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Tommy · Guru

RE: Shania records duet with Michael Bublé for his Christmas album

Tommy · Guru

Kellie Pickler sang Shania's part while singing "White Christmas" with Michael Buble on his Christmas special tonight. She did a good job!

Tommy · Guru

On the Mediabase Radio Airplay Adult Contemporary Chart, "White Christmas" climbed 3 spots this week to No. 17 with 216 spins/plays for the week in the U.S. That's an increase of 62 more plays than last week.

Butters · Guru

Tommy wrote:
Kellie Pickler sang Shania's part while singing "White Christmas" with Michael Buble on his Christmas special tonight. She did a good job!
Honestly, what the heck is wrong with Shania. She cannot even perform one song that she is duet partner on for a single tv special??? She has been singing for years and years and years. She cannot perform this song with Buble herself?? I have never heard of a singer recording a duet and just refusing to sing the song when he performs it and they bring in a replacement.
She is not touring now. She is not promoting. Her kid is in school all day. Her vegas gig is months and months away.....she can make one tv special.

candy-field · Veteran Member

My guess is that Shania signed a contract saying that she can't perform live until the Vegas shows are around the corner.

ShaniaFanalways · Senior Member

I agree with Tommy 100%. I get annoyed where she has a duet out and does not sing. She lost her voice ? I feel she ain't putting no effort right now in giving a real performance. I wonder if a album comes out before the Las Vegas show will Shania Twain Sing to promote it ? Makes me wonder...

Butters · Guru

candy-field wrote:
My guess is that Shania signed a contract saying that she can't perform live until the Vegas shows are around the corner.
I would believe this more if she has been steadily performing in public before her vegas announcement. But she hasn't been. She has been avoided being a singer for many, many, many years now.
And the show is still very far away. And what would be a better way to promote it and wet the appetite of the public than to have her sing a song on tv every now and then......
And she has tons of power in the industry, so if she desired to sing on a special here or there, she would be able to.

Izy Twain · Senior Member

Contract or no contract she might have been just busy doing stuff .

Tommy · Guru

The Canadian Invasion: Musicians from the Great White North dominate U.S. charts

Ben Kaplan Dec 9, 2011 – 11:39 AM ET

What is significant about Mr. Bublé’s achievement is the CanCon company he’s keeping on the charts. Rounding out the top five on America’s Billboard Chart, the definitive score card of the music industry since 1940, are Justin Bieber (No. 3), Drake (No. 4) and Nickelback (No. 5). For likely the first time in history, Canadians have four of the top five best-selling albums in the United States. (Adele is No. 2.)

“Part of it’s timing,” said Gary Trust, Billboard’s associate director of charts, adding that the Christmas albums of Mr. Bieber and Mr. Bublé are obvious catnip for seasonal music buyers (the majority of whom still buy physical copies of their music from actual stores). “It shows the variety of music coming out of Canada — the balladeer, the teen pop star, a rapper from Canada? Who would’ve expected that, and a straight-ahead rock band. There’s great music coming out of Canada and it’s resonating in the U.S. and worldwide.”

Canadian music had a similar moment in the 1970s, when Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, The Guess Who and Gordon Lightfoot ruled the airwaves. As well, there was a time when Canadian women were the biggest pop stars in the world. Nielsen SoundScan has been keeping track of record sales since 1991, and in its rankings three of the Top 10 biggestselling artists are Canadians: Shania Twain at No. 2, Alanis Morrissette at No. 3 and Céline Dion at No. 10.

However, this current crop of Canadian idols — coupled with Arcade Fire taking album of the year at the 2011 Grammys, The Sheepdogs being voted onto the cover of Rolling Stone and the recent crossborder success of Leslie Feist — signifies a historic moment in Canadian content taking over prime U.S. turf.

“Maybe you want to call it a mini-Canadian Invasion,” said Paul Tuch, director of Nielsen Entertainment. “What’s happening right now is extremely rare.”

It may be rare, but at least one Canadian Hall of Fame performer isn’t surprised. Andy Kim, who had a No. 1 song in 1968 with Sugar, Sugar, which he wrote for The Archies, said that in 1974, he, Paul Anka, Lightfoot and Terry Jacks, the Seasons in the Sun singer, all reached No. 1 in the United States.

“Nationalities don’tsucceed, talent succeeds,” said Mr. Kim. “In the U.S., only one thing matters: Do you have a hit?”

http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/12/09/the-canadian-invasion-musicians-from-the-great-white-north-dominate-u-s-charts/

Tommy · Guru

In its third week on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Chart, "White Christmas" climbs 4 spots to No. 12.

Michael Buble's Christmas album spends a second week in a row at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart!

Butters · Guru

Izy Twain wrote:
Contract or no contract she might have been just busy doing stuff .

Busy doing what exactly?? She does NOT have a real world job. She is a multi-millionaire. She has countless time on her hands. Please give me a break.

She has been too busy for 6 years now to sing in public??

I think she can find the time from her amazingly busy schedule (no tour, no albums, no day job) to sing in public from time to time. Somehow other singers accomplish this amazingly difficult task *sarcasm*.

She can find the time to promote her tell-all book. She can find the time to be on talk shows and NOT sing. She can find the time to film a reality show about how her husband cheated on her. But she cannot find the time to sing..........

So the mindset is that she "saving" it for Vegas. Well, how selfish of her then. I cannot afford Vegas. Most cannot afford Vegas. I guess we can just be happy with videos from 10 years ago when she use to actually be a performer and not a pretend one.

And yes, I am angry. I am beyond angry. I have been a fan from the beginning. I was one of the ones on the original country forums that would defend her. Went to countless shows of hers. Waited in anticipation for new albums. Read all the articles. I personally feel like she has given her fans the big f*** you and she could does not give a d*mn.

-- Edited by Butters on Saturday 10th of December 2011 02:50:24 AM

-- Edited by Butters on Saturday 10th of December 2011 02:54:36 AM

Izy Twain · Senior Member

Tommy wrote:
In its third week on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Chart, "White Christmas" climbs 4 spots to No. 12.
Michael Buble's Christmas album spends a second week in a row at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart!

Wow thats is Inreidable :). thanks for heads.

Butters i know Shiania is huge what i ment by busy is that she could have been. busy in her persinal life she does have a kid and a step kid. She also suports Fred in what he does also she might deceided to not sing and save it for vegas and went on a tripwith fred. Vegas is huge gig beyond big, and for someone who has dyspohina with her voice should just be resting so its golden when she goes to vegas it is like a injured athlet.

peever · Senior Member

I agree Vegas is a huge gig, despite what some people think! as for Shania not singing, what about before her divorce, why didnt she sing in 2007 0r 2008. Who knows, I believe once she gets back into veas, the sky will be the Limit, She could even perform other concerts, during vegas, Garth did it! at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville,

peever · Senior Member

As for When the album will come that's another story, im alittle skeptical as too if she will even release anything new again.

Izy Twain · Senior Member

peever wrote:
I agree Vegas is a huge gig, despite what some people think! as for Shania not singing, what about before her divorce, why didnt she sing in 2007 0r 2008. Who knows, I believe once she gets back into veas, the sky will be the Limit, She could even perform other concerts, during vegas, Garth did it! at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville,

vey true :)

Tommy · Guru

Michael Bublé- into the Christmas swing

Tuesday 13 December 2011

He's adored the world over but for Michael Bublé Ireland holds a special place in his heart. Janice Butler meets the Canadian crooner to talk love, marriage and that festive feeling.

Bublé-fever can be felt across the capital - photographers huddle outside a well-known Dublin hotel, fans and on-lookers begin to fill the cobbles of Grafton Street and while there may not be snow on the ground just yet - it's definitely beginning to look a lot like Christmas. The famous Canadian crooner is in town to herald in the beginning of the festive season with the all important task of switching on the lights and with a Christmas album soaring up the charts, it seems he's the perfect man for the job.

Like some who have gone before him (Garth Brooks, David Grey, Chris Rea to name just a few) Michael Bublé has practically been claimed by the Irish public as one of our own. In fact, per capita we're apparently his biggest fans, and he knows it.
"This is definitely different," he says of his connection to the great Irish public.
"I mean there are a few places where I have a great connection with the people, but not quite like this. When you're accepted like this it's hard not to love the country back. I think I've always liked it here because it's similar to Canada - you have a very dry sense of humour, it seems like people get me here. I can say things in Ireland and you guys find it funny because you understand my brand of humour, whereas in America sometimes they do not get it."

In the flesh he's smaller than you would think. That's said, it's not hard to see why women around the globe fall at his feet -with dreamy brown eyes, sharp tailored suits and a down-to-earth, guy-you-could-have-a-pint-with attitude - Michael Bublé is as smooth as the songs he sings.

As I sit down with the man dubbed the 'Canadian Sinatra', he politely asks how my day has been and explains that he's a bit tired and worried about his grandfather, who is unwell back home in Vancouver. "I was talking to my family and was asking them should I leave and come home, but of course they're saying no. They say he's going to be fine," he says, reassuring himself more than me.

But it was that very grandfather, Demetrio Santagà, whom he often credits for the way his life has turned out. An Italian plumber and music fanatic, Demetrio had played him Vic Damone's version of It Had to Be You when he was 12, and it awoke something in him. After school, Bublé gigged for ten years. He entertained pensioners on cruise liners, did musical theatre, was a singing telegram. But his determination finally paid off. At a corporate gig in 2000, he passed a CD to an impressed guest. The next day the guest called - he was an aide to the then-Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Bublé was hired to sing at Mulroney's daughter's wedding, at which David Foster (producer) was a guest. The rest is big-band history.

Now with four successful albums in the discography, Bublé, is presenting us with his Christmas offering - and album he says, is his most important yet. "I wasn't only introduced to jazz music with Christmas songs, I was introduced to music full stop. I was about four or five years old and that Bing Crosby record was playing around the house, probably from late October through to Christmas and it was my introduction to music."
"This is a record I've wanted to make my whole life. I instinctively knew that if I chose the right time and was sincere about the songs and the arrangement, that this could be a great album. I mean we all know it - every year about thirty to fifty artists bring out a Christmas record and it's basically about selling the product but I didn't want that, I want this album to still be playing in people's houses long after I'm gone."

And when it came to song selection that very Bing Crosby hit was top of the list.
"My first idea for the album was White Christmas and I knew I wanted Shania Twain to appear on it as a duet. I always loved Bing's version, but I thought it would be a bit naff to do it exactly like he did," he says, breaking into song and clicking his fingers. My heart skips a beat.
"We didn't expect Shania to say yes, what with everything she had been going through in her personal life with a very public divorce and other issues, but she did and I was thrilled."

It's fair to say that 2011 has been a great year for the 36-year-old, not only professionally but personally. Hearts around the globe broke into a million pieces last April when Bublé got married to Argentine actress Luisana Lopilato - a tiny, doll-like beauty who's a superstar in South America. He met the 24 year-old at one of his shows in Buenos Aires in 2008, after a messy break-up with British actress Emily Blunt had left him broken-hearted. Prior to Blunt, Bublé was engaged to actress/dancer Debbie Timuss, the woman who famously inspired him to co-write both Home and Lost.

While his first encounter with Lopilato was a difficult one, he spoke English, she didn't, she spoke Spanish, he didn't - Bublé knew instantly that she was the one, famously telling his grandfather - "if that girl falls in love with me, I'm going to marry her." And he did just that.
The loved-up pair had a religious ceremony in her native Buenos Aires followed by a huge party for friends and family in Vancouver - not all in the same day of course. However the newlywed is anxious to explain that it wasn't as lavish as the press made out.
"I'm delighted that I can dispel this rumour that we had three weddings - because we didn't. The deal is - we had set up a wedding in Argentina for my close friends and family who could fly down and then we threw a party in Canada afterwards. But then I found out in Argentina to be legally married you have to have a blood test and legal ceremony before you can be married by the priest - so we had to do that as well."
"On the day we went to do this, the streets were mobbed with people and we were trying to figure out what it was for, of course not thinking it was because of us. All of a sudden we got out of the car and it was crazy, the streets were closed off, police were everywhere and next thing we found ourselves sitting with the mayor in the registry office and the room was packed. It was so weird that one of her friends taped it and sold it to the press. Everyone made such a big deal out of it and for us this part of the wedding was just a technicality - we didn't feel like we were properly married until we had the ceremony with the priest.
"It was a great day, really special and honestly, probably one of the best nights of my life. To be honest, I was so nervous to get married, but you know what, it's just getting better and better every day."

With a soaring career and a wife whose busy filming movies around the globe, it comes as no surprise that the couple are fans of video chatting and the singer affectionately tells how they use modern-day technology to stay in touch.
"I think it's probably one of my favourite inventions of the decade. Only last night we had a date over Skype - we watched a movie, had a little curry - sometimes we don't even talk, but it feels like we've actually been together."

As he talks tenderly about his wife, this brings me on nicely to my next question - could Michael Bublé be the perfect man? On paper he has it all - good looks, great singer, sensitive, romantic and he can cook. In fact I'm sure almost every day a woman in Ireland hollers; 'why can't you be more like Michael Bublé'. Well, not to burst the bubble (excuse the pun), but according to the man himself, he has major flaws.
"If my wife was here now she'd be telling you that I'm an idiot! I'm like every guy, I can be really lovable, but also very annoying," he reveals.
"I'm the biggest slob ever.when I walk into a place I throw my clothes everywhere. Last year my wife threatened to put all my clothes in the swimming pool if I kept leaving them on the floor and she did." he laughs
"And, I'm all about sports and sometimes I get carried away with the boys and don't come home."
Enough, I say - no need to completely ruin the illusion.

As my time with the superstar comes to an end and his 'people' discuss their strategy to get him down Grafton Street without being completely mobbed, Bublé willingly signs a photograph for me - one of him back stage at the Aviva stadium last year where he played two sell-out gigs, and looks up with an excited smile.
"If anyone ever asks me about the standout show of my life that was it by far - that was the first time I've played in front of fifty five thousand people and not just that many people, but that many Irish people - now that was something special."
Like I said - the perfect man.

http://www.rte.ie/ten/2011/1213/bublem.html

Tommy · Guru

On the Mediabase Radio Airplay Adult Contemporary Chart, "White Christmas" falls 3 spots this week to No. 20 with 198 spins/plays for the week in the U.S. That's a decrease of 18 plays from last week.

Tommy · Guru

In its fourth week on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Chart, "White Christmas" falls 4 spots to No. 16.

Michael Buble's Christmas album spends a third week in a row at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart!

Tommy · Guru

On the Mediabase Radio Airplay Adult Contemporary Chart, "White Christmas" falls 1 spot this week to No. 21 with 182 spins/plays for the week in the U.S. That's a decrease of 16 plays from last week.

Tommy · Guru

Holiday Hits – and Misses

Published: Tuesday, December 20, 2011

By MARC BOISSONEAU
Special to the Insider

Old meets new as part of annual Christmas music offerings

PERSPECTIVE

NORTHERN MICHIGAN – Fall through December can mean only one thing in the music industry: an influx of new holiday recordings. This year’s releases vary from stars of yesteryear to current TV shows and telefilms.

Jazz-pop star Michael Bublé’s new release, simply titled Christmas, sounds much like you’d expect it to but carries one surprise: a duet with Shania Twain on “White Christmas.” Bublé and Twain singing on the same song is one of those things that can turn out either amazing or highly disappointing. And in this case, it’s the latter – a shame, considering the talent of each. Even more unfortunately, the rest of the album is quite boring, and “Jingle Bells,” a collaboration with kitsch-pop act The Puppini Sisters, is plain ridiculous.

http://www.morningstarpublishing.com/articles/2011/12/20/grand_traverse_insider/entertainment/doc4eef8af2df79d495788464.txt

twainee · Senior Member

I was really disappointed that she wasn't on the Xmas special.

Tommy · Guru

In its fifth week on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Chart, "White Christmas" climbs back up 2 spots to No. 14. (The song fell 4 spots last week from 12-16.)

Michael Buble's Christmas album spends a fourth week in a row at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart!

Tommy · Guru

On the Mediabase Radio Airplay Adult Contemporary Chart, "White Christmas" clmbs 4 spots this week to No. 17 with 188 spins/plays for the week in the U.S. That's an increase of 6 more plays from last week.

Tommy · Guru

In its sixth week on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Chart, "White Christmas" climbs up 4 spots to No. 10 marking a new peak position. (The song previously peaked at No. 12 in its third week on the AC Chart.)

Michael Buble's Christmas album spends a fifth week in a row at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart!

barebackwarrior · Senior Member

I know some are frustrated with Shania's absence, but no one walks a mile in her shoes. I used to get frustrated, but take an out of sight out of mind approach. If she isn't around I find other great artists to appreciate. It's not the same and it shouldn't be because each artist brings something different to the table. Look at Adele or Lady Gaga. They couldn't be more different from each other or Shania from that matter, and they are great in my opinion. Sounds like Shania's been in a crappy place these past few years. When you are a celebrity you can't break down in public or else the press will tear you into shreds. Look at Britney. Sometimes it's best to retire and come back when you are strong. Though I think she could have performed live with Buble. But who knows what was going on. When she was at the top of her game she was all about the fans. She's been living her life for herself after performing most of her life. I do know that Shania doesn't do crap and when she comes out it'll be big.

Tommy · Guru

On the Mediabase Radio Airplay Adult Contemporary Chart, "White Christmas" falls 11 spots this week to No. 28 with 78 spins/plays for the week in the U.S. That's a decrease of 110 plays from last week.

ShaniaFanalways · Senior Member

Top 10 Hit for Shania Twain and Michael Buble! Very happy for the song to do so well with no promotion from Shania. Still I think it's a sign that she can still have hits whether it's with duets or on her own.....