With the hundreds of albums released this year, finding ten that rose to the top was surprisingly difficult — few were special enough to merit repeat listens, let alone remain in your brain long after the CD stops playing.
Celebrities are just like anyone else. Sure, they’re rich and famous and get pulled over for DUIs a lot. But essentially they’re no different than most.
Warner Music Group, a major holdout on selling music online without copy protection, caved in to the growing trend Thursday and agreed to sell its tunes on Amazon.com Inc.'s digital music store.
Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart ... Korngold?
Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks and Toby Keith have a couple apiece. Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton did one together. The ever-prolific Willie Nelson has at least four of them. Most country stars, and many of their pop counterparts, have a Christmas album or two in their catalogs, and for good reason: The records are relatively easy to make and have the potential for big payoff.
An industry group says it has won a new round in a court battle with Yahoo Inc.'s China arm, which is accused of helping online music pirates.
Burt Bacharach, Doris Day and Earl Scruggs will receive 2008 Grammy Awards for lifetime achievement.
“Grey’s Anatomy” is depleting my PayPal account.
He may not have won "American Idol," but Chris Daughtry is the king of the album charts this year, according to Billboard. The "Idol" finalist's band, Daughtry, sold 3.2 million copies of their self-titled debut, making it the most popular album of the year, according to the trade magazine.
The recent Led Zeppelin reunion concert in London did more than drag a horde of graying devotees out from their cobwebbed musical cocoons, it also served as sort of a living exhibit of just what constitutes rock and roll.
It was cold in Madison, Wis. on Dec. 3, and the walkways leading to the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center were ice-covered and slippery. But the weather didn’t deter hundreds of people from showing up to pay tribute to Georgia-born soul singer and songwriter Otis Redding. They’d never met the man, but they loved his music, including the unforgettable “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay,” an anthem of loneliness that still resonates with anyone who has ever felt as if there was no reason to go on with what they’ve been doing.
If you’re a night owl who turns on your TV from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m., then the last five weeks have been mildly tortuous thanks to the writers’ strike throwing late-night TV into reruns.
Haeyoung Kim, a classical pianist, took the stage at a hip Manhattan art space before a crowd of twenty- and thirty-somethings, many shaggy-haired and wearing T-shirts and glasses.
A leaf from Mozart's sketch for the Sinfonia Concertante in E flat sold Tuesday for a record price of $228,484 for a single page in the master's hand.
It's not unusual for members of a New York audience to leave early, but they stood their ground at Lincoln Center. And stood and stood.
An auction at Christie's of rock 'n' roll memorabilia from some of the hottest bands of the 1960s and '70s hauled in big bucks Friday, including $20,000 for a Jimi Hendrix album and more than $4,000 for a Rolling Stones' T-shirt.
Renee Fleming has decided to ditch plans to perform Bellini's opera "Norma" because the role "just didn't fit," her publicist said.
Warner Music Group Corp., home to Green Day and Missy Elliott, said Thursday its fourth-quarter profit slipped 58 percent amid a softer international market and a decline in compact disc sales, but results topped Wall Street's estimates.
Umbrella? Check. Galoshes? Got 'em. Scarf? Sure thing.
Though Janet Reno is credited as the executive producer of "Song of America," a three-disc boxed set that chronicles the history of the United States in song, she is quick to downplay her role.
When teen music stars approach the age of consent, they often test the boundaries of what's appropriate by taking on projects with adult content. "American Idol" champ Jordin Sparks took the opposite approach as she sought out material for her CD debut.
Alfred Brendel, the pianist who during his six decades of performances has mastered the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, will retire from the concert stage next year.
R. Kelly should have more time in the spotlight: Ne-Yo has been dropped from the singer's nationwide tour over an apparent contract dispute with the promoter.
When Colbie Caillat is asked to name some of the more unusual places she's heard her song "Bubbly" blasting from the speakers, she smiles, then says shyly: "I haven't heard it that many times."
For a man who built his career on singing ballads, Seal's new album, "System," is surprisingly upbeat.