Hannah Montana

By Chris Molanphy For the Jonases, Disney conducted a coordinated battle plan over the summer, issuing a series of prerelease iTunes singles—four in total—every two weeks leading up to their August album debut. But Swift did her ex-boyfriend Joe Jonas one better, dropping five songs between August and l...

By Maura Johnston Billy Ray Cyrus, Charlie Daniels, recent government appointee Lee Greenwood, Michael W. Smith, and uh Oliver North are going to embark on a right-wing Lollapalooza next summer, when Sean Hannity's Freedom Concerts '09 take place at various locales around America. In an effort to maximi...

By Kate Richardson Perhaps the Jonas Brothers could put out a line of purity rings? Nothing feeds teen girls' hormones quite like abstinence paraphernalia. The Jonases are likely to stick with Disney for the near future, since their Disney Channel show and movie have yet to launch. But it's an open question w...

By Kate Richardson Most people over the age of 16 have heard of Miley Cyrus (or at least Hannah Montana), but many have probably never actually heard one of her songs. I was one of these fortunate souls until last Monday, when a friend made me—and I'm still not sure exactly why—watch the Brett Ratner-directed v...

By Maura Johnston • "Sure, lead single 'Burnin' Up' is an excellent attempt at Maroon 5-style pop-funk complete with a killer Latin-percussion breakdown, and Jack Johnson will probably lightly tap himself for not coming up with 'Love Bug' first. But too many of these songs get bogged down in chord changes...

By Maura Johnston Now that the end of Hannah Montana might be near, LifeStyles Condoms is ready to help bring the image of its star, Miley Cyrus, into a realm that's even more grown-up than those wet T-shirt pictures might imply; it's offered to pay Cyrus a cool million dolalrs to become its spokesperson. "Wi...

By Chris Molanphy • A few weeks ago in this space, I talked at length about the unusual multi-single strategies fueling the recent blockbuster albums by Lil Wayne and Coldplay. According to a story in last week's Billboard, this is a more coherent strategy than I first suspected, and (like so many things on t...

By Chris Molanphy This is the fifth time in the last two and a half years that the Hot 100 has been slammed with a wave of tunes from a Disney Channel soundtrack. In February 2006, eight songs from cast members of the first High School Musical stormed the chart. Nine months later, seven songs credited to Cyrus' al...

By Maura Johnston Saturday brought the spring/summer edition of Z100's biannual pop medley concerts, Zootopia, to the Izod Center, an arena formerly named after former New Jersey governor Brendan Byrne and microwaved-cheesesteak-proffering air carrier Continental Airlines. The lineup was a testa...

By Kate Richardson Alexis: well Jason, we're with Miley, Emily, the Jonas Brothers and our cousin Ada... Emily: but i dont know how to swim...joe, can you teach me? Miley: who is she kidding, she's the Best swimmer in the set of Hannah Montana. Alexis: *sighs* *looks at Emily and Joe* Lorelai: Joe kissed Emily!

By Maura Johnston The above clip is the No. 1 video on YouTube with 950,000-plus views so far and its popularity can probably be explained by the fact that it features Miley Cyrus, referring to herself as "Milez," masterminding some sort of dance battle set to Madonna's "4 Minutes." There are many incredible...

By Maura Johnston Last night's CMT Music Awards—the country-music television network's version of its sister network MTV's Video Music Awards—veered into "a little more than slightly excruciating" territory when co-host Miley Cyrus tripped her way through a Taylor Swift intro in which she talked ab...

By Kate Richardson Now that we know that Miley is but a mere "bridge to love," and that in the end everyone is BFFs, what incentive do we have to keep reading? It seems emogurl810 had jumped the narrative gun, but perhaps she's just working on a level that transcends traditional story structure. The more puzzli...

By mjohnston THE WHAAAA? At approximately 7 p.m. Monday, the Best New Artist voting (part of some listener polls that are running in conjunction with this list's airing/trying to pad the station's web stats before the year ends) was led by the moptopped Jonas Brothers, with Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana...

By jharv These two were supposed to be our cash cows for 2008. We hoped to sell movie tickets to every tween in America, get them to download those soundtracks off of iTunes and then — three months later — get them to buy the 'High School Musical 3' and 'Hannah Montana Movie' DVDs. But none of that's going...

By Kate Richardson Pumpin' Up the Party" by Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus Pro: Might convince you that you're on the way to a party every morning. Con: Reminds you of how Hannah Montana is single-handedly taking down Western Civilization.

By mjohnston Ticket reseller StubHub released its 2007 "State Of The Market That We Won't Refer To As 'Scalping'" report yesterday, and perhaps surprising no one, the Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana "Best Of Both Worlds" tour was all over it. Its $258 average ticket price and 55 dates resulted in it becomi...

By Maura Johnston 8:48 p.m. The All-American Rejects are selling Ford. With a song that I kinda like. 9:48 p.m. All those Hannah Montana ticket sales allowed Miley Cyrus to get her teeth fixed. You know, wouldn't it have been nice if she'd performed? To comfort all the kids who got left out in the cold?

By Maura Johnston 2. Britney Spears, Blackout (290,000) 4. Avenged Sevenfold (94,000) 8. Josh Groban, Noel (76,000) 11. High School Musical 2 soundtrack (51,000) 13. Colbie Caillat, Coco (43,000) 16. Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus (37,000) 17. Kanye West, Graduation (35,000) 20. Jonas Brothers (33,000)

By Maura Johnston The parade of finger-pointing surrounding the scarcity of tickets to the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus "Best Of Both Worlds" tour--a situation that has resulted in crying 11-year-olds, fathers lining up to humiliate themselves, and possibly flawed lessons on economics from the Feder...

By Maura Johnston 1. High School Musical 2 soundtrack (367,000) 3. Hannah Montana 2 (58,000) 4. Hairspray soundtrack (52,000) 5. Now 25 (52,000) 6. Fergie, The Dutchess (50,000) 11. The Jonas Brothers (35,000) 13. T.I., T.I. Vs. T.I.P. (33,000) 16. Taylor Swift (30,000) 17. High School Musical soundtrack (29,000)