A new face leads this week’s Billboard Top 200 albums chart: Christian artist Chris Tomlin, who scores his first No. 1 album with “Burning Lights.” The album is the Texas native’s seventh studio set, and it sold a career high 73,000 copies its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The set is only the fourth … Continue Reading →
“Les Miserables” has a little less to be gloomy about. The soundtrack to the film hits No. 1 on this week’s Billboard albums chart, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures. The album sold 92,000 copies this week, making it the first soundtrack to hit No. 1 since “The Hunger Games” landed at the top of the … Continue Reading →
Taylor Swift leads 2012′s final weekly albums chart, earning her seventh non-consecutive week at No. 1 with “Red.” The set sold 241,000 copies the week ending Dec. 30, according to Nielsen SoundScan, ending the year with more than 3 million sales, making it the year’s second best-selling album. The soundtrack to “Les Miserables” reaches No. … Continue Reading →
Looking at the winners and losers from this weekend’s box office: WINNER: Liam Neeson. The 60-year-old star put the cherry on top of his late-career action hero run with the $50 million opening of “Taken 2,” doubling the opening of the first “Taken” movie back in 2008 and confirming that audiences either really like Neeson … Continue Reading →
Just give Academy Award nominee Anna Kendrick a cup and watch her go. Kendrick, appearing Thursday on “The Late Show With David Letterman,” performed her party trick version of Lulu and the Lampshades’ “Cups (You’re Going to Miss Me),” which she also does in “Pitch Perfect.” It’s pretty darn cool in the movie, but it … Continue Reading →