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Courtney Love to Defend Controversial Tweet on Monday
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This Monday, Courtney Love will go to trial in a groundbreaking case. The rock star will not only become the first celebrity to defend an allegedly defamatory tweet inside a U.S. courtroom, but she might have to address the wild and maybe uncontrollable way she's acted in the past. She's being purs...
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L.A. Reid's Hamptons Estate Pipes Freeze in Polar Vortex
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Dropping records may heat up the charts, but they flooded the Hamptons mansion of L.A. Reid. The Sagaponack property of the Grammy-winning record executive and former X Factor judge, currently on the market for nearly $19 million, suffered some polar vortex damage last Saturday. According to Pat...
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Outkast Announce Tour of Over 40 Festivals
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"It's truly an honor to celebrate 20 years and still be free to do music the way we choose," Big Boi said, via statement. "Don't just think outside the box, know that there is no box. I'm looking forward to rocking the stage with my Bro Ski and to all the fans - stank you smelly much, this is...
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The New 'American Idol': A Cheeseburger, a Coke and a Smile (and Shut the F--- Up)
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The biggest difference viewers will notice when "American Idol" season 13 kicks off on Jan. 15? Not the snazzy Roman numeral logo or the postcard-inspired, Greetings from Asbury Park-esque graphics denoting each audition city. With a new team in place -- including executive producer...
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Billboard: U2 Wins Golden Globe For 'Mandela,' Shouts-Out New Manager Guy Oseary
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U2 and Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes took home the music awards at the 71st annual Golden Globes Sunday night, while HBO's film on Liberace continued to add trophies to its mantle. U2's "Ordinary Love" from "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" received the Be...
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Billboard: What is Behind the Digital Downloads Decline and Can Streaming Save the Day?
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The following article on the decline of digital downloads is from the new Billboard magazine which features an indispensible special package on Nielsen's year-end SoundScan numbers that includes a look at labels' year-end market shares and overall music sales broken down by format and genre. Al...
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Michael Jackson Company: Singer Fit to Perform Before Death
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The late singer's company demands that insurers be held to a $17.5 million "accident" policy issued before the "This Is It" concert tour. This one puts the handlers for the Jackson estate on the same side as AEG Live. Together, they are defending a lawsuit brought by underwri...
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Billboard: Digital Music Sales Decrease For First Time in 2013
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For the first time since the iTunes store opened its doors, the U.S. music industry finished the year with a decrease in digital music sales. While the digital track sales decline had been expected due to weaker sales in the first three quarters, the digital album downturn comes as more of a surprise a...
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Billboard: Razor & Tie Launches New Imprint Washington Square, Hold Steady Is First Signing
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The Hold Steady have a new -- brand-new -- home. Razor & Tie has announced the launch of a new imprint, Washington Square, which will make its label debut with the sixth full-length of the much-loved bar-band-with-brains, "Teeth Dreams," to be released March 25th. “We are huge fans o...
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Billboard: Motley Crue & Tommy Lee Prevail in ‘Rollercoaster’ Drumkit Lawsuit
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Motley Crue and drummer Tommy Lee have prevailed in a strange lawsuit that proposed that a drum stunt used on the band's 2011 tour was taken from an onstage "rollercoaster" proposal 20 years earlier. The plaintiff in the lawsuit was Howard Scott King, who claimed that he had come up with an...
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Billboard: Florida Georgia Line's 'Cruise' Sets All-Time Country Sales Record
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Florida Georgia Line's genre-busting "Cruise" is now the top selling country digital song of all-time, according to Nielsen SoundScan. With scans of 84,000 units in the most recent tracking week upping its overall sum to 6.33 million downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan, the du...
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Billboard: Nas to Be Honored at Vibe Impact Awards
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Grammy Award-nominated and multi-platinum rapper Nas will be the honoree at Vibe magazine’s second annual Impact Awards. The pre-Grammy, invitation-only gala will be held Jan. 24 at a private location in downtown Los Angeles. Additional details will be announced closer to the gala date. This ye...
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Billboard: 'Beyonce' Outsells Prior Album '4' In Four Weeks
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While Beyonce's self-titled album slides out of the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200 chart this week, its sales continue to grow at a rapid rate. In just four weeks on the chart, "Beyonce," released on Dec. 13, has now outsold the diva's last album, "4," which bowed on June 28, 2011...
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Billboard: Insane Clown Posse Sues FBI Over Gang Label: 'We're Going to Fight This to the Death'
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Insane Clown Posse is going to war -- legally -- against U.S. government agencies that have designated its fans, the Juggalos, as "a loosely affiliated hybrid gang." A lawsuit was filed Wednesday in the U.S. Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on behalf of ICP mem...
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Billboard: Letter From the Editor: A Call to Focus on Music—For Music's Sake
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The following Letter From the Editor by Billboard editorial director Bill Werde originally appeared in Billboard's 2014 Grammy Voter Guide which you can read or download in its entirety here. You can also purchase a physical copy of this special issue at the Billboard shop here.A Call To Focus on th...
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