Not allowed to open it till christmas :(

I have it. I was hoping that the Serious video would be on it, like I heard in some forum months ago... But the live DVD is really fun and nice. The Harajuku girls really kick the tail! Love is my favorite Harajuku Girl~ And she did a tour with the Diva Koda Kumi before :D

cool...so I should buy it...even tough amazon germany pushed the price from 15€ to 21 €

You mean the video clip for Serious isn't on it?! :mad

I didn't think the DVD was that great :no

Gwen sounds horrible live IMO. It's likes she's all out of breath

I bought the Harajuku lovers DVD , and I think it's good. Gwen & the Harajuku girls put on a great show. Gwen sounds good live & the costumes & coreography are cool too.

the DVD has crappy extras tho , 'meet the band & dancers' feature is just a bunch of text bios.

The behind the scenes extra was kinda cool though. The DVD was a cut and paste job of 2 nights of the tour. I had a bootleg of one of the Anaheim shows and it's identical to a few on the DVD. I was hoping she'd keep that version of Serious because one of her dancers proposed to his g/f.

Dissapointed about no Serious video. :(

Gwen is totally dying on the charts! :bawl

Hot 100: down to #12 (single)

Top 200: down to #14 (album)

OMFG! NEW SINGLE NOW!

Im sure yummy will boost this album! Im kinda sad that hardly anyone bought this album <_<

Yep, i'm sure the album will go up with new singles, especially yummy.

Ooh sista, you forgot to mention, new entry by Gwen too. :P

NEW #93 Gwen Stefani ft. Akon - The Sweet Escape

Despite the album dropping, it still sold around 150,000 copies. :bshake A very small drop (approximately 38%) compared to B'Day (65%) or FutureSex/LoveSounds (68%) or (miss)understood (88%).

I just watched the Harajuku lovers DVD ...
and I'm just always disappointed in Gwen's live singing of "what you waiting for". Probably because I love the song a lot back then when it was released and she never sound nearly the same in live.

OMG! Sales update, I forgot to do it on Thursday...

#14 Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape 211,609 copies sold
Last week: #14 with 148,787 copies sold.
42% up from last week. :eek In other words, the CD is doing exceptionally well, still.
Total Sales: 603,807 in 3 weeks.

CD sales have been amazing this week despite the #1 album only selling 354,524 units, because every CD in the Top 20 sold more than 160,000 copies.

#72 Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape ft. Akon
Up 21 spots from last week! :bshake Audience have surpassed 17 million recently.
Total Spins: 2129 spins (+62)
Total Audience: 17.641 million (+0.498)

All information from UKMIX forums, so credits to them.

I really like this album! IMO is better that her first! Go Gwen!!!

I`m happy The Sweet Escape is doing good.

Am I missing something. what`s imo?

omg, she should make 4 in the Morning a single.

Elsewhere the album is hardly cracking Top 10 though.

In my opinion

I'm wondering why no one has sue Gwen for portraying a sister in mini skirt. :laugh

I`m wondering why no one has sued Fergie for copying Gwen

Fergie did? Ah, and no need to feel attacked/bashed with my comment. I was completely joking about it if you can see my emoticon. ;)

LOL. sorry. I just don`t like Fergie. That song London Bridge sounds like Gwen`s Hollaback Girl song and that song Glamorous is a rip off of Gwen`s Luxurious remix song. And then Fergie goes out and spells her name in Fergielicious like Gwen spelled out bananas in Hollaback Girl. coincidence? I think not.

I also think that Fergie is just a massive copy of Gwen but I liked Fergalicious... but she is still no where near being as good as Gwen.

The Sweet Escape
12/31/2006 USA Update:

HAC: #47, 163 spins (+14)
POP: #30, 1836 spins (+26)
RHY: #94, 171 spins (+1)
Hot 100: #72
Pop 100: #43
Digital Sales: #114

Total Spins: 2170 spins (+41)
Total Audience: 17.805 million (+.164)

credits to snwbrder757!

Hmmm... After listenin' to Gwen and Fergie again, i really gotta say that both own and do different things in sumeway, really. Though you might find sumethings abit similar off and on.

From today on, i won't really stand 'em together anymore, but i still gotta say that Gwen's music is better than Fergie! Hehe... :D

And...... Gwen is just suck at singin' live! So is Ayumi too! Well... Sumetime and most of the time now. Haha... Uh! Oh!

I say, you guys should take your words back into your heart! They're totally different.

It's like comparin' Ayumi and Utada. Oh! Bags, dun't get that started again!

Almost platinum... WOOHOO YEEEEEEHOOOOOO! LOL Awesome! :yatta

Thanks for the updates! It's not really moving up that fast... :bsigh

We needs yummy now! :bshake

I need to get this album =o

Did anyone see The Sweet Escape video? Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfpBOy0zXjo

LOL @ the harajuku girls

Akon looked so weird with his 2 lines LMAO. It's like DUDE why are you even in the video? :laugh

I thought the concept was OK. The jail was PIMPED!

like WHAT YOU WAITING FOR? Get it! :D

^ OMFG, i love it =D i hope the public will love it and buy the album!

Woah, jail has never looked so good.

Argh I still can't find a HQ version of that PV on torrents or anywhere. I'm not watching YouTube, it's ugly. Got to wait for a HQ version...

UPDATES!

Gwen's album, The Sweet Escape, fell 3 places down the Billboard 200 this week thanks to a 41% drop in sales. For the week, it sold 38,940 copies, which brings the total sales to 709,325 units. Well, not bad, at least it hasn't left the Top 20 yet, which I hope won't be next week.

Meanwhile, Gwen's second single, The Sweet Escape, climbed a massive 22 spots up the charts! Which is fantastic, as now the track stands at #53, a spot above Nelly Furtado's Maneater. However, I have no idea how it happened, as sales for the song wasn't amazing. It only had a 5% increase in digital downloads with a mere 22955 downloads this week. This also means the song dropped 50 places down the Hot Digital Songs charts to #123. To date, it's had 65,836 downloads. Which pales in comparison to Wind It Up that had 58,049 downloads this week, a 49% drop. Total sales so far amount to 549,834 downloads and it's currently at #13 on the chart mentioned above. On the Hot 100, Wind It Up is at #25, a 10 spot drop.

The one on youtube is pretty good quality. Definitely watchable.

The singles seem to be doing ok.

Not bad at all! :bshake

I like the way she ran to the car with her drink LOL

I loved the video, it's one of her best videos to date! It's so pretty and golden, but I hate the hairdos. And Akon was weirdness.

Singer Gwen Stefani is the inspiration of a novel called Dreaming of Gwen Stefani. In the book, written by Evan Mandrey, the protagonist is Mortimer Taylor Coleridge, a geeky guy working at a fast food restaurant. He is obsessed with Stefani and dreams that she will one day walk into his work place Papaya Queen and fall in love with him. In the last chapter they do meet but things don't go quite according to his dreams, said pagesix.com.
thanks to retro style

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LMAO. Is anyone gonna read it?

I am going to read that piece of ****!

Let me guess, in the end, Gwen turns out to be a super-nasty ***** and the geek realises every fairytale sucks. Later, in real life, the geeky writer himself gets sued for defamation. Gwen wins and gains more money. The end.

I'm surprised how bad the sales for The Sweet Escape album are. I can understand that because I don't feel the album lives up to her first album. the look & the music videos are really stylish but the songs themself get really tiring after awhile. I'm sick & bored with every song except '4 in the morning' already.

I prefer Fergie's album myself. it's just better eventho it's clearly she's really been "inspired" by Gwen. I think at the moment they're selling around the same amount on weekly sales eventho Fergie's album has been out a lot longer.

i wont read it.... it is prob lame.....

sweet escape MV totally rocks@!!2!

I hate the cover of the album! The L.A.M.B cover owns!

Here's a remix of Yummy. I like it better than the original :D

Edit: Removed link to music that is commercially available in the USA.

^ THANKS YOUR THE BEST!

What remix was it? Where's it commercially available?

I've never heard "Wind it up" on the radio, but "The Sweet Escape" is on all the time. Where do you find the exact sales figures for an album everyweek?

OMG!

Single: The Sweet Escape - up to #31 this week!

Album: The Sweet Escape - up to #17 this week! :bshake

Total sales (album): 737 959

People are lovin' the single!

Thanks to Billboard & UKMIX

It's a secret, j_nerd. ;)

Yes, moombie! People totally love the song!

Plus The Sweet Escape was downloaded 33,806 times for the week! Total downloads amount to 99,642! It's gonna reach 100,000!!! It climbed 43 spots on the Digital Track chart because of this!

Thanks to UKMIX.

I got The Sweet Escape for Christmas, but I hadn't been listening to it until just recently. It was kind of blahhhh to me when I first listened, but I'm loving a lot more of it now. My favorite tracks are Wind It Up, The Sweet Escape, Yummy, Don't Get It Twisted, and Wonderful Life. Orange County Girl and Now That You Got It still have a lot of growing to do. But I think the sales are relatively low because of not enough exposure to the other singles. It seems that Wind It Up is still the focus in terms of marketing, but that's shifting toward The Sweet Escape, despite the fact that there haven't been many (if any) live TV performances of it.

After looking at all the charts in the US, it can be said that:

Wind It Up was more popular in the sales department.
The Sweet Escape is shaping up yo be a big airplay hit.

Well ya know Gwen and No Doubt's albums are usually slow, steady sellers.

They rarely go to #1 but they sell millions eventually. Look at what happened to L.A.M.B., Rock Steady, and Tragic Kingdom.

Those albums never went to #1, started off moderate sales, stayed on the charts for a long time and boom - sold millions

I think it'll be the same with this album. People are just starting to warm up to it :bshake

Especially "Tragic Kingdom", it's sales are crazy. 10 million to date. :eek

I just saw the Sweet Escape video.. and am I the only one that thinks it sucks? :[

I'm thinking you might be, haha :D

Wow.

Yep, you are. :laugh There are some people at UKMIX who hate it though.

You know what? I haven't heard Wind it up on the radio either. O_O Strange...

^ The Sweet escape is alot more radio friendly thats probably a reason

Here's the latest performance of Gwen on the NRJ Music Awards in France! She sings Wind it up and it's really really good!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCGmD5RJoGc

And here's the talk part
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65uRTTYUVGg


Enjoy! :)

LOL, I didn't like the video that much at first either. I thought it was OK but now I love it! :bgiggle

That prison is pimptastic! :cool

Thanks :D

^ Cool! I'm not alone xD

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Thanks for the links ayufan :)

O M G Did anyone check out the clip?

Gwen can't sing live LOL. And OMG what was she wearing? And her hair was "WTF?"

She looked like a beetle/cheetah O.O!

I love the 2nd clip. She's so down-to-earth.

"Wind it Up" is like her worse live song. I love it on cd, but not so much live. But that part where she goes "Wind it uhhhh-COME OOOOONNN!" had me rollin'. I love you, Gwen!

The Sweet Escape Tour Announcement

The Sweet Escape Tour presented by Verizon kicks off this April 22nd at Coors Amphitheatre in San Diego, California, and concludes on June 23rd at Irvine, California’s Verizon Wireless Amphitheater.

Joining Gwen on tour is the platinum-selling singer Akon, who also sings on and produced the new single “The Sweet Escape.” Rounding out the bill is Britsh MC Lady Sovereign.

"I'm excited to have this opportunity to tour with Akon and Lady Sovereign, two original artists that I have so much respect for" Gwen said. "I can’t wait to get out there. This show is going to be spectacular!"

Tickets for The Sweet Escape Tour go on sale nationwide Saturday, February 10th. Fans can buy tickets at www.livenation.com, www.ticketmaster.com and Ticketmaster retail locations nationwide.

Apr-22 San Diego, CA - Coors Amphitheatre**
Apr-24 Fresno, CA - Save Mart Center**
Apr-25 Bakersfield, CA - Rabobank Arena**
Apr-27 Los Angeles, CA - Gibson Amphitheatre***
Apr-28 Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Pavilion
Apr-30 Salt Lake City, UT - The "E" Center
May-02 Denver, CO - Pepsi Center
May-03 Albuquerque, NM - Journal Pavilion
May-05 Dallas, TX - Smirnoff Music Centre
May-06 Houston, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
May-08 Tampa, FL - Ford Amphitheatre
May-09 West Palm Beach, FL - Sound Advice Amphitheatre
May-11 Atlanta, GA - HiFi Buys Amphitheatre
May-12 Charlotte, NC - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
May-14 Raleigh, NC - Alltel Pavilion
May-15 Virginia Beach, VA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
May-17 Washington DC - Nissan Pavilion
May-18 Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center
May-20 Wantagh, NY - Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre
May-21 Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena
May-23 Boston, MA - Tweeter Center
May-24 Philadelphia, PA - Tweeter Center at The Waterfront
May-27 Atlantic City, NJ - Borgata Hotel and Casino***
May-29 Montreal, QC - Bell Centre
May-30 Toronto, ON - Air Canada Centre
Jun-01 Detroit, MI - Palace of Auburn Hills
Jun-02 Indianapolis, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center
Jun-04 Omaha, NE - Qwest Center
Jun-05 St. Paul, MN - Xcel Energy Center
Jun-07 Milwaukee, WI - Bradley Center
Jun-08 Chicago, IL - First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
Jun-10 Winnipeg, MB - MTS Centre
Jun-12 Edmonton, AB - Rexall Place
Jun-13 Calgary, AB - Pengrowth Saddledome
Jun-15 Vancouver, BC - General Motors Place
Jun-16 Seattle, WA - White River Amphitheatre
Jun-18 Sacramento, CA - Sleep Train Amphitheatre
Jun-19 San Francisco, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
Jun-22 Irvine, CA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Jun-23 Irvine, CA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

** Akon only
*** Lady Sovereign only

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All info from GwenStefani.com

Love that pic! So who's going? I plan on going to one of them :D

International Tour Dates to come later. I think she did say that she was planning on a world tour.

I think that's a nice pic, a little more relaxed and casual. And pale lipstick!

I'd definitely go when she comes here which organisers have reported is highly possible.

Sales this week was crappier with none of the top 10 exceeding 70k. Her 2nd single is surely climbing charts though, it shot up the digital track chart.

What a crappy sales week :dead2

The album is down to #24

Single up to #19

Lady Sovereign?

LOL, that is soo... undescribable. Gwen's been living in the UK long enough to know the general consensus on that "girl". I wonder if she's on the same label. I read today that she's signed to a U.S label now. Ick.

I'm actually kinda dissapointed. Is it going to be a U.S. only tour again? I dunno about the rest of Europe but she could definately sell out venues in the UK.

It's a worldwide tour. It says so in the album too.

Did Kingston kill the thread? WTF? Alright no more baby pics! :foff

Gwen in ELLE UK (March 2007)

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Thanks to 1karina1

I really hate that wig :grumpy

No but her wig may kill this thread, I'm so sick of it now, I don't really like these pictures much either.

You are so grumpy :P

I don't know why she wears that stupid wig. There's nothing wrong with her real hair:

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Then I'm the only one who loves and absolutely adores that wig. Wow, she doesn't look like she gave birth at all. That final picture was amazing. :luv2

By the way, The Sweet Escape finally premiered on Malaysian TV today. ;D Right after Corinne Bailey Rae's brand new video, back to back. Both videos were STUNNING OMG.

Billboard Top 200
#24 Stefani, Gwen - The Sweet Escape 25,924 (5% increase, total sales 787,902)

Billboard Hot 100
#6 Gwen Stefani ft. Akon - The Sweet Escape (#19 last week)

Billboard Hot Digital Songs
#4 Gwen Stefani ft. Akon - The Sweet Escape 82117 (57% increase, total downloads 234,024)

Its gonna take like 6 months to reach a million LOL

At least the single is doing well :bshake

it would suck for Akon to sing that "oowiee" sorta line throughout the whole concert .. hahah why even be there

I think he's opening her concert too, by singing a few of his songs to start her shows.

I can't wait to see her live. While as a vocalist she's all over the place, she's at least a fantastic performer. Rock concerts are still her forte, but I think she'll put together a great show since she has more material to work with. As for the openers, I'm looking forward to Akon, but I'll die of death if Lady Sovereign is at the Toronto show- which she unfortunately is. Stankin' little nasty. For her last tour, weren't Ciara and MIA her openers? I'd much rather have them back.

The wig is delicious by the way, I used to hate it but it really grew on me.

The wig really grew on you? LMAO :laugh LuvU4Ever!

I don't like Lady STFU either. ew. Oh well maybe you can go to another show... or just not pay attention when she comes on.

I think MIA opened for her before... not sure about Ciara.

Sweet Escape Single
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1. The Sweet Escape
2. Hollaback Girl (Live)
3. Wind It Up (Robots to Mars remix)
4. The Sweet Escape (Video)

A live version of Hollaback Girl? LMAO.

That tracklist seems sort of... stupid.

Well it's a single Norrel. What do you want? New tracks LOL

I think its OK. I want to hear the Wind It Up (Robots to Mars remix)

The only stupid thing was including a live version of Hollaback Girl. Like WTF?

Correction, a US Single =P

I wasn't expecting new tracks.. I geuss the live version of Hollaback Girl just gave me the wrong impression.. and whats up with Track 4? Is it going to CD/DVD? o.o

For an American, you seem to be pretty ignorant of singles, Norrel. :laugh The video will be an enhanced feature. Have you ever bought a single before? When you pop it into a computer, it looks super cool. The whole screen changes and stuff and it usually looks amazing.

I doubt it's a US single, it's probably an European/Australian single, since the US did away with physical singles since they got downloads. Lame.

*self-professed singles obsessor*
I collect them by the way, since they aren't common in parts of the world. :D

I can't wait to get this single. I'm sure the flash menu stuff is going to be fricking amazing.

Unless it's like the 'orange county girl' live portion of 'The Sweet Escape.' There were no extra's and the video was really naff quality.

LOL she's really getting her moneys worth for the Harajuku Lovers tour if that's what the live 'Hollaback Girl's' from. The album came with an audio and video, her website offers the 'What You Waiting For' video and now, possibly, Hollaback Girl audio :grumpy

I am D:

Maybe it's because none of my CD stores sell singles, the only places you can get them where I live that I know of is FYE and this store called SPECs, and most of the time it's just choice singles. I geuss they aren't very popular at these stores ;\

i just bought The Sweet Escape, and i love it! my favorite songs are Wind It Up, The Sweet Escape, Early Winter, 4 in the morning, and Wonderful Life...its so different then Love.Angel.Music.Baby! i didn't like it...too many sex songs...

and now to actually get onto the topic yu all are on:

i see a lot of singles at samgoody...and sometimes i see them at walmart...today i saw a Katharine McPhee single...and a few weeks ago, i saw a Beyonce single...and at samgoody, i saw all of Beyonce's singles...ALL of them. i would buy them, but i never have the extra money

Hm, there is actually a SamGoody around me, maybe I'll go try there sometime soon.

Sex songs on L.A.M.B.?! O.o; Where?

^ O_O dont yu even pay attention to the lyrics? there's Crash and Bubble Pop Electric...those are the obvious ones...there are others with a line or two that has a sex-related meaning.

I can't blame Norrel for being "ignorant" about singles. They've certainly lost their popularity in the US. Most people just buy or download the entire album now. US singles are almost pointless considering the fact that they usually just have like, two album tracks, a remix or live, and a possible video. It's kind of not worth it if you already own the album. I only buy singles that have a lot of B-sides or remixes, such as Christina's new Hurt Remixes singles, or Beyonce's Ring the Alarm single with like 6 remixes.

LMAO. You think those are sex songs? WOW o.o!

Yes, I do pay attention to lyrics and yes they do have a few lines in there but I don't consider them as "sex songs".

They just seem like regular songs to me :shrug

True, plus people would rather download nowadays in the US. Digital sales are crazy compared to physical sales.

Me too actually.. :laugh "Drive in to me", "Crash into me real hard"...

LOL, you guys need to hear some real sex songs.

There's "SexyBack" although not really a sex song, its sexier than 90% of the sex songs out there..

Care to post lyrics to a sex song? :laugh

Check out Lil' Kim LMAO :laugh

I miss No Doubt. I can't wait for a new album from them.

I think Gwen will get back with the boys after this tour and make a new album :cool

Very, very true. "How Many Licks?" is a sex song if I've EVER heard one.

God I love that woman :)

Yes, Lil' Kim is amazing!

Gwen was on Jimmy Kimmel yesturday and she looked totally awesome!

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Thanks to retro style

Click here to watch the interview

She was on Ellen today and she performed The Sweet Escape and Wind It Up. I was very impressed that she sang both songs and I'm SO buying tickets for the tour tomorrow when they go on sale.

For those that missed Gwen on the Ellen show (I did too), You can watch it here

Performance pics:

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thanks to retro style

Yeah I know it's crappy quality :dead2

Bought the album this past weekend, and I like what I've heard so far, but I haven't really given it a good listen. It's mainly just been used as background noise while I'm doing things.

The title track is very good, though.

Thanks for the link moomba! I wanted to hear that song live :3

Rumor:

Gwen Stefani has confirmed she will reunite with her No Doubt bandmates next year to record a new album - and she can think of nothing else. The Don't Speak chart-toppers have been on an extended hiatus since frontwoman Stefani successfully reinvented herself as a solo pop star. But the singer is desperate to return to her musical roots and has already planned their comeback hits. She tells radio station Galaxy, "I got an idea in my head about what we could do and now that's all I can think about - doing a No Doubt record." Earlier this month bandmate Tom Dumont revealed he's been working on new material too, alongside guitarist Tony Kanal and drummer Adrian Young.

YAY! :bshake

Has anyone else heard that 4 In The Morning is to be her next single???