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Over the last few decades, a veteran music act’s best shot at platinum magic usually consisted of pairing up with younger hitmakers (a la Santana) or covering treasured classics (like Rod Stewart. These days, another kind of vehicle has become a path to best-selling success – teaming up with box store chains. Garth Brooks ‘ started the trend in earnest back in 2005, with an exclusive Wal-Mart deal, and the Eagles and AC/DC had multiplatinum-plus success over the last two years by exclusively selling new CDs at Wal-Mart. Guns ‘N Roses sold about a million copies with a special Best… Read more »

Britney Spears’ controversial new single appears to be all systems go. The pop tart isn’t just seeking Amy…she’s looking for you! OK, maybe not you exactly, but she is searching for a handful of castmates for the video for her suggestive new single, “If You Seek Amy.” Brit Brit–whose comeback album, “Circus,” was recently certified platinum–is on a quest to find a geeky male ” Obsessive Stalker Fan” (age 30-40), All-American “Pageant Queens” (12-16), “Stage Moms” (35-50), “edgy cool” “Sexy Bodied Party People ” (18-35), and “Barbie Type Kids” (7-10) for a J.Crew-style “Ken Doll Husband” (22-29). According to the… Read more »

Good Charlotte are still deciding whether to put out a fourth single from The Young and the Hopeless, but if so, the band has selected “Hold On.” “It’s my favorite song on the record,” Benji Madden said backstage at Saturday’s KROQ Weenie Roast. “I think it’s sort of an anti-suicide song. It’s about coping with life, and we feel like if we were to put out another single, we would want to put out a song that would actually maybe help people. So that’d probably be the best bet.” Benji, brother Joel and the rest of the band are hesitant… Read more »

When Good Charlotte last played here in October 2002, their “Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous” was about how the other half lives and they barely filled the 1,500-capacity Rave in Milwaukee. Since then, of course, the band’s sophomore album, The Young and the Hopeless, has gone platinum, and this time through the Brew City they moved upstairs to the much larger Eagles Ballroom, where they sold out 4,000 tickets in a couple of days and packed the place for Friday’s show. They had a little help from their friends this time, too, as they were joined by New… Read more »

When the superstar pop vocal group ‘N Sync sat down to pick the songs for its upcoming album, the quintet found itself at odds with its record company. The Florida-based group, which has sold more than 25 million records worldwide since debuting in 1997, wanted to rock the boat with “Celebrity,” which is due in stores July 24. But Jive Records executives worried that too much change might make fans disinclined to buy, buy, buy like they have in the past. “They were like, ‘I don’t know. I don’t like that song. I don’t think you should go there. It’s… Read more »

Two of Britain’s biggest toy retailers said Monday they will not sell a new line of Eminem action figures because the dolls didn’t fit with the retailers’ images, according to Reuters. “We were offered the Eminem doll but decided not to stock it,” Nicole Lander, a spokesperson for Woolworths, told the news agency. “The visual impact didn’t fit with our family environment and having it around a Barbie doll, for example, didn’t feel right.” Hamleys, described by Reuters as Britain’s most famous toy retailer, also said it would not stock the controversial rapper’s three different figures. American toy stores were… Read more »