Music News This Week – to October 19, 2007

Billboard top music sales this week

#1 Album

Rock N Roll Jesus by Kid Rock

#1 Song

Crank That (Soulja Boy) by Soulja Boy

Music News

Amy Winehouse was arrested in Norway for possession of marijuana.  Winehouse, her husband Blake Fielder-Civil, and an unnamed third person were arrested on Thursday evening at their hotel in Bergen Norway.  They were all released from police custody on Friday morning after paying a fine of $715.  Winehouse will continue her European tour with a concert in Oslo on Saturday. A current popular song of Winehouse called “Rehab” is most likely based on the short time she spent a in rehab center after a drug overdose in August.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1572333/20071019/winehouse_amy.jhtml

African Reggae star Lucky Dube was killed in a apparent car-jacking Thursday when he was gunned down in front of his children in Johannesburg.    Lucky Dube was the first African musician to be signed to Motown Records and was one of South Africa’s most famous musicians.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/19/safrica.death/

Britney Spears lost visitation rights to her children this week.  In September, Judge Scott Gordon removed Spears’ children from her custody and ordered her to take a weekly drug test.  This week Spears failed to comply with court orders by not taking a drug test.  The children are now in full custody of Spears’ ex-husband, Kevin Federline.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/10/18/bmbritney218.xml

New Music to check out this week.