Mediabase update

1. BRUNO MARS – Locked Out Of Heaven: 198.236 (+ 0.670)
2. RIHANNA – Diamonds: 187.513 (- 0.793)
3. LUMINEERS – Ho Hey: 150.570 (+ 0.166)
4. MAROON 5 – One More Night: 137.859 (+ 1.481)
5. FLO RIDA – I Cry: 123.511 (- 0.386)
6. NE-YO – Let Me Love You: 111.146 (+ 0.599)
7. PHILLIP PHILLIPS – Home: 107.982 (+ 0.889)
8. JUSTIN BIEBER – Beauty And A Beat f/N. Minaj: 101.857 (+ 1.191)
9. KE$HA – Die Young: 98.488 (- 0.126)
10. PINK – Try: 97.746 (+ 0.246)
11. FUN. – Some Nights: 93.915 (+ 0.268)
12. TAYLOR SWIFT – I Knew You Were Trouble: 91.960 (+ 0.037)
13. ED SHEERAN – The A Team: 87.503 (+ 0.506)
14. MIGUEL – Adorn: 78.276 (- 0.131)
15. SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA – Don't You Worry Child: 75.690 (- 0.241)
16. ALICIA KEYS – Girl On Fire: 75.298 (- 0.153)
17. ALEX CLARE – Too Close: 67.450 (+ 0.299)
18. PINK – Blow Me (One Last Kiss): 58.230 (+ 2.033) ▲
19. IMAGINE DRAGONS – It's Time: 57.420 (- 0.035)
20. KENDRICK LAMAR – Swimming Pools (Drank): 56.989 (- 0.475) ▼

OTHERS:

PITBULL – Don't Stop The Party: 54.185 (- 0.454)
ZAC BROWN BAND – Goodbye In Her Eyes: 52.626 (- 0.476)
JUSTIN MOORE – 'Til My Last Day: 52.211 (- 0.601)
KELLY CLARKSON – Catch My Breath: 51.219 (+ 1.254)
WILL.I.AM & BRITNEY SPEARS – Scream And Shout: 50.629 (+ 0.186)
GOTYE – Somebody That I Used To Know: 50.160 (+ 3.990)
CALVIN HARRIS – Sweet Nothing f/Florence Welch: 48.682 (+ 0.374)
ELLIE GOULDING – Lights: 46.299 (+ 0.966)
MAROON 5 – Daylight: 42.238 (- 0.088)
MUMFORD & SONS – I Will Wait: 38.651 (+ 0.198)
CARLY RAE JEPSEN – Call Me Maybe: 38.345 (+ 2.744)
KATY PERRY – Wide Awake: 36.732
OF MONSTERS AND MEN – Little Talks: 35.300 (+ 0.109)
MAROON 5 – Payphone f/Wiz Khalifa: 35.019 (+ 2.327)
THE SCRIPT – Hall Of Fame f/will.i.am: 33.914 (+ 0.395)
ONE DIRECTION – What Makes You Beautiful: 32.651 (+ 1.760)
THE WANTED – Glad You Came: 30.826 (+ 1.212)
KELLY CLARKSON – Stronger (What Doesn't Kill …: 30.567 (+ 2.288)
FUN. – We Are Young f/Janelle Monae: 30.332 (+ 1.970)
ONE DIRECTION – Little Things: 30.286 (- 0.041)
CARRIE UNDERWOOD – Two Black Cadillacs: 26.693 (- 0.008)
RIHANNA – We Found Love f/Calvin Harris: 26.148 (+ 0.935)
MUSE – Madness: 23.468 (+ 0.244)
KE$HA – C'mon: 21.734 (+ 0.684)
ADELE – Set Fire To The Rain: 18.501 (+ 1.553)
RIHANNA – Pour It Up: 12.888 (+ 0.101)
C. AGUILERA & B. SHELTON – Just A Fool: 4.647 (+ 0.211)

Thanks to ColdAsFire_Baby at BMK

Th Wanted may release two albums in 2013

http://www.billboard.com/news#/news/the-wanted-may-release-two-albums-in-2013-1008063562.story

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After One Direction released two albums, "Up All Night" and "Take Me Home," in 2012 and guided both releases to the top spot of the Billboard 200 chart, fellow British boy band The Wanted has revealed that next year could yield a pair of new full-lengths of their own. In an interview with Billboard about their upcoming "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" performance, the group's Tom Parker says, "I think we're going to do two albums, one in April and one towards the end of the year, because we've written quite a lot of songs this year. We didn't get to release one at this end of this year so it's probably going to squeeze to next year, hopefully." The group, whose 2012 hits included "Glad You Came" and "Chasing The Sun," was expected to release a full-length album this fall after their self-titled EP was released in the U.S. last April. An album has yet to surface, and earlier this month, Jay McGuiness told Billboard of the album, "It was meant to be this Christmas, but it wasn't ready yet so… we're thinking around April, we'll have something ready." The new LP would include the single "I Found You," which the Wanted performed at the 2012 American Music Awards last month and will bust out again at "Rockin' Eve" on Monday night. Along with the possibility of a pair of new albums, the vocal group is eyeing a world tour for 2013, although details have yet to be announced. I for one highly doubt it. I Found You has been bombing on the radio and itunes.  But who knows maybe it will take off. MH

Bieber Adds 2 NEW tracks to acoustic album

Biebs reveals he's written and recorded new material for Believe Accoustic...
Justin Bieber's new Believe Acoustic album will feature two new songs from the star, it has been revealed.

Scheduled for release on 29 January, the new album will have a total of 10 tracks - including two new efforts written and recorded by the Biebster especially for the unplugged LP.

He tweeted: "8 wasnt enough. had to write some more new ones. now im putting out 10 SONGS on#BELIEVEacoustic. Im telling u. PREORDER it now "

And his manager Scooter Braun confirmed the news, tweeting: "For those asking yes @justinbieber played guitar on the acoustic album. and yes there r now 10 song not 8 because he wrote 2 new ones 2nite.

"No BS when i say we are all really happy with how #BELIEVEacoustic turned out. It all sounds new and organic. Think u will all love it."

Biebs was recently reported to have been working with British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran after the pair of them were pictured in the recording studio together.

Hurray Hurray...

I am not even confident that I spelled that right haha. Anyway I am done with school for a whole three monthes and you know what that means MORE posts, reviews, etc.  I officially passed all of my classes. I am going to start posting stuff tomorrow.  I already got some things lined and ready to go.

The Wanted 3rd Strike Tracklisting

1. Chasing the Sun
2. Loverboy (feat. Chris Brown)
3. She Don’t Like to Party
4. Everybody Knows
5. Mastermind (feat. RITA ORA)
6. I Found You
7. Lady Lady
8. Push
9. Coming Back Strong
10. Let Me Save You
11. The Club’s on Fire (feat. LMFAO)
12. In Over My Head
13. Forever


Deluxe Version:
14. Bring It Home (Dappy feat. The Wanted)
15. Mad Man
16. Satellite
17. Have Some Fun (Pitbull feat. The Wanted)
18. I Found You (DC Breaks Remix)

SOURCE (credible web)

No Doubt to get back in studio and tour in 2013

No Doubt get asked what they have planned for 2013 and Gwen says touring in the summer and that they are making new music and that Gwen is going back in the studio tomorrow.

AHHHH, more ND!!

Video here: http://kroq.cbslocal.com/2012/12/09/no-doubt-interview-23rd-annual-almost-acoustic-christmas/

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Beyonce Get 50 Million Dollar Pepsi Deal

Limited edition Pepsi can

For its campaign with Beyoncé next year, Pepsi doesn’t just want to sign up the telegenic pop star for another TV commercial. It also wants to get into the Beyoncé business.

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A limited edition Pepsi can developed in partnership between the beverage company and Beyoncé will first be seen in Europe in March 2013.
In an expansion of the recent marketing experiments that have brought PepsiCo ever closer to the music industry, the company has embarked on a hybrid project with Beyoncé that will include standard advertising like commercials as well as a multimillion-dollar fund to support the singer’s chosen creative projects.

“Pepsi embraces creativity and understands that artists evolve,” Beyoncé said in a statement. “As a businesswoman, this allows me to work with a lifestyle brand with no compromise and without sacrificing my creativity.”

The campaign will coincide with a blitz of promotion for her next album, which has no title or release date so far but is expected in 2013. Sometime after she performs at the Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 3 (also sponsored by Pepsi), Beyoncé will appear in a new TV ad — her fifth for the soft drink since 2002 — and her face will be on a limited-edition line of soda cans.

The less conventional aspects of the deal are meant as collaborative projects that indulge Beyoncé’s creative whims, and might well have no explicit connection to Pepsi products. They are still at the brainstorm stage, but could include live events, videos, “a cool photo shoot” or almost anything else, said Lee Anne Callahan-Longo, the general manager of Parkwood Entertainment, Beyoncé’s company.

For Pepsi, the goal is to enhance its reputation with consumers by acting as something of an artistic patron instead of simply paying for celebrity endorsements.

“Consumers are seeking a much greater authenticity in marketing from the brands they love,” said Brad Jakeman, president of PepsiCo’s global beverage group. “It’s caused a shift in the way we think about deals with artists, from a transactional deal to a mutually beneficial collaboration.”

The multiyear campaign is estimated at $50 million, the bulk of it for media placements and promotions around the world, and the remainder split roughly equally between Beyoncé’s fee and what Pepsi calls a creative content development fund.

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According to the tracking firm Kantar Media, PepsiCo and its archrival the Coca-Cola Company each spent about $148 million in the United States to advertise their soft drink brands in the first six months of 2012, across all measured forms of media, like television, print, digital and radio.

Over the last decade many consumer brands have been taking more active roles with artists, particularly in pop music. Converse, Red Bull and Toyota’s Scion line, for example, have become as familiar in the music business as any label or concert promoter by paying to help create and promulgate music.

Bands always risk fan disapproval when shaking hands with big corporations. But with record company budgets diminished, Madison Avenue money is often seen as essential. PepsiCo has been part of this trend through Green Label Sound, a label financed through its Mountain Dew drink, which over the last four years has paid to release free music by under-the-radar groups like Matt & Kim and the Cool Kids.

“We recognize that there have been massive disruptions in music industry: lower investment in artist development, fewer points of distribution, financial constraints,” said Frank Cooper, a top marketing executive in PepsiCo’s beverage division who has been a force for such projects. “We look at those disruptions as opportunities for Pepsi.”

These deals are not limited to music. In 2010, Jay-Z (Beyoncé’s husband) teamed with Microsoft to promote his memoir, “Decoded.” According to a case study led by Anita Elberse, a Harvard Business School professor, the publisher could contribute only $50,000 for marketing, but Microsoft paid $2 million for an elaborate scavenger hunt that promoted the book as well as its new search engine, Bing.

For Jay-Z, the campaign was a success. But the effect of such deals on corporate partners like Microsoft is hard to measure, Professor Elberse said in an interview last week. “Even if they see an increase in market share,” she said, “it’s hard to attribute that to this one thing they did with a star at one point in time.”
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Mr. Cooper, however, was confident that its music projects, like “Tonight Is the Night” by the little-known rapper and singer Outasight — which sold 1.1 million copies after a push in 2010, when the song was featured in a commercial and Outasight appeared on the Pepsi-sponsored show “The X Factor” — bring a return on investment. “We believe all that transfers into brand equity for Pepsi, and, ultimately, sales,” he said.

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Pepsi’s deal with Beyoncé is an outgrowth of ventures like Green Label Sound, but on a scale befitting her superstar stature.

In addition to the commercial — a collaborative effort between 180 LA, TBWA/Chiat/Day Los Angeles and Organic, all part of the Omnicom Group — and the soda can, the deal will involve sponsorship of Beyoncé’s world tour next year.

All the standard sponsorship elements will be present on the tour, like prominent Pepsi logos. That kind of marketing, Mr. Jakeman said, is “still important, but insufficient” to reach savvy young consumers. So Pepsi will also play a role in selecting local talent as opening acts at various points around the world.

And who knows — a concert stage would seem a perfect spot for some fund-supported video or social-media experiment.

“It’s wise for a brand like Pepsi to give an artist the ability to truly express herself,” said Ms. Callahan-Longo, of Beyoncé’s company, “instead of just the old-school way of, ‘Do you want to be in an advertisement?’ ”

“This is much bigger,” she added. “This is, ‘How can we create something together that it truly unique?’ ”