Friday, November 30, 2007

[MP3] Ashlee Simpson- "Outta My Head"

[MP3] Ashlee Simpson- "Outta My Head (Ay Ya Ya)"
A Medium Quality version of the Ashlee Simpson's new song with no tags has leaked. You can now enjoy a lower quality version without tags until the song is released this December 11th on iTunes. I'm feeling this song a ton! It's freakin' great.

Kellie Pickler Performs New Single @ Regis & Kelly


Kellie Pickler has started promoting her new single, "Things That Never Cross A Man's Mind". The third official single from her widely successful debut album, "Small Town Girl". Kellie performed the song two days ago Live at Regis & Kelly in the Bahamas. Great performance, great song. Check it out.

Ashlee Simpson- "Outta My Head" AOL First Listen

It's released!!! Ashlee Simpson's new single, "Outta My Head (Ay Ya Ya)", has been released via AOL Music today! The song, clearly produced by Timbaland, is a dance floor hit, it's a great song with a different sound. I love the song, I see it topping the charts in no time! CLICK HERE to take a listen. Enjoy. [leave comments!]

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Avril Lavigne Live Performances @ Roxy Theatre

"Nobody's Home"

Avril Lavigne
- Roxy Theatre Live Performances -

Avril Lavigne, who was recently named World's Best Selling Pop/Rock Female Artist by the 2007 World Music Awards, performed various songs from all her albums this past October at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles, California. It was a concert taped exclusively for MSN Music, if you'd like to see the full concert, click here. I am also posting two of my favorite performances plus the link to her individual performances brought to us by Youtube user, Toatsiess. This is amazing! Great concert, enjoy.

"Innocence"

Carrie Underwood @ Rockefeller Center Christmas


Introduced by hosts, Ashley Tisdale and Nick Lachey, Carrie Underwood sang a holiday classic, "Do You Hear What I Hear?". Song that can be found on the album, "Hear Something Country Christmas", in stores now. Like always, Carrie did a great job, check it out.

Celine Dion at '07's Rockefeller Center Christmas


As I mentioned, Celine Dion was also a performer at last night's Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree light up in New York City. She sang her newest single, "Taking Chances". Enjoy.

Ashley Tisdale Performs at Rockefeller Center


Last night, was the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree light up ceremony. Many singers took part as performers including Carrie Underwood, Josh Groban, Celine Dion, Taylor Swift, Natasha Bedingfield, and Ashley Tisdale. The High School Musical star performed "Last Christmas" in front of thousands of tourists who were part of this annual ceremony. Check out the video.

Carol's Daughter Presents Heather Kuzmich

As we saw on an earlier episode of America's Next Top Model, Heather was chosen to be part of a photoshoot for Carol's Daugther directed by Mary J. Blige. Carol's Daughter posted the picture they chose of Heather and ran a story about it. Here it is, as ALWAYS, Heather looks damn great. I'm looking forward to seeing more of this girl in the future.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

America's Next Top Model: 9th Eliminated Model

HEATHER! I'll miss that chick. Yes, Heather was eliminated on this week's episode. It only makes me think... "how in the world does Tyra Banks choose Bianca or Saleisha over Heather?" Anyway, she will have a great post-model career and it might even be a good thing that she did not win. The week's challenge was Go-Sees, Bianca won... but not because she was the best, but because Chantal was disqualified for being late, she would've won hands down. Jenah and Heather were also DQd. for coming in late. Then, during the shoot, the girls had to stand out in front of a bunch of dancing chinese lions and dragons, it was neat. Bianca had the worst photo, her face was dead! Saleisha for the first time shot a picture I actually liked, Jenah and Chantal had good pictures too, but as usual, the best picture came from Heather - she looked effin' great. Heather, was laso announced for the 8th and final week as the CoverGirl of the Week, viewer's loved her, and I'm sure to ANTM's ratings will drop dramatically from this show on. My favorites are gone, I've lost interest on this show, but I will continue to watch, just to update. (Thank God there's just two episodes left for this to end). I'm now hoping Chantal wins... but then again, knowing Tyra's ways, Saleisha (Mushroom Head) might win this whole damn thing - Tyra just sucks at choosing the winner, in 8 cycles, she has not crowned a good, worthy winner. Eh, four girls remain, and they're shooting at the Great Wall of China next week. Bianca best go home. Here's last week's shoot, CoverGirl Queen Collection.
PS. I say that from Cycle 10 on, the viewer's are the responsible ones for choosing America's Next Top Model, by voting, much like American Idol. I think it would be much fair.


Bianca & Chantal

Heather & Jenah

Lisa (last week's eliminated model) & Saleisha

Official Billboard 200 Chart Report

After seven weeks on the chart, Josh Groban's holiday set "Noel" finally overtakes The Billboard 200 at No. 1. The 143/Reprise album ascends 2-1, selling 405,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. The 81% increase was fuled in part by his surprise appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" last week. "Noel" is the first Christmas-themed set to top the chart since Kenny G's 1994 album "Miracles," and the 405,000 units marks Groban's best sales week ever. Alicia Keys' "As I Am" (J) flip-flops with "Noel," slipping 1-2 with a 53% sales decrease to 349,000.
The hits compilation "Now 26" climbs a notch 4-3 with 234,000. Garth Brooks' "The Ultimate Hits" (Pearl) moves up 5-4 with 192,000 (-6%).
The Eagles' "Long Road Out of Eden" (Eagles Recording Co.) follows suit, ascending 6-5 with 184,000 (-7%). The soundtrack to Disney's "High School Musical 2" rockets up 14-6 with a 130% sales increase to 183,000; with that, the set surpasses Daughtry's self-titled set as the top selling album in 2007.

Carrie Underwood's "Carnival Ride" (Arista Nashville) climbs 9-7 with 141,000 and a 25% sales bump, while Celine Dion's Columbia album "Taking Chances" falls 3-8 following a 40% sales decrease to 128,000.


Inching up 10-9, Chris Brown's "Exclusive" (Jive) sells 121,000 (+10%). Jordin Sparks, who was crowned the winner on "American Idol" earlier this year, starts at No. 10 with her self-titled 19 Recordings/Jive set, moving 119,000. It is the lowest start and smallest sales debut for any of the show's winners on the tally.

Christina Aguilera on Marie Claire


A very pregnant Christina Aguilera appears completely nude on the new January 2008 issue of Marie Claire magazine. Personally, I think these pictures are absolutely amazing, she looks flawless... they're just great. I'm loving them. Can't wait to see more.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Groban Shines, Jordin Tanks


According to the Hits Daily Double's album sales chart for this week, Josh Groban's christmas album, "Noel", will take the #1 spot for the first time since its debut seven weeks ago, selling well over 400,000 copies! Most of its sales bump comes from not only Black Friday, but also his appearance on Oprah last week. Now, Alicia Keys falls to #2 after a 53% sales drop to about 330,000 copies of "As I Am" - enough to shoot her total album sales over the one million mark in just two weeks. The High School Musical 2 soundtrack had an amazing sales increase of 141%, enough to bring the album back up into the top 5, selling another 190,000 copies this week. Carrie Underwood's "Carnival Ride" climbs 9-7 after a 19% sales increase to another 140,000 copies sold - this should also bring Underwood's numbers to over one million albums sold. Another Platinum hit for her. Chris Brown's "Exclusive" climbs 10-8 with a 18% sales bump to 120,000 copies and American Idol winner Jordin Sparks' self-titled debut album debuts in a very dissapointing #9 spot selling 120,000 copies as well - this makes Jordin the worst debut number for any American Idol winner. Ouch! A full list of numbers will be released tomorrow (Wednesday) night.

New Ashlee Simpson Site Update + Pictures

Ashlee Simpson's official website [ashleesimpsonmusic.com] has been updated, and with the update, we've got a new ad for her new single, "Outta My Head (Ay Ya Ya)", available December 11th on iTunes.

Simple Plan- "When I'm Gone" Video Sneek Peak


Canadian pop/rock group, Simple Plan, are making a come-back to the music world by releasing their new single in over three years called "When I'm Gone". The song, as I said before, is great. Probably one of the group's best ones yet... however, the music video looks like it's not as good as it should be judging by the 40-second preiew. Hopefully I'm wrong, and we'll see a lot more when the full version is released. For now, check out the sneek peak. Enjoy.

Alicia Keys Live at The Tyra Banks Show


Alicia Keys must be extremely happy lately, not only has she topped 13 Billboard charts this week, but she is also looking at a second week on top of the Billboard 200! Talk about success! Yesterday, the singer appeared as a guest on the Tyra Banks Show where she gave an interview and sang her new single "Like You'll Never See Me Again". Great song, great performance. Enjoy.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

'Enchanted' Weekend Box Office

Walt Disney's newest film, Enchanted, has opened up the Box Office Report this week at #1 grossing over 35 million dollars, not bad at all. The film has also helped Carrie Underwood's single "Ever Ever After" to get more attention, although the song can't be bought by itself of iTunes... which is shame because it was sure to be another top 10 hit for her. But anyway, back to movies, Chris Brown's This Christmas opened at #2 taking in $18 million and Beowulf drops to #3 with $16 million. An ok week overall. To check out the top 75 movies this weekend, click here.

Avril Lavigne Photo From Star Academy

As we know, Avril Lavigne was part of Star Academy a while ago, and during her visit, she was shot what seems to be a random photo behind stage. She looks great, but I think it's time for her to loose the pink on her hair. Not that it doesn't look good on her, it's that too many girls are starting to go out with a pink strip on their hair as well (very much like they did when Avril used to wear ties). Haha. Great picture anyway.

New Ashlee Simpson Promo

A new picture has surfaced from Ashlee Simpson's "Color Outside The Lines" album photoshoot. Thanks to Ashlee-star.com

Beyoncé's Cover on Harper's Bazaar

Looking great, as usual.

Fergie on Allure

Another gorgeous woman, Fergie is on the new December cover of Allure magazine, in stores now. I will post scans as soon as I get them.

Alicia Keys on the Cover of Entertainment Weekly

Get ready for a line of magazine cover updates! This one comes from R&B singer Alicia Keys who appears looking mighty good on the new cover of EW after having debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 charts selling over 740,000 copies of her album, "As I Am". She's one gorgeous, beautiful woman.

Carrie Underwood- EW's Entertainer of the Year

2007'S MOST POPULAR: CARRIE UNDERWOODFaith Hill was only kidding, folks, when she feigned outrage at Carrie Underwood's win at the 2006 CMA Awards, but viewers may've been truly shocked by the now-24-year-old's meteoric rise. In 2007, Underwood further solidified her country bona fides with a confident, twangy No. 1 album, Carnival Ride, that vindicated all the promise and possibility American Idol aspires to offer. —Jeff Labreque

CARRIE UNDERWOOD'S 2007

Feb. 11
Underwood performs live at the 49th Grammy Awards, singing Bob Wills' ''San Antonio Rose,'' and takes home two trophies, including the award for Best New Artist.

March 8
Underwood returns to the show that made her famous, singing her newest single, ''Wasted,'' to 28 million viewers on American Idol.

March 24
With Super Bowl-winning quarterback Peyton Manning as host, Underwood makes her first appearance on Saturday Night Live.

April 16
The video for Underwood's hit ''Before He Cheats'' wins three CMT Music Awards, including Video of the Year.

April 25
On a special episode of American Idol titled ''Idol Gives Back,'' Underwood releases a music video of the Pretenders' ''I'll Stand by You,'' chronicling her trip to Africa. iTunes makes her cover available for download, and the song becomes the first exclusively digital single to crash Billboard's top 10.

May 15
Escorted by Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, Underwood performs at the Academy of Country Music Awards and wins three trophies, including Album of the Year for the sextuple-platinum Some Hearts.

May 23
Underwood returns for the Idol finale, where she sings her version of ''I'll Stand by You'' live, and receives special recognition from producer Clive Davis for selling more than 6 million albums in the United States.

June 26
For the second time in three years, PETA names Underwood the World's Sexiest Vegetarian Woman.

Oct. 23
Underwood releases her second album, Carnival Ride, and performs in Times Square for Good Morning America. The album debuts at No. 1 and sells 527,000 copies that week.

Nov. 7
''Before He Cheats'' is the Single of the Year, and Underwood is named Female Vocalist of the Year at the 41st Annual CMA Awards.

Nov. 18
Underwood presents at the 35th annual American Music Awards and, in the Country category, takes home the trophies for Favorite Female Artist and Favorite Album.

Nov. 20
The day before Disney's Enchanted opens in theaters, Underwood's featured song ''Ever, Ever After'' is released on the film's soundtrack.

Carrie is the only country artist on the list and one of only four musicians!

Saturday, November 24, 2007

50,000? Thank You!

I could not be any happier right now, I have just checked the blog's visits meter, and I noticed that the blog's page views have gone over 50,000! I never thought it could go that high when I first opened the blog six months ago, I can't thank the visitors enough, especially those who are kind enough to leave comments ocasionally and keep coming back as much as they can, you know who you are! You are a huge part of this blog! Thank you! :D

Friday, November 23, 2007

Ashlee Simpson Pushes Single Release Date Up

After pushing back several times the release date of her upcoming single and album, Ashlee Simpson has now decided to push the release of her single up! Yeah, Ashlee will now release the Timbaland-produced track, "Out of My Head" this December 11th. I guess we won't have to wait so long to hear this single. Her album, "Color Outside the Lines" is still rumoured to be released on March. We'll see what happens.

Natasha Bedingfield- Live on The Today Show

English singer, Natasha Bedingfield has begun promoting her widely successful U.S. single, "Love Like This" - lead single from her upcoming January 15th release, "Pocket Full of Sunshine". She performed the song live with Sean Kingston last Wednesday on the Today Show. Enjoy.



Also, the album will include tracks from her latest European album, "N.B.", as well as new ones she recorded especially for this American album release.

Happy Thanksgiving!

A little late, but hey, I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I, like always, will like to thank all my loyal visitors, you're the best! :)

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

America's Next Top Model: 8th Eliminated Model

In Shanghai, China now! The remaining six girls had to learn to do karate poses of some sort, while being held up in the air, Bianca refused to do the challenge because she's afraid of heights, it was Heather who killed the challenge and won a shopping spree. Heather also won CoverGirl of the Week for the seventh week in a row now. Unfortunately, during their CoverGirl commercial shoot, Heather sturuggled and did the worse overall job of them all, the judges said none of the girls did that much of a good job on the commercial, however, the ad picture was a whole different story. Lisa, who also struggled with the commercial had the strongest picture IMO, followed by Heather's and Bianca's pictures. Saleisha and Jenah did Ok, but Chantal did nicely on both commercial and ad picture. In the end, Chantal was the first to be called, while Lisa and Heather (my two faves) resulted in the bottom two. Lisa is now gone from China, leaving five girls left standing in the competition. Next week is go-sees, and with five girls left, the competition is sure to get heated up! While we wait another week, here is last week's photoshoot, Blazing Cars in the Desert - one of any season's greatest.
Ambreal- (Last week's eliminated model)

Bianca & Chantal

Heather & Jenah

Lisa & Saleisha

Avril Lavigne at Dancing With The Stars

"Hot"

Avril Lavigne has recently performed her newest single, "Hot", at Dancing With The Stars. It's great that Avril has begun promoting this single! She sounds great, I liked the performance a lot. But that wasn't it, she also sang her hit debut song, "Complicated", while two contestants danced to the song. Interesting dance moves and damn entertaining. I love watching her performn "Complicated" these days. Check out the performances.
"Complicated"

Chingy Ft. Amerie- "Fly Like Me" Music Video



Rapper Chingy is back with "Fly Like Me", the first single from his upcoming fourth album, "Hate It or Love It", to be released December 18th. I doubt Chingy will have the success he once had with his debut album, "Jackpot" in 2003, but this single might go far. We'll see, enjoy.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

The Best Damn Blog and Xmas Need YOUR Help

Yes indeed, I am looking for people who can help me out with the best damn Christmas-inspired heading banner for the blog, that's right! Anyone can send in entries, and I will be choosing the best banner amongst all entries and getting it up on Wednesday, November 28th to kick off the Holidays season! It's time to show the world your photoshop skills, so get ready.

-I'm looking for a banner with measurements of : 750 Wide X 250 Height
-Obviously, it has to be Christmas-y. By that, I mean that it must have either Christmas trees, Christmas ornaments, snow flakes, or whatever your imagination and holiday spirit wants to add.
-The banner does not necessarily have to have any celebrities, but if choose to add any, feel free to use YOUR favorite celebs.
-Be creative!
-You must add "The Best Damn Blog" text to it, and make it visible and readable.
-You must also add YOUR name and/or signature to it, so the world can recognize your work.
-Finally, add the text "Happy Holidays" somewhere visible.
-I will be accepting entries from today, 'til Wednesday, November 28th at 6 P.M. (U.S.EST Time)
-SEND ALL YOUR ENTRIES TO bestdamnblog@gmail.com
-Subject: Blog Banner Entry

All entries will be widely appreciated, and those that do not get chosen, will be posted up on the site and on the blog's MySpace page for everyone to see.

Now, I will like to thank all those who choose to participate, don't forget, the email address where I will receive entries is bestdamnblog@gmail.com - I will reply and let you know I have received your banner. Show the world what you've got!

Questions? Either leave me an email: bestdamnblog@gmail.com or use the cbox found on the right or this post's comment box below.

-Gabe

Monday, November 19, 2007

Fergie- "Fergalicious & Clumsy" - Live @ AMAs



Another great one, Fergie opened up the '07 American Music Awards, where she performed a mdely of some of her biggest hits. Nice performance, enjoy.

Avril Lavigne- "Hot" Live @ American Music Awards



Avril Lavigne has begun promoting her single, "Hot", in the U.S. And although she did a great job at the American Music Awards last night, I thought she could had done something extra, something especial, just something to make the performance stand out. But, the performance was good nonetheless. Enjoy.

Sugarland and Beyoncé- "Irreplaceable" @ AMAs



I'm not kidding when I say that this was the greatest award show of the year, after the Grammys. Country duo Sugarland performed a country remix of Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable", Beyoncé was also part of the performance, this was awesome, one of my faves.

Rihanna- "Umbrella/Hate That I Love You" @ AMAs



Rihanna was also amongst the list of performers at the American Music Awards, where she sang hit #1 monster single "Umbrella" and her most recent, "Hate That I Love You" with Ne-Yo. It was simply great, check it out.

Celine Dion- "Taking Chances" Live @ AMAs



Another great one, Celine Dion is back and performed her most recent hit single, "Taking Chances" at the American Music Awards. Great energy, great look, great performance. Enjoy.

Alicia Keys- "No One" Live @ AMAs



Alicia Keys can sure sing her heart out and give a strong performance everytime she's on stage. She proved she's one of today's greatest singers by performing like she never has last night at the 2007 American Music Awards,enjoy the performance.

Nicole Scherzinger- "Baby Love" Live @ AMAs



Nicole Scherzinger keeps trying to promote her failed single, "Baby Love". She sang a rough version of the single last night with Will.I.Am, her vocals were bad, it would've been better for her to lip synch, but that wasn't the case, her voice gave up on her a couple of times, and it was easily heard, check it out.

Jonas Brothers- "SOS" Live @ AMAs


The Jonas Brothers performed their hit, "SOS" last night at the 2007 American Music Awards. Yes, you can see Joe Jonas tripped and fell, it's hilarious, but he recovered nicely. The performance was good overall, and as you will see, they had 13 year-old girls going wild. Enjoy.

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Idols Daughtry and Underwood= AMAs Big Winners

Turns out that tonight's biggest winners at the 2007 ceremony for one of the three major music award shows, the American Music Awards, are American Idol alumns, Carrie Underwood and Chris Daughtry, who won three awards each. That's right, Carrie took home awards for Favorite Female Country Artist, Favorite Country Album for "Some Hearts", and the T-Mobile Text-In Award (Artist of the Year). While Daughtry won Favorite Pop/Rock Album for "Daughtry", Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist, and Favorite Breathrough Artist. Other winners include Justin Timberlake, Rascal Flatts, Fergie, Akon, and Beyoncé, who was presented with an honorary International Artist Award. If you want a full list of winners, click here. Also, I will post the performances from tonight's show in coming days, there were some great ones I have to post... including Kellie Pickler and Jordin Sparks dancing the "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" up on stage. Hilarious! It was a great show overall.

2007 American Music Awards - Tonight!

Don't forget to catch the 2007 American Music Awards ceremony tonight on ABC. Some of the performers include Fergie, Avril Lavigne, Rihanna, Daughtry, Jonas Brothers, Nicole Scherzinger, Alicia Keys, Maroon 5, and others. Check back later for a list of winners.

Shakira Songs from Love in the Time of Cholera

Here are the MP3s from the two songs heard on Love in the Time of Cholera sang by Shakira. The songs are simply great, and although a lot of you won't understand them, I'm sure you will like them. Enjoy.

Weekend Box Office Report

Yes, it was another slow week, far from those huge summer films like Spider Man 3, Harry Potter, Transformers, Shrek, and others. This weekend, the #1 spot went to Beowulf, an animated epic film adapted from the Old English heroic epic poem of anonymous authorship. The cast of the #1 film which grossed over $28 million, includes Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, and Angelina Jolie. At #2, Bee Movie holds on steadily, while adding another $13 million to its $93 million box office gross total so far, not bad. American Gangster falls to #3 collecting another $13 million, now they stand at $100 million total. Other movies are quite boring and not worth mentioning, other than Love in the Time of Cholera which opened at #10 with a dissapointing $1 million collected, ouch. I honestly can't wait 'til next summer to see these numbers rise once again.