Biggest night event in the world! OSCAR 2012 aka 84th annual Academy Awards were just announced! "Hugo" won five awards and actually tied with "The Artist" — it's amazing that it scored so well even without director Martin Scorsese winning the big prize. And Marty got the most thank-you's in the evening. Meryl Streep has been nominated 17 times, but all the pundits were skewing against "The Iron Lady," which wasn't nominated for Best Picture or Screenplay. Ever since the two-time Oscar winner lost to Viola at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, America's greatest actress has been an underdog. And then she won, tossing everybody's Oscar pools in the air.
List of the 84th Annual Academy Award winners announced Sunday:
1. Best Picture: "The Artist."
2. Actor: Jean Dujardin, "The Artist."
3. Actress: Meryl Streep, "The Iron Lady."
4. Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, "Beginners."
5. Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, "The Help."
6. Directing: Michel Hazanavicius, "The Artist."
7. Foreign Language Film: "A Separation," Iran.
8. Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, "The Descendants."
Adele's 21 logs its 21st week at #1 on The Billboard 200, which is the longest that any album has remained on top since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales for Billboard in 1991.
The album sold 730,000 copies in its 52nd week, which is more than any album has sold this deep into its chart run. It blows past a record set nine years ago by Norah Jones'Come Away With Me, which sold 621K in its 53rd week in March 2003. Both albums owed their late surges to a Grammy sweep. Jones won five awards; Adele won six. This is the longest that an album by a female solo artist has held the top spot since the album chart became a weekly feature in 1956. 21 surpasses Whitney Houston'sThe Bodyguard, which logged 20 weeks on top in 1992-1993.
Adele has a second album in this week's top five. Her 2008 debut album 19 jumps from #9 to #4, its highest ranking to date. Adele's two albumssold a combined 817K copies this week, which is more than all the other albums in the top 18 combined (809K).
Katy Perry leads the charge as"Part Of Me" debuts at #1 with first-week sales of 411K. Adele has three songs in the top 10 (a first for a female lead artist) in the first full week following her Grammy sweep. Whitney Houston, Kelly Clarkson and Nicki Minaj are also listed in the top 10. A female-led collabo, "We Found Love" by Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris, brings the tally up to eight.
Here's another indication of how dominant women are in pop these days. Five of the last six songs to enter the Hot 100 at #1 are by female solo artists: Britney Spears (twice), Ke$ha, Lady Gaga and now Perry. The only male artist to debut at #1 in the last five years is Eminem.
Only one song by a female solo artist has had a greater first-week digital sales tally than "Part Of Me" rang up this week. Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" started with sales of 448K a year ago. (Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me" also bowed with sales of 411K, though Spears' exact total was a bit less than Perry's.) Both of those songs also debuted at #1.
TOP TEN BILLBOARD CHARTS
Issue Date : 24 February 2012
1. (-) Katy Perry, "Part Of Me." (HOT DEBUT)
2. (2) Adele, "Set Fire To The Rain."(25 weeks on charts)
3. (7) Whitney Houston, (28 weeks on charts)
4. (1) Kelly Clarkson, "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You). (9 weeks on charts)
5. (7) Adele, "Rolling In The Deep." (59 weeksn on charts)
6. (3) fun. ft. Janelle Monae, "We Are Young." (9 weeks on charts)
7. (11) Adele, "Someone Like You." (33 weeks on charts)
8. (6) Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris, (22 weeks on charts)
25th annual Kid's Choice Awards will be held on March 31, 2012 at 8 p.m. ET. The complete list of nominees for the 2012 Kids' Choice Awards were announced on February 16, 2012. Will Smith a ten-time Kids' Choice Award winner, was announced as the program's host on January 11, 2012.
