Fleetwood Mac Returns to Road & Recording, Mamma Mia Sinks Titanic, more

Fleetwood Mac is returning to the road starting March 1 in Pittsburgh. In addition, Reprise is planning a deluxe CD/DVD version of Rumours with unreleased material for sometime next year and Lindsey Buckingham has said that the group may return to the studio after the tour to record a new album.

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The movie Mamma Mia! hasn't been able to unseat Titanic as the biggest film in U.K. history (yet...it's very close), but it certainly sunk the big boat in DVD sales. The just released DVD sold 3.1 million copies in its first week, beating the old record set ten years ago by Titanic, which moved 2.2 units. Titanic still owns the overall DVD sales record of 6.5 million units, but it is also expected to fall.

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Kristen Stewart, one of the stars of the current hit film Twilight, is set to play the part of Joan Jett in the film, The Runaways. Director Floria Sigismondi also wrote the screenplay that revolves around the influential all-girl band, concentrating on the lives of Jett and Cherie Currie. Shooting is scheduled to start in early 2009 but will have to work around the Twilight sequels.

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Gary Moore, ex-guitarist for Thin Lizzy, has lost a major court case in Germany. The court in Munich said that Moore had stolen his guitar solo from the 1990 song Still Got the Blues from the 1974 recording Nordrach by German band Jud's Gallery. The amount of the penalty is yet to be established.

Moore has maintained that he had never heard the song and the court even said that there was no evidence that the solo had been deliberately stolen, but that fact was immaterial in a copyright infringment case.

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After Mark Ronson's decleration that he would be producing the next Elton John album, Elton tried to set the record straight. A source said, "They like each other and know each other well. There's been lots and lots of conversation, but nothing is finalized yet."

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It may be time for Barry Manilow to call it quits on his Greatest Songs of the Decades series as the latest, saluting the 80's, starts at number 14 with sales 78,000. His last three in the series debuted at 1, 2 and 4.

Total sales last week were 12.15 million, down just 0.7% from the same week last year.