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Britney Spears has signed an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with Skechers USA Footwear Company to appear in advertising for the company’s 4 Wheelers roller-skate line. Under the terms of the three-year agreement, Skechers will have the right to advertise and sell a Spears collection of 4 Wheelers and skate accessories in the United States and throughout the world. The 4 Wheelers license continues the Manhattan Beach, California-based company’s successful relationship with Spears, which began with an agreement to endorse and promote Skechers athletic footwear in international print ads from January 2001 through June 2002. Skechers CEO and chairman of the… Read more »

Linkin Park scored three Grammy nominations-best new artist, best rock album ( Hybrid Theory), and best hard rock performance (“Crawling”). The nominations cap an amazing year for the band, which was highlighted by Hybrid Theory, its Warner Bros. debut, topping album sales for 2001. Guitarist Brad Delson said of the nomnation, “I think that they all mean Grammy nominations and that’s really good. We’re just so honored to be nominated, I don’t care at all if…It’d be great to win, but seriously, who cares? We’re nominated, and it’s an honor to be among all these great artists that we respect… Read more »

Fueled by a December surge in sales and the explosive singles “One Step Closer” and “In the End,” the rookie rockers out of California’s alternametal scene sold more than 4.8 million copies of their debut disc to top the list of best-selling albums for 2001, according to a year-end report from SoundScan, which has been keeping track of these things since 1991. Hybrid, which also earned the group a Best New Artist Grammy nomination Friday, actually debuted on the charts more than a year ago. But steady sales and word of mouth have since boosted it into the Top 10,… Read more »

Linkin Park’s debut record, Hybrid Theory, was the best-selling record of 2001, according to SoundScan, the music industry’s record keeper of sales for all music products. Hits like “One Step Closer” and “In the End” propelled the California alternative metal quintet to sales of 4.8 million. Thanks to the hit single “It Wasn’t Me,” Shaggy’s Hot Shot came in second, with sales of 4.5 million. ‘N Sync’s Celebrity and Enya’s A Day Without Rain came in third and fourth, respectively, with each moving just more than 4.4 million copies. Rounding out the top ten were Staind’s Break the Cycle (4.2… Read more »

Clear Channel Radio Regional VP Tom Thon today named Chuck Poet as the general manager of the Parkersburg/Marietta cluster. Poet moves eastward from the Findlay/Tiffin, Ohio market where he’s been GM since 1998. Clear Channel Radio’s Parkersburg/Marietta group includes a six-station cluster between the two cities. Commented Thon: “I’m delighted that we’re able to promote from within and get a quality manager like Chuck for Clear Channel Radio’s Mid Ohio Valley. Chuck has demonstrated outstanding leadership, managerial and broadcast cash flow growth skills during his time in Findlay/Tiffin. His uncanny ability to be in two places at one time (after… Read more »

Dick Clark says Michael Jackson would be on the American Music Awards, but Michael Greene won’t let him. The TV personality/producer filed a $10 million lawsuit on Wednesday (December 19) against Greene, president and CEO of the Recording Academy, claiming that Greene’s Grammy booking policy prevents top artists from appearing on Clark’s American Music Awards. Clark’s suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleges that Greene’s policy of refusing to book artists who perform at the AMAs – which will take place seven weeks prior to the Grammy Awards – caused a breach of contract by forcing Jackson to back… Read more »

Linkin Park has signed Adema, Cypress Hill, and Z-Trip for its Projekt Revolution Tour. The package tour is set to begin in January and run through February, possibly going into March. Dates for the tour haven’t been released. The tour will support the band’s recently released home video, Frat Party At the Pankake Festival, and its quadruple-platinum debut album, Hybrid Theory. Guitarist Brad Delson revealed that Hybrid Theory is deep with singles and there’s no filler. “Even if someone goes and buys the record because they like ‘Crawling’ or ‘One Step Closer’ or some other song that their local radio… Read more »

Blink-182’s Travis Barker and A Perfect Circle’s Josh Freese will perform at this year’s Drum Day L.A. festival at the House Of Blues in Los Angeles Saturday (December 8). The event, sponsored by drum manufacturer DW, will also feature a drum circle for all-comers and the Guitar Center’s Drum Off Grand Final. Others appearing include King Crimson’s Bill Bruford, Alanis Morissette drummer Gary Novak, Elton John skin man Curt Bisquera, and Zoro, the basher in Lenny Kravitz’s group. While Barker’s participating in the Drum Day, he opted against joining his Blink-182 bandmates at the Billboard Music Awards earlier this week.… Read more »

While the clock on Linkin Park’s Countdown to Revolution Tour is just about done ticking, the band is already lining up a new trek. The Projekt Revolution Tour, much like Linkin Park themselves, meshes rock and rap, with herbivores Cypress Hill, nü-metallers Adema and DJ Z-Trip slated to join the band on the bill, according to Linkin Park’s management. The tour is expected to begin in mid-January and run through the end of February. An itinerary has yet to be hammered out. The Countdown to Revolution tour, which also features (hed) pe, the X-ecutioners and the Apex Theory, winds down… Read more »

Busta Rhymes celebrated a birthday on Tuesday, but it wasn’t the anniversary of the day he was born. It was the day he was reborn as an MC and businessman – the day his new album hit stores. “I named my album Genesis ’cause there was nowhere left to go after The Coming (1996), When Disaster Strikes (1997), Extinction Level Event (1998) and Anarchy (2000),” he said recently, sitting in the offices of J Records. “Sequentially it made sense to be at that point…. The only place left to go is just rebuilding a whole brand new whatever.” Part of… Read more »