Hopefully everyone saw the Chevy Sonic Super Bowl commercial. It featured the Sonic skydiving, bungeeing, kick-flipping with Rob Dyrdek, and racing through a musical-track with OK Go.  Both Sonic Anthem and OK Go’s new video featured two songs: “We Are Young” by Fun, featuring Janelle Monáe, and OK Go’s new single “Needing/Getting.” 

Thanks to the great people at Chevy, both songs are free to download! Enjoy and check out the “Behind the Scenes” footage of the making the video. 

Rob Dyrdek’s Kickflip over the world’s largest skateboard is awesome!

The number marked Adele’s biggest sales week and came in the wake of her six Grammy wins and her first performance since having vocal cord surgery last fall.

The album spent its 21st nonconsecutive week atop the Billboard 200 albums chart, surpassing a sales record set by Whitney Houston’s “The Bodyguard” soundtrack from 1992-1993.

Although Adele’s feat is bittersweet in light of Houston’s sudden death on the eve of the Grammys, the development is something of a win-win for Sony Music, which released both Adele’s album and the “Bodyguard” soundtrack.

The 730,000 copies moved by “21″ mark the biggest sales week for any album since Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter IV” debuted at No. 1 with 964,000 in September.

However, the last time a non-debuting album sold more than 730,000 copies was over the 2007 Christmas holiday, when Josh Groban’s “Noel” moved 757,000 units.

“21″ also holds the record for the second-largest sales week for an album outside of its first month of release and the holiday shopping season.

During its 52 weeks on the Billboard 200, Adele’s latest album has never left the top 10.

“Beautiful” sold 132,000 downloads in its first week according to Nielsen SoundScan, starting at No. 12 on the Digital Songs chart.

Formed on the 2010 edition of the U.K.’s “X Factor” TV program, the male quintet earns the highest new-Brit Hot 100 launch since the Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony” entered at No. 13 on the chart dated March 28, 1998. (While that wasn’t necessarily the Verve’s very first single, it was their first Hot 100 entry.)

To be more exacting, the last U.K. act (solo or otherwise) to start higher than One Direction with their true first U.S. single was singer Jimmy Ray with “Are You Jimmy Ray?” on Feb. 21, 1998 (No. 26).

Katy Perry’s ‘Part of Me’ Debuts Atop Hot 100

Finally, the last U.K. group to see its first U.S. single start higher was the Spice Girls, when “Wannabe” landed at No. 11 on Jan. 25, 1997. “Wannabe” vaulted to No. 1 four weeks later, spending four straight weeks at the top of the tally.

The success of “Beautiful” may only be just beginning. It makes its retail launch even before One Direction’s record label — Columbia — officially begins going for airplay at pop radio next week.

One Direction comprises Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson. All of the group hails from U.K., save for Horan, who is from Ireland. The five young gents (ages 18-20) have nabbed three top three U.K. singles and reached No. 2 with its debut album “Up All Night” in November 2011. “Night” will be released in the U.S. on March 13 via SYCO/Columbia.

Last night (Feb. 21), the act won its first Brit Award (essentially the U.K. equivalent of the U.S.’ Grammy) for best British single for “What Makes You Beautiful.” (The category is one of three Brit Awards determined by a public vote.)

Next up for the group will be a U.S. tour with Big Time Rush beginning Feb. 24 in Chicago, with dates lined up through March 9 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. They’ll also play NBC’s “Today” show on March 12 — the day before “Up All Night” is released.

One Direction follows in the recent success of fellow U.K. quintet the Wanted, who jump 25-23 on the Hot 100 this week with “Glad You Came.” So far, the single has moved 418,000 downloads. The song also rises 16-13 on the Pop Songs airplay tally this week.

(Additional reporting by Gary Trust)

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junkies, the time has finally come!

Haley Reinhart, that jazzy flower child, that little growler who could, that scatting singer who stepped onto the American Idol stage in Season 10 and miraculously survived near-constant critiques from J.Lo and Randy to eke out a third place finish, has debuted her first post-Idol single, “Free,” live on stage, and you know you want to give it a listen.

While performing at the Hard Rock Cafe in Los Angeles yesterday at at the 104.3 MYfm New Music Night, Ms. Reinhart, who scored a contract with Interscope soon after Idol wrapped, gifted audiences with an acoustic version of first-ever single, which is set to be officially released in March. Check it out below:

Back in November, when I asked Reinhart what kind of sound we could expect from her debut album, she described it as, “soul and RB mixed, with some jazziness in there,” adding, “You can hear the retro-ness, but it definitely has a modern twist.” Judging by this low-quality video, it seems that Reinhart has successfully achieved that melding of genres with “Free.”

Personally, I dig the song. (At least this acoustic version.) It’s a welcome reprieve from the bland, over-produced pop that singing-competition alums often serve up with their first singles (see: Katharine McPhee’s “Over It,” Cher Lloyd’s “Swagger Jagger,” Adam Lambert’s “For Your Entertainment,” Committed’s “Break Free,” or, arguably, Pia Toscano’s “This Time”). The lovely, sloping melodies of the chorus show off Reinhart’s impressive range — she makes what could be a difficult song to sing sound effortlessly smooth.

What do you think of “Free”? Does it get you excited to hear the studio version? In a post-Adele industry, is this the right sort of song for Reinhart to release?

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