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Well first of all, he was already on an episode of Ugly Betty - a remix of Grace Kelly played prominently at a club and if I recall, one of the characters even said "I love this song!" And anyway, what exactly does it mean to "break" the US, anyway? To be featured on a moderately popular TV series?

No way that video is great! It's so awkward and somehow suits her very well. She has a very awkward style and appearance. It's way better than the With Every Heartbeat video where she's walking through a landscape of crappy 1987 CGI.

Welcome to Buzzjack... don't worry, no one will defend Dick Cheney here. :)

Love when you hear a song, possibly weeks or months later, and you're like I have DEFINITELY danced to this before! Thanks for the link. Love this.

Well I understand but remember, you can't be fired for no reason. If you haven't already, demand specific evidence of lack of work ethic. Ask for instances and specifics. And it wouldn't hurt to at least send the manager a letter about how you're informed of Sears Corp's anti-discriminatory policy and you and your attorney are investigating the matter further. Copy the letter to Sears Corporate. I'm not asking you to sue but at least let them know that you're willing to challenge them.

Dude, that's disgusting. KMart is owned by Sears Corp., known to be one of the most gay-friendly retailers in America. In fact, the company has an anti-discrimination hiring policy. Look at this: http://www.hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Se...&orgid=1187 You should take the issue up with management. If someone fired you because you're gay, they violated company policy and they themselves should be fired. Seriously.

According to Human Rights Campaign, perhaps the leading GLBT rights organization in the US, the following states have laws protecting against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity: California Colorado Connecticut District of Columbia Hawaii Illinois Iowa Maine Maryland Massachusetts Minnesota Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Rhode Island Vermont Washington Wisconsin So they claim 21 states. Anyway I live in Illinois and I work for a company with a strict anti-discrimination policy. I would never put myself at risk for such treatment.

Funny how these airplay-favoring changes come as the #1 song, Hey There Delilah, managed to reach to top spot without being absurdly overplayed on radio, the result of record company-financed bribery. I see payola will once again rule the Hot 100! If only they had made the changes earlier - then Fergie could have enjoyed her 27th #1! And these losers Plain White T's -- who don't even have a guest rapper, I mean can you imagine?! -- would be kept at bay, peaking at #23 when the song is clearly the most purchased and most popular song in the country. That's how the chart should work! PS this topic might deserve its own thread in the chart chat.

Thanks for posting so early! I am really, really sick of Akon.

This is a REALLY good song... I've followed Robyn loosely for years and she never disappoints. Among the most under appreciated pop acts in the last ten years.

The video is genius, the song is... a disappointment I'm afraid. And I worship the skinny French guy...

Since this film is an adaption of the 2002 stage musical, itself an adaption of the 1988 original film... is it fair to call this a proper remake? As much as I loathe John Travolta, I enjoyed the stage musical so I may see this film...

I've long been suspicious of the pop act whose second album is suddenly co-written by the artist him/herself. Think about it. Your debut is bubbly, catchy and hollow, written by a team of suits in Orlando. Good enough for one album but what next? The second album needs a gimmick or a something to market... how about, you co-wrote the songs! Now you're credible, legitimate and more mature. You've grown as an artist. Your lyrics are more personal and complicated. You're even more marketable! Let the millions pour in...

It's FABULOUS, but honestly I think Paris' squeaky, LA voice would ruin it. That song was MADE for hefty drag queens :lol: EDIT: okay so I forgot there is a kind of high pitched girl in the song too...

So one single song "Sing" has 23 guest vocalists?! :wacko:

'Bubbly' is free on iTunes this week. Are free downloads eligible to chart on the Hot 100? I wonder...

I think it's a great #1... anyway at least it's a good story. Some unheard-of band releases the 3rd single from their 3rd album with probably no expectations. Suddenly, 2 years later, the song spreads through word of mouth and internet presence, growing in popularity and eventually reaching #1. To me that's a lot more exciting than Fergie's or Timbaland's "latest song" with all the hype and marketing and overexposure those enjoy.

uh huh. shut up.

Source: CNN News <http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/17/music.newclassics.ap/index.html> NEW YORK (AP) -- Much of the rock 'n' roll and pop canon is well established. AC/DC's "Back in Black" sold 440,000 copies last year -- a good showing by any measure, great for an old record. Buying the albums of '60s and '70s acts like the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley is akin to a rite of passage for any young music fan. These are the artists that baby boomers love to keep buying, and with whom seemingly every teenager at some point experiments. (Remember A.J. hearing Bob Dylan for the first time in the "Sopranos" finale?) Now that the '80s and '90s are ancient history, what albums are people still buying from those decades? Do critical favorites like Radiohead and the Pixies grow more popular with time? Or do the Backstreet Boys and Madonna still rule the charts? The short answer is that, above all, people are buying vintage Metallica, AC/DC, Bon Jovi, Guns 'N Roses and, well, Trans-Siberian Orchestra. AC/DC's "Back in Black" (1980) last year sold 440,000 copies and has thus far sold 156,000 this year, according to the Nielsen SoundScan catalog charts, which measure how well physical albums older than two years old are selling. (All figures for this article were provided by Nielsen SoundScan.) Gallery: The new classics » Those "Back in Black" numbers would make most contemporary CDs a success. Metallica's self-titled 1991 album is altogether the second-biggest selling album of the Nielsen SoundScan era, which began in 1991. "Metallica" sold 275,000 copies last year. Bon Jovi's greatest-hits collection "Cross Road" last year sold 324,000 copies, while Guns N' Roses "Appetite for Destruction" (1987) sold 113,000. The Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Christmas Eve and Other Stories" (1996) continues to be a holiday favorite; it was bought 289,000 times last year. Greatest-hits compilations are counted as catalog releases, and account for the majority of vintage best-sellers. Artists that commercially peaked in the '80s or '90s that have had lucrative best-of collections include Garth Brooks, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tim McGraw, Creed, Queen, Tom Petty, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Def Leppard, Aerosmith and Lionel Richie. U2, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, Celine Dion, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Dave Matthews Band and the ever-touring Jimmy Buffett also all continue to sell large amounts of old records. Michael Jackson, of course, still has one of the most desirable back catalogs. His best-selling "Thriller" moves over 60,000 copies a year and his "Number Ones" collection yielded 162,000 sales last year. Avid fans may be buying everything their favorite artist puts out, but there's more than nostalgia fueling vintage sales. "Young fans aren't excluded from catalog sales -- especially the ones who really get interested in music, there's always that sense of discovery," says Geoff Mayfield, the director of charts at Billboard Magazine. Not everything maintains long-term success. Asia's self-titled 1982 album was the biggest seller of 1982, but only sold 5,000 copies last year. Whitney Houston's 1985 debut, also self-titled, was 1986's top album, but now sells about 7,000 discs a year. The same trajectory has befallen past mega-hits like Ace of Base's "The Sign," Bobby Brown's "Don't Be Cruel" and the Spice Girl's "Spice." Though one of the best selling artists of all time, Mariah Carey's self-titled debut sold a measly 5,000 copies last year. The Backstreet Boys' "Millennium" managed only 9,000 sales. Alas, the turning wheel of fortune isn't always kind to boy bands. "The only thing that kept coming to mind to me was that line in the Bruce Springsteen song: 'Someday we'll look back at this and it will all seem funny,' " recalls Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke. Now, some critical hits that were trounced on their initial release by the likes of 'N Sync can claim a measure of commercial superiority. The Flaming Lips' "The Soft Bulletin," often hailed as one of the best albums of the '90s by critics, sold a solid 38,000 copies last year. Radiohead's legendary "OK Computer," currently celebrating its 10-year anniversary, last year sold 94,000 copies. Nirvana's "Nevermind" has done even better; it sold 143,000 copies in 2006. Current events can alter the charts. When Ray Charles died, his older albums spiked for months, says Mayfield. A new album from Alanis Morissette would surely increase sales of her 1995 disc "Jagged Little Pill," one of the best selling albums of the past 20 years. Likewise, recent reunions of the Police and Genesis can be expected to increase sales of their catalogs. The Police's 1986 compilation "Every Breath You Take" has already doubled its already strong 2006 sales by selling 107,000 copies so far this year. (A new compilation was recently released as well.) Many well-regarded albums continue to do healthy business, including: U2's "Joshua Tree," Dr. Dre's "The Chronic," Beck's "Odelay," Wu-Tang Clan's "Enter the Wu-Tang," the Clash's "London Calling," Weezer's "Weezer," and the Pixies' "Doolittle." Each sold at least 20,000 copies last year. Still, many albums that are consistently revered on critic top-ten lists of the '80s and '90s have not sold much. Joy Division's "Closer," the Smiths' "The Queen is Dead," My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless," and R.E.M.'s "Murmur" all sold 12,000 copies or less last year. Labels often reissue classic releases to capitalize on the devotion of die-hard fans and to attract a new audience. In the past few years, revered indie label Matador Records has released Pavement's first three albums, including "Slanted and Enchanted," a disc frequently ranked among the best in the '90s. "It's almost like a new release for us," says Matador founder Chris Lombardi. "We probably sold in a one-year period, pretty much what those records sold in their first year period when they were initially released." Though hip-hop continues to rule today's charts, many of its most historic albums don't enjoy the catalog sales that those from rock's heyday do. Public Enemy's "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" sold 15,000 copies last year; Beastie Boys' "Paul's Boutique" sold 22,000; and Run-DMC's "Raising Hell" sold far less than both. So far this year, catalog sales are down 11.7 percent, but that's stronger than overall sales, which are down 14.7 percent, according to Billboard. It's a major portion of the music business. This year's total catalog sales of 95.6 million copies accounts for about 40 percent of all albums sold physically. When people switched from cassette tapes to compact discs, catalog sales received a windfall as people re-bought their collections. The onset of digital downloading hasn't had that affect because CDs can easily be downloaded to your iPod, but digital stores do have the advantage of unlimited (virtual) store space to sell older music. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has pegged catalog downloads as 64 percent of all download sales in the U.S. (Apple declined to share its iTunes data on catalog sales.) That still leaves illegal downloads unaccounted for, as well as a more important quantity: cultural impact. Though bands like Sonic Youth, the Ramones and Public Enemy may never sell as much as other acts, their influence remains immeasurable. "Impact is not strictly about sales," says Fricke. "Otherwise everyone would be running around forming bands that sound exactly like Poison." Granted this is only sales in America, but I imagine the trend remains the same everywhere. Some acts are timeless. And I think it's easy to recognize which acts or timeless and which will have fleeting popularity even upon first listen. Anyone surprised by this article?

You bring up a really good point here. Grieving relatives often don't make sound choices. When one's close kin dies, especially unexpectedly, one doesn't want to think authorize removing the organs and such... On that point, personally I'd like to be cremated in a cheap, plywood box with little or no pomp and circumstance. But I know my family would want to have the funeral and the casket and all that...all a waste of money, in my mind... but part of the grieving process I guess. But I digress...

Oh I do, I promise... it's just one of those areas where I've yet to hear a rational, reasonable defense of organ donation refusal. I believe it's because there is no rational or reasonable justification for not donating one's organs. Now if it's a personal belief, fine, the law allows you to act upon that belief.

Oh come on, this is not a fair generalization. And anyway they take into account many many things before they give you a new organ. An alcoholic will not get priority over a child with cancer in his liver.

I have NEVER understood people who refuse to donate their organs, never never never. What in the hell does it matter what your body looks like if you're DEAD!? And everyone throws around that word "dignity." Personally I think in a world where thousands upon thousands of people DIE WAITING FOR ORGANS, to insist your dead body have all its organs SO THAT THEY CAN PROMPTLY ROT IN A TOMB is undignified, unethical and ridiculous. I never expected this kind of talk in THIS forum, where everyone is usually so rational about matters of spirituality vs. science.

What I like about the article is that it identifies other fleeting subgenres of horror throughout Hollywood cinema. Just in the last 10 years, Scream brought back the teen slasher genre for about 4 years, until The Sixth Sense’s success created a sort of mildly scary, usually spirit/ghost-centered thriller genre… The Ring started the Asian-remake thing in 2003...“torture porn” seems to have only lasted a couple years. Sadly it looks like the next big thing in the horror genre is remaking classic films. <_<

Great song. And it's actually not a cover, but the song's namesake (Delilah) was just some random girl he met once and never had a relationship with! Video looks familiar... it's Chicago ^_^