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The EP Effect: Ke$ha, Taylor Swift and Adam Lambert Mine Platinum In Under 10 Songs
posted: December 8, 2010
They don’t make albums like they used to. These days, acts like Lady Gaga, Michael Bublé and the cast of Glee are keeping it short and cheap with the EP” an “extended play” release that…
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Pop Is a Battlefield
posted: November 23, 2010
Musicians are an unruly bunch. They’re in constant competition on and off the charts, going for each others’ jugulars”talking first and thinking later. Rappers have been throwing stones back and forth since the ’80s days…
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Hollywood Stars Sing for Their Supper
posted: November 17, 2010
From Justin Timberlake (The Social Network) and Tim McGraw (The Blind Side and Country Strong) to Janet Jackson (For Colored Girls) and Christina Aguilera (Burlesque), pop stars no longer act just to fill dead space…
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Can Sex Stop You From Going Platinum?
posted: November 1, 2010
Sex sells. In movies and on TV, in video stores and strip joints, down on the corner, out in the street, everywhere it seems, but on the pop charts. And how far the raw and…
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Pop in Advertising
posted: October 29, 2010
The more things change in the music industry, the more one thing in particular stays the same: Radio remains as integral to star- and hit-making as it was back in the days when Bill Haley…
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Discourse & Dischord
posted: October 15, 2010
The Good T.I. helps talk down jumper in Atlanta T.I.’s getting a head start on the community service he may face for his parole violation last month. The rapper helped police talk down a suicidal…
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