velasco quit the band, leaving Siera to replace him with bearded and brooding local guitarist O'Connell.










Worldwide is an extraordinary offering, a frenetic melding of primitive drum-machine beats, fuzzy electronics and distorted guitars over which Siera dispenses feral yelps. Only four of the album's 18 tracks squeeze past the two-minute mark; tonight, most of their garbled explosions seem to be over before they have begun.It is rudimentary, but undeniably effective. Siera is a slight, fey figure, but has the maximum-impact intensity of the young Henry Rollins in Black Flag.Intermission could be The Go! Team infiltrated by Motorhead; for Listen to This Collision, he mounts the amps and swings from the ceiling beams like an Iggy Pop for the era of samples and laptops.After 20 minutes, Siera bids the grinning crowd a camp "Bye bye!" from the heart of the noise assault, and the duo vanish as abruptly as they appeared. They will never last to a third album, and there is no way you would want them to, but right now the Death Set are a quixotic, perfect pop thrill.

Between Home and Serenity

   
Artist: Between Home and Serenity

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Power Weapons in the Complex

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 12

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Screamo outfit Between Home & Serenity formed in the Cleveland, OH, suburb of North Olmsted when members of two equal high school bands started playing together in late 2003. The batting order finalized around guitarists Anthony Dargaj and Adam Kraft, bassist Mike Mealey, drummer Brian Weir, and singer Ian Ver. Taking influences from acts of the Apostles like Thursday and Metallica, the guys recorded and self-generated a five-song EP in 2004, and released their self-titled debut full-length in November 2004 through Seattle-based Less Avenged Records. The album's first pressing was sold stunned in just three months, and the band reinforced up an telling hum about Cleveland and beyond, particularly due to a heavy Internet bearing and local college receiving set support. BHAS were soon drawing sold-out crowds around the expanse and inked a deal with local indie Rust Records in May 2005. Momentum continued maturation as the guys scored themselves some dates on the 2005 Warped go, and their democratic Rust debut, Power Weapons in the Complex, was issued that June; it largely featured songs from their sold-out eponymic cause, remixed by Dave Holman and Bryan Patrick. The BHAS batting order went through some turmoil in late 2005, and by the year's end, guitarist Seth Steiner and bassist Matt Molnar had joined Ver, Dargaj, and Weir. The guys recorded some raw demos together, simply finally broke up in front anything was released. The original BHAS batting order reunited for a concluding Cleveland bandstand in tardy November 2006 earlier everyone went their sort shipway.