Juno performers announced
NEW YORK (Juno Awards Official Website) - As expected, the biggest names in the Canadian music scene will be on stage at the Juno Awards this year. The awards show has just announced its lineup - set to perform are Avril lavigne, Nelly Furtado, Nickelback, Sarach McLachlan, and The Barenaked Ladies. ...
| 61st Golden Globe Awards winners
LOS ANGELES (Golden Globe Awards Website) - Sean Penn, who starred in "Mystic River," won the award for best actor in a motion picture, drama at the 61st annual Golden Globes awards held here Sunday night. Penn plays a grief-stricken father, whose daughter has been murdered, in Clint Eastwood's "Mystic ...
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CMA announces international artist nominees
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CMA Website) - Balloting is underway to determine the winner of the Country Music Association's Global Country Artist Award. The CMA's Global Markets Task Force established the award in 2002 to recognize outstanding achievements by country music artists in foreign territories. This ...
| Euros launch Award season
CANNES, France (NRJ) - The Darkness and 50 Cent have just been announced as performers at this year's Brit Awards taking place next month in London. Duran Duran will also receive a special award for their "Outstanding Contribution" to the British music scene. In other European awards show news, Madonna ...
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Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera & White Stripes will perform on 46th Annual Grammy Awards
NEW YORK (Grammy Official Website) - Among the first performers announced for the 46th Annual Grammy Awards telecast are Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, and The White Stripes, and an exclusive, Grammy segment dedicated to funk, featuring OutKast, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Earth, ...
| Dolly Parton & Shania Twain will host Flameworthy Awards
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CMT Flameworthy Awards) - Superstars Dolly Parton and Shania Twain are confirmed to heat up the CMT Flameworthy 2004 Video Music Awards. Parton will host the April 21 show, and Twain is the first performer announced for the event billed as country music's only video music awards - ...
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2003 Brit Award nominations
LONDON, UK (Brit Awards Official Website) - The Darkness lead the Brit Awards nominations and they are up for best British group, best British breakthrough, best British rock and best British album for Permission to Land. Dido has three nominations including best British female - an accolade she is ...
| The Best music charts for 2003
Top40 Charts run the following survey and this is our readers' opinion about the 'singles charts' market, all around the globe. The survey: the global internet survey in which 3,419 users participated from December 7, 2003 until January 7, 2004 conducted by Top40 Charts, showed that the percentage of ...
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35th NAACP image award nominations: Outkast vs Outkast!
NEW YORK (NAACP website) - Outkast leads the pack with six nominations for the NAACP Image Awards to be held on March 6. The hip-hop outfit is up for Outstanding Duo or Group and Best Album for "Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below." In an ironic twist, members Andre 3000 and Big Boi are also up against each ...
| Matchbox Twenty dominated 2003 airwaves!
NEW YORK (Atlantic press release) - Melisma/Atlantic rock group matchbox twenty wrapped up 2003 in chart-topping form, as the band was named the No1 Adult Top 40 Artist and No1 Modern AC Artist of the year, according to Billboard's Airplay Monitor. The band's success was led by their smash single, "Unwell," ...
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50 Cent tops 2003 US Album lists
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin' was the top-selling album in the US last year, followed by Norah Jones' Grammy-winning debut, Come Away With Me. Get Rich or Die Tryin' sold 6.5 million copies and the jazzy Come Away With Me, which won the Grammy for album of the year, sold ...
| The Top10 of the All-time Greats
LONDON, UK (Guinness website) - Robbie Williams is the music world's biggest winner of 2003, according to a new list of the all-time greats. He has leapfrogged acts such as T Rex and Abba thanks to hits such as Come Undone and Something Beautiful in the past year. He is now at 46th in the Top 100. The ...
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Bono is nominated for Golden Globe Music Score
NEW YORK (U2 Fan Websites) - Bono, Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer are among the nominees in the Best Original Song category for the 2004 Golden Globes. They are nominated for the song 'Time Enough for Tears' from the film 'In America'. Elton John and Bernie Taupin have been nominated for their song ...
| 2003 top 'Americana' airplay
NEW YORK (R&R airplays) - The Derailers' Genuine has topped this year's Radio & Records' Americana airplay chart with 14,404 spins from the album reported between Jan. 7 and Dec. 8, 2003. Lucinda Williams' World Without Tears followed at No. 2 with 13,636 spins. Other entries in the Top 10 include albums ...
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A new record on the Official UK Singles chart
LONDON, UK (Top40 Charts) - Ozzy Osbourne has set a new record for the longest time taken to reach number one during a career, reaching the top of the charts 33 years after his first hit with Black Sabbath, Paranoid, got to number four in August 1970. This week is on No1 spot again collaborating with ...
| R&B dominates 2003 Billboard Awards Winners
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - R&B and hip hop dominated the Billboard Awards last night in Las Vegas, with 50 Cent scoring the Artist Of The Year award and Beyonce and R. Kelly among the other big winners of the night. The Destiny's Child diva's solo breakout was rewarded with four honours including new ...
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46th Grammy nominations announced
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - The nominations for the Grammy Awards were announced in Beverley Hills Thursday. Beyonce, Jay-Z, Outkast and The Neptunes lead the pack with six nominations each. Other multiple nominees include Missy Elliott, Justin Timberlake, Evanescence and Eminem - who are up for five ...
| Outkast makes Billboard chart history: two different songs by the same group at the top!
NEW YORK (Arista Records announcement) - Arista recording group OutKast's "Hey Ya" ascends to No 1 on the Billboard Airplay Monitor Mainstream Top 40, while "The Way You Move" commands the No 1 spot for a second week on the R&B/Hip-Hop Singles charts - the first time in Billboard Monitor history that ...
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2003 People's Choice Awards: Eminem vs 50 Cent!
LOS ANGELES (People's Choice Awards) - Eminem will face off against his own prot�g� 50 Cent and country star Tim McGraw for the Male Musical Performer top spot at this year's People's Choice Awards. Beyonce Knowles is up against Faith Hill and Shania Twain for the Female Musical Performer award. Winners ...
| 2003 Interactive Music Awards winners
LONDON, UK (Interactive Awards Website) - Robbie Williams and Westlife were among artists to win awards celebrating the best in interactive music. Organisers of the Interactive Music Awards said 2003 saw the industry "wake up" to new ways of accessing music. The awards celebrate the best use of interactivity ...
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