This Day in Music…November 28

I meant to post this yesterday:

Steve Barnett’s Columbia Records and Susan Boyle have a lot to be thankful for this weekend. And that goes for you two, Adam Lambert and Lady Gaga.

Lambert‘s For Your Entertainment looks like a lock for #2 with between 210-230k.

Hits Daily Double

In other music news:

Violence and theft. Not words one would normally associate with Leona Lewis, the squeaky-clean winner of “The X Factor,” who went on to stunning worldwide success with her debut album, “Spirit.”

While the promotional campaign for Lewis’ debut was hitch-free, the setup for its follow-up, “Echo” — released November 16 in the United Kingdom on Cowell’s Syco Music and a day later in the United States on J — has been anything but smooth.

and:

Lewis’ “Spirit” sold 6.5 million copies worldwide (according to Sony), including 1.6 million in the United States (according to Nielsen SoundScan) and 2.8 million in the United Kingdom (according to the Official Charts Co.). It also earned Lewis three nominations at the Grammy Awards and four at the BRITs.

Reuters

Let’s compare opening weeks for U.S. sales:

Week 01 04-15-08: 1 LEWIS*LEONA SPIRIT 204841 999 537 205390

Week 01 11-24-09: 13 LEWIS*LEONA ECHO 67260 999 40 67300

…but how Susan Boyle blew Adam out of the water.

Susan Boyle was a finalist on American Idol?

Sophomore slump?

Quite possibly, at least in the U.S.

A little late news:

In a memorable anti-piracy public service announcement aimed at consumers, Jack Black had a simple message: “Don’t be a douche.”

By filing a slew of lawsuits against consumers, diskeries were intimidating but harmed the industry’s image. “The record companies collectively did enough stupid stuff to make themselves look like the bad guys,” says Peter Asher, a music exec, producer and manager and one half of the 1960s duo Peter and Gordon.

Variety

And another…

While advertisers have long been offering up free music on their websites as a way to make their brands sound cooler to consumers, they may not have known if the right shoppers were listening.

For example, a clothing brand could create a list of tunes for girls in their teens who like “Twilight,” or men who play videogames, read comicbooks and eat a lot of fast food. When searching for songs, users would be directed to music channels presented by brands with similar sensibilities. The marketer would pay record labels for those songs whenever they get streamed or downloaded.

Variety

Gee, there are STILL tickets available for both of David Cook’s shows at Pechanga Resort & Casino on December 30th & 31st.

Remember this?

Friday, October 23, 2009 – 18:36 Scott:
Just booked my NYE package at Pechanga. I would advise anyone who’s considering going to book now. The package is expensive but it includes 2 tickets and a deluxe room – this is a 4 diamond resort. The night before is dirt cheap – $129 but you then buy your concert tickets separately (not in a package). The reservations clerk said these are going to go fast… NYE always sells out and the Cook calls are already pouring in. The night before will be sold out even sooner because it’s such a good room deal. This is a very big deal for David (and us!) – here’s the website’s brief description of the venue:

Woohoo, 2400 seats over 2 days. David hould have no problem filling this here in Southern California. Temecula is equi-distant to San Diego. Combined with metro LA that’s 20 million people.

And to think, this is what roughly 19.998 million of those people in SoCal will be missing:

I encourage everyone to watch the entire video in order to appreciate Cook’s “star turn” when he goes into the audience. Turn the sound down if necessary — he does yell a lot — but by all means, hang in there till the bitter end.