Alanis "Underneath" music video

FINALLY, here it is. To be honest, this will never rank as one of my favourite Alanis songs and I don't think it will set the charts alight. The video is directed by Sanji who also did Jesse Mc's "Leavin'" video.

The album "Flavours of Entanglement" is out June 7. A limited edition comes with a bonus disc of 5 bonus tracks and an expanded booklet - yummy!

Delta in the US: New video and album cover

Here's the brand new US video for "In This Life", the first single from Delta's debut self-titled US album, out June 24. It's strangely familiar to Delta's US "Lost Without You" video, which was also set on the beach, but ad least it's miles better than the dreadful Australian video. I'm assuming they will also use this video to re-launch Delta's UK and European career.

Also released is the artwork for the cover of the US album. The picture is gorgeous, but can't say I'm too keen on the font.

On Britney's radar

Apparently "Radar" will be the fourth single from Britney's latest album Blackout, which has sold around 2.5 million copies since its October 2007 release. An official cover (above) leaked onto the internet and there are reports that Brit will direct the video herself (hopefully with greater success than her last attempt with "Do Somethin'"!). The track sounds very similar to Rihanna's "SOS".

Current single "Break The Ice" is beginning to make an impact on the charts worldwide, following monster singles "Give Me More" and "Piece Of Me".

Jesse goes US Top 10

His new single may be called "Leavin'", but Jesse McCartney ain't going anywhere. After an impressive Hot 100 debut last week at #14, it climbs Top 10 this week at #10. This is now Jesse's biggest US hit. His previous peaks on the Billboard Hot 100 are as follows:
- "Beautiful Soul" (2004) #15
- "She's No You" (2005) #91
- "Right Where You Want Me" (2006) #33

The video above is an acoustic recording he made of the track.

The new album Departure is released May 20 in the US, May 31 in Australia, June 4 in Japan and June 9 in the UK. Australian and Japanese editions will include his version of Leona's "Bleeding Love" as a bonus track.

Madonna's first week sales

Madonna's Hard Candy debuted at #1 in the US with un-remarkable sales of 280,000. Mariah, whose recent album E=MC2 debuted with sales of over 463,000, must be celebrating with champagne. This is also a significant drop compared to first week sales of Madge's last studio effort Confessions On A Dancefloor which opened with 350,606 copies sold. Considering "4 Minutes" has been a bigger hit compared to "Hung Up" in the United States, this result is quite surprising.

Hard Candy sold 14,585 copies to debut at #1 on the Australian ARIA charts (having shipped 35,000 copies). Not a bad result, but not AMAZING either, especially for a superstar like Madonna. In comparison, Kylie's X sold over 16,000 copies in its opening week and Delta's self-titled third album last year sold 22,000 copies in its opening week.

The album has so far debuted at #1 in 18 countries. Will it have a lasting impact?

Quote of the day

The King of Goth, Nick Cave on his fellow "Where the Wild Roses Grow" duet-partner:

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that happened to Australian music. Before her the world didn't have a fucking clue about our music nor any interest in it. She alerted the world to the fact that Australian music was a force to be reckoned with. Unfortunately, Australians didn't understand that at the time and were embarrassed by her...Kylie has more greatness in her little fingernail than every fuckin' Aussie indie band put together

And that hauntingly beautiful ballad they produced together in 1995 to commerical and critical acclaim...

Club Disco OUT NOW!

All you Aussies reading this, I demand you go out and get a copy (or two) of Dannii's sublime 2-disc club compilation "Club Disco". It's jam-packed full of (club) HITS, unreleased material, lounge mixes and a bonus disc of club remixes - she really is the QUEEN OF CLUBS! Ok, so the idiots at Central Station have made it non-chart eligible because they know its going to flop and are afraid of tampering with Dannii's incredible chart history (five Top 100 albums - $UCCE$$!). Poor Dannii, it should be the public who doesn't allow you to chart, not your own record company :(

The promo video above, created by Mike (webmaster of Dannii's Dirty Box), is possibly the only sort of marketing "Club Disco" will receive. If you ask me, it does the job purrrr-fectly.

And to top it all off, here's Dannii's brilliant presentation at the Logie Awards:

"Retouch My Body"

HILARIOUS Mariah parody posted on Perez. Listen here.

Alanis on Yahoo Live

Watch it here

Alanis performs new tracks from her fourthcoming album Flavours of Entanglement (out in less than a month!) as well as some old favourites such as "You Learn", "So Unsexy" and "Thank You". The question and answer parts are particularly interesting and quite humerous. But what is going on with the hair Alanis?! Love this woman.

ARIA update: 05-05-2008

ARIA: Australian Recording Industry Association
1st no: This weeks position
2nd no: Last weeks position
3rd no: Number of weeks on chart
4th no: Highest position on chart so far
*: Bullet/new entry
(G): Gold certification: 35,000 copies shipped to retailers
(P): Platinum certification: 70,000 copies shipped to retailers

TOP 50 SINGLES
1 1 4 1 4 MINUTES Madonna Feat. Justin Timberlake (G)
2 2 7 1 SWEET ABOUT ME Gabriella Cilmi (G)
3 3 14 1 LOW Flo Rida Feat. T-Pain (P)
4 5 11 1 BUBBLY Colbie Caillat
5 8 8 5 DREAM CATCH ME Newton Faulkner
6 6 9 6 WORK Kelly Rowland
7 7 9 5 WITH YOU Chris Brown
* 8 16 20 1 BLEEDING LOVE Leona Lewis (P)
9 9 11 5 TATTOO Jordin Sparks
* 10 21 3 10 BETTER IN TIME Leona Lewis
* 11 26 4 11 PERFECT Vanessa Amorosi
* 12 44 3 12 PSYCHO TEDDY Psycho Teddy
13 13 7 13 LIKE ONLY A WOMAN CAN Brian McFadden
* 14 20 5 14 PARALYZER Finger Eleven
15 14 3 14 THIS LOVE The Veronicas
16 10 16 9 THIS HEART ATTACK Faker (G)
17 11 15 1 DON'T STOP THE MUSIC Rihanna (P)
18 4 2 4 FROM LITTLE THINGS BIG THINGS GROW The Getup Mob
19 17 6 17 TOUCH MY BODY Mariah Carey
20 15 19 3 CRANK THAT Soulja Boy (G)
21 12 16 3 PICTURES OF YOU The Last Goodnight (P)
22 18 5 13 BEAT IT Fall Out Boy Feat. John Mayer
23 19 14 2 PIECE OF ME Britney Spears (P)
24 22 13 11 STOP AND STARE OneRepublic
25 25 8 8 I DON'T DO SURPRISES Axle Whitehead
26 33 8 26 LOVE IN THIS CLUB Usher
27 29 3 27 I DON'T THINK SO Kelis
28 28 10 28 BIG GIRL (YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL) Mika
29 27 15 19 MY PEOPLE The Presets
30 24 9 7 NAUGHTY GIRL Mr G (G)
31 30 2 30 WHAT YOU'RE ON Rogue Traders
32 23 8 19 NINE IN THE AFTERNOON Panic At The Disco
* 33 43 2 33 YOUR LOVE IS A LIE Simple Plan
34 35 21 2 UNTOUCHED The Veronicas
* 35 - NEW 35 IN MY ARMS Kylie Minogue
36 32 5 14 YOU WILL ONLY BREAK MY HEART Delta Goodrem
37 37 2 37 SOMETHING GOOD '08 Utah Saints
* 38 - NEW 38 SWEETEST GIRL (DOLLAR BILL) Wyclef Jean
39 48 2 39 LOVE SONG Sara Bareilles
40 34 14 8 WANNA BE STARTIN' SOMETHIN' 2008 Michael Jackson With Akon
* 41 - NEW 41 BREAK THE ICE Britney Spears
42 31 25 8 KISS KISS Chris Brown Feat. T-Pain (G)
43 40 30 5 DON'T HOLD BACK The Potbelleez (G)
44 36 14 20 SCREAM Timbaland Feat. Keri Hilson
45 38 27 1 APOLOGIZE Timbaland Feat. OneRepublic (P)2
46 - R/E 38 TOO FINE Cristian Alexanda Feat. Ja Rule
* 47 - NEW 47 YOU PICK ME UP Pete Murray
* 48 - NEW 48 MERCY Duffy
49 39 27 3 NO ONE Alicia Keys (P)
50 41 3 41 READY TO FLY Amy Pearson


Commentary:
Madge and JT retain #1 position for the second week and go gold. Leona's promo trip pays off - both "Bleeding Love" and "Better In Time" shoot into the Top 10. Vanessa's "Perfect" shoots up the chart to #11 with the addition of physical sales. It is now her highest peak on the ARIA singles chart since her double-aside "The Power"/"Everytime I Close My Eyes" reached #8 in 2000. Worrying news for Kylie's camp with "In My Arms" entering the charts at #35! If the single fails to climb into the Top 20 during the weeks ahead, it will be her first proper single to have missed the Top 20 since 1998's "Cowboy Style".

TOP 50 ALBUMS
* 1 - NEW 1 HARD CANDY Madonna (G)
* 2 - NEW 2 WALTZING MATILDA Andre Rieu & Mirusia (G)
* 3 - NEW 3 CATCH THE WIND: SONGS OF A GENERATION Damien Leith
4 1 2 1 RATTLIN' BONES Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson (G)
* 5 - NEW 5 THE RISE Carl Riseley
6 3 3 1 APOCALYPSO The Presets (G)
* 7 16 14 1 SPIRIT Leona Lewis (G)
8 4 12 1 WATERSHED k.d. lang (G)
* 9 - NEW 9 THIRD Portishead
* 10 - NEW 10 FLYING COLOURS Bliss N Eso
11 2 2 2 E=MC2 Mariah Carey
12 9 5 2 THE 100 MOST BEAUTIFUL MELODIES Andre Rieu
13 8 31 1 EXILE ON MAINSTREAM Matchbox Twenty (P)3
* 14 - NEW 14 SO MUCH BEAUTY Kate Ceberano
15 5 2 5 SET IN STONE Brian McFadden
16 6 3 2 SHARING SPACE Cog
17 14 5 14 COCO Colbie Caillat
18 7 9 3 STEP UP 2: THE STREETS Soundtrack (G)
19 10 24 6 EXCLUSIVE Chris Brown (G)
20 12 8 5 HAND BUILT BY ROBOTS Newton Faulkner
21 15 58 4 BACK TO BLACK Amy Winehouse (P)
22 11 13 1 SLEEP THROUGH THE STATIC Jack Johnson (P)
23 17 35 3 HYMNS OF THE 49TH PARALLEL k.d. lang (P)2
24 20 2 20 WHEN THE FLOOD COMES The Audreys
25 19 5 12 ROCKFERRY Duffy
26 23 2 23 COME INTO MY WORLD Nick Skitz
27 22 26 2 HOOK ME UP The Veronicas (P)2
28 13 6 1 IN GHOST COLOURS Cut Copy
29 24 37 3 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD Rihanna (P)2
30 31 8 21 GOOD TIME Alan Jackson
31 29 32 1 ECHOES, SILENCE, PATIENCE & GRACE Foo Fighters (P)2
32 18 12 4 DREAMING OUT LOUD OneRepublic (G)
* 33 44 45 1 CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE Michael Buble (P)4
34 28 6 24 MAIL ON SUNDAY Flo Rida
* 35 - NEW 35 THE MOTOR CITY COLLECTION Human Nature
36 37 24 6 A BOOK LIKE THIS Angus & Julia Stone (G)
37 34 2 34 HANNAH MONTANA & MILEY CYRUS: BEST OF BOTH WORLDS CONCERT Miley Cyrus
* 38 - NEW 38 SYMPHONY Sarah Brightman
39 21 5 1 PRETTY. ODD. Panic At The Disco
40 26 3 8 KONK The Kooks
41 - R/E 15 CAUGHT IN THE ACT Michael Buble
42 27 104 1 THRILLER Michael Jackson (P)12
43 32 12 24 BE THE TWILIGHT Faker
44 36 59 5 LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION Mika (P)2
45 38 8 1 BREED OBSESSION Gyroscope
* 46 - R/E 4 BETTER IN THE DARK Rogue Traders (P)
47 30 2 30 THE AGE OF THE UNDERSTATEMENT The Last Shadow Puppets
* 48 - R/E 12 TAKING CHANCES Celine Dion (P)
49 25 2 25 THE BLACK SWAN Story Of The Year
50 42 22 14 ALIVE 2007 Daft Punk (G)

Commentary:
M-dolla enters at #1 with gold shippings, "Hard Candy" becoming her 9th Australian #1 album. Can she retain it next week? Poor Mimi drops to #11 in her second week after a #2 debut, as does Brian McFadden who drops 10 spots to #15. Damien Leith debuts at #3 with his covers album, although it may reach #1 with Mother's Day coming up. Another serial coverer Kate Ceberano comes in at #14. Idol contestant, Carl Riseley, debuts at #5 with his debut album.

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Leona down under

Here are some of Leona's performances from her short promo trip in Australia. It helped - the album shoots back into the Top 20 and new single "Better In Time" climbs 11 spots to #10 on this week's ARIA chart.

"Bleeding Love" on the grand final edition of So You Think You Can Dance:


"Better In Time" and "Bleeding Love" on Sunrise:

Kylie farts on US career

Kylie has seen the light. After the disastrous American flopping of "X", which peaked at #139 last month, Kylie has decided that her US career is officially dead and burried.

I gave it my best shot. I won't try again.

Of course, her "best shot" meant one week of television promotion. With Kylie no longer flying the US Minogue flag, has Dannii finally been given the opportunity to shine? Me thinks someone needs to get a petition started - "CLUB DISCO FOR US RELEASE!"

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