Atlantic on Hot Streak: Jewel Album is #1 out of the Box; Label Scores Three Singles in Billboard Top Ten.To download high-resolution, print-ready JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. images, click on the thumbnail image above. WARNING: these images are very large (800K+) Click here for caption Entertainment Editors/Business Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Multimedia assets available A photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.060603/bb1 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2003 In the same week that Atlantic Records  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. occupies the #1 spot on The Billboard 200 with Led Zeppelin's "HOW THE WEST WAS WON," Atlantic recording artist Jewel has exploded out of the box with her eagerly awaited new album, "0304." In only its first two days at retail, the album instantly became the #1-selling album in the U.S., putting Jewel on track to have the highest-debuting album of her career on next week's SoundScan and Billboard 200 current album charts. The enormous initial demand for "0304" has been fueled by the success of the album's first single, "Intuition," which is bulleting rapidly to the top of the national CHR/Pop and Top 40 Adult/Hot AC airplay air·play n. The broadcasting of an audio or audiovisual recording on the air over radio or television. airplay Noun the broadcast performances of a record on radio charts. The song's acclaimed companion video is also garnering major play on MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. and VH1, where it is in X-Large rotation and ranked at #10 on the "Top 20 Countdown." Jewel has been the subject of extensive media coverage heralding the release of the new album, highlighted this week by an eve-of-release performance of "Intuition" on NBC-TV's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Jay Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an Emmy-winning American comedian, writer who is best known as the current host of NBC television's long-running variety and talk program The Tonight Show. Biography Leno was born in New Rochelle, New York. . Atlantic is equally hot on the singles front, as the company scores with three out of the Top Ten on the latest Billboard Hot 100 chart (issue dated June 14th), more than any other label. Sean Paul's latest VP/Atlantic smash, "Get Busy," which spent three weeks in the #1 spot, holds on to the #2 spot for the third consecutive week. Big Entertainment/Queen Bee/Atlantic artist Lil' Kim jumps up to #5 with a bullet with her collaboration with 50 Cent, "Magic Stick," and Melisma/Atlantic rock group matchbox twenty hits #10 with a bullet with "Unwell." Ranking just one spot out of the Top Ten is VP/Atlantic artist Wayne Wonder Wayne Wonder (born Von Wayne Charles, 22 July 1966, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae / R&B artist. Biography Von Wayne Charles was born on July 26, 1966 in Buff Bay, Portland. , whose "No Letting Go" holds at #11. Note: A photo is available at URL: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.060603/bb1 |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion