Sometimes you hear that the music industry is dying, that no one's buying records anymore and there are no true rock stars left. But according to a new list put together by the folks at Billboard, 24-year-old Taylor Swift raked in a metric shitload of cash last year.
The music industry has changed, but apparently people still buy albums. And Miley's "Bangerz" has officially had the year's biggest sales week for a woman.
Although Cups was released eight months ago, it has been in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for five weeks. It's a catchy song — and Pitch Perfect is a terrific movie! — but wtf is going on here?
Someone in Dublin has decided that Rihanna needs just a liiiiitle more clothing on her Diamonds World Tour billboards. Enter a couple of strapless dresses and a stapler.
Here we have an ad for Manhattan Mini Storage, which seems to really capture the spirit of the age while offering precious little information about how wonderful storing things with Manhattan Mini Storage can be. Maybe it means that we shouldn't store all those Paul Ryan mistakes in our hearts, that, you know, Paul…
Okay, it was a billboard of Kate Moss. Still, it had to be scary to see her image bearing down on you from above! Three men and one women went to the hospital for injuries, but luckily most of them appear to be minor.
"Approximately 92% of the 174 songs that made it into the [Billboard] Top 10 in 2009 contained reproductive messages," declares SUNY Albany psychology professor Dawn R. Hobbs in her recent study about the prevalence of sex in American pop music. Are we at all surprised?
Though Taylor Swift's Speak Now topped the Billboard 200 for the sixth consecutive week, it sold only 52,000 copies, making it the lowest-selling number one album in SoundScan's history. Apparently her mea culpa to Taylor Lautner wasn't so compelling.
There were literally dozens of oddly digitally altered models and celebrities this year, with a swipe of the mouse resulting in wonky elbows, whittled waists, new hands and unnaturally lightened skin. Here we have the very worst.
Not long after we suggested that the photo of Bret Michaels on Billboard's cover had been somewhat altered, we received a link to a news story from the folks at the mag. Headline: "Six-Pack Is Real, Says Photographer."
"I didn't eat for a day and I did about 2,000 sit-ups," Bret says. He also requested "good lighting and a warm room." But come on — Photoshop is clearly the star of this cover.
She was on the cover of Billboard recently, and in the accompanying story, the reporter trumpets that she co-wrote every song on her album, Animal. The problem?
