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Post by Bojangles on Nov 25, 2012 23:42:18 GMT -5
Omg when does that book come out!? That's a must have! On Tuesday the 27th!
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Post by jdanton2 on Nov 26, 2012 6:47:49 GMT -5
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Post by Bojangles on Nov 26, 2012 14:28:32 GMT -5
12/1/12 Billboard 200: 106 * HOUSTON*WHITNEY HOLIDAY ALBUM 5,200 +48%
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on Nov 28, 2012 16:51:09 GMT -5
BOBBI KRISTINA WRECKS Camaro in Nasty Car Crash Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina has miraculously emerged unscathed after wrecking her Chevy Camaro in a frightening car crash moments ago ... TMZ has learned. The accident just went down in Alpharetta, Georgia -- law enforcement tells us a passer-by noticed Bobbi's car all smashed up in an embankment and called 911. When emergency personnel arrived at the scene, Bobbi Kristina was standing next to her vehicle and appeared to be uninjured. Cops conducted an official accident investigation -- and believe Bobbi Kristina simply lost control of her car while making a left turn out of her apartment complex ... and drove over a curb and down an embankment, striking several small trees along the way. Eventually, the car came to a stop on a local park trail. After the investigation, cops issued BK a traffic citation for "failure to maintain lane." Cops say ... it doesn't appear drugs or alcohol were a factor in the crash. We reached out to Bobbi Kristina's camp -- so far, no word back. Read more: www.tmz.com/2012/11/28/bobbi-kristina-car-crash-mustang-accident-photo/#ixzz2DYZYj4O5
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Post by HolidayGuy on Nov 28, 2012 18:17:42 GMT -5
The compilation drops 14-58 in its second week on the Billboard 200. Sales of 57,000 to date.
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Post by Bojangles on Nov 28, 2012 18:20:03 GMT -5
So many people went out and bought the first Greatest Hits this year, I'm not surprised this one isn't selling a lot out of the bat because it pretty much has the same songs as the first one, just the original dance songs.
Not to mention how much of her music was illegally downloaded after her passing.
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Post by Bojangles on Nov 28, 2012 18:22:08 GMT -5
BOBBI KRISTINA WRECKS Camaro in Nasty Car Crash Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina has miraculously emerged unscathed after wrecking her Chevy Camaro in a frightening car crash moments ago ... TMZ has learned. The accident just went down in Alpharetta, Georgia -- law enforcement tells us a passer-by noticed Bobbi's car all smashed up in an embankment and called 911. When emergency personnel arrived at the scene, Bobbi Kristina was standing next to her vehicle and appeared to be uninjured. Cops conducted an official accident investigation -- and believe Bobbi Kristina simply lost control of her car while making a left turn out of her apartment complex ... and drove over a curb and down an embankment, striking several small trees along the way. Eventually, the car came to a stop on a local park trail. After the investigation, cops issued BK a traffic citation for "failure to maintain lane." Cops say ... it doesn't appear drugs or alcohol were a factor in the crash. We reached out to Bobbi Kristina's camp -- so far, no word back. Read more: www.tmz.com/2012/11/28/bobbi-kristina-car-crash-mustang-accident-photo/#ixzz2DYZYj4O5This girl...... :(
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Post by Bojangles on Nov 28, 2012 18:41:55 GMT -5
Other fans have brought up Bobbi Kris' recent tweets and then this accident happened after she talked about driving to the end of the world? She worries me. Nothing fucking better not happen to her too..........
Bobbi Kristina Brown þ@REALbkBrown I'm leaving , this this good ole town and driving to the end of the world . Maybe it's beautiful there (: Xxxo
Bobbi Kristina Brown þ@REALbkBrown "Who do I trust in this world? Pfft well that's easy beezie, #Myself, No1 will kno's me like ME&They'd rather not take thtchance2knoME, &2me
Bobbi Kristina Brown þ@REALbkBrown That's incredibly fine .. Because you'd be missing out on a #REALperson. Xxo #amryofme #onmyown #goingtomakeit #determined .
Bobbi Kristina Brown þ@REALbkBrown I guess it's time 4me2stop depending on anyone. It's my time2follow what Mom&The Lord put out on this path for me. #Thankful. Mom xxo
then she tweeted this today Bobbi Kristina Brown þ@REALbkBrown My#PersonalGuardianAngel•• thankumom•miss&loveumre u'lleverkno. NotAScratch&ok ••• Wow,PraiseGod. @nickdgordon ••• #SeriousChangeswithinME.
Bobbi Kristina Brown þ@REALbkBrown #LETMELIVE without YOUppl crucifying me?! OH, yes now I remember .. YOUppl did the SAME DAMN THING2 JESUS.& he overcame you ALL. #NOWWATCH.
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Post by So Pure on Nov 29, 2012 0:32:37 GMT -5
Yikes!
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Post by Caviar on Nov 29, 2012 8:45:13 GMT -5
Put this girl on suicide watch.
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Post by Bojangles on Nov 29, 2012 12:01:02 GMT -5
Last night NBC showed this SNL skit Whitney did with Rosie O Donnell, Penny Marshall, Will Ferrell, and Molly Shannon as "Mary Katherine Gallagher" during their Christmas special. Pretty funny ![](http://sharetv.org/images/guide/344005.jpg) ![](http://abigpicturewindow.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/whitney-houston-snl-tribute.png) & footage of them rehearsing for SNL
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Post by Bojangles on Nov 29, 2012 12:15:26 GMT -5
Whitney's Holiday Album is #158 this week on the Billboard 200. It sold 8200 (a 57% increase). Total sales are ~511,000.
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Post by Bojangles on Nov 30, 2012 11:37:15 GMT -5
Just a reminder, "Sparkle" was released on blu-ray and DVD today.
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Post by Bojangles on Nov 30, 2012 12:06:21 GMT -5
'Tribute to an Icon' captures radiant Whitney Houston Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY A new photo book devoted to the late pop star holds 130 photos by 22 acclaimed photographers. ![](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1g3bpix4U1r0d23ho1_500.jpg) Story Highlights•'Whitney: Tribute to an Icon' compiles photos spanning 30 years of Houston's career •Impressed by Randee St. Nicholas' book of Prince photos, the Houston family enlisted her to curate 'Icon' •"We had thousands of amazing photos ... She didn't have a bad side" In Randee St. Nicholas' photos of Whitney Houston on the set of the 1993 I'm Every Woman video, the singer appears composed and stunningly pretty, a triumph over the shooting conditions. "She was 8½ months pregnant and we were on the Lower East Side in New York during a brutal winter," says St. Nicholas, who also directed the video. "We shot inside a building with no heat or electricity. It was 10 degrees below zero. And Whitney was radiant." Radiant could describe most of the images in Whitney: Tribute to an Icon (Atria, $40), out today. The coffee-table tome contains 130 photos curated by St. Nicholas, whose work joins 21 acclaimed photographers, including David LaChapelle, Steven Meisel, Norman Seeff, Kevin Mazur, Neal Preston and Ebet Roberts. Impressed by St. Nicholas' 21 Nights, 2008's lavish Prince photo book, Houston's family requested that she plumb her archives for a similar treatment of the R&B diva, who died in February. (Coincidentally, the first video St. Nicholas directed was Prince's Gett Off; the second was Houston's Woman.) "I said I didn't want to use only my photographs, especially since this was going to be the official family tribute book," St. Nicholas says. "I thought it should be broader than my relationship with her. I wanted it to span 30 years of her career." She faced challenges tracking down certain original negatives and completing the project within six weeks so Tribute would be on shelves by the holidays. And she was overwhelmed by the task of paring the cache. "Every single photographer had incredible pictures of Whitney," she says. "We had thousands of amazing photos. I didn't find one picture where I said, 'Oh, she looks terrible.' She didn't have a bad side. She had gorgeous cheekbones and a captivating smile. She was a beautiful girl inside and out." Houston, however, wasn't always an ideal subject. "It wasn't that she didn't like being photographed," St. Nicholas says. "She didn't like to hold still. She was very gracious, but she liked to sing and dance and she was always laughing and talking. And at her height, she was a very busy girl. There was a lot going on." St. Nicholas says she hopes the book will remind fans of Houston's enormous talent, beauty and effervescent personality and lessen the focus on sordid headlines that plagued her later years. "There wasn't always light in her life, but she was light," St. Nicholas says. "She was full of life, very focused and loyal to a fault. She rose above all the press about the trouble in her life and gave so much to her fans. It's no accident that she mesmerized an entire world.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2012 14:43:25 GMT -5
Just a friendly reminder that exact Soundscan numbers are not allowed for legal reasons. Please remember to round them to the nearest 100 or 1,000 :)
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Post by Bojangles on Nov 30, 2012 15:12:33 GMT -5
Ok, got it. I just copied the numbers from another board but I'll remember that.
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Post by Bojangles on Nov 30, 2012 15:15:53 GMT -5
Albums With 10 Million in U.S. Sales, 1991-Present*
(Artist, Title (Year of Release), Sales to Date, Time to 10 Million)
1. Metallica, Metallica (1991), 15.83 million, 337 weeks 2. Shania Twain, Come On Over (1997), 15.52 million, 96 weeks 3. Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill (1995), 14.80 million, 66 weeks 4. Backstreet Boys, Millennium (1999), 12.20 million, 39 weeks 5. Beatles, 1 (2000), 12.11 million, 227 weeks 6. Whitney Houston/Soundtrack, The Bodyguard (1992), 12.05 million, 72 weeks 7. Santana, Supernatural (1999), 11.73 million, 60 weeks 8. Creed, Human Clay (1999), 11.62 million, 93 weeks 9. Bob Marley & the Wailers, Legend (1984), 11.17 million**, 18 years 10. 'N Sync, No Strings Attached (2000), 11.13 million, 43 weeks 11. Norah Jones, Come Away With Me (2002), 10.88 million, 259 weeks 12. Celine Dion, Falling Into You (1996), 10.80 million, 160 weeks 13. Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP (2000), 10.65 million, 343 weeks 14. Britney Spears, . . . Baby One More Time (1999), 10.57 million, 106 weeks 15. Hootie & the Blowfish, Cracked Rear View (1994), 10.28 million, 442 weeks 16. Soundtrack, Titanic (1997), 10.17 million, 263 weeks 17. Backstreet Boys, Backstreet Boys (1997), 10.13 million, 226 weeks 18. Eminem, The Eminem Show (2002), 10.12 million, 489 weeks 19. Usher, Confessions (2004), 10.04 million, 433 weeks 20. Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory (2000), 10.03 million, 617 weeks 21. Adele, 21 (2011), 10.02 million, 92 weeks
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Post by jdanton2 on Nov 30, 2012 19:55:37 GMT -5
Sparkle movie DVD and Blu ray is out today. ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png)
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Post by Nephalem on Dec 2, 2012 1:09:55 GMT -5
Those photos are beyond gorgeous. She was such a beauty.
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Post by Cory | Alan on Dec 3, 2012 9:28:40 GMT -5
shockingly - I was in Kroger and they had Whitney's book!!
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Post by divasummer on Dec 3, 2012 10:11:28 GMT -5
The book is great. It had alot of rare shots and pictures I had never seen before. I did notice a couple of typos and they included the infamous pic of her areola from the "I'm Your Baby Tonight" Tour is included.
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Post by Bojangles on Dec 3, 2012 13:06:50 GMT -5
The book is great. It had alot of rare shots and pictures I had never seen before. I did notice a couple of typos and they included the infamous pic of her areola from the "I'm Your Baby Tonight" Tour is included. ![:-x](http://images.proboards.com/lipsrsealed.gif)
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Post by Bojangles on Dec 3, 2012 13:09:59 GMT -5
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Post by Bojangles on Dec 3, 2012 13:18:52 GMT -5
Producer Narada Michael Walden has just released a book about his time with Whitney, mostly about his time recording her, but he's also spilling the tea about how big of a BITCH Aretha was to Whitney when they recorded their duet in the 80's, and also how much Whitney was in love with Eddie Murphy and how he broke her heart.
CW member writes from Walden's book...
So this is definately another book I need to order!
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Post by Active Aggressive on Dec 4, 2012 12:59:49 GMT -5
So, I saw Sparkle. Not bad at all. Jordin was predictably wooden but she had flashes of promise. Tika had some funny moments. I liked her in OLTL so I wasn't surprised. But...man, that Carmen Ejogo was something special. I think she is worthy of a Supporting Actress Nom. I even warmed up to her voice, which I hated on the recordings. I think I may even get the soundtrack now. Whitney's speaking voice was a bit off-putting. Someone mentioned it was because of dental work. It just sounded...odd to me. However, she looked beautiful and I always enjoyed her scenes. I wanted to see more of her but what she did was nice. Her singing in the church was fantastic.
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Post by Dalliance on Dec 4, 2012 17:59:50 GMT -5
Aretha Franklin is the most...ugh. Has she ever even really been a superstar? What a woman of unspeakable delusions.
...if this is even true, anyways. Aretha was one of her most vocal cheerleaders in the aftermath of her death.
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Post by Bojangles on Dec 4, 2012 18:07:19 GMT -5
So, I saw Sparkle. Not bad at all. Jordin was predictably wooden but she had flashes of promise. Tika had some funny moments. I liked her in OLTL so I wasn't surprised. But...man, that Carmen Ejogo was something special. I think she is worthy of a Supporting Actress Nom. I even warmed up to her voice, which I hated on the recordings. I think I may even get the soundtrack now. Whitney's speaking voice was a bit off-putting. Someone mentioned it was because of dental work. It just sounded...odd to me. However, she looked beautiful and I always enjoyed her scenes. I wanted to see more of her but what she did was nice. Her singing in the church was fantastic. Carmen was technically the best actress on the movie, she had her scenes and character DOWN. I wish they showed more of Whitney too, but the producers said she wasn't even going to be in the movie and then decided at the last minute to play the part of the mom and change the name to Emma, she purposely wanted a smaller role. The scene where the girls snuck out, I guess there's a whole scene showing them put something in her drink, shows her drink it, and then pass out on the couch....but they cut it out after everything happened. But I thought Whitney played her character well, she was MEAN and I LOVED it. I know what you're saying about the way she talked on some parts, it's like she spoke too fast and I've noticed that even before the movie and I'm sure it's because of the dental work...... but it's ok, she still played her role well and yes, she looked beautiful.
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Post by So Pure on Dec 4, 2012 18:22:02 GMT -5
I watched it this past weekend as well. I was really surprised by how much I liked it. Jordin was what I expected but I didn't expect Whitney to be such a great character actress. She sure looked her age though!? She looked 25 in the 'Million Dollar Bill' video...that was just a couple years ago. Those last few years must have been really hard on her.
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Post by Bojangles on Dec 4, 2012 18:30:35 GMT -5
Narada talks about Mariah in the new Whitney book too!: This is Whitney with Narada ![](http://www.soulculture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/NaradanWhitney2-660x485.jpg) ![](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md2sfzeDql1r0d23ho1_1280.jpg) ![](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mduxruRREK1r0d23ho1_1280.jpg) and them w/ Aretha during that session..
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Post by Bojangles on Dec 6, 2012 12:06:39 GMT -5
Don't have the sales figures yet, but both albums rose on Billboard
53 58 14 3 I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston, Whitney Houston 14
92 158 106 10 One Wish: The Holiday Album, Whitney Houston 49
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