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Posted on 3/24/2008 12:04:20 PM
Categorized in Music, Billboard Top Music
Dolly Parton debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Country Albums chart with her new album "Backwoods Barbie, " which marks a first in her career: The CD was released on her own label, Dolly Records, as she joined a growing list of artists who own their own record companies.
"I'm looking at it like an investment," she told the Associated Press. "I thought, 'I've made enough money. I can aff...
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Posted on 3/24/2008 11:54:28 AM
Categorized in Music, Billboard Top Music
Mr. Jackson, you've made your point.
With "Small Town Southern Man" stepping up from No. 2 to No. 1 and Good Time claiming the peak for a second week, Alan Jackson now holds sway over both Billboard's country songs and albums charts.
The tall man's double victory jangles an otherwise sleepy chart week. There's only one new song and one new album to report. Carrie Underwood's ...
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Posted on 2/25/2008 12:00:23 PM
Categorized in Music, General, Billboard Top Music
Rodney Atkins' "Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)" finally topples Brad Paisley's "Letter to Me" from the top of Billboard's song chart this week. But tenacious Taylor Swift's self-titled CD still holds the No. 1 album slot, where it's been for eight straight weeks.
The Grammy awards show on Feb. 10 has had no discernible effect on the charts, other than the fact that the one new album...
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Posted on 11/8/2007 1:00:36 PM
Categorized in Music, General, Billboard Top Music
The Eagles dominate the music charts this week as a result of a major chart policy change by Billboard.
The music trade publication has revised its chart policy to now include albums that have exclusive sales only through limited retail outlets. In this case, the Eagles' new double CD, Long Road Out of Eden, is being sold at retail only through Wal-Mart and its Sam's Club stores.
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Posted on 10/3/2007 4:02:05 PM
Categorized in Music, General, Billboard Top Music
Rascal Flatts' Still Feels Good is on course for the largest sales week by a country act in 2007, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Billboard reports that sales figures posted Friday afternoon show the band moved 321,000 copies through the close of business on Thursday. Opening day sales for the September 25 release stood at 175,000 copies. The Tennessean reports that totals by Wednesday'...
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Posted on 9/19/2007 4:21:56 PM
Categorized in Music, Billboard Top Music
Billboard magazine has picked Reba McEntire for its first Woman of the Year award, which coincides with the Women in Music issue that will be published in early October.
That issue honors the Top 20 female executives in the music industry. Reba will be honored and will deliver the keynote address during an Oct. 5 breakfast in New York for the 20 honorees.
"Reba's all-encompas...