SOMETHING'S COOKING IN THE NICKS CAMP

A couple of intersting tweets from Producer Dave Stewart (Eurythmics):

"wrote a great song with Stevie Nicks on Monday called "Everybody Loves You"

and when asked if this means Stevie's making a new album?.... He responded with:

"she's on top form and I see that possibility"

What this all means is anyones guess.  And where this all falls within Stevie's album making process, if that's in fact what she's doing is really up in the air - maybe she's writing music with Dave Stewart for another artist to sing?... Maybe it's just the beginning of putting an album together for herself and we have a few more years to wait for it to be complete... And you never know, maybe she's been working on this already for a few years and it's the middle of the process...it could also be the final leg of making an album.  Man, you could speculate all day about this!  In any case, it's great to hear she's still interested in making new music whether it's writing for herself, others, or producing music for Michelle Branch, which Michelle Branch tweeted about earlier in the month (link)...  Personally, I hope Stevie's working on music for herself... It's been far too long since her last studio album Trouble in Shangri-La came out (2001).

And it's not Dave's first encounter with Stevie as he explains in this interview from Rockline from a couple of years ago when talking about the inspiration behind writing Tom Petty's song "Don't Come Around Here No More" back in the early 80's.

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ON STAGE WITH LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM AND FLEETWOOD MAC

Say You Will Era - 2003

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(VIDEO) MICK FLEETWOOD SYNDEY, SOUTH JUNIORS 2/23/10

MICK FLEETWOOD BLUES BAND
"BLACK MAGIC WOMAN"
South Juniors, Sydney, AU 2/23/10

FLEETWOOD MAC AT #11 ON BILLBOARD ANNUAL TOP MONEY EARNERS LIST

In music, success can be measured by many yardsticks: Billboard No. 1s, Grammy Awards, AA medallions. But as acts from Barrett Strong to Pink Floyd to Sean "Diddy" Combs have testified in song, when you come right down to it, it's all about the benjamins.

The fourth edition of our annual countdown of music's highest earners finds wide-eyed youngsters (Kings of Leon, Taylor Swift) rubbing elbows with their well-heeled elders (Bruce Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac). As the music industry grows ever more complicated, so does our top-secret* Money Makers formula -- comprising, among other variables, monies earned from CD and digital sales, publishing royalties and all forms of streaming. But one thing remains constant: Touring is the prime fattener of bank accounts, as evidenced most dramatically in the eye-popping, chart-topping tally of high-end road hog U2.

Here's the top 11. The full article and top 40 list can be found at Billboard Magazine

Fleetwood Mac lands at No. 11

11. Fleetwood Mac
$24,751,540

The baby boomer idols land on the list for the first time thanks to the group's $24 million take from its Unleashed tour, its first in five years. The trek grossed $71.2 million from 65 shows reported to Boxscore and landed at No. 14 on Billboard's top tours list last year. Fleetwood Mac earned less than $700,000 in the United States from its album sales, with its 1988 "Greatest Hits" moving 135,000 copies -- about half its U.S. album total for the period. The band earned roughly the same amount from digital track sales ($71,100) as it did from digital album sales (70,200).

10. Metallica - $25,564,234

9. Kenny Chesney - $26,581,141

8. Coldplay - $27,326,562

7. Jonas Brothers - $33,596,576

6. Pink - $36,347,658

5. Britney Spears - $38,885,267

4. AC/DC - $43,650,466

3. Madonna - $47,237,774

2. Bruce Springsteen - $57,619,037

1. U2 - $108,601,283

TOP 3 MIXED GENDER CDS ON BILLBOARD... FLEETWOOD MAC'S RUMOURS STILL TOPS

Week Ending Feb. 21, 2010: A Top Three With A Twist
Paul Grein's Chart Watch

For the first time in chart history, the top three albums on The Billboard 200 are all by mixed-gender groups. Sade's Soldier Of Love holds at #1 for the second week, Lady Antebellum's Need You Now holds at #2 for the second week and the Black Eyed Peas' The E.N.D. rebounds from #8 to #3. Helen Adu fronts Sade, Hillary Scott is the female member of Lady Antebellum and Fergie is a key Pea.

By holding at #1 for a second week, Soldier Of Love equals the mark set in February 1986 by Sade's sophomore album, Promise.

Pop Quiz: What was the most successful album ever by a mixed-gender group? 

Quiz Answer: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours is the most successful album ever by a mixed-gender group. The blockbuster logged 31 weeks at #1 in 1977-1978. In second place: Prince & the Revolution's Purple Rain, which spent 24 weeks at #1 in 1984-1985. In third: No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom, which had nine weeks on top in 1996-1997.

ROSENBERG LEAVES WB RECORDS.... WILL STILL REP STEVIE NICKS

Rosenberg exits WB for new venture
Publicity exec launches her own company
Variety

Liz Rosenberg, longtime publicity exec at Warner Bros. Records, is ankling to form her own praisery, Liz Rosenberg Media, the label announced Tuesday.

Rosenberg will continue to rep Madonna, as well as current Warner acts Michael Buble, Cher, Stevie Nicks, David Foster, Charice and Katherine Jenkins.

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