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...club closings. And it seems record companies trying to bring dance music to the States can't avoid thinking in terms of rock music and keep trying to create stars instead of putting more emphasis on individual songs. Whatever happened to the single, that ephemeral nugget of sound? Billboard now allows "singles" to hit the charts even when record companies don't release them for sale, purely based on radio play...
...Billboard Top Twenty Chart has included Britney Spears for 31,680 minutes...
...only one solid hit: Spin City. In music, it has yet to strike gold. George Michael's DreamWorks debut was a disappointment. Newer acts on the label, such as Eels, Rufus Wainwright and Elliott Smith, have received strong reviews and, so far, have been non-starters on the Billboard charts. Geffen says financial success in music will follow the critics' cheers. "That's how you begin an artist's career," he says...
Just a few weeks into its release, Slim Shady is well on its way to selling 1 million copies, but not everyone is laughing. Billboard magazine, in an unusual editorial, blamed the rapper for "exploiting the world's misery." Perhaps, but at 26 Eminem (whose real name is Marshall Mathers) has his own burdens to carry. As the first rapper on superproducer Dr. Dre's Aftermath Records, Eminem's success is vital to the future of the label. And as a white rapper, with the discredited image of Vanilla Ice still looming in the background, he very much needs...
...also mentions that Wilson was upset about the disappointing reception for Imagination. Despite generally kind reviews (the consensus, shared here, is that the multitracked vocals, all by Wilson, are stunning but that the music suffers from a rote adult-contemporary sheen), the album debuted weakly at 88 on the Billboard 200 and dropped off quickly. "Brian wanted a No. 1 record," Thomas says. "Not that he was depressed--it more ticked him off than anything...