I’ve long wondered if an “Oprah’s Music Club”—an analogue to her beloved-by-publishers Book Club, in which the talk-show host gives a tome her blessing, causing it to actually be stocked in stores in anticipation of sales going sky-high—would be a boon for the music business, particularly in this time of faltering sales and eternally delayed projects. Well, the new season of her signature show bows next week, and its first few episodes will certainly be a test of whether or not she can make her audience feel like buying music once again. More »
Admit it: The episode of Oprah potentially resulting from this meeting of the minds at last night’s Time 100 party would be amazing. [Life via The Real Matt Wright] More »
Yesterday’s Oprah wasn’t only notable for the… More »
ARTISTS: will.i.am, David Foster, Faith Hill, Seal, Bono, and Mary J. Blige
TITLE: “America’s Song”
WEB DEBUT: Jan. 19, 2009
A few months back, you may recall that we posted a video by one Charice Pempengco*, a big-voiced teenager from the Philippines who blasted through Whitney Houston’s “I Have Nothing” on Oprah and won over the hearts of many a Google-equipped Oprah Winfrey acolyte in the process. Well, according to news reports out of Charice’s home country, Oprah has become so entranced by this young lady, she’s decided to manage Pempengco’s music career here in the States, thus proving to the world that she is the only person left who can single-handedly steer anything resembling a monoculture in this country, even in the more-fragmented-by-the-day music business. How do you know that Oprah’s serious? The power of her show resulted in Pempengco sharing the Madison Square Garden stage with Celine Dion earlier this week!
chrism: She actually did it: No. 1: “Bleeding Love,” Leona Lewismauraidolator: wow!chrism: I can’t believe Sony BMG pulled that shit offmauraidolator: oprah manchrism: I know right?!!mauraidolator: hahachrism: I mean, wow — what was I saying about “military efficiency”? More »
When I heard that next Brit thing Leona Lewis was on Oprah earlier this week–complete with Oprah proclaiming that “a star was born” after her performance of “Bleeding Love”–I was going to set up a post about how it might affect her album sales, only to find out that the domestic version of her… More »
Jay-Z, who was interviewed by daytime-TV powerhouse Oprah Winfrey for the October edition of her magazine O, will appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show come Sept. 24. [