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Katy Perry Becomes Twitter's Most-Followed
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The "Dark Horse" singer surpassed 50 million followers on Saturday. Katy Perry may not have nabbed a Grammy at last month's ceremony, but her latest accolade is a major milestone. The "Dark Horse" singer surpassed 50 million followers on Twitter on Feb. 1, making her not only...
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Billboard: Bruno Mars Scores Most-Watched Super Bowl Halftime Show Ever
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Bruno Mars and the Red Hot Chili Peppers' performance attracted the largest audience in the history of Super Bowls, attracting 115.3 million viewers, Fox announced Monday, citing Nielsen data. That figure surpasses the prior record of 114.0 million set by Madonna two years ago and the 110.8 milli...
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Justin Bieber Escapes Lawsuit From Bodyguard He Allegedly Beat Up
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Justin Bieber has put the breaks on one of his legal problems. The pop star, currently under fire after being arrested last week on charges of driving under the influence and resisting arrest, has resolved a lawsuit brought by ex-bodyguard Moshe Benabou, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.Justin...
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Sara Bareilles Fires Manager Jordan Feldstein After Grammys Scuffle With Osbournes
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Sara Bareilles has fired manager Jordan Feldstein, who also counts Maroon 5 and Robin Thicke as clients, sources confirm to The Hollywood Reporter. The singer, who performed with Carole King at the Grammys, went home empty handed after being nominated for album of the year (for "The Blessed U...
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Billboard: Bruno Mars' 'Jukebox' Sales Jump 164% After Super Bowl Halftime Performance
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Bruno Mars is set to return to the top 10 of the Billboard 200 albums chart, thanks to his Super Bowl halftime performance on Sunday, February 2. According to estimates from industry sources, the entertainer's latest album, "Unorthodox Jukebox," sold perhaps 40,000 copies in the week e...
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Billboard: U2's Free 'Invisible' Downloads Raise Over $3 Million For (RED) Global Fund
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U2’s exclusive premiere of new single “Invisible” during the Super Bowl, in partnership with (RED) and Bank of America (reported here in late January), raised more than $3 million for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in 36 hours through free downloads on iTunes, the band anno...
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Ice-T, Coco Austin Hint at Talk Show With Ryan Seacrest Productions
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"You feel the need to be entertaining, and before you know it, you doing dumb **** you normally wouldn't do," said the rapper-actor of halting E!'s "Ice Loves Coco" after three seasons. Ice-T is officially done with "Ice Loves Coco." The rapper-actor announced on...
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Arcade Fire Up for Six Juno Awards: Nominees List
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Canadian indie rock heroes Arcade Fire on Tuesday snagged a field-leading six nominations for the Junos, Canada's top music awards. Crooner Michael Bublé and Serena Ryder are each up for five noms, while Céline Dion, Drake, Hedley, and Tegan and Sara earned another four nominations each. Arcade F...
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Billboard: Red Hot Chili Peppers Unplugged at Super Bowl: Axl Rose Weighs In
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The Super Bowl halftime show, featuring Bruno Mars and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, elicited plenty of cheers from fans in MetLife stadium, but some watching at home -- including former Living Color guitarist Vernon Reid -- had a bone to pick with the chosen performers. Taking to Twitter mere seconds a...
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Billboard: Carrie Underwood on the Lack of Successful Female Country Artists: 'You Would Think We'd Be Farther Along' (E
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In both 2012 and 2013, just three of the top 25 artists on Billboard’s Top Country Songs chart were solo women. In a Billboard Country Update column last fall, we heard what country radio has to say about this, but what do the artists themselves think? Carrie Underwood was one of the artists who made tha...
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Billboard: Super Bowl: How Halftime Shows Sell Music (1993-Present)
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From Michael Jackson to Beyonce, how stars' Super Bowl performances scored on the charts. Until Michael Jackson's Super Bowl performance in 1993, the Super Bowl halftime show was more about marching bands and card stunts than headliner superstars. In 2014, the most-watched TV event in the world i...
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Billboard: Independents Claim 50% of Grammy Wins, Largest Share in A2IM History
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ndependent record labels and artists hauled off some heavy hardware at the 56th Grammy awards last night, claiming the largest share of all awards since at least 2006, when the American Association of Independent music began tracking the ceremony. According to A2IM, independent labels and artis...
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Billboard: Business Matters: Streaming Drove 5% Recorded Music Growth In Sweden In 2013
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There's a good reason the global music industry pays attention to progress of new business models in a Scandinavian country with 9.5 million inhabitants. Sweden leads a handful of countries that have used the controversial streaming business model to reclaim big chunks of revenue lost in the post...
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Billboard: How Streaming Will Result in More Revenue All Around
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Four years ago I wrote an opinion piece in Billboard warning of the cash-flow crisis that would hit when consumers realized the massive value proposition that streaming subscription services offer. It may have taken longer than I expected, but it is firmly upon us. Despite all the negative press ab...
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Billboard: Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr Returning to Ed Sullivan Theater
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Paul McCartney is scheduled to be in New York for the Super Bowl and if all goes according to schedule, he and Ringo Starr will make their way early next week to the Ed Sullivan Theater, where they made their American television debut 50 years ago. The two surviving Beatles will be interviewed by David L...
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