2001 On The Charts: The No. 1 Debuts
NEW YORK (Top40-Charts) - As 'NSync proclaimed with its newest hit single this summer, pop ruled the charts this year. Pop fans helped send seven albums to the No. 1 spot in their first week in stores, just edging out the rock acts, who were represented by a respectable six No. 1 debuts. All in all, ...
| Nas Lands At No. 8 In Year's Final Chart; Creed Remains At No. 1
NEW YORK (AP) - While Creed's Weathered tied Shaggy's Hotshot for the most weeks at No. 1 in 2001 at five, Nas' Stillmatic crashed into the top 10 on the final Billboard 200 chart of the year at No. 8. The only other top 20 debut this week was Lil' Bow Wow's Doggy Bag, which hit No. 11. Elsewhere in ...
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Robbie and Nicole take UK Christmas top spot
NEW YORK (Top 40 Charts) - Robbie Williams and actress Nicole Kidman have beaten a little-known club singer in the race to top Britain's Christmas pop music charts, the chart compilers revealed on Sunday. Williams and Kidman were number one with a remake of the Sinatra classic "Somethin' Stupid," the ...
| Shaggy and Dido lead album sales
LONDON, UK (BBC) - Dancehall reggae artist Shaggy has produced the year's biggest selling album in the US, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has said. Hotshot has sold 5.5 million copies since January - followed in second place by both Enya's A Day Without Rain and 'N Sync's Celebrity, ...
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2001 Top 40 Charts Superlatives: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
NEW YORK (Top 40 Charts) - 2001 in music saw its fair share of eyebrow-raising events, comments, and mishaps - onstage, offstage, in the studio, and beyond. In part one of our third annual not so serious look back at the year, we look at The Good. Oops! ? They Did It Again: For the second year in a ...
| No Doubt's Rock Steady To No. 9 On The Billboard 200
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - No Doubt just squeaked into the top 10 on next week's The Billboard 200, as the band's fifth album, Rock Steady, debuts at No. 9 with 254,787 in first-week sales. The band's last album, 2000's Return of Saturn debuted at No. 2 upon its release, but also on 200,000-plus units ...
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Robbie and Nicole top UK pop charts
LONDON (Top40 Charts) - Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman have shot straight to the top of the UK charts with their cover of the Sinatra hit "Somethin' Stupid." The duo knocked dance music newcomer Daniel Bedingfield off the number one spot that he had dominated for two weeks, according to the Official ...
| Train And Cake Lead California Music Awards Nominees
LOS ANGELES (Top 40 Charts) - Train and Cake are the leading nominees for the California Music Awards, which were announced on Thursday (December 13). Train was nominated for six awards: outstanding album (Drops Of Jupiter), outstanding single ("Tell Me"), outstanding rock pop album (Drops Of Jupiter), ...
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The Ramones, Tom Petty, & The Talking Heads To Be Inducted Into Hall Of Fame
In one of the slimmest classes since its first year in 1986, the Ramones, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and the Talking Heads head the 2002 class of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees in their first year of eligibility. Isaac Hayes, Brenda Lee, and Gene Pitney round out the six inductees. This ...
| Creed Maintains Hold On No. 1 Spot; Tribute To Heroes Debuts At No. 17
NEW YORK (Top 40 Charts) - Creed's latest effort, Weathered, continues to fly off of shelves - the album scanned another 458,033 units this week to remain locked in the No. 1 position on The Billboard 200. The top 10 remained fairly stagnant elsewhere, although the Now! series finds itself saddled in ...
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Safeway Song For Xmas UK No 1?
LONDON, UK (Top 40 Charts) - Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman could be thwarted in their festive chart ambitions by an ageing crooner and the song he wrote in a supermarket. Newcomer Gordon Haskell, 55 - was the lead voice of King Crimson and Les Fleur de Lys (the legendary 60's group) - now is making ...
| Chart composers score awards
LONDON, UK (Top 40 Charts) - Young songwriters penning lyrics for the likes of Groove Armada, Ian Brown and So Solid Crew are to be honoured at a special awards night. The British Academy of Songwriters and Composers is to present its third set of Chart Newcomer Awards aimed at highlighting the work ...
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Winners at the 53rd Annual Emmys
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - Complete list of winners at Sunday night's (04/11/2001) 53nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards: Drama Series: "The West Wing (news - web sites),'' NBC. Comedy Series: "Sex and the City (news - Y! TV),'' HBO. Actor, Drama Series: James Gandolfini, "The Sopranos (news - Y! TV),'' ...
| Emmys promise surprises
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The 53rd Emmy awards ceremony will go ahead in Los Angeles on Sunday with a few surprises predicted by the show's organiser. Last year the academy changed the rules to allow at home viewing, on video, of the nominated shows. "This has dramatically increased the number of people who ...
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List of Latin Grammy Award Winners
NEW YORK (Top40-Charts) - List of winners for the second annual Latin Grammys:
Record of the Year: "El Alma Al Aire", Alejandro Sanz.
Album of the Year: "El Alma Al Aire", Alejandro Sanz.
Song of the Year: "El Alma Al Aire", Alejandro Sanz, (artist Alejandro Sanz).
New Artist: Juanes.
Female ...
| Emmys Ready to Try Again
LOS ANGELES - The folks behind the hard - luck Emmy Awards are hoping the third time's a charm. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and CBS have reportedly settled on a time and place for the twice - nixed 53rd Annual Prime - Time Emmy Awards - and no, the show won't be taking place on some ...
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Emmys Ready to Try Again
LOS ANGELES - The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and CBS have reportedly settled on a time and place for the twice-nixed 53rd Annual Prime-Time Emmy Awards--and no, the show won't be taking place on some top-secret Area 51-style military installation. The Emmycast will--acts of God permitting--be ...
| Emmy awards cancelled after air strikes
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - The Emmy television awards in the US have been cancelled due to the air strikes against Afghanistan. A spokeswoman for CBS television announced the cancellation of the awards, which were to be broadcast on Sunday night simultaneously from New York and Los Angeles. The awards ...
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Emmys add New York broadcast
LOS ANGELES, California - The Emmy Awards for television is adding a broadcast from a studio in New York for nominees who want to avoid traveling to California for the October 7 ceremony. "We're doing it this year in light of the terrible events" of September 11, said incoming the Academy of Television ...
| MTV marks its 20th year with party
NEW YORK - In the end, MTV decided to celebrate its 20th birthday by doing what it does best: throw a party. Martha Quinn, J.J. Jackson, Alan Hunter, Nina Blackwood and Mark Goodman will appear - and many current MTV viewers will wonder: Who? They'll stare blankly upon hearing the names of the five ...
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