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Mary J. Blige is bringing in the dollars as part of her current concert swing. The R&B star’s appearance at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles is among the top grossing concerts as compiled by Amusement Business. The show, which was opened by Avant, took in close to $520,000, good for 10th on the list. Blige is currently on a jaunt through Europe, performing in Denmark next week before dates in Germany, France and England, among others. She’s scheduled to return to the United States for a show July 5 at the Superdome in New Orleans. Her latest album, “No… Read more »

Linkin Park, the Southern California rap-rock band that earned a Grammy in the hard-rock category for “Crawling,” has a double threat behind the turntables. In addition to DJ duties, Joe Hahn takes an active role in the band’s videos. “We’re very excited to have someone in the band who has a direct influence on what comes out of the band visually,” bassist Phoenix told The Associated Press. Hahn co-directed the “In the End” video as well as the European release “Papercut,” and he had a hand in videos for “One Step Closer” and “Crawling.” All of those songs appear on… Read more »

Having walked away with four Grammy Awards this year, including Best Rock Album for their 2000 LP, All That You Can’t Leave Behind, U2 are intent on moving ahead once again. Less than a month after its decisive Grammy victory, the group re-entered the studio to work on its next album, the band’s manager Paul McGuinness said in a statement Wednesday. “U2 would like to clarify that, contrary to certain speculation in the press, they will be neither touring Europe this summer, nor splitting up,” McGuinness said. “Instead, they are spending time in the studio working on new material for… Read more »

Are Britney Spears and *NSYNC singer Justin Timberlake still a couple? Well, it depends on who you ask these days. While on a European promotional tour for her Crossroads feature-film debut earlier this month, Spears publicly and repeatedly said that breakup rumors were not true, but rumblings about the status of her relationship continue to make headlines worldwide. Spears’s spokeswoman Lisa Kasteler released a statement on Wednesday (March 20) in an attempt to clarify the couple’s current status. “To set the record straight, both of them are very busy and focusing on their careers. They love each other very much… Read more »

With the surprise U.S. success of Kylie Minogue, Capitol Records is starting to regain its footing in the current release marketplace. The EMI-owned label certainly has to hope the Minogue revival – her album “Fever” has sold 250,000 copies in three weeks of release in the U.S., and the single “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” has sold nearly 3 million worldwide – portends a solid spring for its established stars. Paul McCartney, whose “Driving Rain” album was met with relative indifference upon its release in November, could see boosted sales coinciding with his 24-date tour of the U.S.… Read more »

Madonna’s no beautiful stranger to spy films – she’s acted up a storm as Breathless Mahoney in 1990’s “Dick Tracy” and contributed one song to the 1999 spy spoof “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.” Now she’s going for the real thing – shaken, not stirred – with the title track to the 20th James Bond film, “Die Another Day.” “We are thrilled that Madonna, who is recognized as the world’s most exciting songwriter and performer, has agreed to compose and sing the song for the first James Bond movie of the new millennium,” said the film’s team of… Read more »

The beat can only go on so long. Cher’s upcoming tour behind the just-released Living Proof will be the 55-year-old singer’s last. “I want to do some movies and I really haven’t had time to,” Cher said last week. “There’s a musical that I really want to do called ‘The Enchanted Cottage,’ and that is the thing that is really closest to me right now. I have never had the chance to sing and act in a movie.” Cher, who won a Best Actress Oscar for 1987’s “Moonstruck,” believes musicals could make a comeback following last year’s Oscar-nominated “Moulin Rouge.”… Read more »

Seems a girl can’t have a good cry anymore without rumors running wild. While Britney Spears may have plenty to be upset about, her recent sob session with actress friend Tara Reid wasn’t due to breaking up with boyfriend and ‘NSYNC singer Justin Timberlake, because the split didn’t happen – despite widespread reports from the BBC, the New York Post and various British tabloids. Spears emphatically denied the reports to MTV Italy on Monday (March 11), saying, “No, that’s not true. Me and Justin did not split up.” The breakup rumors appear to have spread rapidly in Europe based on… Read more »

Sony Music imprint Epic Records is maneuvering to cash in on the industry-defying growth in the gospel music scene, inking a reciprocal marketing and distribution venture with Integrity, the largest independent gospel music company in the U.S. Under terms of the deal, Epic will pipe releases from Integrity labels in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand through the major’s worldwide marketing and distribution machine. In turn, Integrity will market and promote select Christian releases from Epic and fellow Sony division Columbia Records specifically to the Christian bookstore market. The first release set for this treatment is… Read more »

As Incubus rev up to hit the road for the Honda Civic tour, the band has a warning for its fans – literally. “Warning” will be the next single from the group’s latest record, Morning View, and Incubus will shoot a video for the tune next week during their Australian tour. “It’s probably going to follow relatively closely to the content of the song, which is basically about a moment in somebody’s life where they realize they’ve been wasting their time,” singer Brandon Boyd said. “And they realize that right when it’s too late. So, almost in a West Side… Read more »