Madonna’s Digital Sales

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Madonna’s new album ‘Hard Candy’ dropped in stores on Tuesday and while her first week sales are still being predicted, the Queen of Pop has already conquered a key area in the new music business machine commonly known as digital sales. Madonna’s first single off the new album ‘4 Minutes (To Save the World) has become the second ever single to have digital sales over one million units in five weeks. Rihanna’s ‘Umbrella’ was the first. As of Tuesday, the digital sales for her single were at 1,004,482 units. Mariah must be really pissed at that considering she barely broke the top 10 on digital sales.

Alli’s Hopes and Dreams

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Who’s that girl? To be honest with you, even I don’t know. But it does say that it’s Alli Sims, an overly made-up and airbrushed Alli Sims but Alli Sims nonetheless.

Alli is also known as Britney Spears’ ‘cousin’ and on/off assistant. But did you know that she’s also an aspiring pop star? She even launched a website to help promote her dreams of being a star. The site did go down for a while though but now it’s back up for business. However, it only contains that pic and not much else.

But then again, following Britney around is a job and half. Maybe that’s the reason there’s not much else on her site. She doesn’t have time to update it.

Kylie Minogue Tour Update

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Kylie Minogue joins a long list of celebrity bloggers as she takes to her official blog to update us on her upcoming tour. She says “The countdown has begun!! Not long now before opening night for KylieX2008!!!! My cast, crew and I have been working hard to really make this show a ‘Spectacular’ for you. Full production rehearsals are coming up and we are very excited to merge all the various elements of the show. If you have seen some of the behind the scene footage you will have noticed both new and familiar faces. I will update you with one more peek behind the scenes before we open in Paris, so keep a look out!” Her tour kicks off on May 6.

JLo’s Numbers are In

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I did say a few days ago that Jennifer Lopez’s new album ‘Brave’ was expected to bring in low numbers for its first week out. Apparently, even that was an understatement. To make cut it short, the album bombed big time.

JLo’s new album failed to make it to the Top Ten in the US and came in at #12 by selling just 53,000 units. All of the Latin pop star’s six previous studio albums, even her Spanish language one, broke into the Top 10 when they debuted.

LeAnn Rimes, Sara Evans, Kid Rock, Bruce Springsteen, Rascal Flatts and even Josh Groban who released a Christmas album in October beat her to the Top 10. Ouch!

Jessica Simpson’s First Country Signing

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The newest solo country singer Jessica Simpson and her fellow country singing blonde signed autographs at the 2008 CMA Music Festival in Nashville, Tennessee on Friday. She hasn’t even come out with her country album yet but Jessica’s already being treated as a country singing superstar. Country music fans are so accepting. But kudos does go to Jess as her country single ‘Come on Over’ is doing quite well on the Nielsen charts. She may have finally found something that she’s actually good at. But considering that she’s Joe Simpson’s kid, I doubt it would last. He’s going to make her sell out sooner or later.

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