Rimes and Hanson to announce ACM nominations
LOS ANGELES (CMA) - LeAnn Rimes and newcomer Jennifer Hanson will join Dick Clark and TV personality Nancy O�Dell in Beverly Hills to announce the final nominations for the 38th annual Academy of Country Music Awards. The announcement takes place Tuesday (March 4) at Tiffany & Co. The May 21 awards ...
| R. Kelly's 'Chocolate factory' at top of US Albums
NEW YORK (Top 40 Charts) - R. Kelly's new album has debuted at the top of the charts despite child pornography charges against him. Kelly's disc "Chocolate Factory" sold about 532,000 copies for the week ending Sunday, according to industry figures released on Wednesday. It's the R&B singer's first ...
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Americana airplay chart to appear in radio and records (R&R)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AMA Official Website) - The Americana Airplay Chart, the Americana Music Association�s radio chart for album airplay, will soon move to a new weekly home in the respected industry trade publication Radio and Records (R&R), debuting in the March 14th, 2003 issue. The Americana Airplay ...
| Apolitical awards?
NEW YORK (S. Crow Fans Website) - Last week their was a lot of talk that the Grammys producers were anticipating some controversial political statements to be made, during artists' acceptance speeches - and The Drudge Report was even reporting that the network was planning to censor artists who spoke ...
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Bono is MusiCares' 'Person of the year'
NEW YORK (U2 Fans Website) - Bono was feted with the MusiCares Person Of The Year award on Friday night (February 21) at the Marriott Marquis hotel in New York City. In attendance was a wide variety of figures from pop to politics. Hosting the event was Ashley Judd, and comic relief was provided by ...
| The 45th Annual Grammy Awards: complete list of Grammy Award winners
NEW YORK (Grammy Awards Official Website) - Rising star Norah Jones dominated the 45th Grammy Awards in New York, taking eight prizes at the US music industry's most prestigious ceremony. Come Away With Me took the album of the year award, as well as pop vocal album and female pop performance prizes. ...
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Brit Awards 2003: complete list of winners
LONDON, UK (Brits Awards Official Website) Here is the full list of winners for the 2003 Brit Awards, held at Earl's Court, London, on Thursday, 21 Feb. 2003: British male solo artist: Robbie WilliamsAlso nominated: Badly Drawn Boy; Craig David; David Gray; The Streets British female solo artist: Ms ...
| MS Dynamite to perform anti-war song at Brits Awards
LONDON, UK (Brits awards) - Ms Dynamite is to duet with George Michael at the Brit Awards, with an anti-war version of his track Faith. She has altered the lyrics of the song and turned it into a protest against the possible conflict with Iraq. She will sing live at Thursday's music awards ceremony, ...
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NME Awards 2003: Oasis and Coldplay share awards
LONDON, UK (NME) - Rock groups Coldplay and Oasis have shared the major prizes at this year's NME Awards in London, winning two each. Oasis, who narrowly missed out on the UK number one spot on Sunday, beat Coldplay to the titles of best UK band and artist of the year. But Coldplay triumphed in the ...
| Juanes, Montenegro, Las Ketchup Top Latin Nods
NEW YORK (Telemundo) - Mexican actress-singer Pilar Montenegro and Spain's female trio Las Ketchup lead finalists in the 2003 Billboard Latin Music Awards with seven nominations each. Colombian "Rock en Espanol" sensation Juanes followed with nominations in six categories, while new pop duo Sin Bandera ...
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Twain, Lavigne lead Juno nominations
TORONTO, Canada (Juno Awards Website) - Canada's latest music phenom will face off against a veteran marvel who has been conquering the charts for years at this year's Juno Awards. Avril Lavigne and Shania Twain will compete for album of the year and songwriter of the year at the April 6 awards ceremony ...
| 50 Cent's debut vaults straight to the top
NEW YORK (Top 40 Charts) - Rapper 50 Cent, who was shot nine times during his crack-dealing days, survived and got rich quick after selling 872,000 copies of Get Rich or Die Tryin' in four days. The album, rushed into release last Thursday to combat bootlegging, tops Billboard and breaks a 1993 record ...
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Madonna, Kylie, Lopez, Timberlake & Mariah nominated for Dance Music Awards
NEW YORK (Dancestar Website) - Justin Timberlake, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, and Jennifer Lopez are each up for two awards at the 2003 American Dance Music Awards. The awards ceremony will pay tribute to "the significant impact of dance music worldwide," according to organizers DanceStar USA. The show ...
| Oscar Nominations 2003 announced
LOS ANGELES (Oscars Official Website) - From Salma Hayek to Nicole Kidman and all the women of "Chicago," it's a golden day for Oscar�s new gals. Kidman says, "You just have a memory of the Academy Awards as this dreamlike thing. It seems like such a faraway land and to actually be stepping into it ...
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Billboard Latin Music Awards Opens Its Doors To The Public For The First Time
MIAMI, Flo. (Telemudo) - Latin music's most prestigious awards show will open its doors to the public for the very first time. The 2003 Billboard Latin Music Awards, produced and broadcast by Telemundo, will take place on May 8th, 2003 at its new venue, the Miami Arena in Florida. "As our highest rated ...
| Razzies Noms 2003
NEW YORK (Razzie Official Website) - Voters for the Razzies, an annual spoof of the Academy Awards, have a message for Britney Spears and Madonna: Don't quit your day jobs as pop divas. Spears' teen buddy flick "Crossroads" had a leading eight Razzie nominations and Madonna's island-romance bomb "Swept ...
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Soul Train Awards Noms announced
NEW YORK (Soul Train Music Awards Website) - R&B ingenues Ashanti and Amerie collected a leading three nominations each Monday for the annual Soul Train Music Awards. Ashanti's self-titled album and Amerie's "All I Have" were named in the best female R&B album category, while Ashanti's "Foolish" and ...
| The Vines lead NME Awards battle
LONDON, UK (Radio 1) - Australian band The Vines is dominating the run-up to this year's NME Awards with six nominations, followed by Coldplay with five and Oasis with four. But Ms Dynamite and The Streets, who dominated the nominations for this year's Brit Awards, got just one and two nominations respectively. ...
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'Chicago' Soundtrack climbs higher on charts!
NEW YORK (Top 40 Charts) - The soundtrack to hit musical "Chicago" moved up two places to No. 2 in an otherwise languid week for the USA album charts. The Epic Records disc managed a sales gain of nearly 11% to just under 92,000 units in the week ended Jan. 26. After two weeks, it has sold nearly 176,000 ...
| Grammy 2003 Performers Announced
NEW YORK (Top 40 Charts) - Three weeks ago we told you the nominees, now the initial list of Grammy performers is out. Coldplay, Nelly w/ Kelly Rowland and Norah Jones will be joined by Bruce Springsteen and Faith Hill on the stage of New York's Madison Square Gardens. Undoubtedly the list will grow ...
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