Taylor Swift Concert Tickets Sell-Out…In Five Minutes!
12/09/2010 08:58:00 AM
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Three albums later and Taylor Swift’s still the hottest ticket in town.Shh! Don’t tell Kanye.
Tickets for dates on Taylor’s upcoming Speak Now Tour are selling out faster than Swifty fans can update their browsers. The singer sold out two shows at the Staples Center in Los Angeles in two minutes and the 68,000-seat Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, in five minutes, The Hollywood Reporter said this week. Seven more sell-outs followed, all on the heels of a record-breaking run for her third album Speak Now, which sold over a million copies in its first week of release, making the disc the best debut for an artist in five years.
Concert promoters and ticket vendors haven’t seen this much fan interest in a show since Hannah Montana’s 2007 Best of Both Worlds Tour. Taylor’s tour managers have added additional shows to the tour schedule to accommodate more fans. One more Taylor show has been added at Gillette Stadium on June 26 and the “Love Story” songstress will now take the stage at the Staples Center on Aug. 27 and Aug. 28.
The full Speak Now Tour is expected to touch down in 19 countries for 90 shows set to kick off in Singapore on Feb. 9.
Susan Boyle’s holiday gift to all has given her another week on top of the Billboard 200 albums chart. After being unseated Kanye West’s new album last week, The Gift sold 272,000 copies to bring her to No. 1. What most thought would debut on top this week, the Black Eyed Peas’ The Beginning, stalled at No. 6. Only 119,000 copies were bought. Taylor Swift’s Speak Now comes in at No. 2, moving 182,000 units. While 10-year-old America’s Got Talent sensation Jackie Evancho and her Christmas album, O Holy Night, comes in at No. 3 selling 145,000 copies. Check out the full top 10 below.
Just hours after I clued you in on Jennifer Aniston's new best friend, Chelsea Handler, going on a particularly nasty and graphic rant about Angelina Jolie, calling the mother of six a "f****ing b***h" and a "c**t," Chelsea addressed the situation on her E! show, 'Chelsea Lately,' making it clear Jennifer had nothing to do with her pointed attack.
Yeah yeah yeah, 2010 isn’t quite over, and there are still several films high on our want-to-see list — Tron: Legacy, How Do You Know?, True Grit, Little Fockers, etc. But 2011 is nigh upon us, and we here at PopWatch central could not help but notice how jam-packed the impending year truly is with highly anticipated movies of all stripes. To wit: In the spring, we’ve got the Johnny Depp animated film Rango (March 4), sci-fi action flicks I Am Number Four (Feb. 18) and Battle: Los Angeles (March 11), and Zack Snyder’s geektastic fantasia Sucker Punch (March 25). The summer promises the flying fists of Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom (May 26), the mysterious J.J. Abrams film Super 8 (June 10), the plastered doofuses of The Hangover 2 (May 26), more of Michael Bay’s stampeding robots in Transformers: Dark of the Moon (July 1), and a cavalcade of comic-book movies: Thor (May 6), Captain America (July 22), X-Men: First Class (June 3), Green Lantern (June 17). And a full year from now, we’ll be talking about fall and holiday movies like Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn (Dec. 23) and Steven Spielberg’s War Horse (Dec. 28), or Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Dec. 16) and Daniel Craig in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Dec. 21).
Will The Wolverine be the biggest hit of the X-Men universe? We won’t know till the film opens (reportedly in 2012) but it certainly might be our biggest Wolverine: Hugh Jackman tells EW that director Darren Aronofsky has already asked him to gain 25 lbs of muscle — “which is more than I ever have for the role” — before filming begins next spring. “It’s not easy for me,” he says. “Because I’m actually quite long and lean.” For advice he turned to none other than The Rock! “I had a chat with Dwayne Johnson, who did 25 pounds for his movie,” Jackman says, referring to Johnson’s latest, Faster. “I rang him up and was like, Okay, tell me what’s going on.” The answer: Six months, a pound a week, 6,000 calories a day which, Jackman points out, is an awful lot of chicken, steak, and brown rice.
No surprise here, really, but it’s good to see it confirmed: HTC has recently told Tech Radar that it “will definitely have” Android 2.3 Gingerbread on a number of its handsets.
