Main events of the year in show business

The Associated Press December 25, published a list of 10 main events of 2009 in show business. The ratings are based on a survey of journalists of leading American Newspapers and TV channels.



First place took the death of pop singer Michael Jackson, who died suddenly at age 50 in Los Angeles on June 25, 2009. During the preliminary investigation that took several weeks, it was found that the death of Jackson was forced singer died from an overdose of drugs. The farewell ceremony with Jackson at the stadium in Los Angeles, visited by tens of thousands, even millions of viewers around the world watched the broadcast.


Second place

experts gave "the singing housewife" Susan Boyle. The participant in the British TV contest "Britain's Got Talent" has received worldwide fame as a recording of her performance with the song "I Dreamed a Dream" from the musical "Les Miserables" became a hit on video. Boyle took second place in the final of the TV competition, but this did not prevent her to sign a contract with a record company to release the album in November. Disk Boyle "I Dreamed a Dream" became the bestseller of the year in the UK and in the USA sold in 2, 5 million copies.


Third place

in the ranking of the main events of the year in show business according to AP took the changes in the program schedule of the evening broadcast American TV channel NBC. Show comedian Jay Leno started out at 22:00, and the program "Tonight" by Conan O'brien has moved on a later night.


Space

from 4th to 6th in the ranking of the main events of 2009 in show business took: the death of the oldest American journalist Walter Cronkite; recognition host David Letterman in adultery; the beating up singer Rihanna and her boyfriend Chris brown on the eve of the ceremony of "Grammy".


On with

edema place were escapade rapper Kanye West at the ceremony MTV Video Music Awards, when he took the microphone from one of laureates singer Taylor swift to Express their disagreement with the jury's decision.


Eighth place

experts interviewed by AP awarded videos on the Internet.Broadcast that can be viewed in the workplace, the Agency notes, the rival daily TV news. In 2009, the online broadcast of the inauguration of Barack Obama and the farewell ceremony with Michael Jackson, which took place in the daytime, gathered millions of views.



Ninth place went purely American news from the world of show business - decay Duo TV stars Jon and Kate Gosselin, which occurred at the moment when the ratings of their TV show "Jon & Kate Plus 8" has reached its maximum.


Closes the top ten

the most significant events of 2009, according to AP posthumous award "Oscar" Australian actor Heath Ledger for his supporting role in the film "the Dark knight". A year earlier, the Agency, the rating of the main events of the year included the death of Ledger, who died in January 2008 from an overdose of drugs.

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