This about itunes USA but I expect similar effect is being seen here in UK -
New ITunes Pricing Equals Mixed Results
In the three weeks since the launch of iTunes' new pricing model, data from Nielsen Soundscan indicates that songs receiving a price increase have generated more revenue despite fewer sales. The 67 tracks on the iTunes Top 100 chart holding at $0.99 have sold 29 percent fewer units, equaling a 29 percent drop in revenue. By comparison, the 33 songs raised from $0.99 to $1.29 have sold 34.5 percent fewer units, a slimmer 14.7 percent revenue drop, while generating more than $14,000 extra revenue per week.
GaGa and Kelly Clarkson performed at the Grammy Tour last night at the House of Blues Boston.
Couple of things on Twitter -
Sneak peek for tonight: Lady GaGa has FIVE costume changes! We're over capacity and opening another area of the House of Blues. The crowd is singing along as Lady GaGa performs an acoustic version of "Poker Face." Kelly Clarkson soon! #grammytour
The final four nominations in each panel-voted category at the 2009 British Soap Awards have been revealed ahead of this Saturdays ceremony at BBC Television Centre.
Hollyoaks received a nomination in all categories including a Best Dramatic Performance nod for Carley Stenson in her role as Steph Cunningham.
Carly will battle it out against Eastenders favourite Patsy Palmer who returned to the BBC1 soap last April, Emmerdale's Jenna-Louise Coleman and Anita Carey from afternoon soap Doctors, one of its six overall nominations.
Best Exit will be a closely fought contest between Corrie's Rob-James Collier, Hollyoaks Matt Littler, Emmerdales Matt Healy and Doctors Michael McKell.
Eastenders Nina Wadia (Zainab Masood) is nominated for Best Newcomer and also alongside her on-screen husband Nitin Ganatra in the Best On-Screen Partnership.
Full nominations can be seen in the TV Forum.
Public voting has now closed however there is still an opportunity to vote for Best Soap on the official website.
Oh god im shocked they didnt actually claim the girl who "bit" her had swine flu and that Cheryl is having tests now as the tour is plunged into chaos, her role as a judge on X Factor now under threat and her solo career cancelled. :rolleyes:
*Ok the last bit about the solo career is just wishful thinking :kink:
Loving the sound of this! Really hope its picked up :D
Every year, hundreds of ideas for new TV series are pitched to the US networks. Of these, only a small proportion are picked up for pilots - and of these, fewer still then go on to become fully-fledged series. (Of course, only the fittest of these survive and become enduring TV hits). Over the next week Tube Talk is getting out its crystal ball, sifting through this year's many pilots and predicting which shows we could all be hooked on in six months' time.
First up on our list is the most promising proposition of all. Hype is building quickly around sci-fi thriller Flash Forward: ABC has already made the unprecedented step of airing short teasers during ad breaks, despite the pilot not yet being picked up to series. There are more than several Lost comparisons, and indeed, the show is being eyed as a long-term replacement for the JJ Abrams megaweight when it concludes next year.
What's it all about?
Simplified, Flash Forward focuses on the choas which ensues after everyone on the planet blacks out for two minutes and seventeen seconds. The blackout itself causes mass disaster: airplanes fall from the sky, cars are involved in collisions, etc. In total, 40 million or so people don't survive the mysterious event.
So, people are unconscious for the entire time?
Not quite. Here's where it gets interesting: during the blackout, survivors experience a flash forward in time, revealing a snippet of their own future or fate during the time loss. And the moment they witness is not random (as you might have guessed) - it's five months in the future, at 8pm on April 20, 2010.
Why that specific date?
Good question! And that very question is one of the pilot's central mysteries - along with what caused the blackout, of course. Was it a natural disaster? A man-made event? Or something much more sinister?
What happens to the survivors?
Naturally, they're somewhat disturbed by the experience. The FBI and other agencies begin to investigate the visions, attempting to link stories together by similar visions. The plot will then follow and explore the lives of the survivors.
Who came up with the idea for the show?
It's written by David S. Groyer, the man behind Batman Begins and Blade, and Brannon Braga (Enterprise, Threshold). Flash Forward is also loosely based on Robert J. Sawyer's 1999 novel of the same name.
Who's in it?
Sonya Walger, who has a key recurring role on Lost as Penny Widmore, will take the female lead. Christine Woods, Jack Davenport and Law & Order: CI's Courtney B. Vance have also been given roles.
Why should I watch it?
Billed as the new Lost (have we made that point already?), Flash Forward should fill any sci-fi drama shaped holes you may have in your life. Who wouldn't be at least a little intrigued by a show tackling fate vs. free will and destiny vs. chaos?
The ads, first reported in "The Hollywood Reporter" last week, and their companion website, TheMosaicCollective.com, didn't reveal much about the show. The first was of pallbearers carrying a coffin. The others were a bride and groom kissing, a surfer, a fetal sonogram and a group of kids leaving school.
The question each spot poses is a central theme of the series and one that ABC's marketers are running with as they attempt to position this series as its replacement for "Lost" once the show goes off the air next season.
In an interview last month, Suzanne Patmore-Gibbs, ABC's executive vice president of drama development, described the drama, which is based on Robert J. Sawyer's novel of the same name, as follows:
"You’re following a bunch of individuals in the first two minutes. Our FBI agent, played by Joseph Fiennes, appears to be in an FBI chase. You think he has a car crash. He has a flash of all sorts of things and he wakes up on the freeway and subsequently discovers that everybody else in the world has had a blackout that lasted the same amount of time. This resulted in a lot of devastation across the world. Everybody talks about their flash and they realize they were all dreaming of the same day -- which is a day in the future. You can identify with the different people and have that sense of global import -- we’re all in it together -- like 'Lost.'"
In addition to Fiennes, Sonya Walger ("Lost" and "Tell Me You Love Me"), Christine Woods, Courtney B. Vance and John Cho are part of the cast.
According to Zap2It.com, those investigating the event will have only "a huge mosaic of people's flash forwards" to go on, which is where the name of the website comes from. So far, the only message on the website, after users answer a question, is "The Mosaic Collective is dedicated to connecting the world one experience at a time."
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