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The Jonas Brothers have scored their first number one album in the U.S. with the third-best sales week of 2008.
The group’s A Little Bit Longer has debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 countdown with 525,000 sales.
Only Coldplay and Lil Wayne have claimed bigger sales weeks this year.
Last week’s charttopper, the Mamma Mia! soundtrack, drops to two and Kid Rock rounds out the new top three with Rock N Roll Jesus.
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Joe Jonas celebrated his 19th birthday with a brand new motorcycle and sidecar.
The wheels were a gift from the pop star’s family.
The singer celebrated his birthday by blowing out 20 candles on a strawberry cake – 19 and one for luck – during a studio appearance for Radio Disney in New York on Friday.
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The Jonas Brothers’ recent Rolling Stone magazine cover was such a hit among their fans the boys themselves struggled to get a copy.
The siblings were so keen to get an early edition of the publication, they got up early and hit news vendors on the streets of New York on the day the magazine was released.
Kevin Jonas says, “We went up to one of these newsstand guys and he said, ‘I have one left, I hid it in the back.’ It was awesome.”
The brothers now fear they took a copy the newsagent was keeping for himself.
Kevin adds, “We got it and that’s all that matters.”
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The Jonas Brothers are on course to land their first U.S. number one album after scoring sales of over 200,000 in a day.
The trio’s A Little Bit Longer release hit record store shelves on Tuesday and enjoyed a great first-day of business.
Chart experts predict the album could debut at the top of next week’s chart with more than 600,000 sales.
The siblings are expected to challenge Coldplay for the biggest-ever sales week for a digital album title – the British rockers’ Viva La Vida Or Death and All His Friends sold 288,000 downloads in its first week on sale earlier this year.
And Billboard reports the Jonas Brothers may pull off another chart feat next week if their self-titled album, which currently sits at number 11, falls back into the top 10.
If they place two albums in the top 10, it’ll be the first time a group has done so since ‘N Sync made history at the beginning of 1999.
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The Jonas Brothers had to stall a live performance on Saturday, when diabetic Nick Jonas fell ill onstage.
Since being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2005, Nick has had to monitor his blood sugar levels at regular intervals, and stop for treatment if they fall too low – even if it’s in the middle of a concert.
Nick and his bandmate brothers Joe and Kevin are even wired up with microphones so they can chat with each other during gigs – allowing the 15-year-old to tip them off when his insulin levels drop and he starts feeling weak.
And his brothers have a special technique to distract fans while Nick dashes off for an insulin shot.
Joe had to call on Plan B at a Saratoga Springs concert at the weekend, when his brother needed medical assistance.
He explains, “I chatted with the audience and kept reading all the signs people were holding up.”
Nick adds, “I was only bad for, like, a minute, but Joe kept talking and talking for, like, five minutes.”
The onstage scare was another reminder of just how difficult life can be for the young Jonas sibling.
Dad Kevin Sr. recently spoke of Nick’s daily battle with diabetes, telling Rolling Stone magazine, “I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to hear people belittle diabetes because it’s maintainable. They’ve never had to sit on a bus when a pump didn’t work and a second pump didn’t work… and a third didn’t, and he had to give himself a shot when we’re driving down a highway. Everybody on our team is on full alert, watching every move Nick makes on that stage every single night of his life.”
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If the Jonas Brothers have their way, a Camp Rock sequel will begin filming soon, Joe Jonas tells EW.com.
“We’ve been looking into scheduling when we can do that because we’ve been busy with touring, but we would love to,” Joe, 18, said at Sunday’s Teen Choice Awards in Los Angeles. “The success from the first one – we did not expect that at all, and the possibility of a second movie would be great.”
When asked about a potential storyline for part two Joe, who played a lead in part one, suggested, “maybe, like, a rival camp.”
Camp Rock costar Meaghan Jette Martin echoed Jonas’s sentiments. “I really hope they come back. A lot of the Disney people [have talked about a sequel], and I’ve heard rumors about scripts and stuff. I would really like a love interest.”
With her tongue in her cheek, Martin added that there’s already some sibling rivalry regarding location: “One of them wanted winter camp. And one of them wanted Camp Hawaii.”
A Disney Channel rep confirmed that a Camp Rock sequel is in development, and that the brothers would like to premiere the movie in Central Park and serve pizza from their favorite New York restaurant.
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The Jonas Brothers have a secret weapon for maintaining their energy on stage – caffeine.
Youngest brother Nick admits he and his brothers gulp down cup after cup of caffeinated brews throughout the day in a bid to keep up with their hectic schedules.
He tells America’s Teen magazine, “I have an energy drink when I wake up and a coffee when I eat breakfast. Then (I have) a coffee at dinner and an energy drink right before I go onstage. Then I’m good.”
The singing siblings’ are indeed keeping busy – the Mandy hitmakers are currently in the middle of a world tour, with dates scheduled until August.
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