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Thursday
January 11th 2007
7-8pm PST
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Tonight, Planes Mistaken For Stars will be calling in for an interview and A Heartwell Ending will be live in the studio
Plus, they will be announcing the 10 finalists in the DJ Rossstar Unsigned Band Contest!
Daphne Loves Derby will be shooting their new music video at the Jan 19th and 20th Chain Reaction shows in Anaheim, CA. Their headline acoustic tour gets underway today in the band’s hometown of Seattle, WA. Openers include Ronnie Day, Meg & Dia and House of Fools. Fans can expect to hear new tunes off of DLD’s upcoming Good Night, Witness Light, in stores March 27. The record was produced by Matt Squire (Panic! At The Disco).
The Graduate will be shooting their new music video this Saturday in NYC with Fashion Bleeds (Matchbook Romance, Straylight Run, Meg and Dia) If you are interested in appaearing in the video send an email to: casting@fashionbleeds.com and include your name, phone number, email address (and a picture if you have one laying around).
The Graduate‘s Horror Show EP is out now. The band’s full-length Anhedonia will be in stores April 10 on Icon/MES.
The Applicators will soon hit a stage near you performing their latest batch of snarling pop narcotic from their new King Fing’r/Hairball 8 Records release My Weapon.
1.05.07 House Of Rock And Roll El Paso, TX
1.06.07 The Launchpad Albuquerque, NM
1.07.07 Benders 13th Ave. Tavern Denver, CO
1.08.07 Burts Tiki Lounge Salt Lake City, UT
1.09.07 Grove St. Boise, ID
1.10.07 The Funhouse Seattle, WA
1.11.07 Sabalas Portland, OR
1.12.07 Annies Social Club San Francisco, CA
1.13.07 Alex’s Bar Long Beach, CA
1.14.07 Ricky Gene’s Lomita, CA
1.15.07 Chain Reaction Anaheim, CA
1.16.07 Zombie Lounge San Diego, CA
1.17.07 Stray Cat Phoenix, AZ
1.18.07 The Surely Wench Tucson, AZ
1.20.07 The Kooler Lounge Las Vegas, CA
Along with our weekly album soundscan results, I will be posting weekly digital track results as well. These are single tracks that are bought online (Itunes, emusic., etc…). Full digital albums bought online are not compiled on this list, just single tracks. Enjoy!
Beyonce -Irreplaceable 137,138 (1,162,565)
Fray – How To Save A Life 93,260 (1,458,293)
Fergie – Fergalicious 92,167 (875,258)
All-american Rejects – It Ends Tonight 88,771 (757,824)
My Chemical Romance – Welcome To The Black 88,634 (457,122)
Akon – Smack That 68,590 (946,661)
Akon – I Wanna Love You 65,284 (560,265)
Timberlake, Just – My Love Single Versi 65,247 (769,791)
Lavigne, Avril – Keep Holding On 63,998 (332,706)
Stefani, Gwen – Wind It Up 57,395 (543,848)
Underwood, Carrie – Before He Cheats 55,159 (556,969)
Mayer, John – Waiting On The World 52,421 (766,057)
Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars 50,988 (1,324,868)
Yankovic, Weird – White & Nerdy 49,977 (653,536)
Gnarls Barkley – Crazy 41,057 (1,669,656)
Timberlake, Justin -What Goes Around… 40,999 (170,829)
Timberlake, Just – Sexyback 40,983 (1,357,514)
All-american Rejects – Move Along 40,368 (1,359,374)
Fray – Over My Head 38,092 (1,594,881)
Augustana – Boston 36,270 (332,692)
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Snow [hey Oh] 36,241 (302,027)
Evanescence – Call Me When You’re 35,478 (699,568)
Hellogoodbye – Here In Your Arms 33,314 (275,086)
Ok Go – Here It Goes Again 32,650 (365,210)
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Dani California 31,905 (1,316,582)
All-american Reject – Dirty Little Secret 29,253 (1,371,482)
Panic! At The Disco – I Write Sins Not Tra 29,144 (1,180,994)
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Face Down 23,058 (246,148)
Killers – When You Were Young 20,256 (514,008)
Fall Out Boy – Dance, Dance 18,879 (1,169,772)
A.f.i. – Love Like Winter 18,317 (132,833)
Gym Class Heroes – Cupid’s Chokehold 16,381 (64,471)
Black Eyed Peas – My Humps 15,956 (1,605,402)
30 Seconds To Mars – The Kill 14,138 (275,968)
Queen – We Will Rock You 13,206 (436,627)
Guns N’roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine 12,517 (462,060)
Yankovic, Weird – Canadian Idiot 12,346 (130,442)
Evanescence – Bring Me To Life 11,354 (222,456)
Cartel – Honestly 11,276 (189,910)
Plain White T’s – Hate (i Really Don’t 11,272 (160,022)
U2 – Beautiful Day 11,255 (440,415)
Clarkson, Kelly – Since U Been Gone 11,241 (1,361,918)
Kearney, Mat – Nothing Left To Lose 11,042 (169,660)
Afi – Miss Murder 10,967 (493,927)
Panic! At The Disco – Lying Is The Most Fu 10,919 (204,104)
Lady Sovereign – Love Me Or Hate Me 10,806 (167,066)
Killers – Mr. Brightside 10,772 (1,263,195)
Fall Out Boy – Sugar, We’re Goin Do 10,282 (1,336,332)
30 Seconds To Mars – From Yesterday 10,223 (52,154)
Green Day – Boulevard Of Broken 10,194 (1,249,937
Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc (album 10,094 (1,026,134)
Incubus – Anna Molly 10,079 (60,703)
Guns N’roses – Welcome To The Jungl 9,764 (410,829)
Goo Goo Dolls – Iris 9,736 (497,044)
Green Day – Holiday (album Versi 9,601 (724,476)
Linkin Park – In The End 9,230 (146,234)
These are the selected abum lSoundscan results for the week of Jan. 1 – Jan. 7.
As always, please link back to our website if you decide to use any of this information.
Dreamgirls – Soundtrack 66,355 (451,993)
Akon – Konvicted 63,699 (1,221,730)
Daughtry – Daughtry 55,916 (1,176,949)
Timberlake, Just – Futuresex/love Sound 51,638 (2,428,765)
Various – Now 23 48,094 (1,844,522)
Hannah Montana – Soundtrack 46,365 (2,034,046)
Beatles – Love 44,427 (1,141,062)
Beyonce – B’day 42,028 (2,052,339)
Eminem Presents – Eminem Presents: Re- 41,702 (739,013)
Rascal Flatts – Me And My Gang 40,644 (3,520,638)
Fergie – Dutchess 40,517 (1,247,178)
Nickelback – All The Right Reason 38,841 (4,684,196)
Underwood, Carri – Some Hearts 38,724 (4,691,363)
Fray – How To Save A Life 36,426 (1,723,282)
My Chemical Romance – Black Parade,the 32,809 (797,160)
Jay-z – Kingdom Come 31,904 (1,238,703)
Mayer, John – Continuum 28,591 (1,218,312)
Blige, Mary J. – Reflections: A Retro 27,584 (404,282)
Evanescence – Open Door 26,907 (1,452,250)
U2 – U218 Singles 24,829 (525,520)
30 Seconds To Mars – Beautiful Lie 22,588 (700,813)
Legend, John – Once Again 22,372 (822,325)
Incubus – Light Grenades 21,095 (418,981)
Switchfoot – Oh! Gravity 20,853 (64,027)
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium 20,620 (1,749,574)
Game – Doctor’s Advocate 20,132 (771,806)
All-american Rejects – Move Along 19,912 (1,734,310)
Snow Patrol – Eyes Open 19,855 (825,896)
Killers – Sam’s Town 18,743 (953,276)
Shiny Toy Guns – We Are Pilots 8,124 (63,232)
Brand New – Devil And God Are Ra 7,497 (142,348)
Flyleaf – Flyleaf 7,458 (501,114)
Buckcherry – 15 7,427 (567,567)
Tenacious D – Pick Of Destiny 7,401 (228,037)
Tool – 10000 Days 7,377 (1,389,961)
Breaking Benjamin -Phobia 7,360 (459,519)
Wolfmother – Wolfmother 7,265 (374,688)
Augustana – All The Stars & Boul 6,956 (133,552)
Tv On The Radio – Return To Cookie Mou 6,928 (105,984)
Clipse – Hell Hath No Fury 6,123 (149,364)
Matisyahu – No Place To Be 5,849 (18,544)
Ok Go – Oh No 5,792 (198,045)
Senses Fail – Still Searching 5,671 (142,972)
Saosin – Saosin 5,578 (139,000)
Blige, Mary J. – Breakthrough 5,525 (2,723,673)
Ying Yang Twins – Chemically Imbalance 5,522 (95,538)
Muse – Black Holes And Reve 5,428 (231,927)
Audioslave – Revelations 5,418 (391,736)
Johnson, Jack – In Between Dreams 5,374 (2,405,455)
Taking Back Sunday – Louder Now 5,192 (573,736)
Meatloaf – Bat Out Of Hell Iii 5,168 (235,375)
Rise Against – Sufferer & The Witne 5,143 (235,909)
Gym Class Heroe – As Cruel As School C 5,126 (97,653)
Deftones – Saturday Night Wrist 4,984 (178,219)
Bullet For My Valentine – Poison 4,947 (178,931)
Kearney, Mat – Nothing Left To Lose 4,442 (126,082)
Boys Like Girls – Boys Like Girls 3,712 (40,072)
Cartel – Chroma 3,665 (176,224)
Heap, Imogen – Speak For Yourself 3,587 (248,525)
Chiodos – All’s Well That Ends 2,870 (120,932)
Say Anything – Is A Real Boy 2,779 (90,404)
Cold War Kids – Robbers & Cowards 2,443 (24,082)
Dragonforce – Inhuman Rampage 2,379 (108,454)
Rockstar:supern – Rockstar:supernova 1,911 (41,513)
Academy Is – Almost Here 1,379 (210,718)
Cobra Starship – While The City Sleep 1,264 (28,886)
Paramore – All We Know Is Falli 1,227 (81,332)
Decemberists – Picaresque 1,104 (140,658)
Meg & Dia – Something Real 1,064 (13,909)
Radin, Joshua – We Were Here 1,063 (36,804)
Lennon, Sean – Friendly Fire 1,056 (24,439)
Costa, Matt – Songs We Sing 1,055 (49,269)
Static Lullaby – Static Lullaby 996 (21,017)
Kill Hannah – Until There’s Nothin 992 (34,870)
Bloc Party – Silent Alarm 962 (286,373)
Me First & The – Love Their Country 924 (23,513)
Mute Math – Mutemath 921 (18,780)
All Time Low – Put Up Or Shut Up 921 (24,985)
Plain White T’s -All That We Needed 918 (93,959)
Gomez and Ben Kweller will be embarking on a nation-wide tour starting February 12.
February
12 Aspen, CO Belly Up Tavern ***
15 Seattle, WA The Showbox
16 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
17 Portland, OR Roseland Theatre
19 Petaluma, CA Mystic Theatre **
19 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall ***
20 San Diego, CA House of Blues
21 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern
23 Park City, UT Suede **
24 Aspen, CO Belly Up **
26 Dallas, TX Gypsy Tea Room
27 Kansas City, MO The Beaumont Club
March
3 Cleveland, OH House Of Blues
4 Rochester, NY Water Street Music Hall ***
5 Toronto, ON Phoenix Concert Theatre
6 Boston, MA Avalon
10 Baltimore, MD Sonar
11 Northampton, MA Pearl Street
** Gomez only
*** Ben Kweller only
Dates for The Early November, The Rocket Summer, Melee, The Verdict, and Nothing Ever Stays (on select dates) can be found below.
Mar 1 2007 The Silo Reading, Pennsylvania
Mar 2 2007 The Recher Theatre Towson, Maryland
Mar 3 2007 Irving Plaza New York, New York
Mar 4 2007 The Norva Norfolk, Virginia
Mar 6 2007 Tremont Music Hall Charlotte, North Carolina
Mar 7 2007 The Masquerade Atlanta, Georgia
Mar 8 2007 State Theatre St. Petersburg, Florida
Mar 9 2007 Revolution Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Mar 10 2007 Fuel Jacksonville, Florida
Mar 11 2007 House Of Blues – Orlando Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Mar 13 2007 Meridian Houston, Texas
Mar 14 2007 The Door Dallas, Texas
Mar 16 2007 White Rabbit San Antonio, Texas
Mar 17 2007 The Clubhouse Tempe, Arizona
Mar 19 2007 House of Blues Las Vegas, Nevada
Mar 20 2007 House of Blues San Diego, California
Mar 21 2007 House of Blues Anahiem, California
Mar 22 2007 House of Blues West Hollywood, California
Mar 23 2007 Slims San Francisco, California
Mar 24 2007 Boardwalk Orangevale, California
Mar 26 2007 Crystal Ballroom Portland, Oregon
Mar 27 2007 El Corazon Seattle, Washington
Mar 28 2007 The Venue Boise, Idaho
Mar 30 2007 In The Venue Salt Lake City, Utah
Mar 31 2007 Cervantes Denver, Colorado
Apr 1 2007 Granada Theatre Lawrence, Kansas
Apr 2 2007 Pops Sauget, Illinois
Apr 3 2007 House of Blues Chicago, Illinois
Apr 4 2007 Station 4 St. Paul, Minnesota
Apr 6 2007 St. Andrews Hall Detroit, Michigan
Apr 7 2007 House of Blues Cleveland, Ohio
Apr 9 2007 Opera House Toronto, Ontario
Apr 10 2007 Club Infinity Buffalo, New York
Apr 11 2007 Avalon Boston, Massachusetts
Apr 12 2007 Toad’s Place New Haven, Connecticut
Apr 14 2007 The Trocadero Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Bright Eyes will be heading out on tour in February and March in support of his EP, Four Winds, which will come out on March 6 and his sixth full length, Cassadaga, coming out on April 10.
02-25 Chicago, IL – Metro
02-27 Toronto, Ontario – Opera House
02-28 Somerville, MA – Somerville Theatre
03-02 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
03-03 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
03-05 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
03-07 Los Angeles, CA – El Rey
03-08 Los Angeles, CA – El Rey
03-09 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
03-10 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
03-11 Seattle, WA – Showbox
Tune into the Last Call with Carson Daly on January 25th because The Format will be performing “She Doesn’t Get It”! Check your local listing for network and show times.