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Dane Cook Sizes Up New-Release Rivals Kanye West, Justin Bieber, More

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Dane Cook Sizes Up New-Release Rivals Kanye West, Justin Bieber, More

Comedian drops I Did My Best – Greatest Hits the same week as new albums from Nicki Minaj, Ke$ha and a load of other megastars. By Kara Warner, with reporting by Matt Elias Dane Cook Photo: Getty Images With all the hype surrounding MTV News’ musical Mega-Release Week — Bieber! Kanye! Nicki! Ke$ha! Jay-Z! MCR! — you might not be aware of yet another album hitting stores this week: Dane Cook’s I Did My Best – Greatest Hits. Lucky for us, the man behind the album stopped by our office to discuss his just-released comedic stylings, as well as his thoughts on the other big albums dropping this week. So why release a greatest-hits album? “I’ve been doing stand-up comedy 20 years altogether — ten years of recording tracks and club sets and arena sets,” Cook explained. “So I thought it would be a great way to close out the decade, a great ‘thank you’ to fans to say, ‘These are the high-water marks that we shared,’ remaster it, make it sound great. To new fans that are always discovering me saying, ‘Where do I start?,’ this is really the collection of what I think are the highlight moments,” he said. And for the die-hard fans out there who already have some of those greatest hits, he included a bunch of unreleased tracks on the album as well. “There’s something for everyone on there,” he assured us. Regarding his competition in the new-releases category, we asked Cook to share his thoughts on some of the big names. First up, Kanye West. “Never heard of him. What is he about?” Cook deadpanned. “Kan-J? Kanye? I’m just going to call him West. That’s great. I’ll definitely look him up.” With Nicki Minaj, Cook pretended that we were asking about something suggestive — “Oh, no, I’m thinking of a m

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Beatles Top 2 Million Songs Sold In iTunes Debut Week

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Beatles Top 2 Million Songs Sold In iTunes Debut Week

Legendary band also moved 450,000 albums in their first week on iTunes. By Gil Kaufman The Beatles Photo: Apple Corps Ltd. It’s only fitting that the biggest band in the world had one of the biggest iTunes debuts in history. Beatles fans waited nearly a decade for the Fab Four’s tunes to appear at Apple’s digital store, and despite having nearly 50 years to stock up on “Love Me Do” and “Strawberry Fields Forever” in every musical format known to man, they gorged themselves on the band’s music over the past week. According to a Reuters report, the legendary rock group sold more than 2 million individual songs and 450,000 albums worldwide during their first week on iTunes. iTunes does not provide breakout figures on sales, but Abbey Road came out as the top-selling digital album in the store, coming in at #6 for the week ending November 22. The iTunes-only Beatles Box Set collection was the next-highest charting collection, landing at #10 on the iTunes albums chart. Among the many charting singles, “Here Comes the Sun” landed highest but failed to crack the top 10 during a week when nearly 60 Beatles songs found their way onto the iTunes singles tally. After years of holding out and exchanging lawsuits with Apple Computer, the Beatles became one of the last major holdouts to join the iTunes store, until the big announcement on November 16. Though they easily bested the November 2007 debut of Led Zeppelin on iTunes, which generated U.S. digital album sales of 47,000 and 300,000 songs, the Beatles weren’t able to best some contemporary acts, including Rihanna, whose Loud was the best-selling iTunes album in the U.S. last week, followed by the “Glee” Christmas album. Related Artists The Beatles

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