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Susan Boyle reaches No 1 with record-breaking debut album

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:48:55 +0000

Britain's Got Talent star makes UK chart history with highest ever first-week sales for a debut album A 48-year-old Scottish church volunteer has trumped Arctic Monkeys and Leona Lewis – not to mention U2 and Michael Jackson – with record-breaking sales of her first LP. Susan Boyle's I Dreamed a Dream topped the charts with the biggest first-week sales for a debut album in UK history. I Dreamed a Dream, which is mostly a collection of covers, soldmore than 410,000 copies in the UK, according to ...

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Susan Boyle to challenge Arctic Monkeys for fastest-selling UK debut album ever

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:54:30 +0000

'I Dreamed A Dream' also in the running for the fastest-selling UK album of 2009 > >

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This Week’s UK Charts for November 29

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:20:09 +0000

Former Britain’s Got Talent sensation Susan Boyle has recorded the fastest selling debut album ever to top the charts this week. The Scottish singer sold 410,000 copies of her new album, beating the record held by Leona Lewis, who had previously surpassed Arctic Monkeys‘ 2005 debut ...

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Arctic Monkeys: newcomers of the decade

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:49:51 +0000

At the turn of the decade, they were still at school; now they're among the world's biggest bands When Arctic Monkeys' first single went to No 1 in 2005, everyone had a bash at trying to define them. Alex Turner was crowned the coolest person in the world and the young four-piece were variously described as the sound of young Sheffield, Yorkshire's answer to the Streets, and the first internet superstars. Barely four years later and these portrayals seem myopically quaint. The Monkeys have made ...

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Arctic Monkeys @ SECC, 24 Nov

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:35:00 +0000

Eagles of Death Metal’s sound could be drawn in broad strokes from image alone. Moustaches, aviators, flying-V posing and other iconography cribbed from the rock hall of fame indicate their ballsy, fret-shredding rawk as accurately as the solos trade at length between guitarists, banter ...

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NME's top 50 albums of the decade: how high did they get in the charts? Plus original reviews

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:39:26 +0000

The NME has announced its choice of best albums of the noughties, with Is this it at the top. Find out how the decade's best compare in the charts - and read the original Guardian reviews So, the NME's writers and artists' choice catalogue of the noughties has the Strokes at the top of a list of the best albums of the decade , beating British indie stars the Libertines into second place earlier this week. Pete Doherty and Carl Barat's former band's debut album Up the Bracket is high up in the ...

Largehearted Boy found this 8 days ago on guardian.co.uk

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Foo Fighters: Them Crooked Vultures Plotting Quick Second Album

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:56:07 +0000

Today (Nov. 20) appears to be the day when bands prematurely discuss a forthcoming album. The Arctic Monkeys are already discussing their fourth record, and now Them Crooked Vultures, whose debut is not even a month old, have been talking about their second release. "I felt we've ...

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Albums of the decade No 2: Radiohead - Kid A

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:32:08 +0000

28 Nov 2009: Graeme Thomson: Wrestling with post-millennial tension, Kid A was a musical meditation on paranoia, premonitions and profound beauty

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Arctic Monkeys: Arctic Monkeys Already Planning Fourth Album

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:46:13 +0000

The dust has barely settled on Humbug and already the Arctic Monkeys are talking about recording a new album. The band has been in the U.K. this week, where it performed some of its biggest shows to date, including a huge sell-out performance at the cavernous Wembley Arena. "The ...

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Arctic Monkeys Planning New Album

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:47:42 +0000

Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders has revealed the band have already begun working on ideas for a follow-up to this year’s album ‘Humbug‘. Speaking to BBC6 Music, Helders said: “We’re already talking about when we can record again, but I still enjoy being on tour ...

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