LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 31, 2003--Nielsen SoundScan, the entertainment industry's data information system that tracks point-of-purchase sales of recorded music product, and Nielsen BDS, the ...

Independent music critic Christian Bordal reviews artists for Day to Day, and wrote this report on his favorite songs and CDs of the past year: The following is a list of the 50 CDs that most captured ...

Below are the winners of the 2003 Billboard Music Awards, handed out Dec. 10 at the MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas and broadcast live on Fox television. Winners are culled from charts in the Billboard ...

The best songs from a year that set the template for the early-21st-century pop star. With the pop music of the ’00s really finding its footing in 2002, the year 2003 was about a new class of ...

There are two kinds of music fans: those who are honest about what they like and those who claim to like everything. The latter were everywhere at the second annual Bonnaroo Music Festival, a jam-band ...

Whether it was in reaction to the screener situation or T Bone Burnett's experiences with taking the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" performers on the road, Miramax presented at UCLA's Royce Hall a ...

None of the 18 performing bands bothered with anything even resembling acoustic music. Annual charity affair drew an impressive lineup -- if not an eclectic one -- featuring many of the year's ...

Beyoncé told Oprah that they “were friends first for a year and a half before we went on any dates,” she said, ” … we were on the phone for a year and a half, and that foundation is so important for a ...