NiLP Guest Commentary: Latinos and The Grammys
Music-Slam.com Since November 2002, when current NARAS Â President Neil Portnow took office, not only have all things Latino been excised from the main telecast, but anything remotely displaying America’s cultural…
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Adele, Lady Gaga power music recovery | Reuters
According to data released on Wednesday by tracking firm Nielsen SoundScan, overall album sales rose 3.6 percent to 221.5 million units during the first half of 2011, the first increase…
Ghostface Killah Sued Over Iron Man Samples
via BET. Ghostface Killah is the latest rapper to be haunted by the ghosts of uncleared samples past. The Wu-Tang Clan rhyme spitter has been named in a lawsuit stemming…
Sales slide for Beyonces new chart-topper
Her previous release, the double-disc “I Am … Sasha Fierce,” sold 482,000 copies during its first week of sale in November 2010, fueled by the hits “If I Were a…
Björk: ‘Manchester is the prototype’
“I feel that if I’m curious and excited there is a bigger chance the listener might be. At the end of the day, it’s more about the feeling of an…
Prince: ‘I’m a musician. And I am music’
“It’s fun being in Islamic countries, to know there’s only one religion. There’s order. You wear a burqa. There’s no choice. People are happy with that.” But what about women…
Rapper Missy Elliott says she has thyroid disease
Patients with Graves disease have a thyroid gland that overproduces the hormone thyroxine, which increases the metabolic rate and can affect a person’s appearance and energy level. via Reuters.
Jill Scott aims for first U.S. chart-topper
Industry sources suggest she could sell as many as 125,000 copies of “The Light of the Sun” by week’s end on Sunday. Scott previously went as high as No. 3…