It's One Direction's 'Take Me Home' Album Cover

This might sell better if whatshisname was straddling Zayn Malik's face instead of sitting his ass on his shoulder. Out in November.

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This Pet Shop Boys Video Interview With Huffington Post Re: 'Elysium' Is Good Stuff

Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe sat down and talked with the UK version of The Huffington Post about the new Pet Shop Boys album Elysium, and there's quite a lot of info revealed here — particularly about when and where they wrote tracks like "Invisible," "Requiem In Denim And Leopardskin," "Winner," "Leaving" and "Give It A Go."

Chris shrugs off the comparisons between this album and Behaviour, but mostly from a sonic sound point. And Neil says Elysium is the most beautiful Pet Shop Boys album yet.



Shame they didn't talk about my two favorite tracks, "A Face Like That" and "Memory Of The Future." But I guess I like a bit of mystery around those ones anyway.

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US Chart Roundup: Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen Bring Their "Good Time" To The Top 10

Both Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen land their second Top 10 singles this week with their duet "Good Time." (It climbs from #13 to #9.) And each of them previously topped the Billboard Hot 100 — Owl City in 2009 with "Fireflies," and Carly Rae, of course, ruled this past summer with "Call Me Maybe."

And good for them, since the two 26-year-olds have been pimping this shit out like crazy — they performed "Good Time" on America's Got Talent, the Today Show, the Tonight Show and Conan in the past week alone.

Here they are on Conan last night:



Owl City's third album The Midsummer Station debuted at #7 on the Top 200 this week. If you didn't pick up that Shooting Stars EP of his I mentioned in the Spring, "Gold" and "Take It All Away" are two decent songs (also on The Midsummer Station) worth checking out.

The U.S. Top 10:

1. "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" - Taylor Swift *2 weeks*
2. "Whistle" - Flo Rida
3. "Lights" - Ellie Goulding
4. "One More Night" - Maroon 5
5. "Some Nights" - fun.
6. "Call Me Maybe" - Carly Rae Jepsen
7. "Wide Awake" - Katy Perry
8. "Payphone" - Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa
9. "Good Time" - Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen
10. "As Long As You Love Me" - Justin Bieber

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Pet Shop Boys Confirm Next Single "Leaving"

Pet Shop Boys officially confirmed that their second single off upcoming album Elysium will be "Leaving," and it has a release date of October 15.

There are those out there who are comparing both the somber, mellow Elysium to the Boys' 1990 album Behaviour and "Leaving" to Behaviour's opening track "Being Boring" (long considered to be their masterpiece). Even the single art seems to pay homage to that of the latter:

Here's the song itself:



And here are the single details, per the Pet Shop Boys' official site:

"Leaving", the second single from the new PSB album "Elysium", will get its first play on radio this Friday, August 31st. It will be played between 9.30 and 12 on the Ken Bruce Show on BBC Radio 2 in the UK. The single will be released on October 15th on CD, 12" vinyl and download bundles with extra tracks and remixes. There are two different covers - one featuring Neil Tennant, the other Chris Lowe. The lyrics for "Leaving" can now be read in the Lyrics section on this site. "Elysium" will be released on September 10th.

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UK Chart Roundup: I Liked This "Bom Bom" Trash Better As "TSOP (The Sound Of Philadelphia)"

I mean, right?

The UK Top 10:

1. "Bom Bom" - Sam And The Womp *new* *1 week*
2. "How We Do (Party)" - Rita Ora
3. "Heatwave" - Wiley feat. Rymez & Ms D
4. "Read All About It Pt. 3" - Emeli Sande
5. "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" - Taylor Swift *new*
6. "Spectrum (Calvin Harris Remix)" - Florence + The Machine
7. "Watchtower" - Devlin feat. Ed Sheeran *new*
8. "We'll Be Coming Back" - Calvin Harris feat. Example
9. "Wonderful" - Angel *new*
10. "Simply Amazing" - Trey Songz

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One Direction Announce "Live While We're Young" Single, New Album In November

The lads from One Direction all have new haircuts (except for Harry), and so they wanted to get this news out there via a new video announcement. They also casually mentioned that their new single "Live While We're Young" will be made available for pre-order on iTunes tonight at midnight, and their sophomore album will be out in November.




Two albums in one year (in America)? We haven't had this much Brit mania since 1997, when Spice Girls' Spice and Spice World were released.

And now, back to the haircuts...

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US Chart Roundup: Have Taylor Swift & Adam Levine Done Sex Yet?

Taylor Swift's decidedly pop "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" is now the tenth song to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this year, and it gets there after selling 623,000 downloads in its first week of availability. Clearly America needs this broad to guide the people through breakups.

Taylor's single now holds second place among all-time best sales weeks for a digital single, behind "Right Round" Flo Rida, which sold 636,000 back in February 2009. That's a song best remembered for the emergence of soul legend Ke$ha.

Meanwhile, Maroon 5's "One More Night" — which, like Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," is a Max Martin/Shellback co-production — jumps up to #9, giving the band two Top 10 hits at the moment. And, god, is that song blase or what?

But, really, this brings me to the main point: has Adam Levine rammed Taylor's candy socket yet? Because you just know there's at least a #7 hit in her for when they break up.

The U.S. Top 10:

1. "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" - Taylor Swift *1 week*
2. "Whistle" - Flo Rida
3. "Lights" - Ellie Goulding
4. "Call Me Maybe" - Carly Rae Jepsen
5. "Wide Awake" - Katy Perry
6. "Some Nights" - fun.
7. "Payphone" - Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa
8. "As Long As You Love Me" - Justin Bieber
9. "One More Night" - Maroon 5
10. "Titanium" - David Guetta feat. Sia

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