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Guy Ritchie needs an award. The man put up with Madonna for 7.5 years. Today confirmation comes that the entertainment couple (he a film director, she the queen of pop) are officially getting a divorce. The two wed in December 2000 after being introduced through Sting and his wife Trudie Styler in 1999, and have two children together: Rocco, 8, and David Banda, 3, who was adopted from Malawi two years ago. Lourdes, 12, hails from Madonna's previous courtship with her personal trainer Carlos Leon.
Ritchie didn't have a chance of lasting too long. Girlfriend's got a thing for the "Latin lover." In recent months rumors of Madonna's infidelity swirled. She was linked to New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez a.k.a. A-Rod. A-Rod's wife of six years and mother of his two girls filed for divorce upon hearing of his affair with Madonna.
Ritchie and Madonna are worth and estimated $521 million, according to the 2008 Sunday Times list of rich Britons. No settlements have been made yet. There was no pre-nup...oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitt!
It's been a year and five days since Radiohead released In Rainbows as a name-your-own-price download. In that year the band and its publishing company Warner Chappell, which oversaw the novel release, have kept mum about its success. But today we are getting a little closer to finding out how much cha-ching Radiohead banked from the whole gimmick, while more details will be revealed on the topic during the You Are in Control conference today and tomorrow (October 15th and 16th) at the Iceland Airwaves music festival.
So far total sales figures for the physical, digital and box-sets of In Rainbows are up at the 3 million mark. (Hail To The Thief only sold 994,000 total in the US since its release in 2003) Warner Chappell’s Head of Business Affairs Jane Dyball did not reveal any solid numbers yet, but did suggest that the name-your-own-price download was successful.
According to her the publishing company, which gave the band all master recording rights and image and likeness rights for the novel download release structure, still made more money solely off the In Rainbows name-your-own-price download release than they did off the entire release of Hail to the Thief. (Note: Radiohead held out on Itunes for its previous digital releases.)
Dyball insists that the publishing company was ready to stop the pay-what-you-want scheme at any point, as no timeline was given, if the average price for the album dropped too low. She also admits that it dropped significantly after the windfall of diehard fans had picked it up already, and that there were more BitTorrent downloads than downloads from the band's Web site.
The publishing company is adamant about the experiment giving a bump to their digital income and the success of the whole project in general.
(Music Ally via NME)
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Wow, I didn't realize Hail To The Thief sold so few copies by comparison. In Rainbows is a better record for sure, but the hype they generated around it was also incredible. They're not going to be able to recreate a situation like that again. That's a once in a career move.
yeah when i was typing this sotry the thought that crossed my mind was: how successful would this whole name your own price gimmick have been if in rainbows turned out to be as crappy as hail to the theif? would it still have had the same results? i put in rainbows up there as a top 3 when it comes to the best radiohead albums of all time.
It seems Green Day are giving their side-project Foxboro Hot Tubs a rest for a little while. The band are reportedly back in the studio with producer-turned musician-turned producer Butch Vig working on a follow-up to 2004's American Idiot. It will be the band's eigth studio album. (Has it been five already since Dookie?)
This isn't exactly breaking news considering Vig's former Garbage bandmate Shirley Manson revealed the tidbit of news earlier this month on Last Call With Carson Daly. When asked about a Garbage reunion Manson replied, "I don’t know, to be honest. We’re sort of doing our different things. I’m doing the TV show, Butch is producing Green Day, so he’s busy, so we’ll see." Vig is also best known for producing Nirvana's Nevermind.
Check out the video from inside the studio Green Day just coughed up online.
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I don't know if I would want it to be like their earlier CDs or American Idiot. It will surely be nice to have a new CD by Green Day though.
I haven't been keeping up with Green Day for quite some time, but this could be quite cool. Also, that's the first time I've ever seen Billy Joe play a guitar other than his classic green initialized strat.
from what i hear in the video, and it seems quiet premature, i want to say its leaning towards the hyperactivity of American Idiot and won;t stray to far from thier last album. why shoudl it? it was epic and sold millions of copies around the world!!
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oh no! all my illusions have been shattered. I don't know how I can go on!!
what is the official half life of any celebrity relationship...?
weren't they making divorce noises earlier this year? or even last year?