Daily Digest: Michael Jackson Sales Predictions, Free R.E.M. Song, Ron Artest Starts Label

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MJ's Michael on Clue to Advertise A Quarter Million in Aboriginal Week
Michael Jackson's Michael is on clue to advertise amid 225,000 and 250,000 units in its aboriginal anniversary in stores, which should put the anthology in altercation with Susan Boyle's The Gift and Taylor Swift's Speak Now for the top atom on next week's albums chart. Solid debuts are aswell accepted for R. Kelly's Love Letter (150,000 to 160,000) and Diddy-Dirty Money's Last Train to Paris (60,000 to 65,000). [Hits Daily Double]


Download a Chargeless R.E.M. Song From New LP
R.E.M. are alms a chargeless download of "Discoverer," the advance clue from their accessible anthology Collapse Into Now, on their website. The anthology is due out on March 8. [REMHQ.com viaConsequence of Sound]


Lakers Brilliant Artest Launches New Almanac Label
Los Angeles Lakers brilliant Ron Artest launched a new hip-hop almanac characterization alleged Artest Media Group, which will be broadcast by SMC Recordings. AMG will be Artest's additional label: he launched Tru Warier in 2002. [AllHipHop.com]


Paltrow Pondering "Rock of Ages" Offer
Gwyneth Paltrow, whose singing career is on a cycle afterwards her actualization on Glee and the accessible Country Strong flick, is answer over an action to brilliant in the blur arrangement of the hair-metal agreeable Rock of Ages. "I just got the Software and I will apprehend it on the even home," Paltrow told Entertainment Weekly. "But it sounds like it could be fun." Tom Cruise and Mary J. Blige are aswell said to be because roles in the film. [Entertainment Weekly]


Rob Halford Says His Advancing Out Helped Change Abundant Metal
Judas Priest accompanist Rob Halford said that by advancing out as a gay man publicly, he helped change abundant metal fans' attitudes against homosexuality. "There are areas of music that are added compassionate, added tolerant, added open, added accepting and added aware," he told the San Diego Gay & Lesbian News. "What I anticipate I accept done is abort the allegory that abundant metal bands don't accept that capacity. Abundant metal now is a absolutely altered apple compared to abundant metal in 1980; the gay and lesbian apple is actual altered now to what it was in 1980. There are still a lot of issues that charge to be addressed, but I anticipate boring but absolutely our lives are accepting better." [San Diego Gay & Lesbian News via NME]


Don Was Laments the Death of Anthology Liner Notes
Grammy-winning ambassador Don Was (Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan) wrote a continued acknowledgment of the dying art of anthology liner addendum for Detroit's Metro Times, citation Frank Zappa's all-encompassing addendum for his Mothers of Invention's 1966 LP Freak Out. Was said Zappa's continued account of influences in the notes, which ambit from Bob Dylan to Bram Stoker, "changed my life," "schooled us in counter-culture history [and] gave absent teenagers an character forth with a mythology." [Detroit Metro Times via The Daily Swarm]

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