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...form and its listeners mature, pop music is offering a nice niche for female singers, in solo CDs and compilation albums. The sound track for Boys on the Side, an all-female set featuring songs by Annie Lennox, Melissa Etheridge, Bonnie Raitt and Sheryl Crow, hit the Billboard Top 10. Some of these singers are also represented on Women for Women, with part of the sales money destined for breast-cancer research. In September, Rounder Records will release Global Divas, a three-CD set of the premier thrushes in world music; some proceeds will go to the United Nations Development...
Fans of slain pop singer Selena paid their respects by making Dreaming of You, the Tejano queen's unfinished crossover effort, the first album by a Latin artist to reach No. 1 on the Billboard chart. The disc sold 331,000 copies for the week, becoming history's second fastest-selling release by a female artist...
...much as $10 in some stores -- could be an impediment to megasales. Russ Solomon, head of Tower Records, asks, "What ordinary high school kid is going to shell out 25 bucks unless they want it awfully bad?" Still, early indications are good. Scream hit No. 5 on the Billboard singles chart in its first week-the highest debut for a single ever. Says Mike Shallet of SoundScan, which tracks music sales: "Naysayers are going to be surprised. There's an immense difference between consumer reaction to Michael Jackson and the press reaction...
...British aren't coming. Three decades after the Beatles led the first British invasion of the American music scene, English rock 'n' roll is about as powerful a cultural force in the States as French cinema. The only British rock band appearing in the Top 40 of Billboard magazine's album charts is Bush-a grungy quartet whose passports may be British but whose lead singer looks and sounds as if he's been hanging out in Seattle coffee bars with Eddie Vedder...
Architect W. Easley Hamner said the HarvardSquare billboard has damaged the building below itthrough its structural supports. "It's almostliterally torn those buildings apart beneath it,"Hamner said...