If Only The People’s Choice Awards Had Included These Artists

1. Favorite Male Artist: Eminem, Jason Mraz, John Mayer, Keith Urban, Tim McGraw 2. Favorite Female Artist: Britney Spears, Beyoncé, Carrie Underwood, Pink, Taylor Swift Kelly Clarkson was clearly way too controversial for this one.

The People’s Choice Awards: They’re Really Serious About Letting The People Choose

The Black Eyed Peas Britney Spears Katy Perry Kelly Clarkson Lady GaGa Mariah Carey Miley Cyrus Pink Rihanna Shakira Taylor Swift Favorite Rock Band All-American Rejects Daughtry Dave Matthews Band The Fray Green Day Kings of Leon Linkin Park Muse Nickelback Paramore Pearl Jam U2

Following lead singer Hayley Williams’ throat-problem-occasioned early exit from Tuesday night’s show in Pomona, Calif., which resulted in the crowd filling in for the frontwoman on a song, Paramore has postponed tonight’s show at the Palladium in Hollywood until a future date. [Para...

Time To Update That “Things That Have Happened Since The Black Eyed Peas Took The No. 1 Spot On The Pop Charts” List

The real-ish news to come out of this development is that “I Gotta Feeling” has matched the record for the longest stay at No. 1 this decade, a mark that was previously held by Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together.” Carey’s pleading ballad topped the Hot 100 for 14 non-consecutive weeks in 2005...

Paramore’s Brand New Vision

Our continuing look at the closing lines of the week’s biggest new-music reviews continues with a roundup of reactions to brand new eyes, the new full-length by the fiery Tennessee pop-punk act Paramore: Our continuing look at the closing lines of the week’s biggest new-music reviews c...

Letting Her Finish: Taylor Swift Completes Country’s Pop-Chart Comeback

Maybe not, but when Garth Brooks was scoring all those country-only smashes more than a decade ago, he openly admitted to emulating his mellow-pop heroes like James Taylor and Billy Joel. For nearly two decades now, country has been morphing into pop music for white people who like storie...

Twitter’s Most-Chatted-About Artists List: It’s Not As Trent Reznor-Heavy As You Might Think

1. Taylor Swift 2. Pink 3. Lady GaGa 5. Beatles 6. Queen 9. Aerosmith 10. Coldplay 12. Kiss 14. Lil’ Wayne 15. Prince 21. Eminem 22. John Mayer 25. McFly 26. The Cure 28. Drake 29. Bob Dylan 32. Green Day 37. Paramore 42. Madonna 47. Kelly Clarkson 49. Jay-Z 50. Ciara 52. MGMT 53. Kid Cudi 54. Nelly 56. Death Cab for Cutie

Two-Hit Wonder Flo Rida Owns Charts, Reminds Us He Exists [100 And Single]

4. Kanye West, "Heartless" (LW No. 2, 15 weeks) 5. Lady GaGa feat. Colby O'Donis, "Just Dance" (LW No. 3, 28 weeks) 6. All-American Rejects, "Gives You Hell" (LW No. 6, 14 weeks) 7. Taylor Swift, "Love Story" (LW No. 7, 23 weeks) 8. Kelly Clarkson, "My Life Would Suck Without You" (LW No. 4, 5 weeks)

Heavy Lies the Crown: Clarkson Still Tops, But Slim Shady Is Poised to Pounce [100 And Single]

1. Kelly Clarkson, "My Life Would Suck Without You" (LW No. 1, 3 weeks) 2. Beyoncé, "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (LW No. 3, 16 weeks) 3. Kanye West, "Heartless" (LW No. 4, 13 weeks) 5. Taylor Swift, "Love Story" (LW No. 5, 21 weeks) 6. All-American Rejects, "Gives You Hell" (LW No. 6, 12 weeks)

“Suck” Blows (Up): Clarkson’s Comeback Could Make It To The Top Of The Pops [100 And Single]

But all of these budding hits are overshadowed by the single that debuts quietly at No. 97—a song that could well be the chart’s next No. 1 and finally put some distance between Kelly Clarkson and the other American Idol finalists who’ve been chipping away at her crown all these years.

Lady GaGa Dances To No. 1 As iTunes' Beat Gets A Little Bit Slower [100 And Single]

Before the holidays, All-American Rejects’ “Gives You Hell” (apt title, that) appeared to be a slow-starting leadoff single for the band’s sophomore album. But it belatedly crashed into the Top 20 a few weeks ago and now looks poised to leap into the Top 10. As of this writing, iTunes has it r...

Why "Women In Rock" Stories Will Never Be Considered For My Lists Of Best Music Writing [Rebuttal]

• “When it comes to this year’s crop of Grammy Awards newbies, it looks like there may just be some truth to the playground taunt ‘Girls Rule, Boys Drool.’” That was the lede. Of the story. For real. Editors? • Using the Grammys’ Best New Artist nominees as a bellwether for any overarching musica...

Paramore Hitches Wagon To "Twilight" Star, Crosses Over To Top 40

I’m not the first person to make the connection between Evanescence and Paramore, but the No. 34 Billboard Hot 100 debut of “Decode” from the chart-topping Twilight soundtrack makes it a bit more obvious. It’s Paramore’s highest-ever pop debut, and it finds them embracing the teen-goth s...

"NME" Finds A Familiar Future [Rock-critically Correct]

The New Music Express initially fulfilled for the United Kingdom the same function as Billboard in the U.S. until the early '60s, when British music took the rest of the world by storm and it was changed into a consumer publication. In terms of longevity and influence, NME can only be compared...

Bonkers For Buckley: America's Dead Idol [100 And Single]

When the producers of American Idol announced at the start of this season that, for the first time, they would be selling contestants' performances on iTunes, but that iTunes had agreed not to report those sales publicly or to Billboard, we chart geeks grumbled. How would we know how big an...

He Makes Us Wanna...: Usher's Our Flo Rida-Killing Hero [100 And Single]

Hot Modern Rock Tracks 1. Foo Fighters, "Long Road to Ruin" (LW No. 1, 19 weeks) 2. Linkin Park, "Shadow of the Day" (LW No. 3, 22 weeks) 3. Seether, "Fake It" (LW No. 2, 27 weeks) 4. Paramore, "crushcrushcrush" (LW No. 4, 16 weeks) 5. Puddle of Mudd, "Psycho" (LW No. 6, 18 weeks)

The White Stripes And Flo Rida: They're Both No. 1!* [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: OK, so one of these acts is, like, president of the United States and the other the president of American Samoa. I'll get to the White Stripe...

Workin' On A Mystery: Tom Petty Is This Week's Stealth Chart Star [100 And Single]

As we've explained before, Billboard segregates albums and singles that are more than a couple of years old from its flagship charts. But even if songs like "American Girl" aren't allowed to appear on the Hot 100, Petty had a very big week.

Rock Radio Playlists Remain Paralyzed In 2008 [Corporate Rock Still Sells]

The Modern Rock chart is at least a little better, despite the presence of The Bravery and Angels & Airwaves, both of whom I'm slightly shocked and appalled to find still have careers. Chevelle's "I Get It" (which peaked and dropped off the Mainstream chart already) is almost as catchy...

"Alternative Press" Hands The Mic To Its Readers [Rock-critically Correct]

Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by an anonymous writer who's contributed to several of those titles--or maybe even all of them! After the jump, he looks at the year-e...

Idolator's 2007 Top 40 List Of Awesomeness: The 10 Tunes That Almost Made It [Idolator's 2007 Top 40 List Of Awesomeness]

Paramore - "Misery Business" The best pop-punk track of the year: three cheers for sweet revenge, big "whoooas" that dared you to not sing along with them, and a spitfire frontwoman who took to her Livejournal to disclaim the use of the Lord's name in the song's sing-along-'til-the-rapt...

The Readers Of "Kerrang!" Love Them Some My Chemical Romance

Best Single: 1. 30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill 2. My Chemical Roamnce - Teenagers 3. Foo Fighters - The Pretender 4. Paramore - Crushcrushcrush 5. Enter Shikari - Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour Kerrang! Readers Poll Results [ONTD]

iTunes Proves People Really Are As Tasteless As You Think They Are [Year-end Analysis]

Top Videos 1. Nickelback, "Rockstar" 2. Rihanna feat. Jay-Z, "Umbrella" 3. Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" 4. Avril Lavigne, "Girlfriend" 5. "Weird Al" Yankovic, "White And Nerdy" 6. Justin Timberlake, "What Goes Around... Comes Around" 7. Shakira and Beyonce, "Beautiful Liar"

"Stylus" Bids Farewell With LCD Soundsystem [Year-end Analysis]

46. Devin the Dude feat. Andre 3000 and Snoop Dogg - What a Job 44. M.I.A. - Paper Planes 37. Paramore - That's What You Get 33. 50 Cent - I Get Money 25. Patrick Wolf - Accident & Emergency 24. Battles - Atlas 22. St. Vincent - Now Now 18. Lil' Wayne - Dying 14. Digitalism - Pogo 11. Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend

So-Called "360" Deals Offer A Full Spectrum Of Dubious Advantages For Bands

One number that's been getting thrown around a lot in the music business is "360"—which refers to a deal where record labels and other entities participate in all aspects of the revenue generated by an artists, from album sales to concert tickets to merchandising. Madonna's big-bucks de...