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| Beyonce retains top spot on U.S. Billboard album chart Thursday, Dec 26, 2013 03:19 PM PST  Beyonce held onto the top spot on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart for the second consecutive week as her new self-titled album sold 374,000 copies in the lead-up to Christmas, according to figures released Thursday from Nielsen SoundScan. The pop star's fifth solo album, which was released on December 13, has sold a total of 991,000 copies through December 22, which was the final day for tallying this week's chart. Currently the year's 12th-best selling album, "Beyonce" is expected to crack the top 10 in just a few weeks' time, Billboard said. The album, Beyonce's first since 2011, was released exclusively through Apple's iTunes digital music store and was not available in other retailers until December 21. Full Story | Top |
| Miley Cyrus makes underwear top prop in new music video Thursday, Dec 26, 2013 03:04 PM PST  Miley Cyrus's latest music video, which features the provocative pop singer in just her underwear, leaked online hours before its scheduled release on Thursday, prompting a profane rebuke from the former Disney star. The video for Cyrus's most recent single, "Adore You," shows the singer writhing between bed sheets, sucking her thumb and rubbing her body before putting on a crocheted top and singing in the bath. "We all know Smilers would break another record if it wasn't for the (expletive) face who leaked my video. Her previous music video for the song "Wrecking Ball," directed by celebrity photographer Terry Richardson, showed Cyrus swinging from a wrecking ball clad only in boots. Full Story | Top |
| Boffo box office as slew of Christmas movies opens Thursday, Dec 26, 2013 02:09 PM PST By Andrea Burzynski NEW YORK (Reuters) - The holiday season's new films drew crowds of people to theaters on Wednesday to make it the second highest-grossing Christmas Day on record for the U.S. and Canadian box office, according to estimates from box office tracking site Rentrak. Yesterday's box office haul was estimated at between $76.5 and $78 million, topping 2012's $74.9 million Christmas day earnings. Ben Stiller's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" took $7.8 million on its first day in theaters to put it in fourth place for Christmas Day. Other Christmas debuts included Keanu Reeves' "47 Ronin," which opened with $7 million, boxing movie "Grudge Match" which earned $4 million, and "Justin Bieber's Believe" which took in $1.3 million. Full Story | Top |
| 'Cartographer of No Man's Land' on World War One's place in fiction Thursday, Dec 26, 2013 01:11 AM PST By Randall Mikkelsen BOSTON (Reuters) - Writer P.S. Duffy wove her affection for Nova Scotia's maritime culture, a career in science and a background in history into a debut novel depicting the trauma of World War One on the psyche and society. The book, "The Cartographer of No Man's Land," is about a young would-be artist and his scarred return home after the Battle of Vimy Ridge, where Canada's victory helped forged its national identity. She spoke with Reuters about her writing life, science and literature, and the cultural legacy of World War One nearly 100 years after the first shot was fired in 1914. Q: How is World War One still culturally relevant? Full Story | Top |
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