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Pop star Mariah Carey, who was hospitalized for a nervous breakdown last month, has postponed an ABC television interview she had been scheduled to give this week, network officials said Wednesday. The interview with Barbara Walters, which was due to air Sept. 12 on the ABC news magazine show “20/20,” has been put off indefinitely, an ABC spokesman said. A statement from ABC quoted the singer’s publicist, Cindi Berger, as saying Carey, 31, “needs more time to rest.” Walters said in a statement, “We were concerned to hear that Ms. Carey would be unable to do the interview at this… Read more »

XM Satellite Radio today announced that the first-ever AM/FM/XM satellite radio shipments began arriving in the United States in preparation for the company’s September 12 launch of its satellite radio service. The service features 100 digital- quality channels including 71 music channels, of which more than 30 are 100% commercial-free. In addition, XM will offer 29 news, talk, sports and entertainment channels. The company expects that in December of this year, there will be 100,000 XM radios available at more than 6,000 electronics retailers nationwide ready for the important holiday season. The launch will be supported by a national multimedia… Read more »

A new lawsuit filed against MP3.com seeks to hold the San Diego music-locker service liable not only for songs it improperly copied and distributed, but also for every bootleg track exchanged through Napster and other underground file-swapping services. The suit, filed on behalf of 52 independent songwriters and music publishers, accuses MP3.com of “viral” infringement. It contends that MP3.com’s technology set the stage for widespread music piracy, enabling bootlegged songs to pass from computer to computer faster than you can say “Oops, I Did It Again.” The argument goes like this: MP3.com made compressed copies of about 900,000 songs, which… Read more »

Mariah Carey wants you to know everything is a-okay. And don’t believe everything you read. And never underestimate the power of a pretty rainbow.    That, in a nutshell, sums up an audio phone message that the singer, still recovering from her recent mental breakdown, posted for fans Monday on her official Website, www.mariahcarey.com. “Okay, this is a message for my fans,” she begins. “And I just want to say thank you sooo much for all the letters, and everything that I got from you. I want you to know you definitely can’t believeeverything you read. And, um, thank you,… Read more »

Evan and Jaron Lowenstein are sitting in a restaurant talking about the boy-band thing – an image they say has been pinned on them by teen magazines and their promotional pairings with teen pop singers. The good-looking, clean-cut twins – known simply as Evan and Jaron – say they don’t want that kind of attention. Then two women come up to their table and interrupt to ask if they are the singing twin brothers – the ones who sing THAT song on the radio all the time. “My daughter just loves you…. She’s 12,” says one woman. Afterward, Jaron sighs.… Read more »

Hot on the heels of wrapping up the recording of their third full-length album, Animosity, Sevendust will launch a twenty-two-date North American tour with Texas rockers Drowning Pool in tow. The tour kicks off August 21st in Athens, Georgia and winds down in Corpus Christi, Texas on September 19th. The Atlanta-based quintet recorded Animosity with producer Ben Grosse ( Filter, Fuel )in the unlikely location of Trans Continental Studios, the breeding ground of Lou Pearlman’s boy bands, and rubbed elbows with O-Town during the recording process. Sevendust Tour Dates: 8/21 – Athens, GA, 40 Watt Club 8/23 – Myrtle Beach,… Read more »

Fandango began selling tickets today for the nation’s largest-ever live entertainment broadcast: a concert by recording groups Sugar Ray and Uncle Kracker, which will be telecast live from The Tabernacle in Atlanta, Ga., on Aug. 15. Tickets are available at www.fandango.com for 14 Cinemark Theatre locations nationwide. Tickets can be purchased at Fandango’s Web site for $15 each. The concert begins at 8 p.m. Eastern Time and will not only be broadcast as it happens, but will also feature exclusive behind-the-scenes interviews and event coverage that only fans attending the simulcast will be able to see. “Sugar Ray’s concert represents… Read more »

Radio airplay is and has been the primary driver of retail record sales in the United States. Some estimate that nearly 90 percent of sales is the direct result of an artist being exposed on radio. But today, radio is joined by an array of other media choices: MTV, BET, and VH1, digital downloads, and streamed audio. Consumers borrow friend’s CDs and tapes, and see live performance. Any record label or promoter would be remiss by ignoring any one of these outlets since they all help to sell music. In the first-ever project of its kind, James Schureck at Jeff… Read more »

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 »

Former Beatle George Harrison, who has been battling cancer, said on Monday that reports of his imminent death had been exaggerated. The reclusive star, responding to weekend press reports that his health was fading fast, said in a statement that he was “active and feeling very well.” Harrison and his wife Olivia said through a statement released in London that they were “disappointed and disgusted” by the reports. The 58-year-old musician has been treated for a brain tumor at a clinic in Switzerland, having already undergone an operation for lung cancer earlier this year. The Mail on Sunday newspaper said… Read more »