Reuters - Rapper T.I. started a fifth nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Live Your Life” featuring Rihanna. But Beyonce was nipping at his heels with two songs.
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E! Online - Whitney Houston isn’t singing “I Will Always Love You” to ex-hubby Bobby Brown.
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AP - The Denver quartet DeVotchKa formed more than a decade ago, but it wasn’t until they worked on the soundtrack for “Little Miss Sunshine” that wider audiences got to hear their blend of accordion, theremin, guitar, sousaphone, strings, piano and trumpet.
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E! Online - As you may have heard, Kanye West announced at the American Music Awards that he wants to be the next Elvis. Then West had to take it even further.
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Reuters - Veteran boy band Take That’s single “Greatest Day” has stormed into the pop charts at No. 1, displacing Beyonce’s “If I were a boy,” the Official Charts Company said this week.
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Reuters - Seminal Chicago indie rock outfit the Jesus Lizard will play its first shows in 10 years in 2009.
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Reuters - The 28 dates on Madonna’s just-concluded North American jaunt grossed about $91.5 million and moved about 550,000 tickets, according to tour producer Arthur Fogel, chairman of global music for Live Nation.
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AP - New York Yankees third-baseman Alex Rodriguez appeared in Mexico City on the same weekend as Madonna — a turn of events he called “very good.”
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AP - Each time the Metropolitan Opera performed Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” last season the big question was who would show up in the title roles. This season, both lead singers are new to their parts at the Met — and both went on as scheduled for the opening. The real news was in the pit.
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AP - The distinctive white sails of the Sydney Opera House darkened Sunday night to mourn the death of Joern Utzon, the creative mind behind the globally known landmark.
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