It’s been an eventful trip to the UK for Mr. and Mrs. Carter. While the Mrs. busy rocking Glastonbury the Mr. was behind the scenes sorting out deals British music industry A-Listers. One of Jay-Z’s top priorities was reportedly talks with UK chart topper Adele.
According to a source for The Sun: “He’s keen to work with her, whether it’s producing or writing together. She was a huge hit in the States and he believes they could make a massive record together.” Reportedly at their meeting she charmed him so this collabo is likely a go.
If Jay-Z’s massive hits with singer Alicia Keys or even his own wife, Beyonce, are any indication of how big an Adele/Jay-Z collabo we may be in for an inescapable pop hit that we may not want to escape from.
What do Beyonce fans get the girl that has everything? Well, despite album leaks and bad reviews they get Beyonce’s fourth studio album, 4 to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard charts next week, making it her fourth No. 1 solo album.
By next week Beyonce may sell 300,000 copies of her latest release. That may not sound like much but considering how few albums people are buying these days and the fact that many of us have heard the entire album online already I think Lady Bey’s still doing pretty good. Still according to Nielsen SoundScan the first week sales for 2008′s I Am… Sasha Fierce were 482,000 and 541,000 for 2006′s B’Day.
‘Run the World (Girls),’ has so far peaked at No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold 424,000 downloads in the U.S., falling short of the lead single type of chart-topping hit Bey Bey had with ‘If I Were a Boy’ and ‘Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)’. Even the super loyal Beyonce stans were disappointed by that single.
Could this be marking a decline for the favored singer who managed to be the top R&B/Pop singer in the hearts and minds of many, even at the times when she didn’t have an album out? What do you think?
Been meaning to put this track up for a minute now… ‘Playing House’ is from Active Child’s forthcoming debut album You Are All I See available August 23rd on Vagrant Records. I be diggin this!
Björk commissioned several custom instruments for the shows surrounding the release of ‘Biophilia’ – one is a hybrid gamelan celeste; the original steel bars of a vintage orchestral celeste were replaced with bronze tonebars hand-made by UK cymbalsmith Matt Nolan, and the instrument was rebuilt and MIDIfied by Iceland’s top organ-maker, Björgvin Tòmasson. This is a 2-minute brief montage of the making of the ‘Gameleste’. I wish I had Bjork’s OG status and could make some next hybrid instruments for myself.
New illustrated visual offering for ‘Tao Te Ching’ which featured on the extremely dope ‘Clouds’ longplayer which has been getting serious replay pon the ipod for the last few months.
According to SoulUK this video of Alice Russell performing a new track called ‘Breakdown’ is a couple months old – how did I (we) let this one slip me by? Could ‘Breakdown’ symbolise hope that after three long years we’ll finally be getting a follow up to Russell’s sensational Pot of Gold? I sincerely hope so – not many can match this woman’s talent, her voice is transcendent.
‘Game Over’ is the first track taken off Daley forthcoming mixtape Those Who Wait, due out mid-July. I was blown away by Daley’s when I saw him live last year – he has without question one of the best voices I’ve heard in a very, very long time. I’m looking forward to hearing that mixtape.
Highly recommend you keep your eyes/ears on this dude in the coming months.
