MUSIC NEWS: TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2016
JUSTIN BIEBER - SINGLES CHART
For the first time in 10 weeks, Adele's ``Hello'' is not the number-one song in the nation. Canadian mega-pop star Justin Bieber's ``Sorry'' takes over the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. ``Sorry'' ties a record for most weeks at number two before hitting number one. OutKast's ``The Way You Move'' was stuck at number two for eight weeks in 2003 and
2004 before taking over the top spot. It was kept out of the number-one position by their own song, ``Hey Ya.''
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ALANIS MORISSETTE - ADVICE COLUMN
Canadian songstress Alanis Morissette is becoming an advice columnist. Morissette will dispense her wisdom in the Guardian Weekend magazine's January 16th edition. Morissette will also put out a book in May that's part memoir, part self-help book.
It's called ``Perpetual Becoming.''
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DAVID BOWIE-TRIBUTE
A band featuring David Bowie's longtime collaborator Tony Visconti and former drummer Mick (Woody) Woodmansey plans to go ahead with a tribute concert in Toronto tonight. Visconti wrote on Twitter that the group Holy Holy will celebrate the late Bowie's life with its show at the Opera House.
During the show on Tuesday, which is part of a North American tour, the band plans to play Bowie's 1970 album ``The Man Who Sold The World'' in its entirety. Woodmansey said Holy Holy was in Toronto when he learned that Bowie had died Sunday, after an 18-month battle with cancer. He was 69.
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DAVID BOWIE-``BLACKSTAR''
David Bowie wasn't just creating new music with his ``Blackstar'' album. He was telling the world he was dying.
Bowie released ``Blackstar'' on Friday, and he died Sunday. Most of his close musician friends did not know he was dealing with cancer for the past 18 months. The ``Blackstar'' album discusses life, death and the afterlife. The video for the single ``Lazarus'' shows Bowie in a hospital bed with his eyes bandaged, singing, ``Look up here, I'm in heaven/I've got scars that can't be seen.'' Yesterday, ``Blackstar'' hit number-one on the U.S. iTunes albums chart. ``Best of Bowie'' was second and two other Bowie albums have reached the Top 10.
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NILE RODGERS, BRIAN ENO - REMEMBER BOWIE
Even frequent David Bowie collaborators Nile Rodgers and Brian Eno had no idea he was sick. Rodgers says he suspected something was up with Bowie a few years ago when Bowie presented Rodgers with an award but had to give it by film. Rodgers says Bowie was charming and big-hearted but Rodgers could see he was not well. Rodgers says he didn't want to pry because everyone deals with their health in their own way. Eno tells Rolling Stone magazine Bowie sent him an email just a week ago that was full of inside jokes. He says it ended with Bowie saying, ``Thank you for our good times, Brian. They will never rot.'' Eno says he realizes now Bowie was saying goodbye.
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WORLD LEADERS - RESPECTS - BOWIE
How big was David Bowie's influence? He's getting tributes from major world leaders. The White House is saluting Bowie's contribution to the arts, and spokesman Josh Earnest says people across the world are talking about how Bowie inspired them.
British Prime Minister David Cameron calls Bowie's death ``a huge loss'' and says Bowie was a ``master of reinvention.'' Germany's Foreign Ministry tweeted a video for Bowie's song ``Heroes'' with a thank you for Bowie's help in bringing down the Berlin Wall. Berlin Mayor Michael Mueller says ``Heroes'' was the hymn for a once-divided city longing for freedom. The Vatican's culture minister, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, tweeted the lyrics to ``Space Oddity'' and ended with, ``May God's love be with you.''
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DAVID BOWIE - MEMORIAL
What was planned as a tribute concert to David Bowie has now become a memorial concert. New York's Carnegie Hall had planned to host a concert featuring Bowie's music with acts like Cyndi Lauper, Perry Farrell, Ann Wilson of Heart and The Roots on March 31st. The concert's website says the timing of the tickets going on sale is ``bizarre'' and the show is taking on many more emotions now.
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MIA - CEASE-AND-DESIST
The soccer club Paris Saint-Germain is threatening to take M.I.A. to court over her latest video for ``Borders.'' She's wearing a P-S-G shirt that contains the ``Fly Emirates'' sponsorship logo, but she changed it to read ``Fly Pirates.'' The song discusses the ordeal of refugees in Europe. M.I.A. has posted online P-S-G's letter ordering her to stop broadcasting the video and to stop using the club's image. P-S-G is not even sure why M.I.A. is lumping the club in with the migrants' treatment. P-S-G deputy C-E-O Jean-Claude Blanc says nothing in the club's activities suggest it has anything to do with the problems M.I.A. highlights in the video.
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BEN FOLDS - WEDDING SONG
If there was a chart for wedding songs, Ben Folds thinks he might be a contender on it. Folds says every day or so, some couple will tell him they got married to his song ``The Luckiest.'' Folds considers that one of his more obscure songs, but he feels everyone between the ages of 25 and 40 seem to find it. He says it must be on some list somewhere.
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KEITH URBAN - TOUR DATES
Keith Urban has announced a summer tour in support of an album he's not quite sure if he's going to finish in time. Urban's RipCORD World Tour will start June 2nd in Kansas City, Missouri. Urban says he still thinks he'll get the ``RipCORD'' album out before the tour. He'd rather have it out six months before the tour, but he says he doesn't want to wait just because the record isn't done. Brett Eldredge and newcomer Maren Morris will be the opening acts.
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(The Associated Press)