Michael Buble Ready to Give You More
October 25, 2007 - More is better according to Michael Buble. The pop/crooner is set to release a new/extended version of his best selling 'Call Me Irresponsible' CD on November 13th. Expect the 13 original tunes plus an amazing 8 extra songs including a take on 'Stuck in the Middle With You." The old Stealers Wheel tune from 1972. The singer will also feature new remixed of his huge hits "Home" and "Everything.' Also expect some Christmas tunes including "Let It Snow," Mel Torme's "The Christmas Song" and White Christmas." Another treat will be "Orange Coloured Sky" made famous by Nat King Cole. - Kari Graham

New York Post Screws Up on Michael Buble
June 5, 2007 - In the "what de?" category, the New York Post missed the mark on Michael Buble's romance with British actress Emily Blunt. The papers gossip column reported that Michael Buble' tried but failed to get the attention of Blunt recently. The only problem is he's been dating Blunt for two years. The couple had a good laugh as they read about a supposed encounter that was obviously misinterpreted or never happened at the Hotel Costes K in Paris. Buble's representative only had this to say, "They have been together for two years and are a lovely couple." In other earth shattering news, Celine Dion is really annoying. - by John Beaudin

Michael Bublè has Duet with Italian Rising Jazz Star
May 22, 2007 - ROME. Michael Bublè, in Italy last april for his new album 'Call Me Irresponsible' promotional tour, during the official press conference in Rome at the Hilton Hotel, has very kind words for the Italian jazz singer Matteo Brancaleoni, 25 year old - "He really is a great vocalist" said Bublè. Full Story

Michael Buble Feeling Lots of Pressure
May 1, 2007 - Michael Buble says he spent lots of sleepless nights trying to raise the bar on his new album. "Call me Irresponsible," released today put so much pressure on Buble he was actually having spats with producers David Foster and Bob Rock but adds the confrontations were "friendly." The Vancouver crooner says the album was his toughest album yet considering his last "It's Time" sold six million units plus the fact he didn't want to disappoint some of his high profile fans including Tony Bennett. Buble says, "I just wanted to keep the momentum of my career going, I didn't want to settle for anything less than perfect." Buble gives his girlfriend, British actress Emily Blunt credit for inspiring "Everything" the first hit from the album. He also co-wrote "Lost" with popular Calgary singer-songwriter Jann Arden. The album follows a familiar trail of his last two CDs - catchy, smooth, remakes with a few originals.
- by John Beaudin

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Michael Buble wins Three Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards
April 7, 2006 - Crooner Michael Buble picked up three Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards tonight at the second annual ceremony. Buble who won 4 Juno Awards last week won in every category he was nominated including "Male Vocalist" and "Album of the Year" for "It's Time" and "Socan Best Original Composition" for his huge hit "Home." More

Michael Buble' Studio Date With David Foster In May
April 20, 2004 - Michael Buble' is hoping to return to the magic of his self titled album with the same team of David Foster and Humberto Gatica. All three will be in the studio next month to record a follow up album. The crooner is on David Fosters own Imprint 143 Records. Buble' says the new album will have some of his own songs which Foster was open to record. Buble' says, "I've always written. I've written a lot of songs in this genre. (Swing) The singer may also write and record a duet with young U.K. crooner Jamie Callum. Buble's also been paying attention to American Idol's resident crooner John Stevens, "I sat with him and his mom," says Buble' "I said, John just keep doing what you're doing." Buble' reminded Stevens that it was just a stupid contest and to do his best.

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Michael Buble' Tours To Back New DVD Package
March 25, 2004 - Well he loves his job and he does it a lot. Michael Buble' will be a busy beaver this year touring for most of the year to support his new CD/DVD releases. Buble' will make stops in both the U.S and Europe. His latest offering "Come Fly With Me" will be delivered both on CD and DVD on March 30th. The live concert CD will feature eight tracks and the DVD will have 12 performances including interviews and backstage footage. Buble's debut has sold over 2 million albums worldwide.

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Michael Buble' 2004 tour line-up

March 25 - Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, CA March 26 - Fillmore in San Francisco, CA March 27 - Wilten LG in L.A., CA March 28 - The Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, NV April 4 - Juno Awards in Edmonton, Canada April 9 - Lyric Theatre in Brisbane, Australia April 12 - Concert Hall in Perth, Australia April 13 - Concert Hall in Perth, Australia April 15 - Festival Theatre in Adelaide, Australia April 17 - Concert Hall in Melbourne, Australia April 19 - Concert Hall in Melbourne, Australia April 18 - Logie Awards in Australia April 21 - Opera House Concert Hall in Sydney, Australia April 22 - Opera House Concert Hall in Sydney, Australia April 23 - Opera House Concert Hall in Sydney, Australia April 25 - Aotea Center in Auckland, NZ April 26 - St. James Theatre in Wellington, NZ April 27 - Town Hall in Christchurch, NZ April 30 - SunFest in West Palm Beach, FL May 1 - Metropolitain Park in Jacksonville, FL May 4 - Ferguson Hall in Tampa, FL May 5 - Rialto Center in Atlanta, GA May 8 - Carolina Theatre in Durham, NC May 9 - Lisner Auditorium in Washington, DC May 11 - Zellerbach Theatre in Philadelphia, PA May 12 - Zellerbach Theatre in Philadelphia, PA May 14 - Town Hall in New York, NY May 9 - Lisner Auditorium in Washington, DC May 17 - Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Ireland

May 18 - The Waterfront Hall in Belfast, UK May 20 - Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham, UK May 21 - Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow, UK May 23 - Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham, UK May 24 - St David's Hall in Cardiff, UK May 25 - Colston Hall in Bristol, UK May 26 - The Dome in Brighton, UK May 28 - Regent Theatre in Ipswich, UK May 29 - Carling Apollo Hammersmith in London, UK May 30 - Carling Apollo in Manchester, UK May 31 - Oxford Apollo in Oxford, UK June 24 - Center for the Arts in Midland, MI September 24 - Paramount Arts Center in Aurora, IL September 25 - North Central College in Naperville, IL September 26 - Door Community Auditorium in Fish Creek, WI November 11 - City Hall in Newcastle, UK November 12 - Clyde Auditorium in Glascow, UK November 13 - Carling Apollo in Manchester, UK November 15 - NIA Arena in Birmingham, UK November 16 - Royal Albert Hall in London, UK November 17 - Royal Albert Hall in London, UK November 18 - Dome Theatre in Brighton, UK November 20 - Cardiff Arena in Cardiff, UK November 21 - Plymouth Pavillion in Plymouth, UK November 23 - Usher Hall in Edinburgh, UK November 24 - Blackpool Opera House in Blackpool, UK November 25 - Hallam FM Arena in Sheffield, UK December 10-11 - Jorgensen Centre for Performing Arts in Storrs, CT

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Chris Isaak Welcomes Michael Buble' and Says Goodbye to Series

Buble' (left) & Isaak

February 20, 2004 - Chris Isaak is going out with a bang or at least with good company. Expect an all star line up for the last few shows airing in March. The Chris Isaak Show's third and final season will come to an end with a special two hour show March 25 on Showtime. Guest Stars for February and March include Richie Sambora, Cyndi Lauper, Blake Shelton and Michael Buble.' The finale' will have Chris and his manager Yola possibly getting together after many years of flirting on the show. Read more.

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Sarah McLachlan, Nelly Furtado Top Juno Nominations
February 11, 2004 - Two of Canada's top female vocalists lead the pack as the Juno Nominations were released today. Both Sarah McLachlan (left) and Nelly Furtado were mentioned in five categories each. McLachlan who's recent hit single "Fallen" has charted on both Pop and Smooth Jazz charts was nominated for the Juno Fan choice, Album, Artist, songwriter and Pop artist of the year. Read more.

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Michael Buble' Confirmed For Juno Awards
January 26, 2004 - Michael Buble' was definitely one of the success stories of Canadian music in the last year. His self titled album released on WEA has been certified double platinum in Canada and Australia, platinum in South Africa and New Zealand and Gold in the U.S. Appropriately the crooner will perform at Canada's biggest music celebration the Juno awards April 4th in Edmonton. Also performing will be Barenaked Ladies, Nelly Furtado, Avril Lavigne, Sarah McLachlan and Nickelback. This will be Buble's first performance at the Juno's. Nominations for the awards, honoring the best in Canadian music will be announced February 11th. In other Buble' news Janie Michaud of Michaelbuble.jazzyutopia.org says the singer is scheduled to release a DVD this year featuring "Michael's 2003 travels and performances, interviews and lots more." The package will be called "Come Fly With Me."

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Review - Michael Buble' - Let It Snow
December 10, 2003 - Now here's a no-brainer, Michael Buble' doing Christmas music! I mean can you go wrong here? Lets see, the traditional Christmas fans - the Bing or blue eyes fans will love it, crooner lovers will warm up to it, younger demo's have already sung the praises of this young singer and more than anything else this is pretty damn good Christmas music. It's important to note that this holiday EP was put together by the same team that created his self titled Warner Brothers debut - David Foster and Humberta Gatica. Read more.

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Vancouver's Michael Buble' Certified Double Platinum In Canada
December 9, 2003 - Singer's recordings sell over 80,000 copies in the U.S. last weekVancouver's Michael Bublé continues to defy the conventional marketing wisdom of the music world with his astonishing success. The young crooner's latest coupe is eclipsing the double platinum sales mark (200,000) in Canada. Internationally, the singer who has been favourably compared to Bobby Darin and Frank Sinatra has sold over 1.4 million copies of his major label debut since it's release this past February. All of this without the benefit of a hit single on radio or video play. The news of this latest sales certification comes during the same week that Michael is headlining a week-long sold out run at Ronnie Scott's in London, England. Bublé is the current toast of the town as illustrated in a seven page feature spread ran in the most recent issue of the Sunday Times. Bublé's record has been certified double gold in the U.K., double platinum in Singapore, platinum in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and gold in Taiwan. In the United States, a number of high profile television appearances have led to a massive jump in the sales charts. Michael's album re-entered the U.S. charts this week at #47, selling over 47,000 copies last week after his performance on the Today Show and a profile run on NBC's Dateline. Incredibly, Buble's 5 song Christmas EP, Let It Snow, also debuted on the U.S. charts, entering at #56 selling more than 38,000 copies He will return to the Today Show on Christmas day for a follow-up holiday performance. In Canada, combined sales for Bublé's album and a limited edition version that includes the five bonus Christmas tracks eclipsed 15,000 copies in the past week. In addition, close to 2,000 copies of the Let It Snow EP were sold in Canada.

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Michael Buble' Sells Million
November 25, 2003 - In less than a year, Michael Bublé's debut album has surpassed the one million mark in sales worldwide! The Warner/Reprise recording artist hit this career milestone following visits to the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, the Philippines and South Africa. Bublé returns to London this week to appear on the prestigious Parkinson's Christmas show; followed later in the week by appearances on two more high profile shows, "Richard and Judy" and "Terry and Gaby". On November 30th, he will be the subject of an NBC Dateline feature and the first week in December he returns to the Today Show that helped launch his career just 10 months ago. Bublé will perform a song from his self-titled limited edition, Christmas CD. After that, it is back to London for a sold-out, weeklong engagement at Ronnie Scotts.

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More Success for Michael Buble'
September 23, 2003 - Warner Brothers Canada announced Friday that Canadian singer Michael Bublé's debut album has passed the Platinum threshold! But it doesn't stop there. Not content with success in his own country, Bublé has also just returned from New Zealand where the album passed the gold mark and is currently #1 on the sales charts. Next step was Australia where Bublé picked up a Gold record for his album which currently sits at #2. On to Kuala Lumpur where he played before audiences that included heads of State and saw the album pass the Gold mark in sales. The Philippines were next where the record topped the sales charts at three record store chains. Michael was inundated with over 1000 fans when he appeared at the Podium Mall to sign autographs. The final stop was to pick up a Platinum album in Singapore. Again sell-out crowds greeted his every stop and again, Michael was besieged by requests for TV, radio and newspaper interviews. Bublé now begins a week of shows in the US before heading to the UK and South Africa.

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Michael Buble' To Perform on Sharon Osbourne Show
September 19, 2003- Lets hope he knows enough swear words. Crooner Michael Buble' will be a guest on the new Sharon Osbourne Show this Monday, September 22nd. Buble' who has been showing up everywhere from Soap Opera's to movies will also be featured on the Canadian news magazine show W-Five and NBC's Dateline, no dates have been confirmed yet. Thanks to Janie Michaud of Michaelbuble.jazzyutopia.org for the information. Buble' has just added more tour dates.

Tues, 9/23 - 9:30 Club / Washington, DC
Wed, 9/24 - The Theater of the Living Arts / Philadelphia, PA
Fri, 9/26 - BB Kings / New York, NY
Sat, 9/27 - Westbury Music Fair / Westbury, NY
Mon, 10/6 - Cafe De Paris / London - England
Wed, 11/5 - Mohegan Sun Cabaret / Uncasville, CT
Thurs, 11/6 - Mohegan Sun Cabaret / Uncasville, CT
Fri, 11/7 - Mohegan Sun Cabaret / Uncasville, CT
Sat, 11/8 - Mohegan Sun Cabaret / Uncasville, CT
Sun, 11/9 - Mohegan Sun Cabaret / Uncasville, CT

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Michael Buble' Gets First Class Fan Site
July 23, 2003 - There are a lot of music fan sites on the internet. Most are built as a form of appreciation and love for the artist. Though the intent is usually the same lets just say some fan sites look much better than others and Michael Buble's latest fan site is world class. Janie Michaud who's day job is actually web designing has put together a very interactive user friendly site for anything Michael Buble.' Michaelbuble.jazzyutopia.org features up the to date activities of the singer, tour schedules, articles, reviews, message boards and much more. We chatted with webmaster Michaud about the site. Click here

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Michael Buble' To Sing At Baseball All Star Game
July 9, 2003 - Doors keep opening for Vancouver singer Michael Buble.' Next week Buble' will sing "O Canada" at baseball's all-star game in Chicago. Vanessa Carlton will sing The Star-Spangled Banner while Amy Grant, a five-time Grammy Award winner, will perform God Bless America during the seventh-inning stretch. The Chicago White Sox are host of the all-star game on July 15th.

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Michael Buble' Gives Thanks to His Mentors
June 11, 2003 - Crooner Michael Buble' has not exactly had a shortage of strong mentors in his life. While working on his dads salmon fishing boat for six years Michael heard a lot of good advice from his father, "don't use your hands please use your head." The elder Buble' would tell his son. "You don't want to have to work like I do." Buble' told Smooth Jazz Now he also had a strong support system in his granddad who introduced him to the classic songs of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. Later came support from former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney who introduced Michael to Producer David Foster. It was Foster who helped put Buble' on the map by producing his self titled gold album. Read our interview with Michael Buble'

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Part two of our Interview with Michael Buble'
May 21, 2003 - In the second part of our interview with Vancouver crooner Michael Buble' he talks about his favorite west coast singers and the tough but valuable times of working on a salmon boat with his father. Buble' is our "Artist of the Month" for May. Watch for part three coming next week. Click here for the interview.

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Michael Buble' Goes Gold
April 16, 2003 - Congratulations to the very talented Michael Buble' who's debut album just went gold in Canada. Produced by David Foster and Humberto Gatica and featuring the lead off single of the Bee Gees 'How Can You Mend a Broken Heart' the album seems destined for big things. Michael will be Smooth Jazz Now's Artist of the Month for May so look for our interview and feature at the end of the month. by Shannon Edwards

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Michael Buble' on TBS Superstation
April 1, 2003 - Vancouver's Michael Buble' is quickly becoming the biggest Jazz product to come out of Canada since Diana Krall. Look for our interview of Michael later this month on Smooth Jazz Now and watch for our extended 'Artist of the Month' feature on May 1st. Buble will be featured this Thursday night (April 3) on The Movie Break on the TBS Superstation. During breaks of the movie 'Sleepless in Seattle' Michael will perform and sit down for an interview. Check your local listings.