Reuters - After scoring the top-selling Latin album of 2007 with “El Cartel: The Big Boss,” reggaeton star Daddy Yankee is beginning to pave the way for his next project with the track “Pose.”
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AP - A Chicago Sun-Times reporter must testify at R. Kelly’s child pornography trial.
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AP - LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Amy Winehouse showed up late for her first concert since leaving rehab, giving an underwhelming performance in front of 90,000 people Friday at a Lisbon music festival.
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Reuters - The secret’s out: MySpace Music Secret Shows are a hit. Social networking pioneer MySpace has created its most successful music program with the intimate Secret Shows series, whose 150th installment will feature Gnarls Barkley on June 8 at Irving Plaza in New York.
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Reuters - Legal pressure is mounting against U.S. wireless operators over their role in facilitating either false or misleading charges for mobile content — primarily ringtones.
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Reuters - It’s a breezy Tennessee afternoon. Third Day’s Mac Powell, David Carr, Tai Anderson and Mark Lee are enjoying a tasty Southern lunch at Stoveworks in the Factory, a historic Franklin, Tennessee, complex that was once a thriving industrial workplace and is now a trendy locale housing restaurants, shops and performance venues.
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Reuters - It’s the first time songs performed on “American Idol” have been made available for immediate download on iTunes — and the audience’s ability to make an instant-gratification purchase has paid off handsomely for winner David Cook.
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E! Online - He’s married. He’s a father. So is it any wonder R&B star Usher Raymond sounds a little more mellow on his fifth album, Here I Stand?
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Reuters - Fans are hungry for Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet world tour, which kicks off August 23 in Cardiff.
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AP - CHICAGO — A former personal assistant to R. Kelly became the latest person to take the stand and say she believes the R&B superstar appeared in a sex tape at the center of his child pornography trial.
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