The Killers are rig to headline the bit day of the Reading Festival tonight (August 23) with a set on the Main Stage after Bloc Party and The Raconteurs.
The ring, who last played the bash in 2005, will be sledding head-to-head with Manic Street Preachers, wHO are set to headline the NME/Radio 1 Stage. They will play after sets from the likes of Justice, Foals, Mystery Jets and The Ting Tings.
Editors, We Are Scientists and Dirty Pretty Things are too set to perform on the Main Stage, piece Bombay Bicycle Club will kick off the day's musical action on the NME/Radio 1 Stage at midday (BST).
Elsewhere on the Reading internet site Elliot Minor headlines the Festival Republic Stage, playing after Los Campesinos!, White Lies, Twisted Wheel and Black Kids.
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Hannah-Less Miley Breaks Out Big on Charts
Who of necessity Hannah Montana? Apparently not Miley Cyrus.
The tween queen's new, non-Hannah album, Breakout, broke onto the charts at No. 1, selling 371,000 copies for the calendar week ended Sunday, according to Nielsen SoundScan data released today.
Her two previous studio apartment releases, both Miley-Hannah jazz group jobs, as well topped the Billboard 200. But Breakout is an official solo release (she cowrote eight of the 13 cuts). It also represents her best gross sales week, topping last summer's Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus by 45,000, and the second best week for a female artist this year.
Despite the big numbers, Cyrus' album didn't occur close to Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III, which sold 1 million copies for the biggest sales week of the class, or even Mariah Carey's E=MC2, which sold 463,000 copies its debut week�the best for a female artist this year. Cyrus does have line-shooting rights over Madonna, though. The Material One's Hard Candy opened with 288,000.
Cyrus faced some stiff rival from Sugarland. The countrified duo stirred 314,000 of Love on the Inside to land at No. 2.
Other than the odd photograph spread, Cyrus' path to world domination continues unabated. She hosts the Teen Choice Awards this weekend. Her animated movie Bolt opens in November, the same month as her sweet 16th, and she already uttered interest in doing a soundtrack duo with film costar John Travolta. Then there's the upcoming unexampled season of her Disney Channel hit, as well as a Hannah Montana movie, due in May 2009, both of which will spawn albums.
Like Cyrus' latest, Love on the Inside simon Marks a new career high gear for Sugarland, whose previous high was a 211,000-copy No. 4 bow for 2006's Enjoy the Ride. Love on the Inside is also the band's first album to top the Country Albums chart.
(For those keeping track at plate, the electric current Love on the Inside album is a luxe edition, with the regular version set to make believe its debut on
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