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''So basically we're doing a whole package about stuff that is terrible.'' This was a colleague's verbatim reaction to the idea of a culture package devoted to popular things. I [...]

The release of Acid Jazz's You've Got To Earn It, a compilation pooling the work of freakbeat pioneers Fleur De Lys, is a cause for some celebration, with early 45s [...]

Dusseldorf's premier showroom dummies have just completed an acclaimed residency at London's Tate Modern, before heading out once more onto the autobahn. Let's grease those gears and show these creepy [...]

Mature Technology Survival in an Era of Change For at least the past six years, and possibly more, the magnetic media recording industry (both audio and video) has eyed the [...]

NEW YORK - Steve Martin may have been right when he opined that 'comedy isn't pretty,' but the genre sure is popular. In the last few weeks, five comedy performers […]

MELBOURNE - When Australia's too record executives talk about their customers, the names of two companies tumble most often from their lips. One is the country's senior citizen of music […]

NEW YORK--As the country and modern rock radio formats continue to balloon, inflated by an unprecedented number of young fans, a curious listening habit is emerging in pockets of the […]

An Adele-powered XL Beggars was almost single-handedly responsible for a huge rise in independent albums business in quarter one, but things got even better for the indies during the following [...]

XL Beggars not only single-handedly made up all the majors' losses in the artist albums market in the first quarter of the year, but had another 200,000 sales to spare. [...]

With his 34th charting album, 'En Total Plenitud,' bowing at No. I on Top Latin Albums, Marco Antonio Solis is once again the leading chart-topper in the list's 25-year history. [...]

NO. 2 Taylor Swift Swift, who has spent the most time atop the Artist 100 of any artist (see opposite page), holds at No. 2 with a 4 percent overall [...]

THE FIRST TIME ELVIS PRESLEY PLAYED Las Vegas, the critics hated him. Appearing in the Venus Room at the New Frontier Hotel in the spring of 1956, the 21-year-old hillbilly [...]

THE SURPRISE RELEASE OF DRAKE'S NEW ALBUM, If You're Reading This It's Too Late, is the closest the music biz has come to properly 'pulling a Beyonce' since the diva [...]

MIAMI--How does Andre Midani, Warner Music International VP of Latin America, currently evaluate the sounds coming out of his region? 'In my opinion,' answers Midani, 'at this moment Latin music […]

Byline: Justin Davidson Wonderful things have befallen composers in recent years. Orchestras and festivals sign them up young. Entrepreneur-musicians build careers on a constant supply of fresh scores. New clubs [...]

WHERE TO BEGIN WITH TAYLOR SWIFT'S 1989? The album overperformed no matter how you slice it (see story, page 13), selling 1.28 million copies in its first week (ending Nov. [...]

SINGLES & TRACKS: THE BILLBOARD 100 Compiled from a national sample of airplay supplied by Broadcast Data Systems. WEEKS THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE ARTIST 1 1 10 [...]

ALBUMS: THE BILLBOARD 200 COMPILED FROM A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF RETAIL STORE SALES. THIS LAST WEEKS WEEK WEEK ON CHART TITLE ARTIST 1 2 15 DAUGHTRY DAUGHTRY 2 1 5 [...]

BILLBOARD'S TOP DVD SALES Title 1 FLUSHED A WAY 2 THE PRESTIGE 3 THE DEPARTED 4 BABEL 5 MAN OF THE YEAR 6 CINDERELLA III: A TWIST IN TIME 7 [...]

According to Billboard magazine, 'the biggest-selling CD act of 2016 doesn't sing. He doesn't play guitar and he doesn't tour. In fact, no one alive has ever seen him.' He [...]

Universal rallied to its best quarterly albums performance in quarter three since the closing three months of 2004, after claiming the period's three biggest-selling artist albums. The major grabbed a [...]

Staying on top of fashion trends is only part of modern teen fashion retailers' mandate. Because it's also their business to cater to other elements of young men's lifestyles, many [...]

Byline: Krueger, Matt; Kita, Paul Must-Haves: Can't-miss picks from this month's cultural menu BEST NEW CD 1. RETURN TO COOKIE MOUNTAIN TV ON THE RADIO (Interscope Records) TV on the [...]

Byline: Krueger, Matt; Kita, Paul Quick Hits BOOK TERRORIST JOHN UPDIKE (Alfred A. Knopf) The 73-year-old titan dissects the birth of a terror plot through the eyes of a teenage [...]

SINGLES & TRACKS: THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 WEEKS THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE ARTIST 1 1 8 BAD DAY DANIEL POWTER 2 2 13 TEMPERATURE SEAN PAUL 3 [...]

ALBUMS: THE BILLBOARD 200 COMPILED FROM A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF A RETAIL STORE SALES. WEEKS THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE ARTIST 1 - 1 KING T.I. 2 - [...]

52 Number of CD music titles on which Sony BMG shipped First 4 Internet's XCP2, a rootkit intended to prevent users from ripping music. Source: Sony BMG 2.1 million Number […]