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CALGARY HERALD Thursday, September 20, 2007 F5 MUSIC Calgary's Top 10 Music Source: SoundScan Country Alt hkn at iv CURR HNT Hard Rock ENTERTAINMENT This week National Last week This week National Last week Last week This week National This week National Artist Last week This week National Last week Artist Artist Artist Artist Paul Brandt Risk Kayne West Graduation 50 Cent -Curtis Paul Brandt Risk Kenny Chesney Just Who I Am: Poets Pirates Tlmbaland 1 Tlmbaland Presents Shock Value 2 Kenny Chesney Just Who I Am: Poets Pirates 4 Carrie Underwood 1 Some Hearts 3 Taylor Swift 3 Taylor Swift 12 Keith Urban 4 Love Pain The Whole Crazy Thing 7 Various Artists 5 Country Hits 2007 V.2 11 Trlsha Yearwood Greatest Hits 6 Brad Paisley 6 5th Gear 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Amy Winehouse Back To Black LlnklnPark Minutes To Midnight Bedouin Soundclash Street Gospels Maroon 5 It Won 't Be Soon Before Long Ben Harper Lifeline Daughtry Daughtry Avril Lavigne Best Damn Thing Hot Hot Heat Happiness Ltd. Feist Reminder Matthew Good Hospital Music LlnklnPark Minutes To Midnight Daughtry Daughtry Finger Eleven Them Vs. You Vs. Me Nickelback All The Right Reasons OzzyOsbourne Black Rain Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor 3 End Is Begun Three Days Grace One-X Heroin Diaries Soundtrack Kom Untitled KayneWest Graduation 50 Cent Curtis Tlmbaland Tlmbaland Presents Shock Value Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad Amy Winehouse Back To Black Justin Tlmberlake FuturesexAove Sounds Sean Kingston Sean Kingston Akon Konvlcted T.I. T.t.VSTip Common Finding Forever 76 11 2 9 3 12 12 BonJovl Lost Highway High School Musical 2 Soundtrack Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad Kalan Porter Wake Up Living Grey's Anatomy Vol.

3 Soundtrack 10 15 Lyle Lovett Its Not Big Its Large Johnny Reid Kicking Stones 10 10 10 10 It's official: Kanye wins Vibefest 2007 a scream Rihanna, Akon thrill crowd at Corral concert Reuters Kanye West sold almost a million copies of his latest album during its first week in stores, winning a sales race with rival rapper 50 Cent and providing the ailing record industry with good news. According to sales data issued by tracking firm Nielsen SoundScan, West's Graduation sold 957,000 copies during the six days ended Sept. 16, while 50 Cent's Curtis trailed with 691,000. West also bested 50 Cent in the UK. West's tally is the largest for any album since 50 Cent's previous release The Massacre, which opened to million units in March 2005 and spent six weeks at No.

1. It surpasses the bow of West's previous album, Late Registration, which spent two weeks at No. 1 in 2005. Based on first-day sales, pundits had expected West's latest album to sell more than 750,000 copies for the week. The rivalry between the rappers which both said was more of a marketing invention than a reality rekindled faded memories of a time when excited music fans would swamp record stores to snap up new albums.

The music industry has been in a tailspin for the better part of a decade, ravaged by piracy, and it's rare for albums to debut with such hefty numbers. For several weeks this year, the top seller sold less than 100,000 copies. Overall album sales so far this year are off about 15 per cent from the year-ago period, according to Nielsen SoundScan. "I am very excited to have participated in one of the biggest album release weeks in the last two years," said 50 Cent. "Collectively, we have sold hundreds of thousands of units in our debut week.

This marks a great moment for hip-hop music." I soMemee hunt tfi OS Herald Archive, Getty Images Rihanna performs at the MTV Music Awards. She played Calgary Tuesday. nillilEZil NICK LEWIS Calgary Herald Barbados, Senegal and Jamaica. Upbeat urban performers from three beach nations showed up to keep summer alive at Vibefest 2007 in Calgary, making for what could have been one of the best Vibefests in that event's short history. REVIEW The walk into Akon, Rihanna Stampede Park on and Kardinall Tuesday night made Offishall per- for a fantastic peo-formed Tuesday pie-watching game, at Vibefest 2007 as throngs of at the Stampede preened teens and Corral.

twentysomethings Attendance bottle-necked onto 4,000. Olympic Way. Were they heading to the Saddledome for Keith Urban, or to the Corral for Akon, Rihanna and Kardinal Offishall? The solution seemed to be that pointy shoes walked up to the 'Dome, and sneakers snuck to the Corral. Screams reverberated throughout the Corral from the minute many of the mostly teen, mostly female demographic entered the arena, waving glowsticks, flapping recently purchased T-shirts. Kicking things off was Jamaican-born, Toronto-bred Kardinal Offishall, seemingly a mainstay at Vibefest.

He had a solid, crowd-rocking set that included a danceable version of Graveyard Shift Barbados-born Rihanna scared us at first with what looked like a poor attempt to mask lip-syncing on opener Pon De Replay, but really, considering she wagged her bum with such enthusiasm and magnetism, it was soon for-gottea Decked out in black pleather thigh-high boots, the leggy chanteuse went on to a great show, highlighted by upbeat, infectious versions of We Ride, S.O.S., Shut up and Drive, and Um-ber-ell-a, the three-syllable word that's now four syllables. Looking gorgeous all night, she also tackled a pretty decent version of Rehab (though her backup singers seemed to be carrying most of the tune), and a cover of Bob Marley's Is This Love? It was almost surprising Rihanna wasn't headlining this show, but the Senegalese Akon did anything but let up the momentum. The singer was great from the start, led up by hype man Benny a kilt-wearing, mohawk-sporting DJ who spun 15-second samples of the hottest Top-40 beats to introduce the singer. Keeping the crowd bopping along to Shake Down, Sole Survivor, Ghetto and Smack That, Akon brought back the same great live show he did with Gwen Stefani back in June, peeling off one layer after the other to the delight of the many screaming girls. Showing that there was no end to entertainment in Calgary on Tuesday night, DJs for both Keith Urban and Akon were heading to different downtown clubs to spin sets.

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