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Sam Goody stores across the nation experienced “Celebrity” frenzy as ‘N Sync’s new album flew off the shelves at the chain’s 600-plus stores. While ‘N Sync did not surpass their own first-day sales record from their last album, “No Strings Attached,” first-day sales at Sam Goody stores nationwide landed the group’s album within the prestigious top five highest first-day sales in history at the chain. The other albums in Sam Goody’s top five with the highest first-day sales include: ‘N Sync’s “No Strings Attached,” Backstreet Boys “Millennium,” Britney Spears “Oops, I Did It Again,” and Eminem’s “The Marshall Mathers LP.”… Read more »

Epic Records and Divine Recordings are proud to announce the August 14 release of OZZFEST: 2001 THE SECOND MILLENNIUM, a collection of headbanging anthems from the 2001 Ozzfest tour. This release features the strongest and most diverse lineup to date including performances from all three Ozzfest stages also marks the first time any of these artists have appeared on the same compilation. OZZFEST 2001: THE SECOND MILLENNIUM was recorded over two days in the Midwest at the beginning of the tour, this 16-track live collection includes work from rock godfathers Black Sabbath (“The Wizard”) and Zakk Wylde’s (Ozzy guitarist) Black… Read more »

Tower Records, the worldwide music, book and video retailer that began in a family drug store, is downplaying the possibility it may have to file for bankruptcy because of tightening credit. “We have no present intention to file bankruptcy,” company spokeswoman Louise Solomon said Friday, two days after Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Tower’s debt ratings. Moody’s said it was likely that Tower would file for bankruptcy protection if it could not find additional sources of capital or pay off its current loans in the next few months. In a recent Securities and Exchange Commission report, Tower said its revolving credit… Read more »

Beginning Sunday, June 17 through July 23, fans that pre-order *NSYNC’s new title “Celebrity” from BestBuy.com, SamGoody.com, MediaPlay.com, OnCue.com or Suncoast.com will receive a recorded telephone message from a member of the band. Fans who pre-order “Celebrity” will receive an e-mail containing a link to register for the telephone message. Within ten minutes of registering, their phone will ring with a message from Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone, or Chris Kirkpatrick. The call will also contain samples of three songs from “Celebrity” including “Girlfriend,” “The Two of Us,” and “Selfish”. Fans will have the option of letting… Read more »

A study released Thursday showed that 5.5 percent of Americans aged 16 to 40 have not purchased a single music CD or cassette in the past year but have been actively downloading music from the Internet. The survey, conducted by Edison Media Research for the radio and music trade publication Records & Radio, was one of the first attempts to quantify the impact that Internet-based music services such as Napster have had on sales of recorded music and, more generally, to show how the Internet is changing music listening habits. The record industry won a court order forcing Napster to… Read more »

Columbia Records’ Crazy Town, Portrait/Columbia Records’ The Union Underground and American Recordings/Columbia Records’ American Head Charge have all signed on-board on what just might be the heaviest Ozzfest ever. Following a big British blow-out at the Milton Keynes Bowl in England on May 26, Ozzfest 2001 opens full-force stateside at the World Amphitheater in Chicago, Illinois. Launched by the heavy metal pioneer and visionary Ozzy Osbourne, the first Ozzfest, a multi-band festival held in 1996, hit only two markets-Los Angeles and Phoenix-but paved the way for a full-on touring extravaganza the next year. Since then, the Ozzfest has become a… Read more »

On July 24 Jive Recording artist *NSYNC will release Celebrity the follow up to their Diamond certified Jive debut album No Strings Attached. The first single “Pop” will be available via satellite on May 15 at 7:00 PM ET via the DG system. On May 28 MTV’s Making The Video will debut the video. “Pop” was co-written by Justin Timberlake and Wade Robson and co-produced by BT, Justin Timberlake and Wade Robson. Celebrity has tracks written and/or produced by Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Max Martin, Rodney Jerkins, The Neptunes, Brian McKnight and Wade Robson. * NSYNC will perform “Pop” on… Read more »

Columbia/Loud Records’ Stereomud will be headlining what promises to be one of the most aggressive, exultant and satisfying underground hard rock tours of the summer: the “Pain & Suffering” Tour featuring Columbia/Dv8 Records’ Endo. The “Pain & Suffering” Tour kicks off Monday, May 21 at the Bowery Ballroom in Manhattan and will feature either Columbia/Portrait Records’ Spike 1000 or Columbia Records’ Flybanger. Inspiration behind the name of the “Pain & Suffering” Tour can be found in the music of the bands: Stereomud’s current hit, “Pain”; Endo’s first single “Suffer,”; and “Make Me Suffer,” the first single from Spike 1000. Currently… Read more »

Taking a cue from their new single, The Call, the romantically inclined Backstreet Boys will reach out and touch some of their fans on Valentine’s Day… well, sort of. Folks who sign up for the group’s “Send-a-Phone-Call” program via the group’s official online store can play cupid by sending a Valentine phone message from one or all of the pop heartthrobs to any lucky BSB fan in the U.S. Senders can prearrange the prerecorded calls to be made any time on or before February 14. Sample messages posted at the store – including one from A.J. McLean beginning with a… Read more »