In August, I noted:

Carla Bruni, first lady of France, has a new album.

Recently, Bruce Sterling reported:

During a ceremony in Paris, France’s first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy donated the total profit from her newly released album to children’s charities in Haiti.

Entitled “Comme si de rien n’etait” (Simply), the album is Bruni-Sarkozy’s third release. Since its debut in July, it has sold 190,000 copies in France and 220,000 copies abroad.

Regarding the purpose of her donation, the First Lady was simple in her remarks: “I’m pleased that music can be used for this.”

In other music news:

In a stunning turn of events, the US music industry has ceased its long-time litigation strategy of suing individual P2P file-swappers.