NEW RELEASES
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
***watch slideshow of new releases below***
BEYONCE I Am... Yours. An Intimate Performance at Wynn Las Vegas [CD/DVD] (Music World Music/Columbia)
BEYONCE I Am ... Sasha Fierce: Deluxe Edition [2008 album - 2 CDs, with bonus tracks] (Music World Music/Columbia)
JAMES BROWN The Godfather's Smackdown: Live! [CD/DVD from his 1980 U.S. tour] (Fuel)
BIRDMAN Pricele$$ (Guests: Lil Wayne, Drake, T-Pain, Jay Sean, Kevin Rudolf) (Ca$h Money/Universal Republic)
BLAKROC (The Black Keys and Damon Dash) BlakRoc (guests: Mos Def, Q-Tip, RZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Raekwon, Ludacris, Pharoahe Monch, Jim Jones, NOE, Nicole Wray, Billy Danze) (BlakRoc)
ANDREA BOCELLI Mi Navidad (Spanish version of his Christmas album; guests include Mary J. Blige, Natalie Cole, Reba McEntire, The Muppets, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir) (Decca)
SUSAN BOYLE I Dreamed a Dream (Syco Music/Sony BMG)
CARMEN AND THE ONE SEVEN (Carmen Electra) C-17 (C-17 Music)
PETULA CLARK This Is Christmas (Collectors' Choice)
BILL COSBY Bill Cosby Presents The Cosnarati: State of Emergency (Turtle Head/Redeye)
MILES DAVIS The Complete Columbia Album Collection [CD/DVD box set - 70 CDs and 1 DVD; exclusive to Amazon] (Columbia/Legacy)
BUDDY HOLLY Not Fade Away: The Complete Studio Recordings and More [Box set - 6 CDs, 203 tracks] (Hip-O Select)
JAY-Z Greatest Hits (Def Jam)
KRAFTWERK 12345678 The Catalogue [Box set - 8 CDs; all their studio albums remastered] (Astralwerks)
LADY GAGA The Fame Monster (Deluxe Edition) [2008 album, with eight new songs] (Cherrytree/Interscope)
ADAM LAMBERT For Your Entertainment (19 Recordings/RCA)
***watch video for first single "For Your Entertainment" below***
TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS The Live Anthology [Box set - 4 CDs; Vinyl] (Reprise)
REGIS & JOY PHILBIN Just You. Just Me. (Big Dot/RED)
POPE BENEDICT XVI Music From the Vatican — Alma Mater: Featuring the Voice of Pope Benedict XVI [CD/DVD] (eight original pieces of modern classical music, with the pope reciting passages and prayers) (Geffen)
THE PRIESTS (vocal trio of Roman Catholic clergymen) Harmony (RCA Victor)
THE PRODIGY Invaders Must Die: Special Edition [2 CD/DVD] (U.K. - Take Me to the Hospital/Cooking Vinyl)
IKE REILLY Hard Luck Stories (guests include Shooter Jennings and Cracker's Johnny Hickman and David Lowery) (Rock Ridge Music)
RIHANNA Rated R (producers include Justin Timberlake and Tricky Stewart) (Def Jam)
JAY SEAN All or Nothing (guest: Lil Wayne) (Ca$h Money/Universal Republic)
SHAKIRA She Wolf (Epic)
SKUNK ANANSIE Smashes & Trashes (2-CD best-of) (U.K. - One Little Indian)
SNAP! Snap! The Power: Greatest Hits (U.K. - Hard 2 Beat)
BRITNEY SPEARS The Singles Collection [Deluxe box set] (Jive)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Californication: Season 3 [soundtrack] (Lakeshore)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Ultimate Death Row Box Set [4 CDs] (Death Row)
VARIOUS ARTISTS The Princess and the Frog [soundtrack] (music by Randy Newman) (Walt Disney)
VARIOUS ARTISTS A Very Special Christmas 7 (A&M/Interscope)
JIMMY WAYNE Sara Smile (Daryl Hall & John Oates sing backup on the title track, a cover of their 1976 hit) (The Valory Music Co.)
HAYLEY WESTENRA Winter Magic (Decca)
RELATED LINKS
VIDEO PREMIER: Adam Lambert unveils 'For Your Entertainment' music video [WATCH HERE]
Adam Lambert performance cancelled by ABC, then picked up by CBS [SLIDESHOW of Lambert kisses]
Adam Lambert blames AMA "pitch" problems on sound, but whose fault was the bad kiss?
Taylor Swift tops Michael Jackson for Artist of Year honors; Adam Lambert's AMA kiss-off [SLIDESHOW]
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