Aaliyah album sales increase this week

In the week since the death of R & B star Aaliyah, her album sales rose 41 percent, from 44,000 albums last week to 62,000 this week.

Aaliyah’s first record, 1994’s “Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number,” sold over a million copies. She released her third album last month.

The 22-year-old celebrity was killed in a plane crash near the Bahamas Saturday.

Festival celebrates music and film

Radiohead, Elliott Smith and Eminem are just a few of the musicians who will have screen time at the HIQI Film Series on Sept. 14 in New York. The festival is devoted to music documentaries, videos and short films.

Radiohead’s “Live in Dublin” concert will be shown, along with a chronicle of Washington’s independent music scene starring Elliot Smith and Sleater-Kinney.

An electronic music documentary, featuring Carl Cox and Orbital, and classic indie films such as “The Blank Generation,” will also appear.

The film fest’s closest stop to Iowa will be Sound Unseen in Minneapolis from Sept. 28 to Oct. 4.

Williams and Kidman join forces

Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman teamed up to record a cover of “Somethin’ Stupid,” a song made famous by Frank and Nancy Sinatra in 1967. The new song is for Williams’ latest album, a compilation of swing music cover songs that is due out by the end of the year.

-News gathered from mtv.com and sonicnet.com.