Music News & Notes

Michael Jackson Records Continue to Outsell New Releases

Michael Jackson continues to dominate record sales, seven weeks after his death. Jackson’s “Number Ones” (Epic) was the best-selling album in the US last week, with 98,000 in sales, according to Nielsen SoundScan. His other albums, “Thriller” and “The Essential Michael Jackson,” also continue to rack up significant sales. In total, about 3.7 million Jackson albums have been sold since his death on June 25.

The best-selling new album last week was “Live on the Inside” by the country duo Sugarland, it sold 76,000 copies last week, enough to reach #1 on the Billboard 200. (Most Jackson titles are too old to qualify for it.)

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New Line Records Releases Soundtrack for 'The Time Traveler's Wife'

New Line Records will release the official soundtrack from the film 'The Time Traveler's Wife' via digital download and Amazon.com's Disc On Demand program Tuesday, August 11. The soundtrack's emotionally moving lineup features 23 tracks from the motion picture, which will be released in theatres nationwide on Friday, August 14.

The soundtrack includes the memorable Lifehouse song 'Broken,' featured in the film's trailer, as well as a cover of Joy Division's 'Love Will Tear Us Apart,' performed by Broken Social Scene, whose members (Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Justin Peroff, Andrew Whiteman) make an appearance in the film as a wedding band.

Rounding out the soundtrack, the album includes 21 selections from the score composed by Mychael Danna ('Little Miss Sunshine,' '(500) Days of Summer').

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David Bowie News

David Bowie has announced a four-disc Station to Station special edition featuring a DVD of the surround-sound mix and the original stereo album, as well as two CDs covering the March 23, 1976 live show at New York’s Nassau Coliseum mixed by Harry Maslin.

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Daltrey & The Who

Roger Daltrey says the Who will be back playing live next year. He said on the band's website, "We're doing something next year... I have to be in tip top form and the only way to go out and do that is to go out and sing. So, I got a band together with Simon Townshend, and we'll just go out and play some of my own stuff.

"I'll do a few Who tracks, but I'll mostly play my own stuff... I'll do, probably, 25 per cent of it Who songs; I don't know. I've played a lot of my solo stuff and there are bloody great songs there and they'll be great on stage.

“The way I will do Who songs will be the way I would have if I had done them on my own."

Ummm, this is not the Who, it's a Daltrey solo show, don't abuse the name to sell tickets.

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'New' Radiohead Song Leaked Onto Youtube

A new song 'These Are My Twisted Words' which is supposedly from Radiohead as surfaced on Youtube.

Featuring Thom Yorke on vocals the track could be a product of recent recording sessions that the Oxfordshire band have undertaken with 'OK Computer' producer Nigel Godrich.

The leak, if genuine, marks the second piece of new material from the band in a short space. As was reported on Gigwise last week, the band released a tribute song to late war veteran Harry Patch, entitled 'Harry Patch (In Memory Of)' with any proceeds from the song's sale being donated to the Royal British Legion.