Posts Tagged ‘Michael Jackson’

The all star cast remake of Quincy Jones/Michael Jackson’s ‘We Are the World’ debuted during the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

The remake features artists such as Jennifer Hudson, Pink, Miley Cyrus, Jamie Foxx, Tony Bennett, Barbra Streisand, Josh Groban, Kayne West, and Haitian native Wycelf Jean.

Producers Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie even kept part Michael Jackson’s original performance and the a duet with sister Janet Jackson.

All in all not a bad remake, I could’ve done with the auto-tuning from Lil Wayne and T-Pain though.

Watch for yourself and decide.

You can buy/download the song and video on iTunes now for $2.99 with proceeds going to Haiti Relief.

The 2010 Grammys have to come to a close, and the big winners tonight were Beyonce with 3 awards, Taylor Swift with 4 awards including Album of the year, and Lady Gaga with 2 awards.

Other big winners tonight was Kings of Leon, who won Record of Year for ‘Use Someboday’, Green Day took home Best Rock Album for ’21st Century Breakdown’, and Black Eyed Peas won for Best Pop Vocal Album.

The show included some amazing performances including Lady Gaga’s opening number with Elton John, Taylor Swift performing with Stevie Nix, Pink and Green Days featuring the Broadway cast of American Idiot performing ‘21 Guns’.

The performance that will stick out for everyone will be the Michael Jackson tribute with Cleine Dion, Usher, Jennifer Hudson, Carrie Underwood, Smokey Robinson; who all did sang along with Michael Jackson on his ‘Earth Song’.

Prince Michael and Paris Jackson took the stage to accept the lifetime achievement award on behalf of their father Michael Jackson.

Here is a full list of tonights winners

Album Of The Year

WINNER: Fearless, Taylor Swift

Best Female Pop Vocal

WINNER: “Halo,” Beyonce

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration

WINNER: “Run This Town,” Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Rihanna

Best Rock Album

WINNER: 21st Century Breakdown, Green Day

Best Pop Vocal Album

WINNER: The E.N.D., The Black Eyed Peas

Record of the Year

WINNER: “Use Somebody,” Kings Of Leon

Best Comedy Album

WINNER: A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift Of All!, Stephen Colbert

Best New Artist

WINNER: Zac Brown Band

Best Dance Recording

WINNER: “Poker Face,” Lady Gaga

Best Electronic/Dance Album

WINNER: The Fame, Lady Gaga

Best Country Album

WINNER: Fearless, Taylor Swift

Song Of The Year

WINNER: “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It),” Thaddis Harrell, Beyoncé Knowles, Terius Nash &

Best Alternative Music Album

WINNER: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Phoenix

Best R&B Album

WINNER: Blacksummer’s Night, Maxwell

Best Contemporary R&B Album

WINNER: I Am…Sasha Fierce, Beyoncé

Best Rap Album

WINNER: Relapse, Eminem

Best Metal Performance

WINNER: “Dissident Aggressor,” Judas Priest

Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual Or Group

WINNER: Five Peace Band — Live, Chick Corea & John McLaughlin Five Peace Band

Best Gospel Performance

WINNER: ”Wait On The Lord,” Donnie McClurkin Featuring Karen Clark Sheard

Best Latin Pop Album

WINNER: Sin Frenos, La Quinta Estación

Best Contemporary Blues Album

WINNER: Already Free, The Derek Trucks Band

Best Reggae Album

WINNER: Mind Control — Acoustic, Stephen Marley

Best Americana Album

WINNER: Electric Dirt, Levon Helm

Best Contemporary World Music Album

WINNER: Throw Down Your Heart: Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3 — Africa Sessions,

Best Musical Album For Children

WINNER: Family Time, Ziggy Marley

Best Classical Album

WINNER: Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10, Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

Michael Jackson was the King of Pop, but this weekend he was King of the Box Office!!

His ‘This Is It’ movie, made up completely of footage from rehearsals for the ‘This Is It’ tour brought in $21.3 million dollars this Halloween weekend ($101 million worldwide).  Earning the right to stay in theaters till the Thanksgiving weekend.

Last weeks #1 ‘Paranormal Activity’ fell to #2 with $16.5 million, with ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ at #3 with $7.3 million.

‘Couples Retreat’ is down to #4 with $6 million and rounding out the Top 5 is ‘ Saw VI’ with $5.5 million.

Weekends Top 10

1 Michael Jackson’s This Is It – $21,300,000
2 Paranormal Activity – $16,540,000
3 Law Abiding Citizen – $7,303,000
4 Couples Retreat – $6,097,000
5 Saw VI – $5,560,000
6 Where the Wild Things Are – $5,081,000
7 The Stepfather (2009) – $3,400,000
8 Astro Boy – $3,035,000
9 Amelia – $3,000,000
10 Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant – $2,809,000

Opening this week (11/6/09) we’ve got ‘The Box’ with James Marsden and Cameron Diaz,  Jim Carrey’s ‘ A Christmas Carol’, ‘The Fourth Kind’, and George Clooney’s ‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’.

The new season of South Park started last night and Trey & Matt wasted no time picking up on everything that happened over the last few months!!

**Spoiler Warning**

Last nights episode featured mainly on Ike being able to see dead famous people, mainly Billy Mayes (Oxyclean pitchman), but also showed Michael Jackson, DJ AM, Patrick Swayze, Farrah Fawcett, David Carradine, Walter Cronkite, Natasha Richardson, Dom DeLuise,and Ed McMahon.  The whole thing ended with Michael Jackson wanted to be a little white girl as he possessed Ike’s body.  Overall pretty damn funny!!

You can watch the full episode HERE!!

According to Neilson, over 31.1 million people tuned into Michael Jackson’s Memorial Service yesterday, making it the 2nd most watched memorial service ever.  The top spot goes to the late Princess Diana who died in 1997, her memorial service was viewed by 33.25 million viewers.

Online rating were also up, with roughly 29.4+ million viewers watching the service via an online feed serveral websites were offering.

Yesterday’s Memorial Service was aired on over 19 networks.

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