– As predicted, “Womanizer” sprints from #96 to #1, giving her the longest jump up the Hot 100 in history. It may be hard for her to repeat next week, though, given how iTunes, due to a “glitch”, dropped “Womanizer” from its site on Tuesday. The track has been re-upped, but the damage may have already been done for next week’s chart. In other Britney news, she’s going on tour next Spring, and she had a Starbucks Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate yesterday.
– PMN faves the Indigo Girls have a new CD ready to go sometime in the near future in two formats: with a full band, and just the two of them acoustic. Since they were dropped from Hollywood Records last year (“a real blessing”, says Amy Ray), the duo can pursue any option they want, but plan to stay independent for the foreseeable future. They do have their own label, so they know what they’re doing. BTW, Amy’s solo tour kicks off next week in Nashville.
– Nutty rocker Justin Hawkins, formerly of the Darkness, is out with a new group called Hot Leg. They’ll have a single out next week, and a CD out in January. After having heard his contribution for Eurovision, I’m surprised they let him record anything. The world will look up, yawn, and then go back to filing their nails.
– New releases this week include Keane, Keane and Keane. Does anything else matter? Well, there’s also a lot of Christmas crap getting released, along with Ray Montagne, Kenny Chesney, Ingrid Michaelson, Nikka Costa, and (’cause they need the money) Sixpence None the Richer. Speaking of Christmas, it’s like that for hip-hop fans, with new singles from Fitty, Ludacris, and T-Pain. Other singles of note include more Taylor Swift, John Legend and Fall Out Boy, as well as a pretty cool cover of “A Change Is Gonna Come” by Seal.
Stumble It!
Pop Music Notes 
I am really liking (peachy) Keane’s CD so far. Way poppier and happier than the last affair. Hurray for sobriety, right?!
And speaking of being clean and sober… give it up for ‘glitch’-buster Titney for overcoming and getting to #1 anyways.
Keane have released a special edition CD here with demo versions of each song on and it’s rather spiffy to hear the tunes in such a raw format.
L’Indigo Girls? LOVE THEM!!! SO MUCH! Can’t wait for their return.
ugh…i’m so tired of taylor swift already
Yuri, couldn’t agree more to sobriety. Should we drink to that?
Paul, one more reason why I like you, mister! Amy’s new one is supposed to be a little more mellow than some of her other solo stuff, so it might even be worth checking out.
Dan, Amen to that!
Pingback: Put It On a Billboard « Pop Music Notes