[WGO] Oh Yes, It's Ladies' Night

+ Billboard Magazine has officially confirmed that in terms of overall 2009 sales, Taylor Swift's Fearless is officially the year's biggest seller (in the American market). Susan Boyle comes in a close second. How that woman manages to continue to sell over 100K every week is beyond staggering to me. Go on, girlfriend. Other news per Billboard: album sales are continuing to dwindle (surprised?). Silver Lining? Total music-related purchases are actually up by a few percentage points. Take that, naysayers. 


+ In the wake of the New Year's Eve specials, a lot of people seem to be talking about Jennifer Lopez's performance "bodysuit" and how risque it was. I don't about risque. I would go with "unflattering" and the epitome of a fashion don't but that's just me. Homegirl is from New York. Doesn't she know how cold it is here in January? SMH. (Sidenote: I'm still not feeling the new single, but her revival of "Waiting For Tonight" made me quite happy.)


+ I finally saw 'Nine' over the weekend. It wasn't the musical opus I desperately wanted it to be, but Kate Hudson's "Cinema Italiano" wasn't as horrific as I feared (it's actually quite a toe-tapper). My fave part of the entire film had to go to Ms. Fergie and her "Be Italian". Beyond gorge. Brava! Brava! Bellisima!


+ News is continuing to pour out fast and furious regarding upcoming album release dates, and everyone and their mother on my blog roll have been posting what records they are most looking forward to in 2010. My list of expected offenders is growing by the day, but it's very apparent that 2010 will be a Year of the Woman, with expected releases (relatively soon to boot) by the likes of Kylie Minogue, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Robyn (finally!), Nadine Coyle (and hopefully another Girls Aloud record too...am I hoping for too much?), Ellie Goulding, Jada, Christina Aguilera (more on this later this week) and yes, Lady Gaga. My head is spinning. Literally. I think I might have died from estrogen overload. Check my pulse, please? Am I still alive? Okay...good. Of course, I still have love in my heart for the boys, in particular Travis Garland, Simon Curtis, and those involved in V Factory.


+ Speaking of excitement building, JoJo made me a very happy camper yesterday, throwing out a few song titles from her upcoming third album, All I Want Is Everything, into the Twitterverse. Those titles were: "Jumpin' Trains", "My Time Is Money" (oh snap!), "Shades", and "(I Only Know Him) In the Dark". Meow! My favorite little R&B-lette is all grown up and it makes me feel really old. But excited none-the-less.

+ On another related note, you may have heard that Róisín Murphy (pronounced Ro-Sheen for ya'll non-Irish folk) had a song leak a few days back. For the six of you who didn't hear about this (I kid...kind of), the song was/is called "Momma's Place" is the defiant anthem for a confident woman who doesn't take no ish and is sick and tired of wannabe's tryna jock her swag. Some point the finger that the song is a loving poke at The Fame Monster herself (the comparisons are kind of damning on the surface), but seeing as I'm a fan of both artists, I'd like to remain like Switzerland on this subject until this is confirmed. For now, let's just say that "Momma's Place" is one hot jam that combines today's electro swizzle with popular sonic fads of early 90's dance-pop (another comparison: "Alejandro"....yeah, I'll stop now). Considering I grew up on the La Bouches, the Ace of Baseses and the C+C Music Factorys of pop, I'm very very fangirly about the prospect of this sound becoming popular again. It also has some killer lyric lines in it. Case(s) in Point:  

• "So you think you know it all? That's just the arrogance of youth."
• "You think you invented being bad?"
• "I've earned respectability. You know I have a history."

and the big kicker:

• "It's all been done, your brand new craze. It all begun at Momma's Place."

ZOW!