Josh Groban has been teased by family and friends about landing on People magazine's "most beautiful" list — but he doesn't mind. "I always had a really great time...
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U2, Patti Smith, 50 Cent, John Legend and Josh Groban are contributing to the soundtrack of this year's Sundance Film Festival.
Yes, Josh Groban — he of fresh face,...
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She may not have finished the year the way she wanted, but Mary J. Blige certainly started 2008 on the right note.
Blige's Growing Pains was expected to debut atop the...
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Holiday sales might be depressing, but it's no blue Christmas for Josh Groban. He just broke a chart record Elvis set back when Eisenhower was President.
Josh...
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Blake Lewis can't jingle Josh Groban's bells.
The beatboxer became the second Idol star in three weeks to lead new debuts on the weekly pop chart, but neither he...
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Celine Dion, Christina Aguilera,
Garth Brooks, Harry Connick Jr., Whitney Houston and Sarah
McLachlan. They are just a few of the multiplatinum artists
whose Christmas...
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Disappointing sales performance
during Thanksgiving weekend has merchants feeling pessimistic
about music's prospects for the holiday selling season and
worried about...
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The Grinch might be stealing Christmas from music retailers, but thanks to Josh Groban and Oprah, there's still some singing in Whoville.
For the sales week kicked off...
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Barbra Streisand welcomed Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) to her bluff-top Malibu estate for a fundraising dinner that took in $1.3 million for the Democratic...
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It's apropos that soulful
songstress Angie Stone is recording her debut for Concord Music
Group's reactivated Stax Records imprint at the stomping
grounds of another...
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Producer/songwriter David Foster
is proof that you can go home again. Although this native of
Victoria, British Columbia, has lived in Malibu, California,
for years, he...
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Most rappers start beefs to help sell albums, but Nas is topping the charts thanks in part to a truce.
Several years back, the Nas-Jay-Z feud got ugly when the two rap...
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At age 29, Taylor Hicks was the oldest contestant to win American Idol. Unfortunately, he released his debut disc in a week that favored the Young.
Peach State rapper...
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Two popular rap acts occupied the
top two spots on the U.S. album charts Wednesday, with the
Game's "Doctor's Advocate" coming in at No. 1.
The release moved 358,000...
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The charts got Game...and vice versa.
The erstwhile Dr. Dre and 50 Cent protégé scored big as his latest solo outing, Doctor's Advocate, debuted at number...
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Now that's what I call a stampede.
With the Country Music Association Awards airing last week, the latest pop chart was supposed to be a Nashville-happy affair. Instead,...
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When Warner Music Group created a
record label with Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs last year, industry
insiders said the company was taking a big risk with a star who
may have lost...
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You may have seen the recent photos
of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his
44th album, "Modern Times," shares a title with Chaplin's 1936
classic about...
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It's 9 p.m. at The Gig
in Hollywood and a crowd of L.A. hipsters is trickling in to
catch the evening's act.
The bar itself is just one of several live music...
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Chalk up Il Divo as the
latest act to show that worldwide platinum-plus success can
come without benefit of radio airplay.
The quartet, which performs what has been dubbed...
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The classical chart story of the
year is undoubtedly Il Divo, a vocal quartet assembled by Simon
Cowell of "American Idol" fame.
While in past years the classical...
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SINGLE: JUST FEEL BETTER. Santana's previous "I'm
Feeling You," the been-there-heard-that first single from his
new "All That I Am," showed that any acclaimed musician...
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Usher, 50 Cent, Mariah Carey and The Game were among the recording artists up for multiple honors Wednesday night at the 2005 World Music Awards, which selects winners based...
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The National Association
of Recording Merchandisers, the retail trade group grappling
with a depressed music business, kicks off its annual
convention Thursday at the San...
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The full lineup for Live 8 in Philadelphia:
Black Eyed Peas, Bon Jovi, the Dave Matthews Band, Def Leppard, Destiny's Child, Jars of Clay, Jay-Z, Kaiser Chiefs, Toby...
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Those West End Boys are headed east end on a mission of hope.
The Pet Shop Boys have been tapped to headline the newly added
Moscow installment of Saturday's Live 8...
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Alicia Keys, the Black Eyed Peas, Josh Groban, Def Leppard and Toby Keith have been added to the lineup of Saturday's Live 8 concert in Philadelphia.
Celebrity presenters...
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The Five Browns may be the closest classical music ever comes to a teen pop group. A piano quintet of three sisters and two brothers, the fresh-faced Browns hope to appeal...
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The Academy Awards aren't until this Sunday (February 27), but Josh Groban is already getting excited. Groban will join Beyonce on the telecast to perform "Believe," the...
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Sharon Stone's new basic instinct: helping victims of the tsunami
disaster.
The actress is ready to her best "We Are the World"
rendition, joining forces with socialite...
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Grammy Award-winning
producer/songwriter David Foster has signed a deal with Fox for
his own reality series, which the network will start airing
later this year.
Foster's...
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Elton John , Ozzy Osbourne, Phil Collins and Rod Stewart are piping
up for tsunami relief.
The quartet is among several music
stars who have begun recording a new...
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Elton John and Andrea Bocelli are joining several other major recording artists to produce a single to aid victims of the Asian tsunami.
John was to record his...
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Madonna , Elton John , Nelly, Kenny Chesney and other musicians converged on an NBC Universal studio Saturday for a hastily arranged TV benefit concert for tsunami...
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First Old Navy brings back leg warmers and now this.
Proving the '80s are gone but definitely not forgotten, several of that
decade's top musical acts were among the top...
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A number of evergreen artists and
albums that took first rank last year have held steady through
2004, making them classical chart-toppers once again.
Even so, several...
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Adult contemporary radio in 2004
pulled a page from the adult top 40 songbook, culling more than
half its top 10 hits for the year from the sister format.
Instead of such...
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The third chart entry proves to
be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the
Billboard Hot 100 with "Let Me Love You" (3rd Street/J). The
single moves 3-2,...
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Snoop Dogg was too hot to drop
from the top of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart Thursday as
his hit tune "Drop It Like It's Hot" featuring Pharrell logged
a third week at...
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A trip to "The Red Light
District" scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on
the U.S. pop charts Wednesday.
The Atlanta rapper/actor's fourth Disturbing Tha...
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The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is...
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Warner Music Group reported a narrower loss Monday, crediting a restructuring effort that cut costs.
The privately held New York-based firm, home to artists like Madonna ...
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Ratings tumbled for the Billboard
Music Awards, which Fox aired Dec. 8 from Las Vegas.
According to Nielsen Media Research, the 15th annual
two-hour broadcast drew 6.9...
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Big day for Jay-Z.
On the same day the hip-hopster
was officially named president and CEO of Def Jam Recordings (he starts
Jan. 3), his latest CD topped the...
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The music industry's ultimate popularity contest just can't get
enough of Usher and Alicia Keys.
The R&B competitors
lead the pack of finalists for this year's...
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Grammy-winning singer-songwriter
Alicia Keys is calling on her peers in the music industry to
raise their voices to help millions suffering from AIDS in
Africa.
"Just for...
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Every year, recording artists and
their labels pull together holiday music releases in hopes of
striking perennial silver and gold, and 2004 can be considered
a banner year...
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The red carpet was rolled out for pop music's hottest performers Sunday night at the 32nd annual American Music Awards, and many of the stars also turned out to be...
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Rapper Eminem and baritone Josh Groban now have something in common: They are among the nominees for favorite male singer in the People's Choice Awards.
Nominees for the...
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After more than 20 years of performing, Madonna can still pack fans into an arena. That's why she's the top finalist for Billboard's first Backstage Pass Awards. The awards...
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When it comes to artist
development, concert promoter House of Blues is putting its
money -- and marketing muscle -- on the line.
HOB's Emerging Artist program, with help...
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Gwen Stefani will unveil her first
solo material early next month in the form of the single "What
You Waiting For?"
The No Doubt frontwoman's as-yet-untitled album will...
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When Richard Marx first heard his
current single on the radio, it wasn't so much the song itself
that excited him. It's what the DJ said afterward.
"He says, 'That was...
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Jazz singer Norah Jones ' current
album "Feels Like Home" will be re-released Sept. 21 as a
double-disc package featuring three previously unreleased songs
and a DVD.
The...
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Are stadium tours extinct?
Once an integral and lucrative facet of the warm-weather
concert business, the stadium tour is completely absent from
this summer's...
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Josh Groban had an artistic homecoming Monday, returning to the art school that he says did much to launch his career as a singer and songwriter.
"I've been dreaming of...
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In a summer where good news is hard
to come by, Josh Groban has emerged as a breakthrough touring
act.
As he preps a 28-date summer tour that begins July 18 at
the Savvis...
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Josh Groban 's latest album has outsold the likes of Britney Spears , Jay-Z and Alicia Keys , and dates on his spring tour sold out in a couple of hours.
But the...
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Blues legend B.B. King and
avant-garde Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti were honored in
Stockholm Wednesday with the 13th annual Polar Music Prize.
King and Ligeti were...
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The newly private Warner Music
Group, having significantly reduced its worldwide staff, is now
turning its cost-cutting efforts toward its artists.
As part of the...
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Usher
has turned Eminem's
world upside down.
Last
week, the Eminem -led D12
World ended Usher's five-week run at number one on the album
chart, but in this week's...
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Quincy Jones is finalizing plans for his all-star We Are The Future concert, May 16, at the Circus Maximus in Rome. And he says the event, which will raise money to aid...
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Aaron Hall, former singer with
seminal new jack swing trio Guy, will issue his first solo
album in six years this summer.
"Adults Only" will be completed in mid-May and...
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Thanks to Norah
Jones, the bad boys don't have a chance.
For a fifth
straight week, Feels
Like Home kept Jones in the number one spot despite challenges
ranging from...
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Opera-pop crossover acts are
becoming a veritable cottage industry, but the East Village
Opera Co. is markedly different.
Thanks to Canadian composer/multi-instrumentalist...
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Never has it been more difficult to keep up with the Joneses.
Especially this one.
Norah
Jones' record-setting sophomore album, Feels
Like Home, extended its reign atop...
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Eminem 's "The Marshall Mathers LP"
and OutKast's "Speakerboxx/The Love Below" have each been
certified for U.S. shipments of 9 million copies.
The sets are fast...
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Norah
is making quite the Home on the album chart.
Despite
solid showings by rappers Kanye West and Young Gunz, Norah Jones
remained encamped in the top position for...
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For Norah
Jones, being on top of the charts has come to feel like home.
Fresh off a historic
first-week bow, Jones' Feels
Like Home had another massive week at...
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Forget flowers and chocolate, Norah
Jones is the new Valentine's Day gift of choice.
The
jazzy singer became just the second female artist to sell more than 1
million...
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Sting, Annie Lennox , Alison Krauss,
Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett will perform nominated songs
during the 76th annual Academy Awards on Feb. 29.
No other performers...
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The sun might have gone down on his album, but Kenny Chesney
sure went up on the charts.
The country crooner
reset the bar for 2004 as his new album, When the Sun Goes...
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Cupid is taking aim at music
lovers.
For the past three years, music sales during the week of
Valentine's Day have been second only to the boffo weeks
leading up to...
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Edgar Bronfman Jr. has lured Lyor Cohen away from Island Def Jam Music Group to head Bronfman's recently acquired Warner Music Group, it was announced Sunday.
The move...
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Once again OutKast
didn't spend too much time cast out of the top slot.
A week
after being displaced
on the album chart by Josh Groban 's Closer,
the Polaroid-shaking...
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Country stars Willie Nelson and Toby Keith and chart-topping vocalist Josh Groban have joined the
performance lineup for the Super Bowl XXXVIII pre-game show on
Feb....
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Josh Groban is living proof that a Foster child can still be
number one.
After years of consistently solid sales, David Foster -protg Josh Groban finally landed his...
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If OutKast's
New Year's resolution was to stay on top, the Polaroid-shakin' rappers
are already off to a good start.
The Atlanta rap duo finished
2003 with...
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OutKast's
love might be below, but their album is back on top.
In
their 14th week on the charts, the rap duo OutKast is ringing out 2003
with their Grammy-nominated...
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For those who put the Diary
of Alicia Keys on their gift wish list, expect to see the disc
coming down the chimney this Christmas--the soul diva's sophomore album
currently...
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Continuing financial struggles,
particularly at regional orchestras, were the constant backdrop
to other classical music goings-on in 2003.
The labels also tried to devise...
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For classical music, this was a year
for established hitmakers and a time in which the line between
"classical" and "crossover" became blurrier.
Many artists in the upper...
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Tony Award winner Barbara Cook will make her Metropolitan Opera debut at the New Year's Eve gala performance of Franz Lehar's operetta "The Merry Widow."
Cook will...
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Sultry singer Beyonce and crooner R. Kelly each took home four awards from the 2003 Billboard Music Awards.
Beyonce, who appeared at the ceremony Wednesday in a sequined...
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So much for that sophomore slump.
Alicia
Keys' second album, The
Diary of Alicia Keys, opened at number one, scoring the best
single-week sales of any female artist in...
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No doubt about it, Jay-Z
rules.
The rap kingpin's supposedly final CD, The
Black Album, climbed back to number one on the album charts,
holding off a hard-charging No...
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Fiddy's sitting pretty at the top of the list of
Billboard Music Award finalists.
The G-Unit Crew
team leader pulled down nods in six categories for the 2003...
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Britney
Spears lived up to her album's billing. Michael
Jackson did not.
Spears was definitely In
the Zone--and in the record books--as her latest debuted atop
the...
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Jay-Z sure knows how to make
an exit.
The retiring rapper is going out on top, as his
swan song, The
Black Album, beat out five other huge new releases last week...
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A new 2Pac compilation led the
heavy album slate that hit stores Nov. 11, but another title
likely will lead next week's Billboard 200.
Both Jay-Z's "The Black Album"...
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One side of the ailing music
business remains robust, according to Paul Anka : the licensing
side.
And he would know.
The legendary writer/performer of such...
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Tenor Luciano Pavarotti has been a
superstar for decades. He is a household name around the world
-- whether his fans first encountered him on the stage of
Milan's La...
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Ashanti's self-titled debut album remains at Number One on the Billboard 200 albums chart for a second cycle after selling more than 246,000 copies in its sophomore week....
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