Ms Dynamite battles Coldplay at awards
LONDON, UK (Radio1) - Ms Dynamite has been nominated for another clutch of awards, adding to her explosively successful year. She is up for three Top of the Pops Awards, including best newcomer and best album. Coldplay and Pop Idol winner Will Young have also been nominated for a trio of gongs. Ms Dynamite, ...
| Santana's Shaman Debuts At No. 1 and Foo Fighters At No. 3
NEW YORK (Top 40 Charts) - Santana proves that the star-studded album formula can work for a second time, as Shaman, featuring Michelle Branch, P.O.D., Macy Gray, Dido, and others, debuts at No. 1 on The Billboard 200. Both the No. 1 debut and its first-week sales of 298,973 mark the highest in Santana's ...
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N.E.R.D. Wins Shortlist Prize
LOS ANGELES (Shortlist Website) - Though multi-hyphenate rock-rap-whatever group N.E.R.D. may have won the second annual Shortlist Prize for Artistic Achievement in Music on Tuesday (Oct. 29) at the Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles, the buzz before, during, and after the show didn't focus much on ...
| MTV Video Music Awards Latin America 2002
MIAMI, Fl. (Top 40 Charts) - Latin America's first ever pan-regional music awards show specially created for Latin youth. The VMALAs will air LIVE in Spanish across MTV Latin America and with English subtitles on MTV2 in the US, and be seen on all of MTV's channels around the world, via the worlds largest ...
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Faith Hill Debuts At No. 1 and LL Cool J At No. 2
NEW YORK (Top 40 Charts) - Faith Hill ends Elvis Presley's three-week reign at the top of The US Albums this week as her fifth album, Cry, debuts at No. 1 with 472,253 in sales. The country singer knocked Elvis Presley from the top spot on the album chart, where he's been the past three weeks. "Elvis ...
| Radiohead Wins Q Awards
LONDON, UK (Q Magazine Website) - Radiohead was named the Best Act in the World Today at the 13th Annual Q Awards on Monday (Oct. 21) in London. This is Radiohead's second time winning the highest of Q's honors; the band won in 2001 as well. This year's awards were evenly distributed, as no one went ...
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Bon Jovi Debuts At No. 2 - Elvis Presley Stays On Top
NEW YORK (Top 40 Charts) - Elvis Presley just won't let go of the No. 1 position as his Elvis 30 #1 Hits keeps its spot on The US Albums for the third week in a row, blocking Bon Jovi from taking the honors. The band's Bounce comes in at No. 2. The only other top 10 debut on the chart this week comes ...
| Fashion Winners 2002
NEW YORK (Fashion News Website) - Jennifer Lopez, Eve, and Aerosmith's Steven Tyler added fashion nods to their list of kudos Tuesday (Oct. 15) night at the 2002 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Lopez won for Most Influential Artist, Tyler got the Rockstyle Award nod, and ...
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Nelly and Kelly set for No1 spot at UK
LONDON, UK (Daily Express) Nelly and Kelly Rowland are expected to go straight in at number one this weekend. Their single Dilemma looks set to knock Las Ketchup off the top spot. Big Brovaz should reach number three with Nu Flow while the Manic Street Preachers are expected to enter the chart at four ...
| Fatboy tops Muzik Magazine Dance Awards (2002)
LONDON, UK (Muzik Magazine) - Fatboy Slim's controversial free summer beach party in Brighton was named best event at this year's Muzik Magazine Dance Awards. Norman Cook accepted the award at the ceremony at the Po Na Na venue in Hammersmith, west London on Tuesday night. Four times the expected number ...
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Kylie sweeps Australian Music Awards (ARIA 2002)
SYDNEY, Australia (ARIA Awards) - It was Kylie Minogue's night at the 2002 Australian Record Industry Association Awards as she collected four prizes, called Arias, out of a possible six nominations. All week, newspapers speculated that Minogue would not turn up for the ceremony and she only arrived ...
| Brit awards open to public
LONDON, UK (Brit Awards Website) - The public are being invited to mix with the stars at the UK music industry's annual Brit Awards ceremony for the first time. More than 1,000 tickets will be made available to the public for the ceremony at London's Earls Court next February. For those unable to get ...
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Q Nominations
LONDON, UK (Q Magazine) - The Hives and Oasis garnered the most nominations for the 13th Annual Q Awards with three noms each. The Hives are up for Best Single and Best Video for "Hate to Say I Told You So" and for Best Live Act, while Oasis is up for Best Single for "The Hindu Times," Best Live Act, ...
| Bon Jovi's 'Bounche' to battle Elvis Presley
NEW YORK (Top 40 Charts) - Bon Jovi's new album, Bounce, is expected to debut in the upper regions of the US Albums on Wednesday (October 16). Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora told that he expects the album to battle Elvis Presley's Elvis: 30 #1 Hits for the top spot. "You know I'm anxious to see ...
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Rolling Stones, Xzibit, & American Idol Debut In Top 5
NEW YORK (Top 40 Charts) - Elvis Presley fans are still rushing to the record store to pick up Elvis 30 #1 Hits, as the greatest hits album sells another 336,662 this week to stay at No. 1 on US singles charts. Presley's hold on the top prohibited the Rolling Stones' greatest hits, Forty Licks, from ...
| Elvis Presley's 30 #1 Hits Debuts At No. 1 In 17 Countries!
NEW YORK (Elvis Number Ones Website/Top 40 Charts) - Even in death, Elvis Presley proves he still has it, as his 30 #1 Hits debuts at No. 1 in 17 countries this week, including on The US Albums in the U.S.A. The greatest hits album also bowed at the top spot on charts in the U.K., Canada, France, Australia, ...
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MOBO Awards 2002 Winners List
LONDON, UK (MOBO Awards Official Website) - The year's Mercury Music Prize winner, Ms. Dynamite, swept the MOBO Awards 2002 with three wins Tuesday (Oct. 1) night at the London Arena. The 21-year-old artist took home the awards for London Tonight U.K. Act of the Year, Best Single in Association with ...
| MTV Europe Noms
BARCELLONA, Spain (Top 40 Charts) - Diversity rules the MTV Europe Music Awards 2002 nominations, as a rapper, two Latin artists, a dance act, an alternative Britpop band, and a sassy pink-haired popster lead the pack with four nominations each. The nomination leaders for the awards - set for Nov. 14 ...
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Scott Weiland, Neville Brothers Among MAP Awards Performers
LOS ANGELES (MAP Awards) - Scott Weiland will leave his Stone Temple Pilots at home on Nov. 7 when he makes a solo appearance as part of the festivities at the MAP Awards in Los Angeles. This year's honorees at the annual soiree, thrown by the Musician's Assistance Program, will honor the Neville Brothers' ...
| Kelly Clarkson Sets Record And Storms Charts
NEW YORK (Top 40 Charts) - Kelly Clarkson, winner of Fox's American Idol, has set the record for the fastest moving single on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Her debut single on RCA Records - the double A-sided "Before Your Love"/"A Moment Like This"- catapulted from the No. 52 spot on the chart ...
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