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 Lil
Wayne
With the highest weekly sales figure
since 2005, Lil Wayne crashes in at No. 1 on The Billboard
200 with "Tha Carter III. As reported yesterday,
the Cash Money/Universal set moved just over 1 million
copies in the United States, according to Nielsen
SoundScan, the first time the six-figure threshold
was crossed since 50 Cent's "The Massacre"
in March 2005.
Dave
Mathews Band
The Dave Matthews Band, by nature, does a big show.
But for the seventh show of its North American summer
tour, Mother Nature added even more drama to the mix.
With flashes of
lightning that rivaled the DMB's own opulent light
show -- spurring spontaneous fan reactions that had
nothing to do with the group's onstage performance
-- and plenty of thunder and rain, the weather added
a bit more spectacle to the proceedings. But that
didn't dampen the spirits of the Daveheads, among
the most stalwart fans in all of rock, and Matthews
and company responded in kind, with a two-hour and
45-minute evening of long jams and sing-along favorites
that made good on his following's fervor.
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Happy
Baby
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Journey
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Bach
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Jack
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Frank
Sinatra
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Heart
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Montreaux
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Vivaldi
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Duffy
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Roberta
Duchak
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Journey
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Cars
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The Jonas Brothers
For
British tweens right now, "well lush"
(rough translation: "My, what an attractive
young man") is perhaps the ultimate compliment.
Trouble is, at a time when much of the old British
pop infrastructure ("Top of the Pops,"
Saturday morning kids' TV, Smash Hits magazine)
has been axed, there's been a distinct lack
of pop hunks upon whom to bestow the epithet.
Which is why much of Avril Lavigne's crowd of
20,000-odd primped-up "punk" princesses
are reacting to the opening band like they've
just taken hormones.
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Adele
Laurie Blue Adkins
At first viewing, 19-year-old Adele Laurie Blue
Adkins' performance last August on popular U.K.
music program "Later... With Jools Holland"
is the picture of composure and grace. Only
after repeated viewings can a viewer catch the
occasional glances of awe and panic in the young
woman's eyes, as well as the palpable sense
of relief as she finishes the song to loud applause.
Her slightly jangled nerves are understandable;
after all, how many teenagers would be cool
and collected sharing a stage with Björk
and Paul McCartney, let alone a teenager who
had just signed a record deal a few months before?
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