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The Applicators kick off tour

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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

My Chemical Romance Vid Premiere

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My Chemical Romance’s new video for “Famous Last Words” is having its official US premiere today, Thursday the 11th, on MTV!Ԛ  You can catch an early taste of it today on TRL, which airs between 3:30 and 4:30 (all time zones) and then at 11:00pm in regular programming (all time zones). You can also see it on MTV.com by clicking here.

Love Minus Zero Recordings

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Love Minus Zero Recordings is a new independent record label from Richard Reines and Stefanie Reines, co-owners of Drive-Thru Records. The labels first release will be “Break of Day” from New Jersey singer-songwriter Roark, on February 20th.Ԛ  They will also be releasing a full-length album from Birdie on April 3rd. Check out the labels MySpace page for more information. You can sign up for the LMZ email newsletter here.

Digital Tracks Results for the Week of January 1, 2007

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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)

Album Soundscan Results for the week of January 1, 2007

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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)