January 2007 release, Jump In!, the Disney Double Dutch tale and highest rated film premier on the Disney Channel to date, is a top-selling soundtrack featuring songs from the film’s leads, Corbin Bleu and Keke Palmer.

The original score for the film was composed by Frank Fitzpatrick and he also wrote and produced two songs for the soundtrack, including the single “Jump to the Rhythm”, a co-production with Nashville’s Keith Thomas featuring Jordan Pruitt. “Jump to the Rhythm” is featured throughout the film as one of the main themes, plays as a music video for Jordan and was the opening number for the High School Musical tour.

The top selling Disney soundtrack was recorded at the West Los Angeles recording studio of Frank Fitzpatrick in late 2006. For more information about the film, the music, or to listen to samples, visit frankfitzpatrick.com.

Hey there Ozzy Osbourne and Ozzfest fans! I was planning to post a list of tour dates (that someone sent me) for the 2007 free Ozzfest tour, but the first date was listed as July 1 and according to reports from Live Nation, the tour is beginning on July 7, in Los Angeles, California. Rather than create some false excitement, I’ll wait till I get some more information before posting the actual dates. Ozzfest 2007 will be the 12th annual hard rock extravaganza put on by Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. There are an expected 25 dates which include performances in the following cities: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Dallas, San Antonio, Kansas City, St Louis, Chicago, Indianapolis, Columbus, Pittsburgh, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Hartford, Charlotte, Atlanta, West Palm Beach, and Nashville.

Tickets for this year’s Ozzfest will be free, and unless I hear differently, they’ll be available through Live Nation. Corporate sponsors for the 2007 tour include Monster Energy Drink and Jagermeister.

I suspected I had some photos from a Blizzard of Oz concert (with Randy Rhoads) that I took at the Palladium, in New York City, in May of 1981, when I was 15 years old (I’m an older guy now). I was excited about posting tour dates so I thought I’d go look for the photos. Not only did I find them, I even located the two original ticket stubs from the Blizzard of Oz concert in New York City where I took the photos.

There were two shows that day. As you’ll see on one ticket stub, there was an 8 p.m. show, and for that one I sat up pretty high in the balcony. For the 11:30 p.m. show I had ROW A (front row baby!) tickets and I was squished right up against the front of the stage, being a 15 year old kid in a crowd of New York head bangers. I had some old cheesy Kodak camera but I still have the photos and the negatives to this day. I scanned two of the photos that had Randy Rhoads in them so you can view them here.

I think Ozzy wore white all night long. In the above photo Randy is playing a Gibson Les Paul guitar (note the stacks of Marshall amps behind him).

Photo above features Randy Rhodes with his polka dot flying V guitar.

The Blizzard of Oz was a great show that could never be duplicated. I’m sure Ozzfest 2007 will be a spectacular event. I promise to get dates posted once I get more information. Rock on!

Seems like rap artist Eminem is always in the news. I mean that in a good way, I have to figure in the music business, being in the news constantly keeps people remembering your name and probably still buying your stuff.

Eminem continues his popularity at the top of the list. In fact, according to a report from WordTracker (a keyword tracking company), he is the most popular searched rap artist, showing up close to the top of the “Long Term Top 1000 report.”

Below are the latest Eminem related headlines from various news sources.

Eminem music on iTunes:

Looks like Eddie Van Halen, the superstar rock ‘n roll guitarist of Van Halen, is going in for rehab, resulting in an unlikely tour start for the band in 2007.

Van Halen music on iTunes

Many fans had hoped for a reunion tour of the rock ‘n roll legends this year, with original front man diamond David Lee Roth at the helm of the mammoth rock ‘n roll act. Eddie Van Halen apparently announced this week that he was entering a rehabilitation clinic in hopes of getting successful treatment for problems he’s had with alcohol addiction. Eddie Van Halen is currently 52 years old and his band is scheduled to be inducted into the rock ‘n roll Hall of Fame in a ceremony in New York, later this month. According to news reports, original and former bass guitarist Michael Anthony, is the only Van Halen member expected to attend the event.

Here is an RSS feed with today’s latest news on Van Halen…

According to our stats, most searches this week are for popular rap songs and the latest in alternative music. We have a venice local (Chill Winston) who will be blogging on what’s new in the rap music scene, sharing his favorite picks and active playlists, and making suggestions for where to get good music.

According to iTunes, these are the top 4 rap songs/releases for this week. These are not always the newest releases, they are usually the most popular.

As far as new releases for the alternative music scene, these are the top 5 showing up on the iTunes “what’s new” RSS feed…

Favorite new rap music this week for 2007topsongs: G-Unit Radio 5: All Eyez On Us - DJ Whoo Kid & G-Unit Radio 6: Motion Picture Sh*t - DJ Whoo Kid & Lloyd Banks. Nothing on our list for alternative (as of yet).

The following are the top 10 songs (in the category of dance) listed today in the iTunes music store. This list is dynamic and is created via RSS. As a result, the artists and song content listed here will be updated on a continual basis so that you always get the freshest top 10 list. You can click through on any of the artists to go to the iTunes store and/or you can use this list as a resource in creating your own top songs list.

RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, like the top song links above. The JavaScript to produce this page is available at KickRSS.com

This post is not about music. This post is the first of monthly 30-day reports regarding the activities and traffic statistics for the music website 2007topsongs.com.

The domain 2007topsongs.com was created on 03-Feb-07, during a Saturday morning breakfast in Los Angeles, California. The site was built with Wordpress and it became active by one o’clock in the afternoon on February 3, 2007.

The chart seen here is a screenshot from the websites Google analytics account. The date range is 2/3/2007 - 3/3/2007 with the first date being the day the site was created.

The graph shows some interesting results. As you can see on the chart to the left, there was little traffic for the first week of this sites life online. After a spider came to visit, traffic began to increase from search engine referrals. Throughout the month, more spiders visited, and traffic continued to increase. On Saturday, February 3, there were 8 visits, according to analytics. Nearly all of those visits probably came from the developers of the site. On Saturday, March 3, 349 visits were reported (30 days later).

According to the report, there were total of 4606 visits made to the web site over the 30 day period. There were 11,680 page views reported to analytics.

Looking at the Geo Map Overlay (the graph with the world map) you can see that the great majority of traffic is coming from the United States. There is some activity noted in Australia, with little activity appearing elsewhere in the world.

The top 40 cities of the world appearing in the order of most traffic to least traffic were Los Angeles, Venice, Toronto, Houston, Montreal, Ottawa, Brisbane, New York, Chicago, Miami, Calgary, Saint Louis, Dallas, Philadelphia, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Adelaide, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Perth, Portland, Sydney, Las Vegas, Cincinnati, Melbourne, Brooklyn, Cleveland, San Diego, Auckland, Columbus, Kansas City, Louisville, Makati, Manila, London, Vancouver, London, Halifax, Seattle, and Buffalo.

Google was the number one reported search engine driving traffic, with America Online (AOL) coming in at number two. Direct navigation was the third most popular reported method of getting to the web site.

Thank you to everyone that’s been visiting the web site. We plan to add more top song related content, better features, and some useful tools, so that your visits to the web site will be worthwhile.

Dates for the 2007 Ozzfest tour are not yet available. We’ll update this page when tour info comes available.

According to news reports, tickets for the 2007 edition of Ozzfest will be free. The tour is expected to include 25 dates and it will kick off on July 7th in Los Angeles, California. Ozzfest will be headlined by Ozzy Osbourne, and will include many other acts. Ozzfest is expected to offer shows in cities such as Albuquerque, Phoenix, Kansas City, St Louis, Chicago, Indianapolis, Columbus, Dallas, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, San Antonio, Pittsburgh, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Hartford, Charlotte, Atlanta, West Palm Beach, Los Angeles and Nashville.

Keep up to date on the latest info related to Ozzy Osbourne and the Ozzfest tour via these RSS feeds…

Evanescence, a two-time Grammy-winning band, is on tour in 2007. The band was founded by singer Amy Lee and former guitarist Ben Moody. The band released their first full-length album, Fallen, in 2003, selling more than 14 million copies worldwide. The band released The Open Door, in 2006.

Evanescence 2007 Tour Schedule and Dates…
Wednesday, March 7 —– West Hollywood, CA —– Key Club
Friday, March 16 —– Fresno, CA —– Selland Arena
Saturday, March 17 —– Las Vegas, NV —– Palms Casino Resort
Monday, March 19 —– Las Cruces, NM —– Pan American Center
Wednesday, March 21 —– Oklahoma City, OK —– Ford Center-OK
Thursday, March 22 —– Council Bluffs, IA —– Mid America Center
Friday, March 23 —– Cedar Rapids, IA —– U.S. Cellular Center
Sunday, March 25 —– North Little Rock, AR —– Alltel Arena
Tuesday, March 27 —– Louisville, KY —– Louisville Gardens
Wednesday, March 28 —– Nashville, TN —– Gaylord Entertainment Center
Friday, March 30 —– Norfolk, VA —– Constant Convocation Centre
Saturday, March 31 —– Hartford, CT —– New England Dodge Music Center
Monday, April 2 —– Reading, PA —– Sovereign Center
Wednesday, April 4 —– Providence, RI —– Dunkin Donuts Civic Center
Thursday, April 5 —– Glens Falls, NY —– Glens Falls Civic Center

Below is some external RSS content related to the band Evanescence…

I am excited about this tour!

No word yet on what locations the 2007 Van Halen Tour will be held at. I’ll post a list of the 40 cities along with ticketing information to this post when I get updated info.

You have to figure Van Halen will play Madison Square Garden in NYC and the Staples Center in Los Angeles during their summer reunion tour. No idea as to what other stadiums they’ll be playing. I checked the Staples center calendar and no dates are listed yet for summer shows. Same goes for MSG (yet the Police are already listed for two dates - Aug 1, 2007 and Aug 3, 2007 - tickets are on sale as of Feb 20th).