Glee Cast's Glee: The Music: Journey To The Regionals debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Glee Cast's Glee: The Music Vol. 3: Showstoppers fell 4 places to #7. Carole King & James Taylor's Live At The Troubadour dropped 6 spots to #13. AC/DC's Iron Man 2 soundtrack fell 13 places to #32. Glee Cast's Glee: Season One: The Music Vol. 1 dropped 3 spots to #37.

Glee Cast's "Faithfully" debuted at #37 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

Glee Cast's Glee: The Music Vol. 3: Showstoppers dropped a spot to #4 on the U.K. Albums chart. Billy Joel's Piano Man: The Very Best Of Billy Joel climbed a place to #15. Steve Winwood's Revolutions: The Very Best Of Steve Winwood debuted at #18. AC/DC's Iron Man 2 soundtrack retained the #23 spot. The Who's Greatest Hits & More debuted at #27. Gorillaz's Plastic Beach climbed a place to #38. Free & Bad Company's The Very Best Of Free & Bad Company re-entered the chart at #39.

Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds' "3 Lions" debuted at #10 on the U.K. Singles chart. New Order's "World In Motion" returned to the chart at #22.

Kirlian Camera will release, Not Of This World, a 3-CD 30-year retrospective on July 2nd via Trisol.

Dave Stewart has been writing songs with Stevie Nicks for her upcoming solo album that they expect to start recording shortly. He also plans to go into the studio in July to work on a solo album.

Public Enemy's Chuck D has released a new track, "Tear Down That Wall," in opposition to Arizona's immigration law at www.slamjamz.com. The song will also appear on his new solo album. Meanwhile, the group are up to 75% of their $75,000 fan-funding goal for their new album.

Jackson 5 member Randy Jackson, 48, reportedly suffered a mild heart attack and was checked into Huntington Memorial Hospital on Tuesday and was held overnight.

Phil Collins has received the prestigious Johnny Mercer award at the Songwriters Hall of Fame gala.

Playing The Angel, a new musical featuring the back catalogue of Depeche Mode, is set to open in the MITP theatre in Valletta, Malta early next year. Casting begins on June 27th.

Pat Benatar released her new book, Between A Heart and A Rock Place: A Memoir, via Harper Collins this week.

Richard Thompson fan anticipating the release of, Dream Attic, his new studio album on Aug. 31st via Shout! Factory can go to http://www.richardthompsondreamattic.com/ to download the new song "Big Sun Falling In The River" for free.

Prince will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at the BET Awards to be held on June 27th in Los Angeles.

Former Bachman-Turner Overdrive guitarist Tim Bachman, 58, has been charged with sexual interference of a person under 14 years, touching a young person for sexual purpose and sexual assault according to Abbotsford police. The crimes allegedly occurred between 2000 and 2002 when the woman involved would have been between 11 and 14 years old. Bachman had been living in Abbotsford for the last decade and he knew the victim who approached the police in March 2009. An investigation went on for 11 months and Bachman turned himself in on May 6th after a warrant was issued. His lawyer appeared in court on Monday and no statement has been released by the guitarist. Bachman is scheduled to appear in court on July 5th.

There may be a reason to watch Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants with your child. Pay attention to the voice of the character Triton during the July 5th premiere of the new Spongebob special The Clash of Triton. Yes, that is Sebastian Bach.

Steve Miller has joined longtime friend Kenny Chesney on stage for CMT's Crossroads for an episode scheduled to air on July 9th.

Japanese heavy metal act X Japan have announced that, after 22 years of recording, they have started work in a Los Angeles recording studio on their U.S. debut which will be their first sung in English.

Former Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman has been putting the finishing touches on his new instrumental solo album in Tokyo. Friedman's latest release, Tokyo Jukebox, came out in Europe in February.

Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder releases his new solo song, "Better Days," on iTunes on June 22nd. The song is off the Eat Pray Love soundtrack which heads to stores July 20th. You can hear listen to the song here.

So, publisher Simon & Schuster have quite a big book on their hands. Roses & Thorns, Bret Michael's autobiography, was due out June 23rd of 2009. Then Michaels had an incident at the Tony Awards... so they pushed it back. Then he has a brain hemmorrhage... so they pushed it back again. Each of these areas will be detailed in the new book which Michaels hopes is out before the end of the year.

Paul McCartney has told the BBC that he's already started writing work on the score to a ballet that he's been commissioned to compose.

Slash, The Muppets, Melissa Etheridge, The Go-Go's and Bebe & CeCe Winans are among the celebrities to be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame in the next 5 years according to a list released by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce on Thursday.

Devo will be making an appearance on Futurama's 100th episode. The new season of the animated series begins June 24th and the Devo episode airs Sept. 2nd on Comedy Central.

Peter Case of The Nerves and The Plimsouls will release his new studio album, Wig!, on June 29th. The 3-time Grammy nominee underwent a sudden open-heart surgery early this year.

Singer-songwriter Stan Bush will release his 11th studio album, Dream The Dream, in Europe on Aug. 27th.

Bauhaus and Love & Rockets guitarist David J has announced plans to release a new single this fall via Saint Rose Records.

TKA have announced the release of their new single, "Set It Off," at iTunes, Amazon and Napster.

Former Dead Kennedys guitarist East Bay Ray has a new band called The Killer Smiles. The first track to surface from their upcoming CD is "It's Broken" which can be heard at their MySpace page.

Katrina Leskanich of Katrina & The Waves has a new CD, The Live Album, coming out. Fans on Facebook can go to http://www.facebook.com/katrinasweb and click "Like" to get a free MP3 of "River Deep, Mountain High" at the page or go to www.pledgemusic.com/projects/katrina to download a free MP3 of "Walking On Sunshine."

The Mission U.K. release their new album, Dum Dum Bullet, via Amazon, iTunes and their own www.themissionstore.co.uk next week. Although God Is A Bullet was supposed to be the final album by the band, Wayne Hussey has said, "Just when I thought I had finally escaped and gotten away I get dragged back kicking and screaming. One more ‘last’ Mission album." Essentially, there were a few songs left unfinished from the previous album sessions that just had to be finished.

Swedish rock act Candlemass will release their new CD/DVD set, Ashes To Ashes, on June 29th in the U.S.

Ronnie Milsap's hit, "Smoky Mountain Rain," has won a competition to become Tennessee's new state song. The state has had 7 previous official state songs but the song mentions the state's Knoxville and Gatlinburg in its homage to the Great Smoky Mountains. The song was a #24 hit in 1980 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and a #1 hit on the Billboard Country Singles chart.

Dee Snider, Billy Sheehan, Carlos Cavazo, Andreas Kisser, Brad Gillis, Brett Scallions, David Johansen and Frankie Banali have guest appearances on the recently released compilation Harder & Heavier: '60s British Invasion Goes Metal.

The passing of Ronnie James Dio affected many but it also affected the Billboard 200 chart as Dio's debut album, Holy Diver, returned to the chart at #149 and #11 on the Billboard Pop Catalog chart.

Former Strangeways and current Giant vocalist Terry Brock will release his second solo album, Diamond Blue, on Sept. 14th. Brock is also currently at work on a Strangeways reunion CD due out this fall.

Whitesnake are exploring their options on bass as both bassist Uriah Duffy and drummer Chris Frazier have amicably departed to work on other projects. Drummer/vocalist Brian Tichy has joined the group in the studio to write and record their follow-up to Good To Be Bad. The new album is due out via Frontiers Records next spring.

Dream Theater vocalist James LaBrie will release his new solo album, Static Pulse, in September.

Uriah Heep have released their latest album, Celebration, via DisManic Distribution and Knife Fight Media. The 12-track set contain re-recordings of their most successful songs.

Country star Jimmy Dean, 81, died in his Henrico County, Virginia home on Sunday. His wife told the Associated Press that, despite some health problems, he was doing well which made his passing that much more of a shock. She had just left the room where Dean was eating in front of the television and upon returning found him unresponsive. He scored his first top 10 country hit in 1952 and went on to score 2 #1's and release 32 studio albums. His last hit single was a re-recording of "I.O.U." in 1983. Dean was also known as an entrepreneur for launching Jimmy Dean Meat Co. in 1969 which he sold to Sara Lee Corp. in 1984.

Former Parliament-Funkadelic guitarist/vocalist Garry Marshall Shider, 56, died on June 16th after a brief battle with cancer. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member suffered from stroke-like symptoms in March and was later diagnosed with brain and lung cancer. During the 80s, Shider recorded albums with Parliament, Funkadelic, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Incorporated Thang Band. During the last two years, Shider had been working as a composer for albums by Pitbull and Röyksopp.

German metal act Doro will release a double-DVD/CD set entitled 25 Years In Rock in November. Included in the DVD footage are their 25th anniversary concert in Dusseldorf, a special in China and outtakes from her 2,500th performance.