"Spring Music Preview" Includes Stevie Nicks

In the March 31st edition of RS Magazine with Howard Stern on the cover, Stevie Nicks new album "In Your Dreams" is included in the 4 page Spring Music Preview section hi-lighting the hottest 2011 albums coming out... Dave Stewarts album The Blackbird Diaries is also listed, and says it's coming out in the Summer.

And on a side note... The Official Stevie Nicks Youtube Channel is being populated 

with Live Vids... Updated within the last hour or so... It looks a lot better with content!  

Moving forward people... 

What's next?  Hopefully the Secret Love video...

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM Interviewer during ASCAP To Be Revealed Next Week

ASCAP Just tweeted that they've locked in an interviewer for Lindsey Buckingham at the upcoming ASCAP EXPO which takes place April 28-30, 2011 at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. On April 29th Lindsey Buckingham will be presented with the prestigious ASCAP Golden Note Award during the 6th Annual ASCAP "I Create Music" EXPO...

Interesting!  Obviously someone really well known... Gotta be another musician!

STEVIE NICKS SONG FINDS NEW GENERATION...

THE "LANDSLIDE" EFFECT

GLEE's version of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide" is all over the place on various itunes charts in multiple countries.  The Stevie Nicks song which originally appeared on the 1975 Fleetwood Mac album titled "Fleetwood Mac" was never a single back in the day in it's original form, but since 1975 it was a hit for Fleetwood Mac as a live cut in 1997/98 from their live album "The Dance" and The Dixie Chicks made it a monster hit in 2002 (which is actually the version that Glee is covering here).  It's the little song that just goes on and on.  In my mind it doesn't matter who sings it... It's a beautiful contemplative song!

Like I said, Fleetwood Mac's original 1975 version of "Landslide" was never released as a single. The group pulled three top 20 hits from its smash Fleetwood Mac album and then moved on to Rumours, which quickly became one of the best-selling albums of all time. (The group finally released a live version of "Landslide" from The Dance in 1998.) Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide" has sold 849K digital copies (and returns to Hot Digital Songs this week at #175). Dixie Chicks' 2002 cover version reached #7 on the Hot 100. It has sold 620K digital copies (and also returns to Hot Digital Songs this week at #114).

BILLBOARD MAGAZINE
Glee's version of Landslide will enter the Billboard Magazine Top 100 this week at #23 making it the charts Hot Shot Debut.  The casts version of the song sold 115,000 downloads in it's first week of availability.  It also increased sales for The Dixie Chicks version for the week moving 17,000 copies of their version up 897%.  Fleetwood Mac's original 1975 version moved 11,000 copies up 252% and The Smashing Pumpkins cover moved 1,000 up 151%.  Impressive!

The itunes charts are LIVE so these numbers are changing all the time, but as of right now, this is where things stand... 

SONG CHARTS - USA
#68 itunes Top 100 Songs - Landslide Glee Single
#57 itunes Top 100 Pop Songs - Landslide Glee Single
#7 itunes Top 100 Country Songs - Landslide Glee Cast Single Version
#60 itunes Top 100 Country Songs - Landslide Dixie Chicks version from the Album Home.

ALBUM CHARTS - USA
#4 itunes Top 100 Albums Chart - Glee The Music, Vol. 5 - Landslide version included
#2 itunes Top 100 Pop Albums Chart - Glee The Music, Vol. 5 - Landslide version included

ALBUM CHARTS - AUSTRALIA
#1 - itunes Top 100 Pop Albums Chart - Glee The Music, Vol.5 - Landslide version included
#1 - iunes Top 100 Albums Chart - Glee The Music, Vol.5 - Landslide version included

ALBUM CHARTS - CANADA
#1 - itunes Top 100 Pop Albums Chart - Glee The Music, Vol.5 - Landslide version included
#4 - itunes Top 100 Albums Chart - Glee The Music, Vol.5 - Landslide version included

ALBUM CHARTS - NEW ZEALAND
#1 - itunes Top 100 Pop Albums Chart - Glee The Music, Vol.5 - Landslide version included
#1 - itunes Top 100 Albums Chart - Glee The Music, Vol.5 - Landslide version included

FLEETWOOD MAC

ALBUM CHARTS - USA
#83 itunes Top 100 Pop Albums Chart - Fleetwood Mac "Fleetwood Mac" 1975 album
#20 itunes Top 100 Rock Albums Chart - Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" 1977 Album

ALBUM CHARTS - CANADA
#4 itunes Top 100 Rock Albums Chart - Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" 1977 Album
#32 itunes Top 100 Albums Chart - Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" 1977 Album

SONG CHARTS - UK
#9 itunes Top 100 Rock Songs - The Chain by Fleetwood Mac
#91 itunes Top 100 Songs - The Chain by Fleetwood Mac

SONG CHARTS - AUSTRALIA
#18 itunes Top 100 Rock Songs - Landslide by Fleetwood Mac

ALBUM CHARTS - AUSTRALIA
#10 itunes Top 100 Rock Albums Chart - Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" 1977 Album
#76 itunes Top 100 Albums Chart - Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" 1977 Album
#61 itunes Top 100 Albums Chart - Fleetwood Mac "The Very Best Of" 2009 Album

ALBUM CHARTS - SPAIN
#55 itunes Top 100 Albums Chart - Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" 1977 Album

Episode Centered Around Fleetwood Mac's Rumours

'Glee' scoop:
Entertainment Weekly
Deadline Hollywood

 GLEE creator Ryan Murphy told reporters last night in Los Angeles that the plan in the near future is to center an episode around Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album Rumours.  Murphy says the show’s creators have long wanted to do an episode devoted to an album as opposed to an artist, and their wish has come true: Glee has been granted the rights to Fleetwood Mac’s legendary album, “Rumors,” so that episode is in the works.

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Rod Stewart & Stevie Nicks: First Show Together is Sunday... May Perform Stand Back Together!

Rod Stewart, Stevie Nicks kick off tour in Broward - Performing Arts

BY HOWARD COHEN
Miami Herald
HCOHEN@MIAMIHERALD.COM

Rod Stewart clearly has a weakness for women: The British rocker, 66, has fathered eight children with five women.

So when three of his daughters — Kimberly, 31, Ruby, 23, and Renée, 18 — suggested Stevie Nicks as a touring mate for their father’s latest tour, Stewart listened. The pair will co-headline the “Heart and Soul Tour,” which opens Sunday at BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise.

“I wanted to do a tour with someone and … they all love her, and she’s an icon, and so that’s how it happened,” Stewart said in a joint telephone conversation with Nicks.

Nicks is in Los Angeles, flush from a visit to the Glee set where the cast sang her Fleetwood Mac classic Landslide. Stewart is in England working with old partner Jeff Beck on new tunes. The two rockers burn through the phone lines like old friends, though before this tour, Nicks says she and Stewart had only met twice before, once “at a fantastic New Years’ Eve party Rod had at his beautiful house” in the 1970s and another time at a rehearsal studio.

“I can’t remember anything in the ’70s,” Stewart says, laughing.

Contrary to popular belief, rock stars don’t hang out together.

“You don’t get to meet your peers. Everyone is always working or in a separate city. We don’t live in an enclave in L.A. where rock stars live, where we hang out and barbecue,” Nicks, 62, jokes.

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"Secret Love" at Radio... It's Still Gaining...

Billboard Magazine AC Chart update for "Secret Love"

The New Single from Stevie Nicks "Secret Love" debuted at #29 on Billboard Magazines Top 30 Adult Contemporary Chart issue date March 12th.  The following week for issue date March 19th it moves up to #27.  For Billboard Magazine issue date March 26th it should land a couple places higher at #25.  The AC Chart is traditionally known for it's slow movement up the track up the chart... [Click the images to enlarge].

On the Triple A Radio Play charts, in terms of audience impressions the song is fairing a little better.  It's still early days for the track, hopefully it can gain some momentum... But it needs to be picked up by A LOT more stations then it currently has or it will stall!

To contact an AC station or a Triple A station in your area/state, a good starting point to find out what stations are in your area would be to use this site RADIO STATION LOCATOR  Click on your state to zero in.