• Kelly Clarkson Gets Cushion for 'Piece By Piece' on Albums Chart, Brandi Carlile Cracks Top 5 with 'Firewatcher's Daughter'

    Kelly Clarkson found a bit more breathing room on the Official Albums Chart this week, as her new album 'Piece By Piece' gets a nicer cushion over the 'Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack' on the Billboard 200. Thanks to the removal of individual streams and downloads for Beyoncé and Ellie Goulding's singles from the latter, Clarkson won the pure albums race with 80,500 copies sold, compared to 57,000 copies of 'Fifty Shades.'

  • Detroit Giants Big Sean and Kid Rock Come within A Thousand in Sales on Album Chart; Chris Brown and Tyga Debut

    Big Sean and Kid Rock, two proud Detroit natives, were separated by about 30,000 equivalent records on the Billboard 200 this week with 'Dark Sky Paradise' and 'First Kiss,' respectively, but things were a lot tighter when only album sales were taken into consideration. The pair was almost exactly 1,000 apart from each other, with Sean passing Rock in the last day of sales tracking. 'Dark Sky' ended up selling 135,500 copies while 'First Kiss' debuted with 134,500.

  • Streaming Numbers Give Big Sean's 'Dark Sky Paradise' over Kid Rock's 'First Kiss' on Billboard 200

    New releases from Big Sean and Kid Rock demonstrated how big of a role the new metrics for the Billboard 200 could play in determining the placement of an album. Big Sean and Dark Sky Paradise took the crown this week, moving 173,000 equivalent units while Rock and First Kiss came in at no. 2 with 146,000 equivalent units. That 27,000 album difference doesn't seem like a close fight, but actual album sales indicate that physical copies and downloads of the full records had the pair within 1,000 of each other. The other 26,000 can all be attributed to more single downloads and streams for Sean. It's a brave new music sales world...you may have heard.

  • Kid Rock Disses Beyoncé in Recent Interview and the Beyhive Responds

    Kid Rock isn't one to keep his opinions to himself and he recently picked a verbal fight with a very strong group. Beyoncé's Beyhive came to the singer's defense after the rocker went on a tirade dissing the former Destiny's Child leader. Rock told Rolling Stone that he is "flabbergasted" by Queen Bey's popularity.

  • Kid Rock Releases Conservative 'First Kiss' Vid [WATCH]

    Kid Rock's newest music video is here, and it certainly falls on the conservative side of his multimedia endeavors. "First Kiss" is a New-Age, Mellencamp, country-tinged, pop song that features many of the same tropes that landed KR an international No. 1 with 2008's ""All Summer Long." The video is about as harmless as all of that sounds. An odd opening in which a grown-a-- woman hops out of a school bus pretending to be a kid is the only "Wait, what?" moment, followed by generic, "small-town" scenes filling up the bulk of the clip. Here is a sampling of the lyrics, which Kid seems to have copied and pasted from the "Billboard" Country chart:

  • Kid Rock Says Rap-Rock As A Genre 'Turned Out Gay'

    Kid Rock has reminded fans once again not to expect any sort of a filter out of him, nor an apology for being politically incorrect. In an interview with The Guardian, Kid Rock discusses not using social media, his political views, how he's about to become a grandfather at 43 and not just being wealthy, but being loaded. Oh - and that rap-rock "turned out to be pretty gay."

  • Kid Rock Drops 'First Kiss' Cover Art, Foreigner to Open During Summer Tour [TRACKLIST]

    Kid Rock's 10th studio album, "First Kiss," is due in February with a summer tour set to follow. Foreigner bassist Jeff Pilson recently said the group will hit the road with the Detroit artist as the support act. Rock also released the cover art and tracklist for the album as well, Ultimate Classic Rock noted. Pilson echoed Rock's recent sentiments that live shows are the future of the music business. "The future is a lot of touring," he said. "We're gonna go out with Kid Rock this summer, which will be really interesting. I think that's going to expose us to a different audience that I think is gonna be shocked at how much they enjoy us — which I always love doing. That's the best kind of tour to do." Foreigner is currently promoting a new album, "The Best of Foreigner 4 & More," which is a mix of classic tunes and live versions.

  • Kid Rock Outlines Plans for Album 'First Kiss'; Emphasis Will Still Be on Live Performance

    Kid Rock is gearing up for the release of his next album "First Kiss," due out Feb. 24. The rocker has opened the record up for pre-orders on his website. Fans who pre-order the album will also be sent the title track instantly ahead of the song's video release Jan. 6. Rock spoke with The Pulse of Radio about how live shows are keeping the industry alive, Blabbermouth notes. "At this point it's about putting people in seats, you know," he said. "It's about live. We've seen this. The days of making money selling records like we were used to when it first came out are not there — and I'm not necessarily upset about that. To me, live is everything, always has been." The artist will share lyrics from the album on his website every Monday leading up to its release. He is also asking fans to share photos on Twitter and Instagram of their first kiss of the New Year with the hashtag #KidRockFirstKiss. Some of the photos will be used for a video preview of the song, but all of them will be displayed on Rock's website Jan. 1.

  • Kid Rock Announces New 'First Kiss' Album, to Tour Summer '15

    Kid Rock dropped the release date for his 10th studio album, "First Kiss," yesterday, Nov. 12. The "Cowboy" singer's follow-up to 2012's "Rebel Soul" will be out Feb. 24 with a tour planned for summer 2015. "First Kiss signals the continued evolution of one of music's most versatile performers," reads a press release, "Billboard" noted. "But we're not going to tell you what it sounds like — we just couldn't do it justice and we're confident the music will speak for itself." The entertainer produced a majority of "First Kiss" himself following his last U.S. tour in 2013. Reps for Kid Rock promised that details on a summer tour would be announced soon. In the meantime, fans can catch the rocker on his Chillin' the Most Cruise in March.

  • Kid Rock Hilariously Responds To Insane Clown Posse Glass Dildo Subpoena

    You may remember that a few weeks back, Kid Rock had received a subpoena to hand over a piece of evidence in a sexual harassment case involving Detroit rap duo Insane Clown Posse. According to the lawsuit, the duo's former publicist Andrea Pellegrini had once received a glass dildo as a gift from Psychopathic Records employee "Dirty Dan" Diamond, who allegedly gave it to none other than Kid Rock after Pellegrini had obviously refused it. I'd like to stress the word allegedly here, because apparently Kid Rock not only doesn't have the dildo, he's also never met Diamond or anyone involved in the case, at least according to a pair of letters the singer posted to his website today, which you can read below.

  • Kid Rock's Glass Dildo Requested For Insane Clown Posse Lawsuit

    Just in time for the first day of the annual Gathering of the Juggalos, Detroit rap duo Insane Clown Posse find themselves in a bit of characteristically bizarre legal trouble. According to the Detroit Free Press, fellow Michigan rapper Kid Rock has received a subpoena to hand over a piece of evidence in relation to a sexual harassment suit filed against the Insane Clown Posse by their former publicist Andrea "Andy" Pellegrini. The piece of evidence in question is a glass dildo.
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