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In an unprecedented, multi-album, multi-million dollar agreement with Virgin Music Group, Mariah Carey has become the richest (on paper) musician ever. In a world where some dot-com millionaires aren’t old enough to drive, and Texas-sized purses are awarded to athletes like Alex Rodriguez, the record industry was bound to follow suit with a record-breaking [pun intended] contract. Today, they did. In an unprecedented, multi-album, multi-million dollar agreement with Virgin Music Group, Mariah Carey has become the richest (on paper) musician ever. The terms of the deal were not officially disclosed, but New York Daily News reports that Virgin Records will… Read more »

Carson Daly returns to radio to be syndicated on radio stations nationwide, beginning Monday, April 2. Carson Daly, host and executive producer of MTV’s highest rated show, Total Request Live, will return to radio on Premiere Radio Networks on Monday, April 2nd. Carson Daly Most Requested will be a one-hour daily program featuring requested music from listeners. Daly began his career as an intern at KCMJ-Palm Springs and subsequently was promoted to producer of the station’s morning show. After Daly put in time for stations in four different cities, he landed one of the most coveted positions in radio –… Read more »

Rock superstars U2 launched their first U.S. tour in nearly four years in classic form in Florida Saturday night, treating 20,000 devoted, delirious fans to a crowd-pleasing mix of old and new songs delivered with their legendary energy free of the extravagances of their most recent tours. The Irish rockers hit the stage of the National Car Rental Center arena at Sunrise, near Miami, with the house lights still on and launched into a swinging “Elevation” for their new album “All That You Can’t Leave Behind”. For the next two hours they put on a performance in which the songs,… Read more »

After cutting short a brief North American trek in February, Coldplay have announced plans to return to the States later this spring for a more extensive tour, set to kick off May 24 in Boston. The wistful Brit rock group has tapped Modesto, California’s Grandaddy to serve as the supporting act on the tour, which includes appearances on May 27 and 28 at the HFS Festival in Washington, D.C., and a June 23 KROQ-sponsored show in Los Angeles, according to Coldplay’s label. Coldplay pulled the plug on a New York gig on February 16 – and abandoned shows in Boston… Read more »

Indie label TVT Records, whose catalog boasts recordings from Nine Inch Nails and Guided by Voices, scored a victory in its legal fight against embattled music portal MP3.com, supported by a precedent set in court last year by the major labels. U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff granted TVT a partial summary judgment, affirming the label’s musical copyrights were willfully infringed by MP3’s digital music locker service, My.MP3.com. Rakoff said MP3 was not permitted to dispute TVT’s infringement claims on the grounds of collateral estoppel, a legal convention that says an issue that has been decided in a prior suit… Read more »