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Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy (Geffen) |
Jennifer Hudson Jennifer Hudson (Arista) |
Metallica Death Magnetic (Warner Bros.) |
Brian Wilson That Lucky Old Sun (Capitol) |
The Cure As yet untitled (Suretone/Geffen) |
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| Target Audience | People in bandannas and acid-washed jeans | American Idol fanatics | Boys with vertebral damage | We have no idea | Angsty high schoolers, all grown up |
| Last Album + U.S. Sales | Use Your Illusion I and II (1991) 11.1 million |
Dreamgirls soundtrack (2006) 1.35 million |
St. Anger (2003) 1.8 million |
Smile (2004) 384,000 |
The Cure (2004) 327,000 |
| Liner Notes | Part I of a planned trilogy of albums | The last Oscar-winning actress to have a solo music album? Cher. | For the first time, the band wrote, recorded, and lived together in one studio, near L.A. | A creepy concept album in which Wilson, as the sun, narrates between tracks. | The band originally recorded a double album, but is saving the dark stuff for later. |
| Do the Math | This album took 14 years, $13 million, four producers, and three studios. | To beat Carrie Underwood for top post-A.I. debut, J.Hud needs to sell 7 million albums. | Over 26 years, the band has sold 95 million copies of 11 albums. | Wilson's Beach Boys had 36 top-10 hits, the most of any U.S. rock band. | Of the 12 members the Cure has had since 1976, only frontman Robert Smith has been in it all along. |
| You Heard It First ... | Online. "I.R.S." hit No. 49 on the rock chart -- a first for a leaked track. | In Sex and the City: The Movie, for which Hudson recorded "All Dressed in Love" | On the soundtrack of the video game Rock Band | In 1949. "That Lucky Old Sun" was a hit for Frankie Laine. | Via iTunes. Starting May 13, the band put out a track a month to mark its 13th album. |
| Also Starring ... | Dr Pepper. Every American gets a can if the album is released this year. | Timbaland, Ne-Yo, and Diane Warren | Superproducer Rick Rubin | Wilson's Smile sidekick Van Dyke Parks | The Cure of the '80s, according to reviews of the first single |
Related Stories: | Topics:Innovation, Work/Life, fall album sales, Brian Wilson, Guns N'Roses, leisure, Jennifer Hudson, The Cure, Metallica, VMAs, United States, Ne-Yo, Rick Rubin, Cher, Robert Smith |
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