MIAMI (AP) — Emilio and Gloria Estefan and other celebrities gathered to record a Spanish-language version of “We are the World” on Friday to raise money for Haiti earthquake victims.
Emilio Estefan said he was talking with Quincy Jones about the importance of the Spanish market when the idea developed.
“You know, Latinos always want to do things in a positive way, to show the world that even
NEW YORK (Billboard) – A week after Lady Gaga set a milestone on Billboard's Pop Songs radio airplay chart, Ke$ha has rewritten the record.
Last week, Lady Gaga's “Bad Romance” made chart history for logging the most weekly plays in the 17-year archives of the tally, registering 10,859 plays in the tracking week of January 11-17, according to Nielsen BDS.
This week, Ke$ha's debut RCA Music Group hit
Courtesy of NME — Band set to continue releasing new music despite quitting live circuit
Nine Inch Nails are set to release new music in 2010 despite recently selling off their musical equipment after they quit playing live.
Frontman Trent Reznor posted a message on the band's official website, Nin.com, explaining that there would be new band material released later this year, as well as the fruits of a new musical
NEW YORK (Billboard) – With its 14th week at the summit of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, the Black Eyed Peas' “I Gotta Feeling” matched Mariah Carey's 2005 hit “We Belong Together” for the longest No. 1 stay this decade.
The hip-hop band has now held firm at No. 1 for 26 straight weeks, with “Boom Boom Pow” preceding “Feeling” with a 12-week run, making the Peas the second act in the 51-year history of the
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Four of the world's biggest recording companies have sued the producers of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” accusing them of using songs without permission.
On the popular daytime program, which averages about 3 million viewers daily, newly named “American Idol” judge and show host DeGeneres dances to popular tunes selected by a deejay.
The program is produced and distributed by various divisions
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan's next leader, Yukio Hatoyama, probably never thought a song he recorded 20 years ago would one day fetch a pretty penny on online auction sites.
The vinyl single, “Take Heart - Fly, Dove of Peace”, recorded in 1988 when Hatoyama was first elected to parliament, recently sold for 35,000 yen ($375) in an online auction, a Japanese tabloid reported.
The title is a pun on Hatoyama's
2009 has become the highest-grossing summer ever at the domestic box office, according to Variety.com.
Through August. 30, summer box office revenues were $4.17 billion, compared to $4.16 billion for summer 2007, the previous record holder. Labor Day weekend should add another $100 million or more to the total tally, meaning the summer would be up at least 3 percent in grosses over 2007.
The heavy hitters? “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” ($399.4 million), “Harry (more…)
LOS ANGELES – The 45s, the 78s, the vinyl LPs, the CDs are all spinning to a halt, and you can push the stop button on those old cylinder recorders.
Music Man Murray — who for almost a half-century has been L.A.’s go-to-guy for that elusive record, the one you spent years searching in vain for until you found Murray — is closing up shop and selling his collection of some 300,000 discs. Everything must go, from the
NEW YORK (AP) — Will.i.am would love to say “I told you so” to all the people who have bashed The Black Eyed Peas in the past, but he won’t — even though the group just made history on the Billboard charts.
“There’s a part of me that wants to be cocky, but then I can’t be cocky,” the 34-year-old Peas leader said in a phone interview from Los Angeles on Tuesday. “There’s a part of me that wants to call out all
Irish rockers U2 have broken the record for the number of fans attending London’s famous Wembley stadium - thanks to their state of the art stage sets.
The “Beautiful Day” hitmakers brought their 360 world tour to the U.K. on Friday and used one of their three elaborate claw-shaped steel structures as part of their show.
The mammoth set-pieces, which cost between $24 million and $32 million each, enabled U2 to squeeze more fans into the venue as revellers could surround (more…)
