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Friday, Jan 2
Lil Wayne, Taylor Swift Do Their Part To Save The Music Industry
THE WHAAA? Rihanna may have been the top-selling digital tracks artist, selling 9.941 million copies of her various radio-ready hits in single-serving format, but her album sales were nowhere near that, even with the reworking of Good Girl Gone Bad that tacked on the seemingly inescapa...
Tuesday, Nov 18
Rihanna And Justin Timberlake Stand Around In The Desert And Stare At Each Other
Last time out, Rihanna was taking her video inspirations from Trent Reznor, and this time, she's going down the modern-rock playlist and plumbing ideas from... The Killers? Maybe not, but I definitely feel like Brandon Flowers is going to pop up at any moment in the video for "Rehab," which m...
Friday, Nov 14
Paramore Hitches Wagon To "Twilight" Star, Crosses Over To Top 40
• Speaking of ways in which the new music economy is skewing the record books: In his weekly column over at Billboard, Fred Bronson discusses the longevity of Rihanna’s singles-deep album Good Girl Gone Bad, which spawns its eighth Hot 100 hit this week, the No. 91–debuting “Rehab” (no rel...
Monday, Nov 10
Peoples' Choice Awards Once Again Give People Chance To Act Like They Care About Music
FAVORITE FEMALE SINGER Alicia Keys Rihanna Carrie Underwood FAVORITE GROUP Coldplay Maroon 5 Rascal Flatts FAVORITE R&B SONG No One" by Alicia Keys Take A Bow" by Rihanna With You" by Chris Brown Nominees Announced For 2009 People's Choice Awards [Zap2It]
Friday, Oct 10
A Strapped America Goes To The 99-Cent Store, And New Singles Storm The Top 40
“Live Your Life” isn’t the lead single of T.I.’s Paper Trail, which debuts atop the album chart this week. Technically, “Life” isn’t even a single at all—despite previewing it at MTV’s Video Music Awards in early September and giving radio stations advance copies, Atlantic Records (and Is...
Friday, May 16
From Zombies to Ri-Ri: Bonus Hits are Album-Buyer's Ripoff and Chart Bonanza
Oh, and finally: We might see the next special-edition hit before the summer even starts. The same week she tops the chart, Rihanna debuts with Maroon 5 on a new version of their song "If I Never See Your Face Again," from a forthcoming special edition of Maroon 5's last CD. Expect it to shoot in...
Friday, Mar 7
He Makes Us Wanna...: Usher's Our Flo Rida-Killing Hero [100 And Single]
Ed. note: Chris "dennisobell" Molanphy, our resident chart guru, looks at the upward, downward, and lack of movement on this week's Billboard charts: Bets on when his label finally releases his duet with Rihanna, Idolator fave "Livin' a Lie"? (My theory: Rihanna's people are waiting un...
Thursday, Nov 1
Smells Like Teen Handoff: Chris Brown Takes The Baton From Soulja Boy [100 And Single]
On the country chart, which is based only on airplay, Underwood's latest moves up just one notch to No. 3, indicating solid, but not spectacular, growth on the radio. You'd think that die-hard Underwood fans would have spent last week buying her CD (physically or digitally) and ignoring he...
Sunday, Oct 28
Concert Industry Rushing To Make Shows More "Intimate" [Rearranging The Deck Chairs Dept.]
Moving Maroon 5 to the Fillmore makes sense for Live Nation, which owns the venue outright. At the Pepsi Center, Live Nation would have needed to rent the space from owners Kroenke Sports, and would not have shared in coveted receipts from food and alcohol sales.
Sunday, Oct 21
Meet The Skaneatles, And 59 Other Bands That Want You To Love Them
Welcome to our inaugural recap of The Next Great American Band, the American Idol spinoff that will give one lucky act the chance to achieve the same level of stardom as Taylor Hicks. First up: Friday night's audition episode. Now, given that in the Idol world, those episodes usually draw in...
Thursday, Sep 6
YouTube Star's Grass Roots Actually Made Of Disney-Branded Astroturf [Scams]
In late 2005, Ron Moss, Rondor's executive vice president, connected Ms. Digby to a Hollywood Records executive named Allison Hamamura, who was immediately taken with the singer. Before the year was out, Hollywood Records had signed Ms. Digby. Since then, the label has worked with the sing...
Monday, Aug 6
Live-Blogging The Video Music Award Nominations: Hey, MTV Is Actually Showing Music-Related Programming Right Now [Putting The Pseudo In Pseudo-event]
1:04 p.m. Rihanna arrives with walking stick. What a trouper! 1:09 p.m. Best New Artist? Amy Winehouse, Carrie Underwood, Gym Class Heroes, Lily Allen, and ... Peter, Bjorn & John? Was Kanye West head of the nominating committee? 1:29 p.m. Kanye!
Monday, Jul 9
Bringing The Family Along
6. Maroon 5, "Makes Me Wonder" (A&M/Octone) Brittany: Maroon 5. Alex: Oh! Brittany: This is so far from [M5 singer Adam Levine's] record with Kanye ["Heard 'Em Say"]. Alex: It reminds me of Blake from American Idol. Was it this song?
Thursday, May 17
Conspiracy Theories And Interminable Montages
DOUBLE YOUR GUESTS: So we missed the album by last year's third-place finisher, Elliott Yamin, but the song he performed last night actually wasn't bad, in an Usher knock-off way. His performance came off a bit better than Maroon 5, whose pitch-shifting of "Make Me Wonder" apparently thr...
Tuesday, May 15
Project X: A-Sides Win Again
1. Maroon 5, "Makes Me Wonder" (A&M/Octone) 2. Ne-Yo, "Because of You" (Def Jam) 4. Avril Lavigne, "Girlfriend" (RCA) 5. Timbaland ft. Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake, "Give It to Me" (Mosley/Blackground) 9. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony ft. Akon, "I Tried" (Full Surface)
