Music Soup

“If I Were A Boy” by Beyonce arrives at the third step of the “Billboard Hot 100″ after just two individuals to TI. In fact all the bang we expected directly to the first position, but certainly we can not complain especially because it was able to undermine the summit Britney Spears with her “Womanizer.” Meanwhile our “Sasha Fierce” (alter-ego by Beyonce) is beginning to think about the next two individual excerpts from his new job record:

the choice fell on “Halo”, pop ballad that seems that the plan has a predominant role , And “Ego”, an uptempo R & B flavor oldschool.

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We were the first of the new tour of Carmen Consoli from Torino (Hiroshima Mon Amour) has begun to turn Italy during the 10 years from the disc “hysterical average,” just released in the “deluxe”. A tour throughout the animation turned over the rock cantantessa recreates the entire album of’98, along with some vintage classics as “Up to last”, “confused and Felice”, “Stanca For Nothing” and “Venus”.

Among the bis is then presented the novel “The poor man” written 10 years ago and in new packaging, plus an unexpected “What I hear” proposal with only trusted friend Massimo Roccaforte (its historical guitarist) and accepted by a riot.

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The brother of Pier, the singer of Simple Plan, has been through the difficult times facing and overcoming cancer. From the experience brutta the band has produced this song entitled “Save you” to describe the pain and the situation that affects many worldwide.

They wanted that the proceeds from the sale of the song went all the research against cancer, through a foundation created by the band.

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Soon at the new Fleurs 2 (Nov. 14) and Franco Battiato has already planned a new tour that the long end of January to April in the lead lap for Italy. First, however, held a concert in Rome for the FAI, Dec. 12 at the Teatro dell’Opera.

With him on tour we will be faithful Manlio Sgalambro vocals, piano Guaitoli Carlo, Angelo Privitera on keyboards and programming and Davide Ferrario to guitars.

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Eros Ramazzotti is one of the few Italian singers who can sell a few hundred thousand copies outside Italy, mainly in Central Europe and Latin America. Andrea Bocelli only manage to reach higher figures thanks to the success in collecting USA. His last album, the collection “E2″, which in Italy continues to occupy good positions in the standings, the world has managed to sell around 1,500,000 copies (including 550,000 in Italy).

Now, one year after, comes a new surprise: thanks to the Australian tour, which is recording “sold out”, the album entered the country in the ranking of kangaroos position # 38.

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Michelle Williams is the all really trying to see and be able to carve out a small space in music without it being continually turning to his former companions travel Beyonce and Kelly Rowland: this time at Yahoo Music’s Pepsi Smash of the former Destiny’s Child has performed in a review of the song Rihanna “Do not Stop The Music”, in addition to propose his new pieces.

This would be a real market strategy to seek to focus media attention on whether to publicize his latest CD work entitled “Unexpected”, which was recently extracted a second individual who called “The Greatest” (you can see the video here) not particularly convincing.

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In July, there had announced the return of Grace Jones and now, with a few days late compared with the first releases, finally comes the new album “Hurricane”, leaving in our stores Nov. 7. The preview of the songs has been entrusted to Capital Radio that will hear Monday afternoon for the whole week. Meanwhile it emerged from a po ‘video of the first single “Corporate Cannibal” that there had still shown, can be found after the jump.

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Strong success of sales of their latest album Death Magnetic that, even among you readers, has sparked many comments and discussions, Metallica are preparing for their world tour. The European tour will be accomapagnati from Lamb of God and Mastodon, which will open the concert band.

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The Little Joy is the band that Fabrizio Moretti has put up with Rodrigo Amarante Bink Shapiro and when it is paused by The Strokes. Moretti and Rodrigo Amarante, Brazilian and member of the group indie-rock Los Hermanos, were known to a Portuguese festival and decided to work together after it has collaborated with Devendra Banhart. Bink Shapiro, however, from what I understand, is the new flame of the drummer.

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That which we present in high is the new cover of the new album of Britney Spears entitled “Circus”, leaving Dec. 2. What can we say? Surely the feeling of “purity” that this photo released opposes the very dimension “transgressive” the first single “Womanizer” which we had to think quite a concept.

Furthermore, this graphic “circus” used to promote the new disc seems to have triggered networking on all the forums dedicated to the artist of the usual diatribes “Britney Spears vs. Christina Aguilera” where you point the finger at the singer of “Toxic”, rea that he had “copied” the size style “circus” used by “Xtina” on her previous work “Back To Basics.

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