Music Newz Bites – 27 May

May 27th, 2011 | 32 komentar
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Siapa yang suka Adele pasti sudah girang banget dengan keberadaan penyanyi asal UK ini. Soalnya, album “21″ masih betah bertahan di puncak Billboard 200 Albums hingga kini. Jadi, sampai saat ini, album tersebut sudah berada di atas selama 9 pekan dengan angka penjualan melebihi 1,8 juta kopi. Hebat memang! Album lain yang terjual di atas angka 1 juta yang masuk dalam jajaran Top 10 adalah “My Kind Of Party” milik Jason Aldean (#4) dan “Sigh No More” milik Mumford & Sons (#5). Pendatang baru di Top 10 datang dari Seether dengan album “Holding Onto Strings Better Left” yang terjual sebanyak 61.000 kopi dan juga trio asal Italia Il Volo di no. 10.

Ini dia daftar 10 besarnya:
1. Adele, 21: 138,000 (1.848 million)
2. Seether, Holding Onto Strings Better Left: 61,000
3. Various, Now That’s What I Call Music! 38: 50,000 (243,000)
4. Jason Aldean, My Kinda Party: 29,000 (1.204 million)
5. Mumford & Sons, Sigh No More: 25,000 (1.463 million)
6. Beastie Boys, Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2: 24,000 (194,000)
7. Lonely Island, Turtleneck & Chain: 24,000 (92,000)
8. Justin Bieber, Never Say Never: Remixes: 23,000 (605,000)
9. Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues: 23,000 (150,000)
10. Il Volo, Il Volo: 23,000 (24,000)

Tapi, jatah untuk duduk di kursi juara album terlaris minggu depan adalah untuk Lady Gaga. Awalnya, album “Born This Way”-nya akan terjual enggak kurang dari 800.000 kopi, tapi kemudian prediksi meningkat menjadi 1.000.000 kopi untuk minggu pertamanya. Bisakah ini terjadi? Di saat angka penjualan album belakangan ini tidak begitu membludak juga karena pembajakan yang merajalela. Dan ternyata, Gaga punya siasat untuk membuat hal itu menjadi kenyataan. Dirinya mengobral album tersebut di Amazon.com dengan harga cuma $0.99 saja untuk digital download. Fantastis! Ide ini juga pernah dilancarkan oleh Taylor Swift saat merilis album “Speak Now”. Memang akhirnya dirinya berhasil menjual album tersebut lebih dari 1 juta kopi di minggu pertama.

Image and video hosting by TinyPicSangat disayangkan, Cheryl Cole harus berhenti dalam perannya sebagai juri X Factor di Amerika. Menurut TMZ.com, ini dikarenakan aksen British-nya yang kelewat kental, plus hubungannya dengan Paula Abdul yang enggak berjalan mulus selama acara ini berjalan. Cheryl sudah ikutan di babak awal audisi di Los Angeles, lho. Dan bahkan udah bersiap untuk audisi di Dallas. Tapi sayangnya posisinya di panel juri akan digantikan oleh Nicole Scherzinger, yang sebelumnya dikontrak sebagai pembawa acara. Cheryl dikabarkan akan kembali ke X Factor UK. Enggak usah ragu dengan kemampuan nge-judge Nicole ya. Karena sebelumnya dia juga udah pernah berlaku demikian di acara “The Sing-Off” yang ditayangkan di NBC.

Selamat kepada P. Diddy atau yang boleh kita panggil dengan nama barunya, Swag. Dirinya akan dikasih penghargaan ASCAP’s Founders Award pada acara tahunan ke-24 Rhythm & Soul Music Awards, yang akan diadakan pada 24 Juni mendatang di hotel Beverly Hilton di Los Angeles. Dirinya menyusul Dr. Dre, Stevie Wonder, Garth Brookes, dan Paul McCartney yang sebelum-sebelumnya sudah menerima award serupa. Keberhasilan Diddy yang dinilai sehingga bisa mendapatkan penghargaan ini adalah perannya sebagai A&R executive di Uptown Records, dilanjut dengan Bad Boy Entertainment sejak tahun 1993, hingga kini membentu Diddy-Dorty Money. Dirinya pun pernah memproduseri lagu untuk Mariah Carey, TLC, dan Boyz II Men.

Image and video hosting by TinyPicAkan ada 12 buah lagu dalam album terbaru Beyonce nanti, dimana di salah satunya dirinya akan menampilkan Andree 3000 dari grup Outkast. Album yang berjudul “4″ ini akan dirilis pada 24 Juni di Amerika, dan 27 Juni di Inggris, menyusul di tempat-tempat lain. Inilah tracklist album B:
1. ‘1+1′
2. ‘I Care’
3. ‘I Miss You’
4. ‘Best Thing I Never Had’
5. ‘Party (Featuring Andre 3000)’
6. ‘Rather Die Young’
7. ‘Start Over’
8. ‘Love On Top’
9. ‘Countdown’
10. ‘End of Time’
11. ‘I Was Here’
12. ‘Run The World (Girls)’

Asyik nih, The Cranberries akan aktif lagi bermusik! Enggak cuma dipastikan akan tampil di Java Rockingland, tapi mereka juga akan merilis album baru yang akan dirilis di paruh kedua tahun 2011 ini. Keputusan ini diambil Dolores dkk atas dukungan para penggemar yang luar biasa setia. Mereka semangat untuk bekerja di studio untuk album ke-6 tersebut. Hingga kini, lagu-lagu untuk album tersebut telah selesai direkam, dan sekarang menuju proses mixing. Album terakhir The Cranberries adalah “Wake Up and Smell The Coffee” di tahun 2001, dan ini memang saatnya untuk comeback!

You may call it the worst finale ever. Tapi tetap saja acaranya dijerit-jeriti dan angka vote memecahkan rekor. 122,4 juta vote masuk, untuk memilih antara Scotty McCreery atau Lauren Alaina sebagai pemenang. Hingga akhirnya American Idol season 10 menobatkan Scotty McCreery sebagai juaranya. Pria dengan vokal country yang tradisional, yang dianggap sangat mirip dengan vokal Garth Brooks. Masih berusia 17 tahun, jadi dirinya juga pemenang American Idol termuda.

Newz Flash!
- Lady Gaga pengen buat album Natal. Well hey, dia sudah punya lagu Natal sebelumnya, dan pasti seru mendengarkan gaya Gaga ke lagu-lagu Natal klasik.

- Album Hilary Duff akan dirilis pada tahun 2012. Karena menurut Hilary sendiri kalau pengerjaan albumnya akan memakan waktu setahun, plus di September nanti dia mau syuting untuk film terbarunya.

- Beyonce akhirnya bereaksi atas pemberitaan pencontekan ide penampilan di Billboard Music Awards tahun ini. Dirinya mengaku kalau make-up artis-nya yang memperlihatkan penampilan Lorella Cuccarini itu kepadanya, dan dirinya merasa “inspired”.

- Meskipun album kedua mereka masih belum berjudul, tapi Artist Highlight kita bulan Mei ini, The Wanted akan merilis single kedua dari album tersebut, ‘Glad You Came’ pada 10 Juli mendatang. Tapi lagu ini sudah premir di radio sejak 24 Mei.

- Black Eyed Peas kayaknya akan hiatus nih. Soalnya Fergie yang bilang kalau dirinya pengen menghabiskan waktu bersama sang suami Josh Duhamel. Belum lagi will.i.am yang katanya sedang sibuk dengan album solonya.

(Ai Hasibuan / CreativeDisc Contributors)

32 Responses to “Music Newz Bites – 27 May”

  1. JoJo says:
    May 27, 2011 at 9:48 am

    sekali lagi selamat buat Scotty McCreery, semoga ntar albumnya bagus
    The Cranberries buruan ya…
    Lady Gaga kira kira bisa ngalahin penjualan albumnya Taylor Swift gak ya?

  2. Just-in says:
    May 27, 2011 at 9:48 am

    Mana nìch Bee katanya mau duet dgn riri?

  3. YUGOWIDHIFOREVER says:
    May 27, 2011 at 9:48 am

    hee? gaga (pengen) bikin album natal? It’s one of the big news today!
    congrats adele!

  4. ilow mpow says:
    May 27, 2011 at 9:51 am

    wew jadi sii bee ma riri kagak duet dong cuman hoax aja
    huhuuhu disayang kan
    kirain bakala keulang lagi mereka duetnya

  5. Jaldi says:
    May 27, 2011 at 9:53 am

    Jadi , Cheryl Kapan go americanya???

  6. yudh4_D_bl4ck0uT says:
    May 27, 2011 at 9:54 am

    Wew…. album gaga cuman 0,99$???? Lebh murah dr single nya sendiri???
    Mungkin bakalan tembus 1juta… mengingat taytay juga lbh dr 1juta dengan harga 4 dolar diatas gaga…
    Mantaps euy….

  7. welly says:
    May 27, 2011 at 9:57 am

    @yudha: iyah itu digital download yah. bukan fisik…

  8. Yubi says:
    May 27, 2011 at 9:59 am

    Aduh gaga knp harus ngobral album semurah i2 demi sebuah target 1jt copy ??? #Sangat sy sayangkn utk artis berkelas dan berkualitas.. Nicole dr mc ke juri good job,… Bey cuma 12 track #kecewa penonton hahaha.. Apkh ad edisi deluxe ? Biasanya ad adtrack tambahan..

  9. ilow mpow says:
    May 27, 2011 at 10:04 am

    Bey cuma 12 track #kecewa penonton hahaha..
    bener tuh yubi iya saia kecewa

  10. Yubi says:
    May 27, 2011 at 10:34 am

    @ilow Jelas kecewa…. Beyonce mngtan tlah merekam 60 lagu dan majalah the sun nulis 72 lagu… Klo cuma 12 track yg dimasukin dialbum 4 jelas sangat kecewa

  11. jojon says:
    May 27, 2011 at 11:57 am

    mana duet dgn riri nya? Jadi ragu gue dgn album beyonce, mengingat single terbarunya ini gue ga suka banget! Kmarin amazon sempet macet gara2 obral gila2an dari gaga.

  12. Guz says:
    May 27, 2011 at 12:11 pm

    Well..congrats adele…
    Bener bener bertaring the 21 album..
    Jadi kabar kabur mariah carey yang bakal jadi judge x factor amerika sendiri gmana..??

    Bee….most wanted album…
    Tag perduli tracknya minim..
    Yang penting bookletnya ada…nggak kek universal punya barang yang cuma selembar dilipat 2..
    Ahahahaa…..

    Gaga….semoga pakaiannya di album natal nggak makin menggila…!!!

  13. Putra says:
    May 27, 2011 at 3:44 pm

    Eh tapi aku baca di Billboard katanya Billboard ga ngitung penjualan album dengan harga dibawah $4.

  14. Kal eL says:
    May 27, 2011 at 4:07 pm

    wah, sayang ya, cman ad 1 duet di album Beyonce yg baru ini….

    mungkin klo nanti ad versi repackage akan di masukin kali ya….

  15. kaiiyan says:
    May 27, 2011 at 4:39 pm

    koq bgi saya gg ad berita yg menarik??

  16. hendra says:
    May 27, 2011 at 4:52 pm

    @mas well
    dr Amazone alone album BTW terjual skitar 330K
    dan hari ini amazone kembali mendiskon album BTW dgn harga 0.99

    Get @ladygaga’s Born This Way album for $0.99 today: http://amzn.to/kur7IR

    dan anehnya Billboard memasukan hitungan ke official count mreka… pdhal utk harga 1 album 0.99 dollar bener2 gak masuk akal,,,

    misal ya,,, setelah 5-10 tahun kemudian jgn heran klo Gaga bisa mengejar penjualan album artis2 angkatan 2000an karena label Gaga mendiskon besar2an album2 Gaga,,,

    tp utk albumnya sendiri emang lumayan,,,

    selamat buat Gaga

    Beyonce jgn sampai mendiskon albumnya jd 4 dollar ya mentang2 albumnya bertitel “4″ wkwkwkw

    12 track ya?? semoga versi deluxe nya lebih banyak lagi AND NO REMIX

  17. AB1D says:
    May 27, 2011 at 5:59 pm

    GILA MURAH BGT album Lady Gaga, kykny emg tuh album emg sengaja di jual murah biar bisa debut no.1, ya syukur2 bisa 1 juta.mungkin si lady gaga pengen mecahin rekor album Oops ny di britney??? aq belum sreg nih sama single ke-2 beyonce, mellow bgt, belum dapat feel, tapi aq suka lagu end of time ny, lebih keren.

  18. zia says:
    May 27, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    Lihat Brita di Liputan6 Malam, lady gaga mengadakan acara di toko swalayan, yang intinya agar penjualan albumnya meningkat. dengan bonus tanda tangan album yg Orang beli saat itu..
    #emang beda kelas sm Britney…

  19. ochie says:
    May 28, 2011 at 9:11 am

    semoga di album 4, ada single beyonce yang lebih oke dari “Single Ladies”

    @zia : beda kelas gimana..komennya memancing nih..hahaha

  20. aryo says:
    May 28, 2011 at 9:28 am

    # angka penjualan “21″ membanggakan.. congrat’s adele..

    # menurutku album bee kurang nendang..

    # album gaga di amazon $0.99, di itunes $15.99..

  21. Hasta says:
    May 28, 2011 at 1:11 pm

    Setiap artis pastilah punya strategi masing2 untuk promo rilisan rekaman terbarunya, begitu pun Lady Gaga. Kayaknya kalo dijual $0.99 sah2 aja, dan sejauh ini album Born This Way diterima dengan baik sama kritikus musik. Saya rasa itu sama sekali gada hubungannya sama yang namanya “kelas”

  22. hendra says:
    May 28, 2011 at 2:59 pm

    Dear Billboard,

    1,000,000 1st week sales of GaGa (with the $0.99 deal) are NOT the equivalent of an artist 10 years ago with 1,000,000 sales. At this rate, Gaga will outsell Celine Dion, Madonna, Mariah Carey in 10 years if she makes deals like these. Michael Jackson has rolled around in his grave, because his TOP selling album status may be ruined by your ignorant, silly and inappropriate policy.

    You have to take into consideration that when artists like The Beatles, Whitney Houston, Eminem, Britney Spears, Usher, Shania Twain, Taylor Swift, 50 Cent, Norah Jones.. and all of the other artists who have has first week impacts over over 1,000,000 unit sales to consumers that there was NO SPECIAL DISCOUNTED PROMOTION for them. It’s almost as if Gaga’s taking advantage of the rules that have been set by the powers-that-be. This is why you have a lot of angry fans on your hands, especially Britney Spears & Eminem fans. You have someone who made a thunderous boom onto the music scene and left her mark with one of the highest debuts ever. That title is in danger of being stripped or lessoned because for two days (or even more) Amazon decided to virtually give the album away. In a sense it is completely not fair.

    At the end of the day selling a brand new album at 99 cents means fans can afford to buy 100 copies for just under 100 bucks. IMAGINE 10,000 GAGA FANS BUYS 100 COPIES EACH ==> 1,000,000 COPIES ALREADY That basically gives her the #1 spot without her even trying to get it. Where is the pride in that? f**king PATHETIC! Almost ANY artist with a brand new album selling at 99 cents could accomplish massive first week sales and a debut number one. Its basically CHEATING.

    The richest artist of the year (like GaGa) selling an album for $0.99 is the same as an artist who started from scratch and can not afford all these advertisments and plays things fair and sells an album for, let’s say $9.99 ?? I’m sorry but your policy is UNFAIR.

    And if GaGa truly wanted to give her fans the “treat” if an album in a more accessible way, she might as well leak her albums, and keep making money off tours if that’s the case, but it is CLEARLY not the case, for it is obvious that the 1st week SALES is very important for GaGa and her team, and to make such a drastic and DESPERATE change is sad. This 0.99 cents album is totally ridiculous how a new artist with low budget is gonna compete with this kind of “politics” a new artist cant sell his album at 0.99 cents, this is basically so unfair to other artists that sold 1 million in a regular price

    And a sign of Billboard’s “go with the flow”and inconsiderate arrangements. Both GaGa and Billboard will be remembered for this policy change, because it minimizes the efforts and 1st week sales of many other artists who have earned their legendary figures and 1st week debuts. Billboard is joining the rest of the corporate-driven industry, where money talks. It is not artists and untalented individuals who ruin art and music, it is policy changes and last second behind-the-scenes decisions like yours who reduce legends’ and icons’ status. The digital era is inevitible, and one must deal with it rationally, not in biased methods of business making. Billboard has always been a respectable chart, and has been losing the respect from critics and even artists.

    It’s the fact that artists like Eminem, Usher, Shania Twain, 50 Cent, Norah Jones, Britney Spears, Taylor Swift and others actually WORK hard to sell a $12+ album to their fans which ends up breaking records and selling 1,000,000+ and in comes this desperate ass try from Gaga to sell her 99cent album just to break the record. Yes, Gaga’s album may be some-what good, but it’s the actually work we’re talking about here and the fairness of it. Your only asking for all this hate yourselves. So don’t complain when people attack you on Twitter.

    The industry is CORRUPT and it’s all about Payola $$$. I guess the record industry isn’t about quality anymore, but about how many records you can break by virtually smashing albums down America’s throat. Ah well. The decline from first week to second will be another record that Gaga breaks…

    Music politics is all this is. The media, Billboard included, are all strapped in on the Gaga train and money or something that is of value for BB is obviously being exchanged. The $.99cent sale of this album is nothing more than a ploy from Team Gaga to get her to break records and join that 1+million first week debut list. That’s all. It’s ridiculous and desperate for a debut week. With this I wish Beyonce would do the same thing, she deserves it as well. So does Katy, Rihanna and so on. TRYING HARD desperately selling her album for .99cents. With that price most artists could venture into the 700k+-1+million stream. It’s ridiculous and Billboard knows it. You guys are always playing music politics.
    Speaking about the situation with Britney’s 5th studio album, Blackout. The Eagles had a choice. They chose to sell that album exclusively to a store that Billboard does not count AND has never counted for decades. They even willingly signed an agreement stating they would not be counted toward the regular Hot 200 album chart. So they change it last minute, for The Eagles? That is what you call unfair. That is what you call unprofessional.To change the rules of something that’s been set for years and years and years, basically since day one of the chart starting in 1945 just because one band decided to not sell the album in a way where they would be counted, is not fair at all. They had a choice, they made that choice. You don’t change the rules in the middle of a board game do you? Especially when the winner is about to be announced!

    PS: All companies that have distributors sell their products have contractual terms for the price floor in which their product can be sold at or terms that require negotiation for major promotional activities. This prevents the original companies from losing brand value. In a normal sales transaction, both Amazon and the record profit on a sale to a customer and in order for both sides to forego that profit, there has to be an agreement on either side.

    This means that Universal/Gaga is making a cut on the backside of the Cloud Service and a payment for the loss of revenue/price differential. Universal had to sign off on the promo plan and it likely included another check, on top of their normal cut, given the magnitude of the event.

    Not to mention Gaga was giving out FREE codes to people with Farmvillle to download the digital album as well when they came to her cd signing the other night.

    FANS OF MANY ARTISTS ARE SPREADING THIS LETTER EVERYHWERE. WE HOPE YOU WILL CONSIDER CAREFULLY AND WILL HAVE A GREAT DECISION (not counting those Amazon 0.99$ sales) FOR FAIRNESS.

  23. JASON says:
    May 28, 2011 at 4:40 pm

    HENDRA#good job bro..i agree with u! This garbage will do everything to break record..sad!

  24. kyuz says:
    May 28, 2011 at 11:04 pm

    Album GaGa spertinya lebih Bagus Dari Beyonce, Good Job or her, tapi Kenapa musti melakukan hal yg benar2 tidak pantas dilakukan untuk artis seperti GaGa? I Know GaGa akan melakukan apapun agar bisa jadi no.1 dan memecahkan rekor sebanyak mungkin, itu Fair2 aja tapi kalo dgn cara ini??? sungguh sgt disayangkan kasian artis lain yg kerja keras promo kemana2 demi mendapatkan angka penjalan yg banyak, sedangkan GaGa melakukan dgn cara yg memalukan…

    Btw Aku suka Lagunya yg “the edge of glory” & “Hair”

  25. K3TUTZ says:
    May 28, 2011 at 11:04 pm

    Namanya juga Music Industry.

    GaGa mungkin memang lagi butuh pengakuan gelar album no.1
    (Btw.. Sepertinya billboard ga akan hitung sale yg amazon..lupa baca dmn, tau ahh liat nanti aja gmn hasil nya..ga peduli juga sih :) …no offense ya .. Belum begitu klik dgn single2 dri BTW, jauh lbh enak the fame monster…jd ga terlalu excited dgn album BTW

    Kata-katanya sih kalo truly artist doesn’t need anything to prove.

    Yg sejati nya musisi baru akan dilihat 10-20 thn kedepan even more.

  26. Hasta says:
    May 29, 2011 at 12:50 am

    bener juga tuh tulisan Hendra

  27. chrizalis says:
    May 29, 2011 at 7:59 pm

    ngakak liat tulisan “inspired” pake tanda kutip hmmmm emang beda2 tipis yah terinspirasi dengan menjiplak hehehe….

  28. alv says:
    May 29, 2011 at 11:41 pm

    Mudah2an GaGa sampai Carrefour ya sale albumnya ++ free tanda tangannya… itung2 bisa bantu bikin albumnya meledak!
    Plisss GaGa … plissss

  29. ericxtm says:
    May 30, 2011 at 5:53 am

    hahaha,lady gaga,down to earth bgt,dah itu aja

  30. evhand says:
    May 31, 2011 at 2:24 am

    Katanya:
    Demi kejar mencapai target Lady Gaga akan mengobral Album “Born This Way” + 1 kaleng ikan sarden “GaGa” di Indonesia….

    itu masih “katanya”,,,,,,

  31. alv says:
    June 1, 2011 at 10:38 am

    GaGa melakukan persaingan pnjualan tdk sehat!

  32. Nadya says:
    June 1, 2011 at 11:15 am

    Adele top bgt… semua penjualan albumnya itu pake “full price” loh, ga pake potongan harga gila-gilaan… beneran “murni” no 1!

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