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Not the Singles Lady — Apple Says Beyoncé Album Breaks Record
Apple said the new self-titled album from music superstar Beyoncé had sold 828,773 copies since it was released exclusively by the iTunes Store three days ago. The company said that made it the fastest-selling album ever on the music-selling site. U.S. album sales totaled 617,213 for a work that included 14 new songs and 17 videos.
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Turnaround via nuclear fission.Last Night’s VMAs, Now on Twitter and YouTube
Didn’t watch MTV’s award show? No need.Viral Video: Apple Fan Girl (Who Runs the World) Beyoncé
This is a spoof from Electric Spoofaloo of Beyoncé’s “Girls (Who Rule The World)” mashed up with Apple’s retail stores. Okay, it’s Friday.Viral Video: Adorable Tyke Dancing With Less Adorable Adults
This video is clearly cooked up for virality, but BoomTown fell for it anyway. In it, a cute little girl starts dancing like any kid would, but is soon joined by a bunch of adults and begins a choreographed number that would do Beyoncé proud. And then at the end, the kicker: It is all part of an ad for Samsung’s Galaxy 580 mobile phone. Giant, prolonged, I-was-totally-snookered sigh.How to Cram Most of the Web Into One Super Bowl Ad–And Not Sell TVs
Google got a second ad for free last night: A Vizio ad that promoted YouTube, along with a slew of other Web services. But the ad did a lousy job of promoting the company’s Internet-connected TVs. Pity, because it actually has something cool to pitch.Viral Video: Get Out Your 3-D Glasses for the Michael Jackson Grammy Tribute (Plus Colbert and the iPad)
While an iPad in the wild–held up by Stephen Colbert–got a lot of ink, here’s a video from last night’s Grammy Awards, which went all “Avatar” during a tribute to the late Michael Jackson–when a panoply of belt-it-out singers performed one of his posthumous songs with a 3-D twist. In fact, much of the audience was wearing 3-D glasses–including Beyoncé, pictured here–to properly experience the performance of “Earth Song” and its accompanying film, which was supposed to be part of Jackson’s “This Is It” tour.Voices