LEONA LEWIS GOT PUNCHED

Leona Lewis was reportedly punched in the side of the head during a book signing today in London, Yahoo! U.K. reports. Lewis was at Piccadilly Circus to sign copies of her autobiography Dreams when, 90 minutes in, “a guy came up and punched her to the side of the head,” Lewis’ spokesperson said. Initial reports indicated Lewis was slapped, but her spokesperson, who witnessed the attack, said the altercation was more severe than that. According to witnesses at the signing, the incident was “unprovoked,” with the suspect reportedly approaching Lewis to have his book signed, and after she looked up following the signing, the suspect punched her.

Police were quickly called to the scene and arrested an unnamed man “following reports of an assault against a female.” Witnesses tell the BBC that the suspect was “laughing” while security wrestled him down following the incident. Lewis, who suffered bruising on the side of her head, was so “shaken” by the incident that she was forced to cancel the remainder of the signing. Thankfully, she did not require hospital care, but she did cancel a BBC appearance scheduled for later that day.

Lewis recently performed as part of VH1’s Divas special in New York.

MARIAH CAREY TO DEBUT AT 3#

In what was a very close race for top album sales, Mariah Carey's Memoirs of An Imperfect Angel ended up at #3 with 172,742 copies sold behind Paramore's Brand New Eyes (184,547) and Barbara Streisand's Love Is The Answer (176,663), #1 and #2, respectively, in Hits Daily Double's final Album Sales tally.

The official album sales figures will be determined by SoundScan whose data apply to the Billboard charts; and will be released later this week.

Is Paramore Going To Blast Past Mariah On The Charts?

In what’s shaking up to be a battle of the butterfles, the bean-counters at industry rag Hits are claiming that brand new eyes from the Hayley Williams-led Tennessee outfit Paramore is, after its first day of official availability, on pace to outsell Mariah Carey’s Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel this week by a margin of about 20,000 copies; Paramore’s projected sales are in the 180k-190k range, while Mariah’s are around 160-170k. And as if that wasn’t enough to rile up the chart-obsessed lambs, turns out that Barbra Streisand’s Love Is The Answer is projected to sell between 150,000 and 160,000 copies! Hits‘ one-day projections for this week’s biggest debuts after the jump.

Paramore, brand new eyes (180,000-190,000)
Mariah Carey, Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel (160,000-170,000)
Barbra Streisand, Love Is The Answer (150,000-160,000)
Breaking Benjamin, Dear Agony (140,000-150,000)
Alice In Chains, Black Gives Way To Blue (130,000-140,000)
Miranda Lambert, Revolution (65,000-75,000)
Madonna, Celebration (60,000-70,000)
AFI, Crash Love (60,000-70,000)

Obviously this all can change—as a point of comparison, immediately after it being rush-released to retail, Hits was projecting sales between 300,000 and 350,000 for Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3, which wound up moving 476,000 copies in its first week. And Mariah’s faithful are nothing but devoted to her, and her efforts to be the chart-toppingest singer who ever topped a chart ever. So things can evolve! Either way, Mimi and her fans can take consolation in the fact that they’re not Madonna.

MARIAH CAREY Airplay & Sales Update

OBSESSED

Digital Sales:

Hot Digital Songs: #14 (Last week: #12)

Downloads this week: 66,746 (+4%)

Total downloads: 876,110

Singles Sales:

Hot Singles Sales (Walmart): #3 (Last week: #2)

Sales this week: 1,135 (-27%)

Total sales: 25,910

Airplay: Hot 100 Airplay: #6 (Last week: #6)

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay: #15 (Last week: #12)

+0.1 million audience impressions

Streaming:#4 (Last week #3)

MediabaseAs of week ending 9/29/2009:

86.627 million audience impressions with 15598 spins

(Pop - 6919, Rhythmic - 6244, Urban - 2091, Urban A/C - 104, Hot A/C - 175, A/C - 33, Alternative - 1, MTV2 - 9, VH1 - 8, Fuse - 14).

All AccessCHR/Top 40: #7 (Last Week: #11)+664 spins,

33.496 million impressions#8 most increased spins with 158 stations playing

Rhythmic: #2 (Last Week: #3)-321 spins, 34.570 million impressionsUrban: #11 (Last Week: #8)-293 spins, 14.107 million impressions

Urban A/C: #44 (Last Week: #41)-15 spins, 0.490 million impressions

I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS

Digital Sales:

Hot Digital Songs: #95 (Last week: #54)

Downloads this week: 15,437 (-43%)

Total downloads: 42,683

Airplay: Hot 100 Airplay: #89 (Last week: #120)

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay: #40 (Last week: #47)

+4.0 million audience impressions

MediabaseAs of week ending 9/29/2009:

18.265 million audience impressions with 3313 spins (Rhythmic - 867, Pop - 661, Urban - 541, A/C - 458, Urban A/C - 451, Hot A/C - 335).

All AccessCHR/Top 40: #48 (Last Week: #49)+68 spins, 2.359 million impressions

Rhythmic: #34 (Last Week: #42)+257 spins, 4.814 million impressions55 stations playingUrban: #48 (Last Week: #50)+131 spins, 2.319 million impressions

Urban A/C: #23 (Last Week: #24)+69 spins, 4.446 million impressions48 stations playing

Mariah Says Comparing New LP to Butterfly is a Big Deal

Mariah Carey's Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, which has already spawned the much-debated hit "Obsessed," is Carey's latest mix of R&B, hip-hop and pop. And the singing superstar has been hearing that it's her best album since Butterfly.

"I love it. I really love it," she told MTV News while promoting her flick "Precious." "People were saying, I mean, just the songs they heard, it's like their favorite since Butterfly, which is a big deal."

She can't help but be excited about the comparison, since she holds the 1997 album close to her heart. "Butterfly is kind of like my signature album and, to me, my best work," she said. "It's not necessarily the biggest album, which would be Music Box, but it's a very important record in an artistic kind of [way]."

Carey knows a thing or two about taking a classic song and putting her spin on it – in the past she's covered everything from the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There" and Def Leppard's "Bringin' on the Heartbreak" to Journey's "Open Arms" and Badfinger's "Without You" – so it shouldn't come as a surprise that this time around, she tackled Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is."

"You know, every now and then, I pull out a rock cover, and it does what it does," Carey said.

Mariah Carey Memoirs Of Imperfect Angel out NOW

MC highy anticipated album is out today On 29th September 2009. Don't forget to grab your copies. this album featured a hit single like Obsessed and new released single I Want To Know What Love Is.

Obsessed already peaked at number 7th on Billboard Hot 1oo. While I Want To Know What Love Is has already made it debut at number 66th On Billboard Hot 1oo.

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