NASHVILLE (Billboard) – With his fourth album, "Haywire," country singer-songwriter Josh Turner has scored his third straight top 10 chart entry.

Fueled by national TV guest spots, a hit video and a No. 1 single with "Why Don't We Just Dance?," the February 9 releas debuted on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart at No. 2 and on the Billboard 200 at No. 5.

Turner says of the MCA Nashville album, "We chose

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SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) -- Authorities in north Louisiana say two people in a pickup truck were killed when the truck ran head-on into a tour bus carrying members of country singer Trace Adkins' band.

Cindy Chadwick of the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office says five band members were treated for minor injuries in the Saturday morning accident.

Adkins was not on the bus. Chadwick says he drove to the scene after

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The world's best-paid supermodel Gisele Bundchen is planning to reduce her workload - so she can concentrate all her energy on motherhood. The Brazilian beauty became a first-time mom in December, welcoming a son, Benjamin, with her heroic football star husband, Tom Brady.

Bundchen shot her first post-pregnancy campaign last month but she admits she's already making plans to scale back her career to spend time with her baby.

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NASHVILLE (Billboard) – In her self-penned biographical sketch, singer-songwriter Sarah Buxton says she "had a whole plan mapped out" when she signed with Lyric Street Records in 2005. Then reality revised her best-laid plans, as her bio further notes: "What's the old adage? 'If you wanna hear God laugh, tell him your plans?' Well ... I told him. And he laughed!"

Buxton is thankful her career didn't take off

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Avatar" dominates the box office again with a $36 million weekend.

No. 1 for the sixth-straight weekend, James Cameron's sci-fi spectacle lifted its domestic total to $552.8 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Worldwide, 20th Century Fox's "Avatar" raised its total to $1.840 billion, just $2 million shy of first place behind Cameron's last movie, the 1997 shipwreck blockbuster "Titanic," at $1.843 billion.

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DURANGO, Colo. (AP) -- Fiddler-guitarist Charlie Daniels is recovering after suffering a mild stroke while snowmobiling in Colorado, his spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Daniels, 73, suffered the stroke Friday and was treated at a hospital in Durango, 230 miles southwest of Denver, spokeswoman Paula Szeigis said. He then was airlifted to a Denver hospital and released on Sunday.

"It was a scary moment there

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Adam Lambert admits he got carried away with his sexually charged American Music Awards performance, but he's offering no apology.

The glam rocker from "American Idol" said on "The Early Show" that his performance would not have caused as much controversy if he weren't openly gay. He also said there were other "adult" moments on the show

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