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After only including releases from the previous 18 months to calculate the best selling albums on the Billboard chart, Billboard will now be incorporating catalog releases due to the massive sales of both Michael Jackson and The Beatles. The sales chart on November 25 will be the first tally of the comprehensive chart. In digital music news, 4 artists have already broken Rihanna’s track sales record of 9.9 million digital songs in 2008, including the late King of Pop, Lady Gaga, the Black Eyed Peas and Taylor Swift. The biggest news is probably that the country singer is the only artist that outsold Michael’s album this year in sales. Congratulations!

Irish band U2 are keen to follow The Beatles and have their own Rock Band game.

It is claimed that lead singer Bono and the rest of the band held talks with MTV and Electronic Arts last year over the plan, but no deals were struck because of “compromises” that were not agreed, according to bassist Adam Clayton.

However, since The Beatles: Rock Band was released, Adam said that the U2 game might still go ahead.

He told USA Today: “We definitely would like to be in there. But we felt some of the compromises weren’t what we wanted. That could change.

“I love the idea that that’s where people are getting music and we’d love to be in that world. We’ll figure something out.”

Source: Splash News

Lady Gaga’s comments always seem to be as unique as the singer’s style. The ‘Poker Face’ singer recently made another pop culture prophecy by comparing the fandom of iconic rock band The Beatles to the current-day Jonas Brothers mania. Lady Gaga mused “Now we have the Jonas Brothers representing the return of the superfan.” I’m not too sure about that. If memory serves me right, didn’t the Backstreet Boys, Hanson, NSYNC and even the New Kids on the Block bring back the superfan over a decade ago? I guess Lady Gaga wasn’t even aware enough of those fandoms to have made the comparison.
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The singer recently stated his wishes of collaborating with the famous former Beatle musician. Bob Dylan said: “That would be exciting to do something with Paul. But you know your paths have to cross for something like that to make sense.” A source also added the following about a possible collaboration between Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney: “This would obviously be a major moment in musical history if Bob and Paul got together and it’s quite likely that Paul will be interested.” A major moment in musical history? The invention of the flute was a major moment in musical history… this is just a vague possibility of circumstance. Either way, Paul McCartney doesn’t seem to have any thoughts on the matter as of yet so revolutionizing musical history will probably have to wait for a bit.