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March 6, 2012
100 & Single: Of Monkees, Michael, and "Maria"—The History Of The Chart-Dominating, Lifestyle-Accessory Album
Cassandra (Tia Carrere): You've heard it? Wayne (Mike Myers): Exqueeze me? Have I seen this one before? Frampton Comes Alive?! Everybody in the world has Frampton Comes Alive. If you lived in the suburbs you were issued it. It came in the mail with samples of Tide. —Wayne's World 2 (1993) Fo ... More >>
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October 24, 2011
Radio Hits One: T-Pain Escapes Lead Single Purgatory
The Revolver cover.On Thursday Jive Records announced that T-Pain's fourth album rEVOLVEr would be out on December 6. That same day, the rappa ternt sanga's single "5 O'Clock" reached a new Hot 100 peak of No. 25 . The timing wasn't exactly coincidental. The track, on which T-Pain is supporte ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
Lil Wayne Just Misses the Milli Mark, but Sells a Boatload of Tha Carter IV
Yesterday there were rumblings that Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV--the hyperactive MC's newest album, which dropped shortly after he closed out last month's Video Music Awards--had indeed sold more than a million copies in its first week out, the way that its predecessor in the Carter series did ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
100 & Single: Lady Gaga Gets Ready To Join The Million-Weeker Club
The phrase "the calm before the storm" appears in virtually every chart-related story this week. That's because the latest edition of the Billboard 200, which covers sales from the week ending May 22, is topped by Adele's 21. That album is No. 1 for the ninth and (presumably) final week befor ... More >>
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May 13, 2011
100 & Single: How Adele, Not the Beatles, Is The Music Biz's 2011 Redeemer
The music business spikes the football over its gradually improving sales the same week a certain U.K. chanteuse completes her conquering of the U.S. pop charts. Coincidence? Maybe not. The omnipresent Adele takes control of Billboard's Hot 100 this week; "Rolling in the Deep" finally evict ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 6, 2011
Cake
The music business spikes the football over its gradually improving sales the same week a certain U.K. chanteuse completes her conquering of the U.S. pop charts. Coincidence? Maybe not. The omnipresent Adele takes control of Billboard's Hot 100 this week; "Rolling in the Deep" finally evict ... More >>
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February 4, 2011
Week In Review: We'll Never Get Over The White Stripes
We started out the week on a positive jam. Riding high off Bob Dylan Week, we spent the weekend paying tribute to all those bands who came before with Craig Finn at Music Hall of Williamsburg and trying with all our hearts to sing along while the Dismemberment Plan flailed around on stage at ... More >>
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January 12, 2011
Everybody Panic: Taylor Swift's Speak Now Scores the Lowest-Selling Billboard #1, Ever
"Peace, suckers." Photo via MySpace.Bad news for anyone hoping to make a living off of selling recorded music ever again: after 2010 brought us such lovely milestones as the worst week for music sales in all of SoundScan history and the Kanye West record that wouldn't go platinum, 2011 has al ... More >>
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August 19, 2010
We Just Survived the Worst Week For Music Sales In All of SoundScan History
This is the third most popular record in the country right now. So, one more qualification for Arcade Fire's still pretty respectable #2 this week: they snagged it amidst the worst seven days in SoundScan history. The industry managed to move a paltry 4.95 million units last week, a number th ... More >>
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July 21, 2010
Will "The Ultimate Chart" Change The Way We Quantify The Ubiquity Of Eminem, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, And Justin Bieber?
A common complaint about music charts in the post-sales age is that, with their reliance on SoundScan data and airplay numbers, they miss other avenues for popular consumption, from YouTube streams to--shh!--free downloads. BigChampagne, which started off as a service charting the popularity ... More >>
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April 2, 2010
How Justin Bieber's #1 Album Factors Into the Teen-Idol Solo-Artist Pantheon
Canadian teenpopper Justin Bieber bows at the top of this week's Billboard 200 with My World 2.0, which sold 283,000 copies in its first week at stores. The persistent Twitter trend and walking advertisement for blowdryers is the latest sheepishly grinning guy to hoist the teen-idol mantle, althou ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 20, 2009
'David Foster & Friends'
Canadian teenpopper Justin Bieber bows at the top of this week's Billboard 200 with My World 2.0, which sold 283,000 copies in its first week at stores. The persistent Twitter trend and walking advertisement for blowdryers is the latest sheepishly grinning guy to hoist the teen-idol mantle, althou ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 3, 2008
Death Becomes Them
Indie rockers Death Cab for Cutie finally hit the mainstream
Blogs
July 5, 2007
Universal Records Fucks Up Bad
Indie rockers Death Cab for Cutie finally hit the mainstream
Music
March 21, 2006
So Sick
Biz bites the kids that feed it as radio battles everybody
Music
June 21, 2005
The Cotton Club
Black-conscious hip-hop deals with an overwhelmingly white live audience
Music
November 18, 2003
Five to Three
Merger mania picks back up; a smaller Warner gives up
Music
September 9, 2003
Everything's on Sale
Universal Reversals, Webcast Battles, RIAA-Safe Tuneage
Music
July 22, 2003
Circling the Wagons
Why iTunes Won't Save the RIAA From Pirates, Downloads, Lost Product, and Ill Will
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May 23, 2000
Net Loss
Music Industry Report Projects Huge Losses to Web Piracy

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