[ June 2000 ]

• [June 28, 2000 - Handed by Jake] Faith and Courage falls twenty spots to #75 on Billboard's Top 100 in its second week of release, selling 21,000 copies in the US.

• [June 28, 2000 - Handed by Kai Chai] USA Today had an article based on Sinéad's final letter on the lesbian controversy. Click here to read it.

• [June 28, 2000 - Handed by Noodle] The Emperor's New Clothes was featured on a Channel 4 special called Pop Up Video, where they give loads of details on making of the video. Click here.

• [June 28, 2000 - Handed by Kai Chai] When asked in an Entertainment Weekly interview, Kevin Briggs said that his most creative project thus far is "Sinéad O'Connor's latest project. That was my foray into that type of music, but I was willing to do it and it came out phenomenal." Briggs, who was labelled a "hit hitmaker" by the mag, is best known for his no.1 collaborations with TLC and Destiny's Child.

• [June 27, 2000] Matchbox 20 did a rendition of Sinéad's Nothing Compares 2 U for a TV special.

• [June 27, 2000 - Handed by Dan] Click here to read an article featured on Times, which focuses on Sinéad's priesthood and Irish Catholic Press Office's response to that.

• [June 26, 2000 - Handed by Lita] Click here to read an excerpt from USA Today, which is taken from a letter Sinéad sent to John Chambers of Sunday Independent. She puts insight into why she declared herself a lesbian, when in actuality she was not.

• [June 25, 2000] Click the banner below to watch Sinéad's special video interview with VH1.

• [June 24, 2000 - Handed by Amy] Click here to read an article written by Bill Flanagan, the vice president of VH1. In this interesting article, Flanagan writes about Faith and Courage and the promotion party Atlantic gave in support of it, to which Sinéad also attended herself.

• [June 23, 2000 - Handed by Lita] Associated Press had a special five-question interview with Sinéad, where she talks about the new single No Man's Woman, her interest in Rastafarianism, her hairdo and many more! Click here to read the interview.
• [June 20, 2000] Click here to read a review of Faith and Courage by David Abrams at epinions.com.

• [June 20, 2000] Sinéad's Nothing Compares 2 U was voted "the best song performed by a female artist" by the audience of VH1's The List . Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You was voted #2, whereas Stevie Nicks' Landslide was #3.

• [June 17, 2000] Rolling Stone has an exclusive video interview with Sinéad, where she talks about the new album and beyond. Click here to watch it.

• [June 13, 2000] Shirley Manson of the phenomenal rock band Garbage comments on Sinéad's new album Faith and Courage. In a special section of their official website, the singer writes: "Listened to the new Sinéad O'Connor CD today and felt mildly disappointed. It's not that it doesn't have its moments... it most certainly does (her voice and lyrics are sublime as always). But there's something about it that doesn't quite slay me. Maybe it's just one of these records I'll have to listen to a couple more times before I fall head over heels in love with it. I hope so. I've been so looking forward to this record for a long time now."

• [June 13, 2000] The new Sinéad album Faith and Courage hit the stores today. The album is being promoted extensively throughout the States, but there's not much promotion at the other side of the Atlantic; in the UK and other European countries. The album made a spectacular debut on most of the internet sales charts, making its way into the Top 20 in major stores like CDNOW and Amazon. The Billboard debut was rather poor, though. According to the magazine, Faith and Courage sold a moderate 35,000 copies in the first week of US release and debuted at #55.

• [June 12, 2000] Sinéad showed up on CBS's Early Show, where she talked about her new album and sang No Man's Woman and The Healing Room.

• [June 09, 2000] VH1's The Wire section has an article on Sinéad's latest revelation. Click here to read.

• [June 09, 2000] Sinéad appeared on the Rosie O'Donnell show.

• [June 09, 2000] Sinéad appeared on the Howard Stern radio show, in which she referred to the Curve magazine as "wicked", because they'd put out the press release before even consulting her. Click here to read a review of the show.

• [June 08, 2000] A press release concerning the June/July issue of the best-selling US lesbian magazine Curve quoted Sinéad as saying "I'm a lesbian. Although I haven't been very open about that, and throughout most of my life I've gone out with blokes because I haven't necessarily been terribly comfortable about being a lesbian. But I actually am a lesbian."In an early interview with Hot Press, she had said, "I don't believe there's any such thing as gay or straight. And though I have slept with women, I am much more attracted to men." Long after the whole saga turned into a mare's nest, Sinéad sent a letter to Ireland's The Sunday Independent on June 26. She explained that although honest, her previous comments had been "slightly confused." She went on saying, "I believe it was overcompensating of me to declare myself a lesbian. It was not a publicity stunt. I was trying to make someone else feel better. And have subsequently caused pain for myself."

• [June 08, 2000] Sinéad appeared on the David Letterman Show promoting her new album and singing No Man's Woman. Click here to read a review of the even written by Ben Adams.

• [June 06, 2000] Before even published, Sinéad's interview with Time magazine caused a stir with the quotes taken from the press release. Sinéad is reportedly said the key to remaining celibate is "masturbation, which I think is God's greatest gift." But no such quotes appear in the final edit of the interview published on the June XX issue of the magazine. Of the incident, Time spokeswoman Diana Pearson says: "We wrote that release from an early draft of the story. They must have deleted that line."

• [June 03, 2000]  Sinéad sang an a capella rendition of I Am Stretched On Your Grave at the KISS concert, organized by the radio station WXKS-FM. Later on she joined the band Third Eye Blind, upon the request of the frontman Stephan Jenkins. Together with the band, she performed The Emperor's New Clothes, a song Third Eye Blind had been working up to play on their upcoming tour. The performance was a highlight of the event. Click here to see a picture of Sinéad on the day of concert, together with radio host John Garabedian.