Monday, May 19, 2008

Narnia Splashes In With a Huge Weekend... and Switchfoot Isn't Far Behind

Personally, I watched it on opening night with about 40 of my friends. Good times. It was definitely a lot more hilarious (I love dry humor, and there was plenty of that), and it was darker, more brooding, and more action-filled. (It seems a strange contradiction to be both hilarious and darker at the same time... but it works somehow). And the rest of America flocked out to see the film.

Prince Caspian brought in $19.3 million for opening night and $56.6 million for the weekend, topping "Iron Man" for the weekend and becoming the second largest debut for movie this year.

$19.3 million source
$56.6 million Source

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cstroud92 recorded the Leno performance and uploaded it on youtube. Enjoy!



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TheRealBrendan uploaded a rough recording of the "credits version" for this is home. If you can get past the talking in the background, you can discern the lyrics.



Timmay! from the official message boards posted the lyrics, after watching the movie a second time:

1st verse
(the same as original)

pre-chorus
oh oh (3x) i'm moving forward

chorus
everyday starts w/ a magic spark
i got my hopes high w/ the 2nd start
we're miracles
every breath is magic

2nd verse
(same)

chorus
everyday starts w/ a magic spark
i got my hopes high w/ the 2nd start
we're miracles
every breath is magic
we're miracles
every breath is magic


Thanks guys!

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CHARTS

The Prince Caspian Soundtrack has reached No. 2 on iTunes, despite all the complainers saying they only want "This Is Home" and don't want to buy the whole album. There was a day in the not-too-distant past where we all had to buy entire albums, even if we wanted only one song. Music came in the form of things called compact discs. You might have heard of them. Tongue-in-cheekiness aside, congrats to the soundtrack and movie for fantastic first weeks!

"This Is Home"

Hot AC: 168 (+57 over the weekend) with 10 (+5 over the weekend) spins this week
Top 40 Mainstream: 309 (+414 over the weekend)with 4 spins (+3 over the weekend)
Christian AC: 42 (+3 over the weekend) with 108 (+27 over the weekend) spins this
week
Radio Disney Format: 31 (+3 over the weekend) with 16 (+1 over the weekend) spins this week
Air1 Top Songs: 19 (+3 from last week)


I'm really liking that 414 place jump on the Top 40 Mainstream charts. Looks hilariously awesome.

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"This Is Home" Promotion Update

the christianmusicvideos account took down their early upload of "This Is Home" so they could help out the footsoldier cause. BlacktreeTV has an obligation to the studio keep their video up. It's taking a ton of views, but we can keep our video going.

Keep wildcard on Vh1. Keep spreading the video, fams! Radio is starting to slowly-but-surely pick up the single. Lets keep pushing for it!

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The Up In Arms Tour edition of the Daily Foot is now complete:

Piscataway, New Jersey

Rochester, New York

3 comments:

Chris said...

my large hot ac format radio station (chi-town market) just added "This Is Home"! I was so excited when i heard it today on my way home from school!

Chris said...

"Switchfoot's Dare You to Move returns at No. 45, selling 26,000, after David C. sang it."

http://blogs.usatoday.com/idolchatter/2008/05/contestants-inf.html#uslPageReturn

Chris said...

The #45 is the top 200 download chart.

The Narnia PC Sound Track started at #26 with 16k sold on the BB200 this week. The soundtrack of the first narnia film peaked at only #43.

And yeah you prob will have already seen that "This Is Home" is on the R&R CHR by the time u read this...