Court records show Avril Lavigne has filed for divorce from her musician husband after three years of marriage. Lavigne filed for divorce from Sum 41 singer Deryck Jason...
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Get ready to hear a softer side of Avril Lavigne. The Canadian pop singer tells Billboard.com that she's taking a more serious, stripped-down approach to her fourth...
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Looks like Avril Lavigne can prove she's "The Best Damn Thing" in Kuala Lumpur after all. The Malaysian government has given the go-ahead for the wannabe punk...
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Malaysia has allowed Canadian pop star Avril Lavigne to hold a concert ahead of the country's independence day celebrations, reversing a decision to bar the ...
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If Malaysian officials' logic holds, Avril Lavigne is sexier than Gwen Stefani and the Pussycat Dolls and just as potentially morally corrupting as Beyoncé. The...
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Avril Lavigne is getting under the skin of Malaysian censors. A hard-line Islamic opposition party in the Southeast Asian country is calling on the government to scuttle an...
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Malaysia's Islamic opposition party has urged the government to cancel a concert by Avril Lavigne, saying the Canadian singer's on-stage moves are "too sexy," an official...
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Now you, too, can smell like a faux punk rocker. If you're into that sort of thing. Avril Lavigne has signed on with Procter & Gamble Prestige Products to launch her...
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The Best Damn Tour? Fans are going to have reserve judgment. In news that will undoubtedly hearten Hilary Duff, rival Avril Lavigne has been rendered speechless after...
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Canuck Avril Lavigne seems to know a thing or two about Southern hospitality. During a concert stop in Biloxi, Miss., Monday, Lavigne teamed up with the Hard Rock Hotel and...
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Avril Lavigne, known for her pairing of frilly dresses and combat boots, will bring her style to the juniors department at Kohl's department stores. The edgy, pop-rock...
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Avril Lavigne is looking to launch the best damn brand. The 23-year-old pop star has partnered with manufacturer Jerry Leigh to be the face of Abbey Dawn, a new...
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Pop star Avril Lavigne took two
top prizes at the MTV Europe Music Awards on Thursday, stealing
the thunder from her rival Justin Timberlake.
The 23-year-old rocker won the...
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Honda is launching a promotional
campaign that will tie its Civic model to dozens of songs and
music videos being released during the fourth quarter by Sony BMG.
Starting...
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Is GirlFrenzy more like a GirlFizzle?
The one-off daylong music festival, set to take place in October and feature an all-estrogen lineup of singers, has been indefinitely...
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Harshing on someone else's girlfriend has suddenly become the least of Avril Lavigne's worries.
Embroiled in a plagiarism case over her hit tune, the pop-punker has...
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Avril Lavigne has responded a lawsuit that has brought against her claiming she copied another song for her hit "Girlfriend."
As previously reported, Lavigne and co-writer...
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Chart-topping Canadian pop singer
Avril Lavigne is firing back at accusations that she ripped off
other artists' work, calling the claims false and saying she...
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According to some, Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" is far from The Best Damn Thing.
Songwriters Tommy Dunbar, of the band the Rubinoos, and James Gangwer sued the...
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Happy anniversary, R.
Nearly five years to the day since he was indicted on a slew of child pornography charges stemming from a well circulated sex tape, the R&B...
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It's never too soon for Maroon.
Five years after its smash hit debut, Maroon 5 colored the charts again with one of the year's top bows, It Won't Be Soon...
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She was an "amazing talent," a young singer with a wonderful voice who wrote beautiful songs. But she was no beauty, plus flat-chested and overweight to boot.
Remembering...
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It sounds like a horror movie: a beloved friend is callously exterminated, then reincarnated in a different form to wreak havoc on the killer.
That's the nightmare...
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For Avril Lavigne, the best just got better.
Avril Lavigne's The Best Damn Thing spent a second week atop the album charts, easily outselling new releases from R&B...
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Avril Lavigne was the best damn thing on the charts this week. Literally.
The Canadian pop-punker debuted atop the Billboard 200 for a second consecutive time as her...
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By now the practice has become old
hat: an eagerly anticipated album gets distributed and devoured
by MP3 bloggers before it ever hits stores. But when Columbia
Records...
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Canadian pop singer Avril Lavigne's
third studio album will top the U.S. charts when sales data are
issued Wednesday, while rock combo Nine Inch Nails will be...
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Avril Lavigne has gone through a few changes since she released her last CD three years ago.
The 21-year-old Lavigne is now married (to fellow Canadian rocker Deryck...
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"I want it!" squealed 13-year-old Hiiaka Kaneao, pointing to a sparkly, hot pink, star-shaped bass guitar hanging inside a pink fur-lined booth.
Her high-pitched voice is...
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With global music sales down for
a seventh straight year, the talk at an annual industry meeting
in Cannes, France, has become heated over how to develop
digital sales...
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Canadian rock act Nickelback will
hit the road one last time to promote its hit album "All the
Right Reasons," which has sold four million copies in the
United States since...
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Piracy and competition for consumer
spending drove global music sales down 4 percent in the first
half of 2006 despite the continued popularity of digital music,
an industry...
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Amy Lee cut a ravishing
figure onstage as Evanescence appeared before a sold-out crowd
of screaming fans Monday at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom.
Sporting a black tank top...
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You may have seen the recent photos
of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his
44th album, "Modern Times," shares a title with Chaplin's 1936
classic about...
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It's 9 p.m. at The Gig
in Hollywood and a crowd of L.A. hipsters is trickling in to
catch the evening's act.
The bar itself is just one of several live music...
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So, Avril Lavigne got her happy ending after all.
The
Canadian rock princess wed her boyfriend, Sum 41 frontman Deryck
Whibley, on Saturday at a private estate in...
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When "American Idol" contestant Taylor Hicks belted out Stevie Wonder's golden oldie "Living for the City" there was scant age difference between the singer and the...
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There's a hole in the middle of every medal at these Winter Olympics for a reason: to honor the open piazzas. So it only makes sense that the city square at the heart of...
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Music, activism, vigils.
Things that were so much
a part of John Lennon's life are being used to mark the 25th anniversary
of his death.
In New York City, fans of...
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The Black Eyed Peas, The Cure and Avril Lavigne are among the artists recording songs by John Lennon to raise funds for Amnesty International.
The first four tracks will...
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Is Liz Phair a commercial sellout, just ambitious, or a maturing musician?
Her last album, 2003's "Liz Phair," signaled the 38-year-old's foray into sleek commercial pop,...
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David Bowie, Destiny's Child, Duran
Duran, Gwen Stefani, Nelly and Tim McGraw lead the lineup for
the Fashion Rocks concert, which will be held Sept. 8 at New
York's Radio...
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is expected to announce today an international "payola" settlement with a major record company to limit the industry's ability to...
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Paul McCartney, Celine Dion, Maroon 5 and other music acts have donated concert tickets and special experiences in an online auction for Music Clearing Minefields, an...
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It took a few years, but Pink is finally ready to get her
engagement party started.
The three-time Grammy-winning star
took matters into her own hands over the weekend...
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Punk rocker Avril Lavigne is
engaged to marry fellow Canadian Deryck Whibley, lead singer
and guitarist of the band Sum 41, Lavigne's spokeswoman said on
Tuesday.
Whibley,...
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Avril Lavigne could be getting her happy ending after all.
The pop-punk princess is engaged to her longtime boyfriend and
fellow rocker, Deryck Whibley of Sum 41, her...
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On the cover of an "in case of
emergency" handbook in the reception area of Wind-up Records'
New York headquarters, someone has affixed a yellow Post-it
that reads: "1. Save...
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Rehab. Her weight. Her first album. Verbally attacking pop stars like Christina Aguilera. Fighting with her brother on national television. Being a rock star's daughter....
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A 31-year-old Seattle computer technician has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for stalking 21-year-old Canadian singer Avril Lavigne. According to CelebritJustice.com,...
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Growing sales of DVD music
videos and a sharp increase in digital downloads kept the
global music market afloat in 2004 in what the International
Federation of the...
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Global sales of recorded music were essentially flat in 2004, with a reduction in audio sales offset by increases in DVD and digital music sales, the International...
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Audiences at a recent They Might Be Giants concert were rocking out — or at least jumping up and down a bit before bedtime. Kids about kindergarten age filled the front...
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A founding member of Korn is leaving the band to focus on his religious beliefs. "Korn has parted ways with guitarist Brian `Head' Welch, who has chosen Jesus Christ as his...
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Musicians want tsunami victims to know that the tragedy has not
been forgotten.
With news coverage fading fast six weeks
after the earthquake-generated waves killed...
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Avril Lavigne leads the pack of nominees for the 34th Annual Juno Awards, Canada's version of the Grammys, which will be held April 3 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Lavigne is up...
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Clive Davis can't help but dance.
Put on a record of one of his artists and his feet
automatically start to tap, then he'll get up from behind his
desk and groove.
With...
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Concert-goers and performers alike sang and danced as Canadian artists such as Avril Lavigne and Sarah McLachlan took the stage for a tsunami relief fundraiser.
A...
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The music world may have been slow to respond to the tsunami
tragedy, but a wave of upcoming events aims to help make up the
difference.
While several large-scale...
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Hip-hop rhymers, classical orchestras, church choirs, punk bands and creamy-voiced crooners from Paris to Hong Kong are taking up the fund-raising theme for victims of the...
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From Paris to Beijing, Hong Kong to London and beyond, musicians are beating the drum — literally in their case — for victims of the Asian tsunami with special...
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Veteran pop star Sir Cliff Richard ,
flamboyant singer Boy George and other British musicians plan
to release a song to raise money for victims of the devastating
Asian...
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Some people can't understand why Butch Walker would give Avril Lavigne a hit like "My Happy Ending" instead of keeping it for his own album, but the songwriter-musician...
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The third chart entry proves to
be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the
Billboard Hot 100 with "Let Me Love You" (3rd Street/J). The
single moves 3-2,...
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Snoop Dogg was too hot to drop
from the top of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart Thursday as
his hit tune "Drop It Like It's Hot" featuring Pharrell logged
a third week at...
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A trip to "The Red Light
District" scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on
the U.S. pop charts Wednesday.
The Atlanta rapper/actor's fourth Disturbing Tha...
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The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is...
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Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can't get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV's "Pimp My Ride"?
Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician...
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Chicago rapper Kanye West, who
survived a near-fatal car crash to score one of the biggest
hits of the year with his debut album, led an eclectic field of
commercially...
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Infinity Broadcasting is not
commenting on a New York Times story that claims the company
fired its top Rochester, N.Y., programer for accepting gifts
from record...
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Grammy-winning singer-songwriter
Alicia Keys is calling on her peers in the music industry to
raise their voices to help millions suffering from AIDS in
Africa.
"Just for...
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The drummer of indie punk band
Fugazi has created a new DVD series that spotlights live
performances from notable rock acts in a given city, all
recorded in a single...
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With Ashlee Simpson in the news
this week following a disastrous lip-synching appearance on
"Saturday Night Live," Canadian pop singer Avril Lavigne says
it's "pathetic"...
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Rapper Eminem and baritone Josh Groban now have something in common: They are among the nominees for favorite male singer in the People's Choice Awards.
Nominees for the...
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Usher won Hip-Hop Artist of the Year and Hip-Hop Song of the Year at the Radio Music Awards Monday night. Linkin Park grabbed the Alternative Rock Song of the Year and Rock...
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Whether they like it or not, the punks from Sum 41 are growing up.
The Canadian foursome of 20-somethings has crafted a more focused and melodic new album, "CHUCK," with a...
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Emerging artists are
getting a new route for breaking through with the debut of
Who's Next? -- a showcase and competition initiative by
Yahoo!'s music destination...
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Paul McCartney , Eric Clapton , Sting and U2 are joining forces on a benefit album for Burmese democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi.
R.E.M ., Avril Lavigne , Coldplay and...
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Live tracks from Pearl Jam, R.E.M .,
Ben Harper , Paul McCartney , Bonnie Raitt and Indigo Girls
highlight the track list for "For the Lady," a benefit album
for imprisoned...
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R&B casanova Usher, whose album "Confessions" steamed up the charts with songs about sex, affairs and breakups, received a leading four nominations Tuesday for the American...
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Fashion rocks — and Beyonce put on shimmery hot-pants and Rod Stewart wore a three-piece suit with a pocket square to prove it.
Beyonce and Stewart, along with Avril...
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Ashlee Simpson has shown no mercy on the charts. First, her
Autobiography destroyed the sales milestones of her more famous
sister, Jessica. Now, Ashlee's kicked her former...
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Not even the Godfather can take down a member of the Simpson
family.
Despite the arrival of three new top five
albums, most notably Shyne's Godfather Buried Alive,...
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Teenage American swimmer Michael Phelps
claimed the first of a hoped-for eight gold medals at the
Athens Olympics Saturday with a world record time and his
Australian rival...
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The Ashlee Simpson Show may be over on MTV, but it's just
getting started on the album chart.
The Simpson sis got a
boost from last Wednesday's finale of her reality...
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Comedian Chris Rock is preparing to
release his first album in five years, "Never Scared,"
featuring a parody of OutKast's Grammy-winning anthem "Hey Ya!"
Due Aug. 31 via...
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U.S. antitrust authorities on
Wednesday approved a deal for record companies Sony Music and
BMG to merge, creating a rival to market leader Universal
Music.
The U.S....
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Move over, Jessica, Ashlee Simpson 's second to none.
The 19-year-old singer-actress has officially emerged
from her big sister's shadow, as her first album,...
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When it comes to the VMAs, the biggest problem Jay-Z may have
is where to put all those Moon Men.
In what could be a
last hurrah before his pending retirement from...
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The heavy lifting is about to begin
for BMG and Sony Music.
With the European Commission 's July 19 clearance of the
proposed merger of the two music giants, approval by...
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There's joy in Margaritaville today: Chief Parrothead Jimmy Buffett is chilling out on top of the album chart for the first time in
his three-decade career.
Buffett's...
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The Sony-BMG merger leaves four music "majors" with about 80 percent of the $32 billion global music market. They are:
_Universal Music Group: Artists include Sting,...
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The European Union has approved the merger of Sony Music and Bertelsmann AG 's BMG unit in a deal that gives the four "majors" control of about 80 percent of the world...
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About 2,000 staffers
worldwide will be let go as a result of the upcoming merger
between recording industry giants Sony Music and Bertelsmann
Music Group (BMG), sources...
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Looks like 50 Cent isn't the only G-Unit soldier who can fly solo
on the charts.
Facing no real contenders, G-Unit rapper
Lloyd Banks easily repeated at number one with...
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Prince Charles hosted a party Sunday in Hyde Park for thousands of revelers, entertained by stars including Lenny Kravitz and Avril Lavigne .
Other acts at the outdoor...
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Musicians Macy Gray, Lenny Kravitz and Avril Lavigne are among the voices welcoming the Olympics back to Athens in three albums recorded to honor the Games, record label...
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Musician David Bowie underwent an emergency angioplasty to open a blocked heart artery in Germany and is recuperating, his spokesman said Friday.
Doctors discovered the...
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Believe it, the American Idol machine has minted another
number one single.
"I Believe"/"Chain of Fools," the inaugural
double-sided single from reigning Idol champ...
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For Ann and Nancy Wilson there
was only one reason to record a new studio album after more
than a decade's absence -- the hardcore Heart fans.
"We had been doing other...
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Reports of the demise of Arista
Records have been premature.
The label -- which has lost many of its superstar acts to
other BMG labels in recent months as part of its...
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Proving they can still fight for
their right to party, the Beastie Boys returned in style from a
six-year recording lull to top the U.S. pop album charts with
their latest...
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Ch-check it out: The Beasties are number one.
As
expected, the Beastie Boys exerted their party rights with their sixth
studio album, To the 5 Boroughs, which got the...
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Opera classics by Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner will be performed at Denmark's annual Roskilde Festival, one of Europe's biggest outdoor rock...
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Universal Music maintained its status
as the world's market leader in 2003, but a combined Sony/BMG
would have challenged its dominance.
The International Federation of...
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Teen singer Skye Sweetnam grew up in a quaint Canadian town, but that doesn't stop her from belting out angst-ridden rocker girl songs like she comes from the gritty...
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Eight is apparently not enough for Usher.
For the
ninth time in 11 weeks of release, the R&B crooner's incredibly
resilient breakout smash Confessions topped...
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While Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst has allegedly attempted to put the moves on both pop star Britney Spears and actress Halle Berry, we can also add singer Avril Lavigne...
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Thanks to Avril
Lavigne, it was the fall of the house of Usher on this week's album
chart.
The un-Britney's sophomore album, Under
My Skin, put the stops on Usher's...
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Kenny Chesney may be country's
reigning king of leisure, but when it comes to touring he is
big business.
As the summer amphitheater leg of Chesney's Guitars, Tiki
Bars &...
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Avril Lavigne knows her image: a moody, teen rock star with an acidic tongue, steely stare and tough-girl attitude.
"I have been labeled like I'm this angry girl —...
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Waiting around to see your favorite
music videos on TV may become as old-fashioned as trying to
catch your favorite songs on the radio when those songs are
readily available...
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Hip-hop singer Frankee has knocked Eamon
off top spot in the U.K. pop charts with a song that is
believed to be a response to his expletive-filled lament about
his...
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Media company Bertelsmann AG said Wednesday it swung to a profit of 31 million euros ($37 million) in the first quarter, and reaffirmed its forecast for improved...
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Although it fell short of its
12-month sales goal of 100 million songs, Apple Computer says
its iTunes Music Store is now moving tracks at the rate of 140
million per...
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Take a pretty much unknown white chick belting the blues on an independent record label and you have the makings of a CD that's likely headed for the discount bin. But throw...
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In the crowded field of
singer-songwriters, Toby Lightman appears poised for a
breakthrough.
Performing to packed houses in New York and Los Angeles and
at the South by...
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People who swap songs on the Internet in
Canada can remain anonymous after a Canadian court decision on
Wednesday.
The Federal Court of Canada rejected a request from...
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BMG North America on Wednesday said
it reorganized its U.S. labels and operations and put Arista
Records under the RCA Music Group umbrella.
Arista had been without a head...
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The rift between Avril Lavigne and Hillary Duff continues to intensify. Just a week after Lavigne told Newsweek magazine, "Hilary Duff's such a goody-goody, such a mommy's...
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Avril Lavigne has been previewing songs from her upcoming album Under My Skin during her Avril Live And By Surprise mall tour. The singer has typically performed five of the...
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Plenty of musicians have used their bad behavior, depression and subsequent rehabilitation as fodder for their songs.
Few were 14 at the time.
Yet Katy Rose, who...
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RCA Victor Group's rebirth as a
stand-alone division of RCA Records is a harbinger of an
impending massive reorganization at sister label Arista
Records, according to...
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Anastacia made an emotional comeback
with a new album on Saturday, one year after breast cancer
surgery saved her life, in a show-stopping performance at the
German music...
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Despite some critical badmouthing, singer-songwriter Liz Phair is happy with the results of her self-titled fourth album.
"I'm always the type of person that is wary to...
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Antonio "L.A." Reid, ousted from the top job at Arista Records barely a month ago, was named chairman of Island Def Jam Music Group on Tuesday, where he will oversee the...
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Record executive L.A. Reid bounced
back into another top industry position on Tuesday when
Universal Music Group, the world's biggest music company, named
him as chairman of...
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Beyonc
Knowles, multiplatinum sweetheart of the music award show circuit
this year, was exhausted. She'd just appeared on the Vibe
Awards and breathlessly arrived across...
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Legendary record executive Clive Davis has been named chairman and chief executive of BMG North America, where he will once again control Arista Records, the label he...
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The first time OutKast got a Grammy nomination for best album, in 2002, hip-hop's eclectic duo was upstaged by the old-time bluegrass of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
Two...
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Clive Davis is back on top again.
Just four years
after he was unceremoniously ousted
as president and CEO of Arista Records in favor of Antonio "L.A." Reid,
Arista...
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Sting, Dave Matthews, Vince Gill and
the Neptunes' Pharrell Williams have signed on for a Grammy
tribute to the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' first U.S.
television...
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Opposition to the proposed
merger of Sony Music and BMG is mounting in Europe.
Several organizations and individuals are expected to
object to the merger plan presented by...
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The movie "Finding Nemo" along with pop star Avril Lavigne and Elmo of "Sesame Street" were all honored by a media group for excellence in family entertainment.
Common...
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Edgar Bronfman Jr. has lured Lyor Cohen away from Island Def Jam Music Group to head Bronfman's recently acquired Warner Music Group, it was announced Sunday.
The move...
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On January 23rd, 1958, Brunswick Records released "Maybe Baby" backed with "Tell Me How" by The Crickets.
In 1970, singer Judy Collins was denied permission to sing her...
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Christina vamps like a burlesque
stripper. Britney's gone from school girl to slut. Pink is
punk.
Many of music's reigning divas are partying like it's 1999,
even though...
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Antonio "L.A." Reid resigned on
Tuesday as head of Arista Records, estimated to have lost more
than $100 million in the past two years despite a roster of hit
artists...
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Antonio "L.A." Reid, who took the helm at Arista Records nearly four years ago and oversaw platinum successes from acts including OutKast, Pink and Avril Lavigne , has left...
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Across the pop, R&B and rap
genres, among top singles and albums, 50 Cent dominates the
2003 Year in Music charts.
The rapper from Queens, N.Y. has the No. 1 song of the...
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The year 2003 marks a time in
popular music where many adult artists were banished to the
confines of adult contemporary radio.
The format gave the primary support to such...
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Watching newcomer Fefe Dobson jumping around onstage to the rhythm of thrashing guitars, she looks like the typical pop-rocker girl, with a tough attitude and sneering...
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Beyonce and Christina Aguilera will be singing for the same label under a final merger agreement announced Friday by Bertelsmann AG and Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news) .,...
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Going solo proved to be a wise career choice for several of this
year's biggest Grammy nominees.
The move paid off today
for Beyonc,
Justin
Timberlake and even...
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Complete list of nominees in 105 categories announced Thursday for the 46th annual Grammy Awards, to be presented Feb. 8 in Los Angeles:
1. Record of the Year: "Crazy in...
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Nominations in top categories for the 46th annual Grammy Awards announced Thursday:
1. Record of the Year: "Crazy in Love," Beyonce featuring Jay-Z; "Where Is the Love?"...
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Nick Lachey of 98 Degrees knows his fan base is mostly teenage girls, and he's OK with that. Those fans pushed the boy band's album sales to multiplatinum.
But the...
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Nick Lachey of 98 Degrees knows his fan base is mostly teenage girls, but he's OK with that. Those fans pushed sales of the boy band's "98 Degrees and Rising" and...
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Music pirates beware. Two music giants have just announced plans
to form a powerful alliance in the fight to save the recording
industry.
New York-based Sony Corp...
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Bertelsmann AG and Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news) . announced a preliminary plan to merge their music businesses Thursday, setting the stage for a music company that would vie...
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Dido, Macy Gray, Tori Amos, and Avril Lavigne are just a few of the women appearing on the upcoming Oh! From The Girls compilation album. The set is being put together by...
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Avril Lavigne will celebrate the November 4 release of her first long-form concert DVD My World with a series of simultaneous screenings at AMC Theatres in 24 cities across...
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Mexican rockers Molotov and talented newcomer Natalia Lafourcade were the big winners at MTV Latin's second annual music awards show.
Molotov, a rap-metal group whose...
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Mexican rap-rock
band Molotov topped the second annual MTV Video Music Awards
Latin America Thursday with four wins, including video of the
year and best group. The awards...
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Avril Lavigne, the Dave Matthews Band, Guster, and Sixpence None The Richer are just a few of the big name acts appearing on the holiday compilation Maybe This Is Christmas...
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Avril Lavigne and the Neptunes are going to each release a DVD later this year, under a deal Arista Records has made with Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Lavigne's...
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Avril Lavigne has a leading five nominations for the 2003 Radio Music Awards. Other nominees include 50 Cent with four, and Eminem and Coldplay who have three each. The...
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While most artists wait to put out a live album until several years into their careers, Avril Lavigne has decided one year on the scene is long enough. The 18-year-old...
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The soundtrack to the motion picture American Wedding is set to arrive in stores on July 22, 10 days before the third installment of the American Pie sequels hits theaters...
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Avril Lavigne's "Sk8er Boi" may be the basis for an upcoming movie, but fans of the Canadian singer should not expect to see her in the film. Lavigne tells Rolling Stone,...
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Avril Lavigne, Sum 41, and Sarah McLachlan are just a few of the artists who will help their home country of Canada, and especially the city of Toronto, by performing a...
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Previously unreleased music from Avril Lavigne, the Wallflowers, and New Found Glory can be found on American Wedding: Music From The Motion Picture, the accompanying...
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Avril Lavigne's "Sk8er Boi" is none other than her bandmate, guitarist Jesse Colburn, according to the U.K. tabloid The Sun. The tabloid published photos of the couple...
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Avril Lavigne is the subject of the new television special, Avril Lavigne: Anything But Ordinary, airing Sunday (June 8) on the ABC-Family cable network at 9 p.m. ET. The...
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Avril Lavigne, Sum 41, and Sarah McLachlan are just a few of the artists who will help their home country of Canada, and especially the city of Toronto, by performing a...
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Avril Lavigne's Top 10 track "Sk8er Boi" has been optioned by Paramount Pictures as the basis for an upcoming film. The movie, like the song, will center on a girl who...
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Pink's hit singles "Family Portrait" and "Just Like A Pill," and Avril Lavigne's Billboard Top 40 chart topper "I'm With You" are featured on the new 18-song collection,...
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U2, Coldplay, and Avril Lavigne were among the winners at the U.K.'s Ivor Novello Awards, which were handed out in London on Thursday, May 22. The awards, which recognize...
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Avril Lavigne's take on the Bob Dylan classic "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" has helped to raise more than $100,000 on behalf of the people of Iraq.
The song appears on the...
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Avril Lavigne will release an album comprising live material in the fall. The majority of the as-yet-untitled upcoming album was recorded during Lavigne's recent North...
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Avril Lavigne concludes her first ever North American headlining tour on Sunday (May 18) with a concert at the HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York. The "I'm With You" singer has...
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Avril Lavigne begins her first-ever headlining tour on Wednesday (April 9) with a show at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. Lavigne is looking forward to the tour since she...
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Avril Lavigne was the big winner at Sunday's (April 6) Juno Awards, Canada's equivalent to the Grammys. The Napanee, Ontario native took home top honors in the single of the...
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Avril Lavigne will head into the Juno Awards leading the field with six nominations on Sunday (April 6).
Lavigne is nominated as the new artist of the year, songwriter of...
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Paul McCartney, Celine Dion, Avril Lavigne, Bryan Adams, Jann Arden, David Bowie, Cat Stevens, Bruce Cockburn, Moby, and Our Lady Peace are among the artists who have...
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Avril Lavigne's "I'm With You" continues to burn up the airplay charts. According to Radio & Records magazine, the song is currently the most-played track on Hot AC...
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Avril Lavigne will release "Losing Grip" as the next single from her multiplatinum debut album, Let Go. The accompanying music video for "Losing Grip" began shooting on...
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The 45th Annual Grammy Awards will take place Sunday (February 23) at Madison Square Garden in New York, and air on CBS from 8-11 p.m. ET (livep on the East Coast, tape...
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Avril Lavigne's next public performance will be on Sunday (February 23) at the 45th Annual Grammy Awards, where she is also nominated in five categories. And while the...
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Coldplay, Avril Lavigne, and Ryan Adams were among the winners at Thursday's (February 13) NME Awards in England. Distributed by the music magazine each year, the NME Awards...
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Avril Lavigne has been nominated for six Juno Awards, Canada's equivalent to the Grammys. A native of Napanee, Ontario, Lavigne was nominated as the new artist of the year,...
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Rapper 50 Cent's Shady Records/Aftermath Entertainment debut, Get Rich Or Die Tryin', debuts on top of the Billboard 200 albums chart this week. With only a weekend's worth...
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Fans of Avril Lavigne, Pink, and Clipse will soon have a new way of getting close to the artists. Arista Records has announced that it will release DVD singles from these...
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John Mayer, Ashanti, Avril Lavigne, the Dixie Chicks, and members of the New York Philharmonic will perform on the 45th annual Grammy Awards.
They join previously announced...
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Avril Lavigne scores her third consecutive Number One single on the Billboard Top 40 Monitor chart this week with "I'm With You," the third single from her...
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Vanessa Carlton, Eminem, and Norah Jones are among the artists featured on the 2003 Grammy Nominees CD, due out February 11. The ninth edition of the CD series honors many...
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Canadian rockers Simple Plan will join fellow Canadian Avril Lavigne on her first-ever North American headlining tour starting April 15 in Cleveland, Ohio. The outing,...
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Five-time Grammy nominee Norah Jones sold more than 114,000 copies of her debut Blue Note Records album, Come Away With Me, last week, keeping it on top of the Billboard 200...
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Fans of singer Avril Lavigne need not worry: She won't be shutting up anytime soon. The 18-year-old Grammy nominee has officially announced her first North American...
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Avril Lavigne is one of eight artists with five Grammy nominations for the 45th Annual Grammy Awards. Lavigne's "Complicated" is up for song of the year and best female pop...
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She may be raking in the big bucks now as one of the past year's hottest new pop stars, but Canadian Avril Lavigne holds tight to her purse strings, according to her...
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Hot on the heels of receiving five Grammy nominations, 18-year-old singer Avril Lavigne has announced several of her first U.S. tour dates in support of her debut album, Let...
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Avril Lavigne tied for the most nominations for the 45th Annual Grammy Awards with five. Lavigne's "Complicated" is up for song of the year and best female pop vocal...
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A mix of veteran artists and newcomers led the nominees for the 45th annual Grammy Awards, announced Tuesday (January 7), with five nominations each, with Bruce Springsteen,...
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Canadian female pop-rocker Avril Lavigne will perform at the second annual MTV Asia Awards, scheduled to be held next year at Singapore Indoor Stadium on January 24.
The...
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After a run of 22 weeks that few could have predicted, Avril Lavigne's debut album, Let Go, has finally dropped from the top 10 of the Billboard 200 album chart, slipping to...
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Sum 41 continues its tour of small venues, occasionally causing havoc on the way. The band was in New York City to play CBGB's on Tuesday (November 5) and had a little...
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Avril Lavigne is the latest big-name recording artist set to make an appearance on the upcoming season of the WB's Sabrina The Teenage Witch, sources tell LAUNCH. Others...
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A scan of the latest Billboard 200 album sales chart reveals continued success for such upstart female singer-songwriters as Vanessa Carlton, Norah Jones, and Avril Lavigne....
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Avril Lavigne's debut album, Let Go, has once again inched up the Billboard 200 chart. The effort can now be found at Number Four, its peak position during its four weeks on...
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After only three weeks, Avril Lavigne's debut album, Let Go, has risen to Number Five on the Billboard 200 album sales chart and is steadily approaching gold certification...
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