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Radio Hits One: Kelly Clarkson, Lionel Richie And Countrified Pop Tunes

After Kelly Clarkson went to No. 1 on Billboard's Country Songs chart last year with the Jason Aldean duet "Don't You Wanna Stay," I wondered hopefully if the Texas-born pop star would finally go country with her next album. So I was a little disappointed a few months later, when she debuted the bla ... More >>

100 & Single: A Dozen Contenders For Billboard's Year-End Top 10, And Their Fight Against The "Last Christmas Effect"

​Later this week, Billboard is expected to announce its tallies for the biggest hits of 2011. And what a year for music it's been. Remember all those big hits: "Like a G6," "We R Who We R," "Raise Your Glass," "Fuck You!" and "What's My Name?" What's that—you say the songs I just rattle ... More >>

Justin Bieber Will Not Be in NYC at the Same Time as Barack Obama This Week

Last week, many New Yorkers were under the impression that Justin Bieber was scheduled to be here for the Rockefeller Christmas tree lighting at the same time that President Obama planned to come to NYC for fundraisers. This would be spell doom for everyone's commute, which is already hard. Good n ... More >>

American Idol Somehow Fits Three Singers Into Two Long Hours

Michael Becker/FOX​This week's endless two-hour American Idol was the annual show where the three remaining contestants all return to their hometowns to wave out of car windows at screaming children. It's an annual Idol ritual, and it really goes a lot way toward proving just how completely al ... More >>

"The Voice" Closes Its Eyes And Takes On "American Idol"

​So: The Voice. The big challenge. American Idol has been the dominant ratings force in American TV for a full decade now, but none of the other networks has really managed to do much with that show's format, which seems like a relatively easy thing to steal. (Or they haven't made a big singin ... More >>

Lesbian Country Star Keeps Her Top On!

Out of Nashville, out in New York

Project Runway: The Finale Stitch & Bitch

​Look, even your grandma was rooting for Seth Aaron to win. For all the judges' constant flurries of critique about various contestants not skewing "editorial," season 7 of Project Runway had a decidedly staunch narrative pretty established early on: Goofy daddy-o Seth Aaron was distilled down ... More >>

Project Runway Tries to Trompe le Monde; Christian Siriano Transmits Girly Bliss

Discussed: Project Runway finale, Christian Siriano Stacey AndersonJudges Heidi Klum, Faith Hill, Michael Kors, and Nina Garcia​"Reality" television? Not so much. Project Runway tried to dupe our fragile young minds on Friday at their finale taping, sending not just the top three finalists bu ... More >>

NAUGHTY AUGHTIES

The OHP gang sings goodbye to the ’00s

Please Let the Auto-Tune Jokes End: A Brief History of the Pitch-Correcting Software's Legacy

If Auto-Tune hit its peak as a joke delivery device last week amidst the spectacle of a weirdly robotic Katie Couric involuntarily singing an "O Superman"-reminiscent lament for melting polar ice caps, it also hit its nadir at about the same time, when a tape surfaced of an Auto-Tuned Martin Luthe ... More >>

Janelle, Erykah, and Santogold Are the Afro-Techno Revolution

While Beyoncé just struggles to keep up

Week in Review: A Prevailing Theory That Targeting Women As The Main Consumer/Enjoyer of Hip-Hop Proved the Genre's Biggest Misstep

Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Faith Hill's "O Holy Night!"

Who Truly Feels It All?

Feist overshadows the subversive sirens blaring down South

Academy of Country Music Awards: A Running Diary

The CMA Awards: A Running Diary

The CMT Music Awards: A Running Diary

The Grammy Awards: A Running Diary

Country Music Grapples With Race

Backstage at the Country Music Awards

The Quarterly Report: Status Ain't Hood's Favorite Singles Since July

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Sacraments of the Scene

The Zipless Pluck

Crafty country megaswoons, cheatin' in the next room, but what's love got to do with it?

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Hearth and Soul

Fireplace-Sex Music Seems to Hang On

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Crazy/Dutiful

Hear My Body Talk

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Brand New Men

Hillbilly Hunks Cope With Changing Gender Roles

Labels and Labeling

Five Corporations Cope With Content

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She Pop

Lava Baby’s Lips Are Not Sealed

Sports

Shuffering and Shmiling

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Tangled Up in Blue

Blue Morning, Blue Day, Little Blue Corvettes

Booger High

Five Hit Singles Linked by No Concept Whatsoever!

Consumer Guide

CMT Is Where It’s At!

Country Cuts the Crap

Love and Industry

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On Divas Live '99, the bewigged trio of Cher, Elton John, and Tina Turner rocked on Elton's theme song, 'Proud Mary.'