If you’re curious to hear what Johnny Depp sounds like as Sondheim’s Demon Barber of Fleet Street, here’s your opportunity - full songs from the upcoming Sweeney Todd film are now streaming on the movie’s website. The first critics’ screening apparently went really well with some hailing the flick as brilliant. So, if wrapping your mind around a musical Depp is difficult, you may want check out Sweeney’s songs a bit early.
Watch your back, Tay Zonday - Radiohead are getting in on the YouTube action! The band have recently posted on YouTube two videos from their Thumbs Down webcast from last month. If you saw the webcast, the two videos for “Bodysnatchers” and “Jigsaw Falling Into Place” won’t necessarily be new to you (but perhaps you just can’t get enough of Thom Yorke in a bicycle helmet). It will be interesting to see if the band continues to upload new content to the site.
Like a shot and beer chaser, Hypeful is always keen on the boozey combo of Pete Doherty and Amy Winehouse. Babyshambles brought their first arena tour to a close in Glasgow over the weekend and Doherty used the opportunity to give Winehouse a shout-out. Doherty dedicated the song “Albion” to Winehouse saying, “She is a really nice girl and this song is for her. Keep the chin up”. After one of Winehouse’s shows last week, her dad allegedly assaulted Doherty for being a bad influence on his daughter. So, it seems gentleman Pete decided to return the hit with a hit of his own - “Albion”. Check out the video below.
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SoundScan has announced that the High School Musical 2 soundtrack (featuring Rolling Stone cover boy Zac Efron) is the highest-selling album of 2007. Having only sold 2.3 million copies, the sequel soundtrack also set the notable record for lowest number of copies sold by the year’s best-selling album (slightly comforting news if you’re not a record exec or tween). Each year since 2004 the best-selling album’s final tally has steadily declined and the dubious distinction of lowest-achieving chart topper previously belonged to (you guessed it) - last year’s High School Musical soundtrack, which sold 3.7 million copies. With High School Musical 3 set for 2008, expect Kanye West to challenge Efron for chart dominance next year.
Could this clip from The Soup be an eerie prediction of the next two years’ chart-toppers?
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