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Wow! Serena Ryder just made a HUGE debut on Billboard’s Heatseekers Album chart, #1!!!!
Now that’s how you make an entrance!
The album, “it is o.k”, is obviously doing more than just okay. It has already reached gold certification here in Canada and now is selling like hot cakes in the States. Earlier this year, it also won a Juno for Adult Alternative Album of the Year.
If you haven’t picked up
Serena’s album, it’s a must own. I freaking love it.
Congrats Serena!
>Can you believe that the Calgary Stampede is only a couple of weeks away?
Okay, that was a bit dramatic. It’s actually a couple couple of weeks away. But still fairly excited. Especially today they announced the rest of the Coke Stage lineup, which is usually my favorite part of the 10 days puke-fest!
The entire line up looks just like this:
July 2nd: Mariana Trench
July 3rd Hinder
July 4th Saving Abel
July 5th Eva Avila/Devine Brown
July 6th Serena Ryder/Simple Plan
July 7th The Trews
July 8th Thornley
July 9th Terry Clark
July 10th Kreesha Turner
July 11th Bif Naked
July 12th Johnny Reid (
listen here) (his song Darlin’ makes me want to make out with complete strangers)
After looking at the lineup, I’m going to give it a solid B.
There aren’t any HOLY SHIT I CAN’T BELIEVE I’M GOING TO SEE THEM FOR FREE.
But there aren’t really any HOLY SHIT HOW MUCH AM I GOING TO GET PAID TO WATCH THEM.
I did notice however that Carly Rae Jepsen has disappeared of the lineup? Let’s just hope it’s just a summer interns mistake. Carly is too fun to be dropped off the Coke Stage!
UPDATE: Both
Carly Rae Jepesen (
listen here) and
The New Cities (
listen here) are still playing the Coke Stage, they are opening acts, so don’t appear as headliners. But will some day…
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Canada is in the gripes of the Juno effect!
Luckily for us, that doesn’t mean that tweens all over the country are getting knocked up by Zac Efron lookalikes and talking in annoyingly pop-culturey sentences.
No, the so-called Juno effect is the sales bump that many Juno winners experience after winning the “Canadian Grammy”. Not be confused with the Canadian Granny, which is completely different and far harder to win.
According to Nielsen Soundscan, many Canadian artists saw huge jumps in their sales after
hanging out with me in Vancouver for Juno weekend. Are they related? Probably not.
Album sales:
- Divine Brown (+16%)
- Nickelback (+33%)
- Same Roberts (+88%)
- Serena “i like your shirt” Ryder (+18%)
- The Stills (+126%!!!!!!)
Digital Track Sales
- City And Colour – “Sleeping Sickness” +230%
- Divine Brown – “Sunglasses” +75%
- Nickelback – “Something In Your Mouth” +99%
- Sam Roberts – “Them Kids” +236%
- Serena Ryder – “Little Bit Of Red” +62%
- Simple Plan “Your Love Is A Lie” +59%
- The Stills – “Being Here” +189%
I’ve bolded those that make my life better. You should do the same. Random fact: Do you know that it is proven that you feel much better about your self after paying for Canadian music? You hear that masochits?
Oh and Dallas, I know I promised you we’d hang out, because we are besties, but I didn’t realize you were coming to Calgary so soon and now you are sold out. NO! I didn’t say you sold out, I said your show did. You’ll have to find some other audience member to sing horribly out of tune with you.
