Briefly: Jimmy Buffett, Beastie Boys, Crosby and Nash
Fans snapped up nearly 235,000 copies of Jimmy Buffett 's "License to Chill" during the album's first week in stores, enough to earn the veteran artist his first No. 1 album.
Buffett's country-leaning set held off Usher's "Confessions," which holds steady at No. 2 on The Billboard 200 album chart. Lloyd Banks, whose "The Hunger for More" spent the last two weeks at No. 1, slips to No. 3, according to Billboard.
The Roots' "The Tipping Point" debuts at No. 4, while Gretchen Wilson's "Here for the Party" falls from No. 3 to No. 5.
The Beastie Boys are still working out plans to embark on a fall tour, but one show has been confirmed: a Sept. 19 gig at Seattle's Key Arena.
A limited number of tickets will be sold via an online presale that gets underway on Thursday (7/22); details are available at the band's website. The remaining tickets go on sale to the general public via Ticketmaster at 10 a.m. Pacific Time on Saturday (7/24). (Ticketmaster is liveDaily's parent company.).
As part of the promotion for their forthcoming album "Crosby-Nash," David Crosby and Graham Nash have launched a tongue-in-cheek campaign--including a website--for the "joint presidency" of the United States.
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