OutKast Tops First Digital-Music Sales Awards
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Hip-hip duo OutKast took top honors on Wednesday as the recording industry handed out its first awards for music sold through Internet-music services like Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes.
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US hip hop duo Outkast won three awards as American artists swept up the MTV Europe Music Awards yesterday. Outkast took Best Song award for Hey Ya and Best Video and Best Group, while blues crooner Usher
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Rappers Jay-Z and OutKast walked away with the most MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday with four &quot;Moon men&quot; each as the music television network took its annual awards show
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So far 2008 has not been a good year for music sales. This week Alicia Keys, below, stays atop the Billboard chart with âAs I Amâ (J), but the number of copies that CD sold is barely above the historic low for a No. 1 album. Nielsen SoundScan reported that 61,000 copies of the album sold last week; the least number of weekly sales for No. 1 is 60,000, set by the âDreamgirlsâ soundtrack a year ago. (The numbers are rounded.) This week the âJunoâ soundtrack (Rhino) is at No. 2 with 58,000, Mary J. Bligeâs âGrowing Painsâ (Geffen) is No. 3 with 52,000, and Radioheadâs âIn Rainbowsâ (ATO) is next with 46,000. The R&B singer Raheem DeVaughn opens at No. 5 with 45,000 sales of âLove Behind the Melodyâ (J) and John Legendâs new âLive From Philadelphia,â available only through Target, reached No. 7 with 33,000.
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Rapper Flo Rida's "Low" led  Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart for a second week Thursday,  setting a new record for digital sales.
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OutKast topped the first US digital music awards, presented by the Recording industry Association of America (RIAA). They took a multi-platinum award yesterday in recognition of 400,000 downloads for &#39;Hey Ya!
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Hip-hop duo OutKast and R&B sensation Usher shared top honors on Thursday, scooping a combined five prizes at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Rome which was broadcast to millions of viewers worldwide.
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Digital music sales surged at Apple  Computer Inc.'s  iTunes service over the first nine  months of 2006, Piper Jaffray said on Wednesday, contradicting  a report that sales collapsed in the first half.
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Outkast and Jay-Z were the big winners at the MTV Video Music Awards in Miami last night (August 29), with each taking four gongs.
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Early reports have Kanye West beating 50 in their much-hyped battle of album sales
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American stars have crossed the Atlantic to sweep up all the big prizes at the MTV Europe Music Awards. OutKast stars Andre 3 000 and Big Boi, walked away with best group, best song and best video awards, while
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Kanye West sold almost a million  copies of his latest album during its first week in U.S.  stores, winning a much-hyped sales race with rival rapper 50  Cent and providing the ailing record industry with a rare piece  of good news.
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50 Cent may be getting hip-hop's equivalent of a gold watch next week. Early reports have Kanye West beating 50 in their much-hyped battle of album sales: West's "Graduation" is on pace to sell about 575,000 to 700,000 its first week out, while 50 Cent's "Curtis" is on track to do 550,000, according to Billboard magazine.
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Hip-hop duo OutKast led the field on  Wednesday when nominations were announced for next month's MTV  Europe awards in Rome.
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Hip-hop duo OutKast and R&B sensation Usher shared top honors Thursday, scooping a combined five prizes at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Rome.
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New music industry data show the number of U.S. albums sold last year tumbled 9.5 percent from 2006, even as the number of digital tracks sold soared by 45 percent.
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Online music stores broke into the  mainstream in 2004, with more than 200 million tracks sold in  the United States and Europe, a tenfold increase from the  previous year, according to data released on Wednesday.