Justin Bieber Tops Elton John On Singles List

Justin Bieber overtakes Sir Elton John to have the highest-certified single in history but still gets booed at an awards ceremony.

Justin Bieber's Baby has become the highest-certified single in music history, overtaking Sir Elton John's tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales.

 

 

The teenage pop star's hit climbed above the double-sided Candle In The Wind/Something About The Way You Look Tonight after the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) changed the way it measures gold and platinum success.

Internet streaming of songs has been included for the first time, with 100 streams being treated as equivalent to one download, meaning Baby has been certified as 12-times platinum.

The track has sold 3.9 million copies in America and been viewed more than 858 million times on music video website Vevo.

Sir Elton's 1997 hit sold more than 33 million copies worldwide but remains 11-times platinum because it has no streaming data.

Cary Sherman, chairman and CEO of the RIAA, said: "Including music streaming in gold and platinum awards marks the continued evolution of the industry's premier programme for recognising artistic achievement, and it reflects the wide spectrum of ways consumers enjoy music from their favourite bands."

Streaming on audio services Spotify, Muve Music, Rhapsody, Xbox Music, Slacker and MOG are also counted in addition to the video streaming services YouTube and Vevo.

Despite his latest accolade, BIeber was booed on stage at the Billboard Music Awards, where he won in two categories.

The Beauty And The Beat singer was accepting the milestone award when the crowd seemed to erupt in boos.

Looking confused, he said: "I'm an artist and I should be taken seriously, and all this other b******* should not be spoken of."

It was not clear what Bieber was referring to in his acceptance speech, but he has had a number of bad public relations moments of late, having lost his temper with the paparazzi in London and arrived late for a series of gigs.

Bieber beat a number of other artists, including Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift, for the award. He also took home top male artist.

Sky News

Justin Bieber spoke to Reinout Oerlemans about TV show

Last Saturday Reinout Oerlemans had a meeting with Justin Bieber. The two were discussing the new TV show Dance or No Dance, Eyeworks told the AD (newspaper). The format of the show is an idea of the popular singer and offered on the television exhibition in Cannes by Eyeworks. 

 

Reinout Oerlemans: 'I told Justin that the format received positive reactions internationally. Of course he was pleased to hear that. In the near future I will be in talks with several channels in Holland and abroad to discuss the next steps.'

The producer met up with Justin before his concert in a sold out Gelredome. 'There was no other option than to have this meeting right before the concert. Sorry it got a bit late last Saturday because of that', the singer laughed.

AD

Justin Bieber late because of meeting Eyeworks

Amsterdam - Justin Bieber showed up late in Gelredome last Saturday, because his meeting with Reinout Oerlemans earlier that day took more time than planned.

 

 

 

Justin and Reinout were having a meeting about the new television show Dance or no Dance that they will be making together, says the AD (newspaper).

This meeting however exceeded the scheduled time a bit, which was the reason that Justin was forced to let 32.000 hysterical Beliebers wait for an hour.

Dance or no Dance is an idea of the teenage heartthrob and will be produced by Eyeworks.

AD

Gillen voor Justin Bieber

ARNHEM

Aan het gegil van de 32.000 bezoekers te merken deed Justin Bieber zaterdagavond in het Gelredome precies wat hij moest doen: de tent afbreken. Zelden kreeg het Arnhemse stadion zoveel decibellen te verwerken als nu.

Naar het optreden van Bieber werd al maanden uitgekeken door de Nederlandse 'Beliebers'. Vanochtend al stelden ze zich op voor de poorten van Gelredome, ook al arriveerde de superster zelf pas even voor achten.

Aan de nieuwe, Nederlandse boyband Mainstreet was de grote eer de show te openenen. Toen het kwartet om acht uur de bühne betrad moet het zich megasterren hebben gewaand in het volgepakte stadion.

Hetzelfde enthousiasme konden de Bieber-fans opbrengen voor de opwarm-dj. Daarna was het echter wel nog even knarsentanden, want de Canadees zelf klom pas even na tienen het podium op. Te laat dus, maar het kon de pret niet drukken.

Een werkelijk oorverdovend gejuich, gegil en geschreeuw barstte los toen de 19-jarige aan grote, zilveren vleugels eindelijk het podium op zweefde. De supershow die volgde, vol dans, vuurwerk, lasers en danschoreografieën, paste zijn reputatie volkomen.

Justin zelf leek het bovendien uitstekend naar zijn zin te hebben in Gelredome. Hij lachte, danste, praatte wat nummers aan elkaar en hoewel zijn zang af en toe maar moeilijk opkon tegen het spectaculaire zaalgeluid was hij prima bij stem. Fans kregen zo wat ze wilden, wat ze verwachtten en waar ze op hoopten. Justin Bieber was in het land en dat hebben we geweten.

 

Telegraaf

Justin Bieber goes wild in new dirt biking pictures

That's one way to blow off steam!

Justin Bieber has had a tough start to the year with the end of his Selena Gomez relationship and a certain boob grab scandal this week.

Justin Bieber gets down and dirty with friend Lil Twist

Despite appearing to grope a female fan's breast, Justin's representatives have strongly denied claims saying: "That definitely did not happen…He was pulling away from her."

With all this in mind, it's hard to deny Justin needed some free time to blow off some steam with his rapper friend Lil Twist.

Justin Bieber and Lil Twist enjoy a day four-wheeling

Nearly at the end of his'Believe Tour', Justin took some time out of his busy schedule to go four-wheeling with his pal and posted a series of Instagram posts to show just how much fun they were having.

Justin Bieber blows off steam with pal dirt biking

Source: Star Magazine