Justin Bieber's NYC Buyout Draws Dedicated Fans, Scooter Braun
Justin Bieber (Getty Images)
Justin Bieber really does have the most devoted fans in the world.
Earlier this week, the Canadian pop phenom released his much-anticipated album Believe, a slick production that showcases the singer's burgeoning maturity vocally and otherwise. The album is basically guaranteed to take the top spot on the Billboard 200 for the week of June 19, but some particularly ardent Beliebers have mobilized to ensure Bieber has the highest possible sales—while giving back to the community, naturally.
A number of Bieber's enterprising fans have organized buyouts to celebrate Believe's release, planning city-wide meet-ups in which fans gather to buy as many copies of Justin's album as possible. As most fans at Bieber buyouts have already owned the album since the very second it hit iTunes, many of the albums purchased are then donated to children's hospitals.
Jackie Augustus, organizer of the New York City buyout and founder of the Bieber Army (more than 520K strong on Twitter), drew several dozen teenage girls to the Chelsea Best Buy on Wednesday afternoon despite miserable heat. Some of the attendees had already spent hours waiting for Justin to appear outside a taping for BET's 106 & Park, and before that,Late Night with David Letterman.
"We're just all coming out to support the album and hopefully buy all the albums off the shelf, and help it to go number one," Augustus explained. There were vague hopes that Bieber would show in the flesh—he crashed a buyout for My World, once—but as Augustus noted, "We all came out here to support, not like, in hopes of seeing him. That's just a reward that would come out of it."
In the end, the pop superstar ended up taking the afternoon off to hang out with family. Bieber's team did not leave fans disappointed, however: Scooter Braun, Justin's manager, and Brad Haugen, CMO at Scooter Braun Projects, showed up and hung out with the all-female crowd, snapping photos and even purchasing some copies of Believe themselves.
A crowd of Beliebers proudly hold up their copies of Justin Bieber's Believe at Best Buy in Chelsea on June 20, 2012. (Zimbio)
Rihanna to Make Animated Movie Debut in DreamWorks' 'Happy Smekday!'
(Fame FlyNet Pictures)Rihanna has zero interest in being a role model, but that doesn't mean she's not game for some quality family entertainment.
The Barbados-born singer will voice one of the lead roles in DreamWorks Animation's Happy Smekday! an adaptation of Adam Rex's popular children's book The Meaning of Smekday,according to The Hollywood Reporter. Rihanna will star opposite Big Bang Theory's Jim Parsons on the project, which will be directed by Tim Johnson.
In the film, a friendly alien race uses Earth as its hideout from a dangerous enemy until one goofy alien accidentally blows their cover. This alien is then forced to go on the run with a teenage girl, resulting in one of those quirky road trips that provide excellent comic fodder. Let's hope RiRi keeps her island girl accent for the role.
Rihanna made her major movie debut earlier this year with a small role in Battleship, and she recently wrapped a cameo in Seth Rogen's directorial debut, The End of the World.
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