An estimated 97.5 million people tuned in to the 2008 Super Bowl – just a touch more than Media Predict users’ prediction of 96.9 million. (Well done, traders.)
In other entertainment news, move over Oprah, there’s a new Queen of All Media, and her name is Hannah Montana. The 3-D flick “Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert” set a new record for box office rake ($29 million) on Super Bowl weekend, despite being shown on fewer than 700 screens. The best of the rest were Jessica Alba’s “The Eye” ($13 million), “27 Dresses” ($8.4 million), “Juno” ($7.5 million) and “Meet the Spartans” ($7.1 million).
More good news for “Juno”: the soundtrack moved to the top spot on the Billboard 200, displacing Alicia Keys “As I Am,” which dropped to #2. Natasha Bedingfield enters the charts at #3 with “Pocket Full of Sunshine,” followed by Mary J. Blige (“Growing Pains”) and Radiohead (“In Rainbows”). Albums from a bevy of established artists, including Jack Johnson, Foxy Brown, and Lenny Kravitz, hit stores this week.
Andrew Morton’s sensationalist Tom Cruise biography dropped to third on the NYT bestseller list. Michael Pollan’s “In Defense of Food” reclaimed the top spot.