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Maroon 5, Fergie Rule iTunes’ 2007 Chart, Panic! Sets Album Release Date, Lily Allen Covers ELO and More

12/11/07, 3:32 pm EST

Even though no readers voted for Maroon 5’s It Won’t Be Soon Before Long in our Readers’ Top 25 Albums of 2007 poll, the band still managed to top another important list: It was named iTunes’ best-selling album of 2007. Maroon 5 beat out Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black and Kanye West’s Graduation for the most-purchased spot. On the singles side, Fergie’s “Big Girls Don’t Cry” grabbed Number One, while her “Glamorous” settled in at five.
In a ruling issued yesterday, a $3 billion invasion of privacy lawsuit against rapper/producer Dr. Dre was dismissed. The suit stems back to 2000, when a conversation between Detroit city officials regarding risqué videos shown during Dre’s concert was included on the Dre/Eminem Up in Smoke tour DVD.
Panic! At the Disco will release their second album on March 25th. Panic! will also play a series of U.S. shows before the new, still-untitled album comes out.
System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian will collaborate with Wu-Tang Clan’s the RZA on the “futuristic-specific” score for the upcoming sci-fi film Babylon A.D., starring Vin Diesel.
After two months of distributing for free the Readers’ Number One album of 2007, Radiohead finally closed down InRainbows.com yesterday in preparation for the album’s proper release on CD January 1st.
Check out Lily Allen’s cover version of Electric Light Orchestra’s “Mister Blue Sky.”