New Releases @ HMV This Week (3rd Oct - 9th Oct)
By YudaRock & Pop
- Joss Stone - Best of
- Feist - Metals
- Mastodon - Hunter
- Lady Gaga - Born This Way (USB)
- Siti Nurhaliza - All Your Love
OST
- Ost - One Day
Classical & Jazz
- Lady Antebellum - Own The Night
- George Benson - Guitar Man
- Acoustic Alchemy - Roseland
Dance & Soul
- DJ Shadow - Less You Know The Better
Asian
- Mo Wen Wei (Karen Mok) - Johannes & Karen (Best of)
- Wang Li Hong (Lee Hom) - Open Fire: New + Best Selections
- FT Island - Five Treasure Island (Version B)
Lady Gaga would be bringing her world tour to Singapore next year
By Yuda
What would Lady Gaga have to say about the Fun Pack Song, the ditty meant for the National Day Parade that used the music to her big hit Bad Romance? That was the question on everyone's mind at the press conference yesterday with Lady Gaga, who was in town to celebrate the unveiling of Amped 2.0, the new version of SingTel's award winning Amped music service that will be launched in September this year.
But before reporters could rattle off the question, minders told everybody that Lady Gaga would only take questions about her new album, Born This Way. This did not sit well with the journalists, some of whom had been waiting for almost two hours for the press conference, held at the Arts Science Museum, to start. The 25-year-old pop star did, however, have good news for fans who could not make it to her showcase at Marina Bay Sands yesterday - she would be bringing her world tour to Singapore next year.
- TODAYonline
Interview: Lady Gaga
By Yuda
'I’m not interested in people positioning me next to other artists,' announces the singer, sitting in a recording studio with Time Out. 'I just want to make my music.'
A bold claim from someone who has appeared in public dressed in numerous decapitated Kermits, a gas mask, a gyroscope, a large lampshade, a massive egg and a dress made entirely of meat. And these looks have been hard to miss, because for the last three years, Lady Gaga has dominated pop’s field of vision in a way other artists with comparable sales have not.
She is the Internet age’s first true pop phenomenon, but mo’ Twitterfollowers (she recently hit the 10 million mark), mo’ problems. While no megastar in history has been able to connect with an audience so easily, nor has any been quite this easy to heckle. In February, Lady G's much-trumpeted big comeback single, 'Born This Way,' was loudly criticized for sounding too much like Madonna; its successor, 'Judas,' was rounded upon for being too much like, er, Lady Gaga.
'It’s part of the whole Internet culture,' she declares. 'People want you to fail. People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway. The good news is that when they look back they’ll all remember how brave I was: "She put out a record about being yourself, and we crucified her for it, but she soared on and sat at number one for six weeks and told everyone to FUCK OFF!" '
It wasn’t 'Born This Way' that told everyone to fuck off.
LADY GAGA LIVE IN SINGAPORE TICKET GIVEAWAY
By Yuda
Listen up, little Monsters. It's official. Lady Gaga will be performing on our sunny shores on the 7th of July!
Singtel and Universal Music have come together to bring the international superstar back on our shores since she last performed here in 2009, at an exclusive showcase for Singtel customers.
The catch: This time, she'll only be performing for approximately 2,000 lucky Singtel customers as well.
Don't fret, however! 987FM, the Concert Station of the Nation, will be giving away ultra-exclusive tickets to catch Lady Gaga perform live in Singapore!
Simply to tune in to the Muttons on the Move from now till the 1st of July for a chance to win these tickets. You could just be a lucky winner.- XinMSN
Lady Gaga Album Sells More Than 1 Million Copies
By Yuda
By ETHAN
SMITH
Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" sold 1.11 million copies its first week in North America, according to Nielsen SoundScan, giving the pop singer the largest sales week since 2005.
Sales of the album, launched on May 23, were helped by Amazon.com Inc., which offered a digital-download version of "Born This Way" for just 99 cents on Monday and Thursday last week. The low price drew attention, created technical problems and helped sell an estimated 440,000 downloads, according to an estimate posted on the website of trade magazine Billboard.
That appeared to be about double the number of albums sold by Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store, which normally commands a dominant share of paid digital downloads.
The first day of Amazon's promotion, which was designed to draw attention to its new Cloud Drive online storage service, the retailer was forced to apologize for delays in delivering the album. Three days later it repeated the offer, telling customers: "This time we're ready."
Apple sells the same album for $11.99. Both services offered an expanded edition of the album for higher prices.
Amazon paid the album's full wholesale cost, about $9, to the singer's record company, VivendiSA's Universal Music Group, and absorbed the cost.
The last album to sell more copies in a week was rapper 50 Cent's "The Massacre," which notched 1.14 million copies its first week out, in 2005.
Albums that sold a million copies in a week have never been common. Since SoundScan started in 1991, the service has reported only 17 albums that achieved that sales record.
But as music sales have declined under pressure from digital piracy and other forces, they have become even rarer. Last December, Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" sold just over 1 million copies its first week out.
Apple is expected to start iCloud, its competitor to Cloud Drive, next Monday. The service is expected to include more features than Cloud Drive, thanks to a set of licensing deals it recently reached with Universal and other major music companies.Lady Gaga’s $0.99 Album Download Overwhelms Amazon
By Yuda
Lady Gaga fans were delighted Monday to learn that they could download her new album, Born This Way, from Amazon for a mere $0.99 — until, of course, technical difficulties set in.
Downloads of the album are delayed, leaving folks unable to get the entire album immediately upon purchase. Amazon issued the following statement:
Amazon is experiencing high volume and downloads are delayed. If customers order today, they will get the full Lady Gaga, Born This Way album for $0.99. Thanks for your patience.
However, the damage has already been done, as users are meting out one-star ratings in droves, most of which deal with Amazon’s slow service as opposed to the quality of the music (although some reviews in the lower bracket did dub the disc “disappointing”). As a result, the album has a relatively low three-star rating.
Reviews of the following nature reign: “This review isn’t a review of the album, but of the Amazon’s digital music service. I tried this as an experiment to see if I wanted to order more music this way, but it only downloaded half the songs. Still a deal at 99cents, but not an experiment I’ll want to repeat with a full-price album.”
Many reviews also trumpet the user’s intent to buy from iTunes in the future, instead of Amazon — a state of affairs Amazon would want to avoid, considering iTunes already holds most of the market share for digital music.
This backlash does not bode well for the future popularity of Amazon’s new Cloud Player service, which the company was touting in the promotional language of the deal, offering users more storage space for buying the album.
New Release @ HMV This Week
By Yuda(week starting 23rd May)
Rock & Pop
- Lady Gaga - Born This Way
- Simply Red - Farewell: Live at Sydney Opera House
OST
- OST - Sharpays Fabulous Adventures
- OST - Hangover II
- OST - Glee The Music: Vol6 Season Two
Classical & Jazz
- Various - Great British Wedding Album
- Brad Paisley - This Is Country Music
Dance & Soul
- Stephen Marley - Revelation Pt1: Root of Live
Asian
- Thelma Aoyama - Love Story
- Mister Mr - People Sing For People (CD+DVD)
- Wynners - 38 Da Yue Jun Concert (DVD)
- Misia - Hoshizora Live VI Encore 2010 (DVD +CD)
- Ivana Wong - Cinema of Love (CD+DVD)
New Release @ HMV This Week
By Yuda(week starting 11th April)
Rock & Pop
- Lady Gaga - Born This Way Vinyl
- TV On The Radio - Nine Types of Light
- Various - Full Volume
- Various - NOW 78
- Rolling Stones - Singles Collection
- Paul Simon - So Beautiful or So What
- Foo Fighters - Wasting Lights
- Suede - Best of
- Adele - 21
Classical & Jazz
- Various - Classical Album 2011
- Alison Krauss & Union Station - Paper Airplane
Asian
- Tim - New Beginning
- Ost - 881
- Denise Ho - HOCC Home Coming Live
New Release @ HMV This Week
By Yuda(week starting 14th March)
Rock & Pop
- Naked & Famous - Passive Me & Aggressive You
- Queen - Queen I (Remastered)
- Queen - Queen II (Remastered)
- Queen - Sheer Heart Attack (Remastered)
- Queen - Day At The Races (Remastered)
- Queen - Night At The Opera (Remastered)
- Pet Shop Boys - Most Incredible Thing
- Funeral For A Friend - Welcome Home Armageddon
- View - Breads & Circuses
- OTV : Various American Idol 10th Anniversary
- Noah & The Whale - Last Night On Earth
- Lady Gaga - Born This Way
Classical & Jazz
- Rattle - Potrait
- Various - Magic Classics For Kids
- Herb Alpert & Lani Hall - I Feel You
Asian
- OST : Joe Hisaihi Akunin
- Toshinobu Kubota - Love & Rain Songs
- Hajime Chitose - Orient
- Juju - Request
- Li Ke Qin (Hacken Lee) - Concert Hall
- Li Ke Qin (Hacken Lee) - Concert Hall Live & KarokeOK
- Big Bang - Mini Album Vol4
- Fang Wei Qi - Love & Fan Fan
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