The Police reunion is 2007’s top concert tour grosser
By Gerry Plaza
They never announced they disbanded. They only said they went separate ways. But their 2007 reunion tour dispels common notion that they have been forgotten.
The Police posted the highest-grossing concert tour for 2007, raking in $132 million in the United States and $212 million worldwide. The tour is still ongoing, with the Latin American leg ended earlier this month. The tour will restart on Jan. 17 in New Zealand.
The trio of Sting, Andy Summers, and Steward Copeland, had a US take way above the runner-up in the Pollster list. Country star Kenny Chesney figured $71 million in his own tour, which is nearly half of the 80s New Wave rockers’ earnings.
Billboard: Groban’s ‘Noel’ is year’s top album
By Gerry Plaza
It was Josh Groban’s scintillating voice and the spirit of Christmas that made the phenomenon. Now Billboard Magazine makes it official.
Groban’s “Noel” is 2007’s top selling album after staying at four weeks on top of Hot 200 Album Chart, the only Christmas album to reach that milestone. Groban broke Elvis Presley’s record for a Christmas album, when the latter’s “Elvis’ Christmas Album” also stayed on top of the Billboard album chart in 1957 for four weeks, albeit non-consecutively, Billboard reported.
Billboard cited Nielsen SoundScan data in its report that “Noel” sold 669,000 copies in the week ended December 16 running to a 2.77-million total, eclipsing the soundtrack of “High School Musical 2″ as the year’s best-selling album.
6cyclemind and the year that was
What goes up must come down, or so the song goes, but everything just keeps going higher and higher for one of the country’s busiest bands
by Clarissa Concio
Photography by Erwin Barleta for Edge of Light
It’s been a very, very long year for 6cyclemind. If energy equals distance multiplied by time, then the past year should have drained all the life out of the band–they’ve played seven gigs in one single day, sang to 30,000 people at Tagbilaran, ridden with weird cab drivers in Dubai and even serenaded fans in the middle of a storm in Bohol. Dubai alone is 6,916 air kilometers from Manila, Tagbilaran roughly 500 and Cagayan de Oro is 810. Now you do the math. Maybe anyone else would have thrown the proverbial towel in, cashed in their year of non-stop gigging and endorsement responsibilities and took a well-deserved break from the music scene. But resting is far from the minds of Ney Dimaculangan (vocals), Rye Sarmiento (rhythm guitars), Chuck Isidro (lead guitars), Bob Canamo (bass), Tutti Caringal (drums) and sixth member, main songwriter and the band’s foundation and manager Darwin Hernandez. Granted, it would be more difficult to stop the wheels from turning once they’ve started, so it looks like the momentum 6cyclemind’s picked up since January of 2007 will well be carried over until 2008.
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