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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 »

Fred Durst, President of Flawless Entertainment, Senior Vice President of A&R at Interscope Geffen A&M, frontman for Limp Bizkit, music video director, producer and provoker announces the impending release of the first new artist on his Flawless Entertainment label, Puddle of Mudd. And over the last three weeks, Puddle of Mudd garnished the most adds at all three radio formats – Active, Alternative and Mainstream Rock – even though the band’s single, “Control,” wasn’t scheduled to be added to station’s playlists until next week. The album, “Come Clean,” is due in stores August 28th. Putting his titles into action, Durst… Read more »

“An all-star salute to ‘The King Of Pop’, MICHAEL JACKSON: 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION, THE SOLO YEARS has been set for two dates, Friday, September 7, 2001 and Monday, September 10, 2001 at Madison Square Garden at 7:40 P.M.,” announced David Gest, producer of the event. According to Gest, tickets to the public will go on sale Thursday, July 26th through the Madison Square Garden Box Office and Ticketmaster for both performances. Ticket prices for the concert only will range from $45.00 to $500.00 per seat. The event will mark Michael Jackson’s first live performance on a mainland stage in eleven… Read more »

Stone Temple Pilots are vying to be the first band in space. They donned red astronaut suits on Thursday for their “Days of the Week” video, in which they play door-to-door salesmen who escape their monotonous lives by blasting into space and rocking out on an unidentified planet. “Who looks better in a spacesuit – me or Ben Affleck?” singer Scott Weiland joked during a break, referring to the actor’s astronaut role in the 1998 film “Armageddon.” The “Days of the Week” clip, directed by Kevin Kerslake – who also helmed STP’s “Interstate Love Song” and “Vasoline” videos – opens… Read more »

Eric Clapton, who is two weeks into the U.S. leg of his Reptile Tour – his first worldwide jaunt in a decade – says that the tour will be his last. “I was musing that it might be the last time,” Clapton says about the planning stages of his current tour. “Now I’m going, ‘This is definitely the last time.’ It’s hard. It’s doesn’t work for me anymore. I will leave the door open for a couple of projects, to play the odd theater, but I’d say this is near the end. Anyone I talk to about it goes, ‘Oh,… Read more »

Rock band the Black Crowes, who kicked off a North American tour with Oasis last weekend, took time out Monday to immortalize their handprints in concrete. As about 200 fans looked on, the group’s members dipped their hands in wet concrete at the Rockwalk, joining a display that includes such artists as Willie Dixon, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bonnie Raitt and Black Sabbath. “We’ve had an amazing journey the last 10 years and we couldn’t be happier,” singer Chris Robinson told the fans gathered on Sunset Boulevard outside the guitar store that operates the exhibit. “From Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters… Read more »

MP3.com today reported net revenues totaling $21.8 million for the first quarter ended March 31, 2001, an increase of more than 24 percent compared with $17.5 million for the first quarter last year. The company’s revenues were down slightly from Q-4 2000, which were reported to be $22.0 million. Michael Robertson, MP3.com chairman and chief executive officer says, “This quarter we further strengthened our leadership position in the digital music space with an increasingly robust infrastructure and technology platform and the appropriate licenses from publishers and record labels.” MP3.com also enjoyed growth in the number of registered users-now totaling more… Read more »

San Antonio, Tex. based Clear Channel Communications today announced whopping gains in revenue and after-tax cash flow. The company says that Q-1 net revenues were $1.6 billion, up 108 percent over the first quarter of 2000, and historical EBITDA (defined as operating cash flow less corporate expenses) of $404 million, up 70 percent over the first quarter of 2000. After-tax cash flow reported for the quarter was $324 million, an increase of 69 percent over the first quarter of 2000. Commenting on the results, Lowry Mays, chairman and chief executive officer, says, “With the difficult comparisons from last year’s first… Read more »

ActiveBuddy Inc., the messaging industry’s foremost provider of interactive agent technology, and Capitol Records today announced an agreement to build branded interactive agents. Capitol Records will deploy the technology to promote its artists and new album releases beginning with a Radiohead-branded interactive agent. Capitol Records plans to launch the Radiohead agent as part of its global marketing campaign for “Amnesiac,” the Grammy Award-winning band’s fifth album, due for release on June 5. Through ActiveBuddy’s technology, Radiohead will be the first band to provide exclusive Radiohead content directly to its fans through instant messaging. The Radiohead agent will be the most… Read more »

Most major rock bands are good for one or two live albums during their careers. As of this week, Pearl Jam have 73 live albums to their credit. The Seattle rockers, now in their 11th year together, took the unprecedented step of releasing a budget-priced “official bootleg” CD from almost every show on their 2000 tour in order to combat pirates and to give fans a good deal. The roll-out occurred in three stages, ending Tuesday with the retail release of 24 CDs from the second half of the U.S. tour. Already in stores were 25 CDs from Europe and… Read more »