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Thursday, July 31, 2008
Sugarland rides high with new album
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sugarland: Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush. Photos: Kate Powers.
Already on a roll, Sugarland just got even more good news to celebrate. The Atlanta duo scored the year’s biggest first-week sales for a country act.
The deluxe, expanded fan edition of “Love on the Inside” debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, just behind tween phenom Miley Cyrus and her new album, “Breakout.” Nielsen SoundScan reports Cyrus’ sales at 371,000 for the week, with Sugarland right behind at nearly 314,000.
Sugarland’s number was more than enough to put the pair at the top of the country album chart, making it the duo’s first No. 1 there.
Billboard reports that Sugarland’s feat is also “the best sales week for any country act since the Eagles’ “Long Road Out of Eden” shifted 359,000 in its second week of release last fall.” Billboard also points out that this is “easily the Mercury Nashville act’s best sales week and highest charting album ever.”
In a press release from the band’s label, Sugarland’s Kristian Bush (right) had this to say: “This is amazing! I love this album and am heartened that there are hundreds of thousands who feel the same way. I also couldn’t be more proud of our management and label. They are picking the towel back up that most of the music business threw in already. Today is a good day.”
For more from Avondale Estates resident Bush, check out the Q&A I did with him just before the album’s release. It’s here.
The regular edition of “Love on the Inside” was released Tuesday, July 29, and the totals for that will be added to sales of the fan edition for the rankings on next week’s chart.
Were you among the 314,000 picking up the new album? If so, tell us what you think of “Love on the Inside.” Is it Sugarland’s best yet?
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Jill Scott At Chastain
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
PHOTO CREDIT: Robb D. Cohen/robbsphotos.com
As Jill Scott looked out into the capacity audience Wednesday night, she might have thought Chastain Park Amphitheatre was about to take flight, there were so many fans, fanning.
It was that hot. And the three-time Grammy Award winner didn’t make things any easier.
In her near two-hour performance, Scott simulated some pretty suggestive sexual moves with microphone; made things even steamier when she let the three background singers in her 10-piece band show off their pipes on the Isley Brothers’ “Between the Sheets,” Teena Marie’s “Portugese Love” and Prince’s “Do Me Baby”; and sent the kettle to boil when the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra rejoined her for the, first, operatic, then dance remix take on her early hit “He Loves Me (Lyzel In E Flat)”.
“Every time I’ve come to Atlanta it”s looked like this, and it’s felt like this,” Scott told the panting, but still-enthusiastic audience that included fellow R&B singer Anthony David, rapper Bone Crusher, V-103 radio personality Ryan Cameron and renowned minister, author, professor and cultural critic Michael Eric Dyson. “And I love it!”
Were you there last night — and if so, what did you think? (See more photos from the gallery HERE ) To the real Jill Scott fans, how would you compare it to her show earlier this year at the Fox, or the more intimate Bailey’s event at the Freight Depot? And did you read the earlier Atlanta Music Scene post about her considering becoming Atlantan (among many other things)?
