Word: billboarded
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...bass and drummer Kendrick Freeman. Critics praise the group’s interesting twist on bluegrass music, bringing in jazz, world rhythms, folk and classical. “In Brown’s hands, the banjo is capable of fluid musical phrases of boundless beauty,” Billboard Magazine writes...
...overseas retail brand should be jeans. But Akarlilar Sr. takes pride in having elevated so Western an item to international heights. "I firmly believe that Turkey's future lies with the West," he says in his modest Istanbul offices. Behind him hangs a framed picture of a giant Mavi billboard in Times Square. "We have nothing to do with Eastern culture." His son is more circumspect, but just as upbeat. "There is a lot of push and pull in Turkey being Muslim and yet Western, but Turkey is trying to connect with the West," he says. And connect they will...
...other. It's unclear whether Lena Katina, 18, left, and Julie Volkova, 17, are lesbians or just attention hungry, but nobody seems to care: the single has gone to No. 1 in Spain, Austria and Italy, and--don't look so superior--their album is swiftly moving up the Billboard charts...
...share of shooting back, though he won't say if he's hit anyone. He has also been stabbed, done time and sold crack. It's no wonder his debut album, Get Rich or Die Trying, out last week, is expected to sell 500,000 copies and enter the Billboard Top 200 at No. 1 in its first five days of release. A decade after Snoop Dogg put out an album while prepping for a murder trial, blending gunplay and wordplay remains rap's most potent marketing strategy. But what makes 50 rap's hottest act (he has two songs...
...your cup of Tennants, but Skinner is the most original British rapper, skillfully depicting the lives of his escape-bent, disillusioned generation. Of course, not all the Brit nominees are on the cutting edge. One of the few Brit bands to achieve international success - including a Billboard Top 5 album - is Coldplay, who are bookmakers' favorites for Best British Group and Best Album with A Rush of Blood to the Head. But they're selling radio-friendly ballads. The U.S. music market (worth $13.4 billion in 2001) remains the most useful barometer of international success. And though Robbie Williams...