Just a little Billboard chart update for this week seeing there are still two people featured on this site in the top ten. Miley Cyrus dropped to number four with Breakout with 85,000 sold copies and Demi Lovato with the Camp Rock soundtrack at number eight with 50,000 sold copies. So that’s pretty much the same way it has been with Disney albums in recent years, just slowly dropping in the sales ranks.

Dominating this week however are the Jonas Brothers with 525,000 copies sold and also their previous album being on number ten with 31,000 sold. The Camp Rock soundtrack actually gives them three albums in the top ten. The numbers sold of their A Little Bit Longer however is far below estimates, the first estimates said over 700,000 after selling 200,000 the first day alone. I guess most of the Jonas fans ran out the first day to buy it, though I’ve also heard stories about fans buying multiple copies at different stores because there were different bonus tracks on them. If this is true they’re bound to drop rapidly next week.

I said it’s a slow news week and it still is but I guess this is somewhat worth mentioning. A selection of female singers is going to record a song called Just Stand Up which will be used in the Stand Up to Cancer campaign to collect funds for cancer research. The song will also be performed live during a telethon which will air on ABC, CBS and NBC on September fifth.

The singers to sing the song are Ashanti, Natasha Bedingfield, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Ciara, Keyshia Cole, Sheryl Crow, Melissa Etheridge, Fergie, Leona Lewis, Rhianna, LeAnnRimes, Carrie Underwood and Miley Cyrus. Yes, sorry Miley again but I just found it funny that she’s the youngest by far who’s singing in the song. That somewhat shows that she already managed to get quite status in the industry, though it’s also a way of getting more young people involved.

I’m not usually a fan of these telethon things, it always seems to me that they cost a lot and aren’t always worth it. Not that it’s wrong to invest money into cancer research, quite the opposite actually. Everyone knows people that have struggled with cancer or had someone close to them die because of it. Singers don’t get paid to do this sort of thing so it at least shows that they care.

I just wonder how the live thing will work, not every singer sings live these days (Mariah Carey has proven that at the Teen Choice Awards). Must be somewhat exciting for Miley for her to perform with people like Melissa Etheridge who she sees as an inspiration.

Saying that it’s a slow news week so far doesn’t even cover it, I guess everything is being overshadowed by the Olympics. So to get something on here anyway I wanted to say something about the new youtube video made Miley Cyrus and Mandy Jiroux or the Miley and Mandy Show for short.

So why talk about the video? Well, on her new album Miley has a song called Wake Up America which deals with the environment, apparently this inspired her to do a video about that. The video starts with Mandy ordering all sorts of things which are bad, fur coats, aerosol spray, throwing paper into the trash; that sort of thing. Miley comes in and stops her and starts to recite her song lyrics and later on her song starts in the video. In between Miley and Mandy talk about what you can do to help the environment, she already mentions on the side that the air-conditioning is off which is a huge power drain.

Their first tips are to unplug your cellphone when it’s charged, this is a good tip seeing chargers use power even when they’re not charging anything. Second is to recycle books and magazines which is a logical one. Third suggestion is to tan green which seems like an odd tip to be honest, it wouldn’t be the first thing I would think about when giving someone tips about the environment. Though spray on tans look horrible in most cases (an orange Lindsay Lohan is the best example in recent history) though their argument is the chemicals used (they’re also referencing beauty products in general in that case). Tanning beds do use a lot of power, though I don’t think that many people actually use them.

Fourth tip is take showers and not baths which again is a logical one, just like the fifth one about recycling plastic bottles. Six is plant a tree, again a rather obvious choice though not everyone has the room to plant a tree obviously. Tip eight however is where they go wrong a bit, they suggest to shop online instead of going to a store so you don’t use gas on your way there. They are honest enough to admit that they can’t really talk about that one seeing we see them out shopping all the time.

The one thing that still bugs me about all of this is that we always see Miley’s parents drive her around in big SUV’s. They might be European (so they use less fuel than their American counterparts) but they still use a lot of fuel. Of course these aren’t her cars but if she truly wants to portray a green image she choose wisely once she gets a car of her own. If her first car is a big gas guzzling SUV media will brand her a hypocrite.

Her taken rides on private jets doesn’t help in that either, it would be better if she just flew commercial. Though it doesn’t matter what she does, her carbon footprint (so how much CO2 they actually produce) will always be bigger than that of a regular person. She can try sending a message to younger people to change, seeing that’s the only thing that will really make a difference. Make people think differently, one song and a youtube video doesn’t quite do that yet though, if she really wants to do something she has to do more. Though I myself am not really sure what that could be, we’ll just have to see how she intends to do it.

She’s already setting one good example, we see her riding her bike in paparazzi pictures quite a lot; even when she goes to local stores. Even though it’s without a helmet which gets a whole other group of people upset.

Probably the most random posting on starletviews ever but you need something to keep the site active.

Bad news for the Emma Watson fans, they’ll have to wait a while before they can see Emma in a movie; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been delayed. The movie was supposed to be released in November but has now been delayed to July 2009. Warner Brothers lists the writers strike earlier as the reason for the delay.

They were afraid that the movie wouldn’t be ready before its set release date. I would think they would have known about that sooner so I doubt that was the only decision that went into it. It’s funny to see that there are direct reactions from other studios though, Disney has moved the release of Bolt (featuring the voice of Miley Cyrus) to the original Harry Potter release date of November 21st. I guess they’re hoping to take the top spot at the box office that way seeing there are no other major releases set for the day. No one would want to put their movie on the same date as Harry Potter seeing it’s obvious Box Office gold.

Update: Summit Entertainment has responded as well, the release of Twilight (starring Kristen Stewart) has also been moved to November 21st.

Sometimes you really have to wonder about tabloid journalism. I can somewhat understand there being rumors once in a while; people for some reason want to read completely made up rumors and they actually enjoy it. In some cases however rumors simply don’t make sense; often rumors are based on quotes from interviews or random pictures. When you’re dealing with minors once in a while rumors come along that simply can’t be true because if they were true it would be illegal.

Lets take the rumor that popped up yesterday which started with a picture on X17 I believe; Ali Lohan has gotten breast implants. I have to admit, Ali has shown sudden growth in her chest department. Recently there were also rumors that she had her lips enhanced where again I have to admit that they seem bigger in pictures. Though clips from Living Lohan pretty much suggest to me that it has been achieved by wearing far too much make up. Though I can’t really blame people for believing the lip injection rumor.

There however are several things that make the breast implant rumor complete nonsense, the main one being she’s only fourteen years old. Before a plastic surgeon would operate on someone they would make sure that they’re fully grown. If a plastic surgeon would actually do it the moron would have to be thrown in jail and have his or her license pulled. Read the rest of this entry »