Random cuts: David Cook dominates digital chart, Jonas Brothers go Bond?

-- Rock act 3 Doors Down has the No. 1 album on the U.S. pop charts this week, but the real action is on the digital singles chart. After being crowned "American Idol," singer David Cook scores a whopping 14 debuts (yes, 14) on the digital singles chart, according to Billboard's Chart Alert. The maudlin "The Time of My Life" is No. 1 after selling 236,000 downloads. His "Dream Big" is at No. 7, and his U2 cover "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" is at No. 9. All told, Cook's 14 digital tracks sold a total of 888,000 copies.

-- Teeny power-poppers Jonas Brothers doing Bond? Not quite, but Billboard notes that "Burnin' Up," the act's first single from its upcoming album, "A Little Bit Longer," will come equipped with an "action-packed James Bond-esque adventure" video. But the band isn't trying to pitch itself to sing the next Bond theme. Instead, the video will likely serve as a nice advertisement for upcoming Disney series, "J.O.N.A.S. (Junior Operatives Networking As Spies)." The act's "A Little Bit Longer" is due Aug. 12, and it will surely be the Jonas Brothers' second top-10 album this summer, as the soundtrack to "Camp Rock" is due June 17.

-- The long-awaited film from the Flaming Lips, "Christmas on Mars," finally premiered last weekend at the Sasquatch Music Festival outside of Seattle. The blog from public radio station KEXP has a little review. Flaming Lips singer Wayne Coyne was on hand to provide an introduction, and KEXP writes of the film, "Coyne arrives from a large vaginal comet to put on a Santa costume, visions and actual infants appear, and there are a whole lot of intense noise interludes, and occasional flashes of vibrant color. I don’t want to spoil the whole plot (and there isn’t much of it to give away); so I’ll just say that it is an incredibly weird, slow-paced, and jarring thing to be watching from midnight until two in the morning and it just might be about saving all of our souls." Your ability to finish/not finish that paragraph will likely mirror your appreciation of the film.

Photo: Jonas Brothers on "American Idol," courtesy AP/Fox

Comments

[Kara]

Thanks for reporting on the Jonas Brothers!
Don't worry you'll hear A LOT about them in the summer time.
:)
-Kara<3.

[bone us brothers]

Yeah, the Jonas' Bros.'s "Burnin' Up" video is pretty whack. James Bond, Miami Vice and Keith Carradine. Too bad all the good movies have already been made.