George Strait is No 1 US album for second consecutive week
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - The legendary country singer George Strait's 50 Number Ones held its No. 1 position on the Billboard 200 U.S. albums chart for a second consecutive week. The collection of hits sold 190,000 copies to earn the top spot on both the Billboard 200 and top country albums charts. ...
| Cabrera Presents... at the Radio Music Awards
LOS ANGELES (Atlantic records) - Ryan Cabrera has just been confirmed as a presenter on this year's Radio Music Awards. The awards air Monday, October 25th at 9PM ET/PT on NBC. He may be presenting awards to others, but Cabrera's no stranger to accomplishment - his album TAKE IT ALL AWAY debuted at ...
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ARIAs sing Jet's praises
LOS ANGELES (Atlantic Records) - 'I'd like to thank God but I can't because rock'n'roll is the devil's music and he writes the best tunes.' So said Jet guitarist Cameron Muncey when accepting one of six awards last night as the Melbourne rockers dominated the 18th Annual 2004 ARIA Music Awards, Australia's ...
| Infusion says 'thank you'
MELBOURNE, Australia (www.infusion.net.au) - From Infusion Website: Some of you might be aware that on Sunday night, after two previous nominations, we were awarded the ARIA for 'Best Dance Release' for 'Girls Can Be Cruel'. (nb, people from overseas, the ARIA Awards are the major national music awards ...
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Sony BMG dominates the charts: Usher, Britney Spears, Ciara, R. Kelly, Bowling For Soup and Three Days Grace; Usher explodes with with 24->2 SoundScan jump and 709% sales increase for worlwide 10-million selling 'Confessions (Special Edition)'
NEW YORK (Sony BMG) - LaFace recording artist Usher's Confessions (Special Edition) has posted an unprecedented 709% Soundscan sales increase this week, jumping from No 24 to No 2 on the Billboard 200 Albums charts and to No 1 on the Hot R&B/ Hip-Hop Albums chart. At the same time, Sho'nuff/LaFace recording ...
| George Strait, Martina McBride and Horizon Nominees added to growing list of performers for 2004 CMA Awards
NASHVILLE, TN. (Country Music Association/ www.cmaworld.com) - The impressive list of performers continues to grow for "The 38th Annual CMA Awards" with the addition of George Strait, Martina McBride and Horizon Nominees Dierks Bentley, Big & Rich, Julie Roberts and Josh Turner to the list of performers ...
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Pitbull to perform on The MTV Latin America Video Awards on October 21st
NEW YORK (TVT Records) - With his debut album "M.I.A.M.I" recently hitting No 14 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart, Miami-based Latin MC Pitbull is set to perform on the MTV Latin America Video Awards on Thursday, October 21st. U.S. viewers can catch the Awards live on MTV2, and then re-broadcast ...
| Tom Waits earns highest Chart positions in his 30 year plus career, entering Billboard's Top 200 at No 28 and the Top Independent Chart at No 1; Also doing extremely well in the European Charts
LOS ANGELES (ANTI) - TOM WAITS, whose new album - REAL GONE - was released last week, has garnered some of his best chart debuts in his four decade career, entering the Billboard "Top 200 Chart" at No 28 and their "Top Independent Chart" at No 1. Meanwhile, REAL GONE is No 2 on CMJ's "College Radio ...
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MTV Europe Music Awards 2004 tickets to go on sale on Monday 18 October
LONDON, UK/ROME, Italy (MTV PR) - Tickets to the most anticipated event in the music calendar - The MTV Europe Music Awards 2004 - will go on sale to the public on Monday 18 October via an exclusive hotline number and the MTV Europe Music Awards 2004 regional websites. Details of the hotline number ...
| George Strait's '50 Number 1s' bows at No. 1
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - After many errors from Nielsen Soundscan about the correct retail numbers, it was announced that '50 Number 1s' by George Strasit is the No 1 album in USA for the next week. In the end, the last report with the correct sales shows that George Strait's new MCA release, "50 Number ...
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iebaLIVE! Grand Finale'
NASHVILLE, TN. (www.ieba.org) - The International Entertainment Buyer's Association (ieba) closed their 34th Annual Conference last night with a grand celebration to recognize some of the industry's most renowned executives. More than three hundred fifty registrants consisting of talent buyers, booking ...
| More performers announced for 'The 38th Annual CMA Awards'; Billy Currington to join Shania Twain for 'Party For Two'
NASHVILLE, TN. (Country Music Association/ www.cmaworld.com) - It's always a party when Shania Twain performs during "Country Music's Biggest Night." This year, it's a "Party For Two" with the announcement today that Billy Currington will join Twain to perform their hit duet when "The 38th Annual CMA ...
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The 2004 Source Hip-Hop Music Awards Winners
MIAMI, FL. (The Source Hip-Hop Music Magazine Website) - Rapper-producers Kanye West and Lil Jon each took home three prizes at the Source Hip-Hop Music Awards yesterday. West won awards for breakthrough artist of the year, album of the year for The College Dropout and video of the year for Through ...
| The 100 Worst Riffs, Licks & Solos of all time!
LOS ANGELES (www.guitarworld.com) - After two decades of kissing ass, Guitar World magazine tips over a few sacred cows in a definitive guide to guitar parts that blow. PLUS Kirk Hammett, Dave Mustaine, K.K. Downing, Warren Haynes, Jeff Hanneman and a bevy of guitar gods tell you which song they'd rerecord ...
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Del McCoury Band Wins 9th Bluegrass Award from IBMA
LOUISVILLE, KY. (International Bluegrass Music Association/ www.ibma.org) - Del McCoury took home his ninth Entertainer of the Year award at the 15th Annual International Bluegrass Music Awards on Thursday, October 7th at the Kentucky Center in Louisville, KY. McCoury and his band also garnered the ...
| OutKast top 2004 MTV Europe award nods
LONDON, UK/ROME, Italy (MTV PR) - With only 6 weeks until the MTV Europe Music Awards 2004, MTV Networks Europe today revealed the nominations and a selection of performers for the 11th annual ceremony, set to take place at Tor Di Valle, Rome on 18 November 2004. The news was revealed today by Brent ...
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Roster of Artists grows for the 10th Christian Country Music Awards Show
NASHVILLE, TN. (CCMA PR) - On Thursday, November 4, 2004 at 7 p.m., the historic Ryman Auditorium will once again become the 'Mother Church' of music as some of the most popular artists in Christian Country and Country Music gather for the 10th Annual Christian Country Music Awards. Among the confirmed ...
| Rascal Flatts has the No 1 album in the Nation; 'Feels Like Today' No 1 on both Billboard Top 200 and Country Charts
NASHVILLE, TN. (Schmidt Relations/ Lyric Street Records) - Rascal Flatts' highly anticipated third album, "Feels Like Today," made a stellar debut scanning an impressive 200,946 its first week in the marketplace. Released on Tuesday, September 28th, on Lyric Street Records, first-week sales catapulted ...
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2005 CMA Awards to be held in New York City
NEW YORK (Country Music Association/ www.CMAawards.com) - The CMA Awards will be presented in New York City at Madison Square Garden on November 15, 2005, marking the first time the gala event will be held outside Nashville and the first major event that NYC Big Events has successfully brought to the ...
| CMA Awards returns to Nashville in 2006 for 40th Anniversary of 'Country Music's Biggest Night'
NASHVILLE, TN. (CMA Awards PR) - Several hours after announcing that the 2005 CMA Awards will be held in Madison Square Garden in New York City for one year, Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell and CMA executives announced today at the Gaylord Entertainment Center that the CMA Awards will be held in Nashville, ...
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