Picture Perfect: April 2009

The year 2009 in music

So far...

January

Some insignificant and musically irrelevant milestones shook the music public and important music eventsa are nowhere to be mentioned. Like "Kelly Clarkson breaks record for the biggest jump to number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 when her single "My Life Would Suck Without You" soars from number 97 to number one fueled by 280,000 digital downloads on the first week of release. (The previous record was set by Britney Spears' "Womanizer" which went from number 96 to number one in 2008.)"

Apart from that Lady GaGa's debut single "Just Dance" hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 after 22 weeks - the second longest climb to number one, since Creed "With Arms Wide Open" in November 2000 (27 weeks) and Madonna announces that she will extend her record-breaking Sticky & Sweet Tour during summer of 2009, to visit cities that were excluded during the first run. The tour will kick-off in The O2, London on July 4. The extension will take Sticky & Sweet Tour to a total of over 80 shows, putting it among the top five tours of all time.

February

Well Ferbruary has been more significant in the music industry mainly marked for the Grammy Awards.

At the 51st Grammy Awards in Staples Center, Los Angeles
Alison Krauss and Robert Plant win five Grammys for their duet album Raising Sand which also won Album of the Year
Lil Wayne wins four awards, including Best Rap Album for Tha Carter III (the only album to sell one million copies in the first week of release in United States in 2008).
Blink-182 announce that they are to reunite for a tour and new album.
And my favorite music scandal of course is Rihanna postponingher Malaysian concert in The Good Girl Gone Bad Tour amid reports that she accused her boyfriend R&B star Chris Brown of assault. Another event is "Crack a Bottle", performed by Eminem, Dr. Dre and 50 Cent, sets a new record for opening week download sales in the United States, at 418,000 copies. The previous record (335,000) was set by "Live Your Life".
And what needs to be mentioned is that february had something for everybody. AFI Discreetly announce the new album title to be Crash Love
Duffy dominates the Brit Awards, held in Earl's Court, London. Her album, Rockferry, the U.K top seller in 2008, won best British album, and she also won best British female and British breakthrough
Kings of Leon (best international group) also win best international album for Only By The Night.
Katy Perry wins best international female trophy.
Flo Rida breaks his own record when his single "Right Round" is downloaded 636,000 units in the opening week. His 2008 chart-topper "Low" set the previous record for most downloaded song with 467,000 units sold on the first week of release.

March

As for March, the rapper T.I. was sentenced to a one year and one day prison sentence and is more a news than U2's new album release which i personally dislike....a lot.

What was musically inspiring to me so far you can check out below.....

Depeche Mode- Wrong