Word: platinum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...album, Hot, Cool & Vicious, sold more than 1 million copies. Spurred by visions of a new way to capitalize on rap's mainstream acceptance, record labels have been hurrying to develop other promising female rappers. Now a wave of female performers is giving male rappers a run for their platinum. Says Russell Simmons, the rap impresario whose Def Jam label recently signed a sharp young rapper named Nikki D: "There are more women buying rap records who would like to relate to women as artists, and there are more guys who want to hear a woman's point of view...
Lauderdale also sports a platinum-blond crewcut. But like his constantly evolving musical tastes, that is changing. "The roots are beginning to show," he says...
...Sting, Jaws, E.T. and Back to the Future, as well as such TV programs as Major Dad and Murder, She Wrote. Universal Studios Tour in California is the third most popular amusement park in the world, after Disney's two U.S. attractions. MCA Records is a hit factory with platinum stars that include Tom Petty, Bobby Brown and Fine Young Cannibals. In book publishing, the company owns G.P. Putnam's Sons, which has had best sellers with Tom Clancy's The Cardinal of the Kremlin and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club...
...late 1980s his reputation for platinum alchemy began to tarnish abruptly. Associates say Yetnikoff became consumed by personal vendettas against a growing number of enemies -- real or imagined -- in the $20 billion global music industry. His combative style seemed increasingly to grate his employer, Sony, which had bought the record giant in 1988 for $2 billion. Last week a frustrated Yetnikoff, 57, suddenly bowed out as chief executive. He explained only that he planned to take a sabbatical of several months and then work on unspecified long-term projects with the company...
...familiar spinning logos belonging to Columbia, MCA and Atlantic, SBK Records is the new platter on the stack. Since its first release last summer, SBK has seen 12 singles reach the pop charts. With only 14 albums so far, the company has already grossed $56 million worldwide. The platinum debut album by Wilson Phillips, a group formed by two daughters of Beach Boy Brian Wilson and one daughter of Mamas and the Papas singers John and Michelle Phillips, has zoomed to No. 2 on this week's Billboard chart. Another platinum seller is Technotronic's Pump...