Janet Jackson hopes new album ends sales slide
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After failing to crack the million  mark with her last two albums, Janet Jackson is wary of using  the "c" word to describe her upcoming release, "Discipline,"  which hits stores on February 26.
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Just two days after parting ways with her manager, Kelly Clarkson has canceled her upcoming summer tour over disappointing ticket sales, yet another sign of turmoil as she prepares to release her third album, "My December."
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Elvis Presley looks set to be crowned  Britain's 1,000th number one in the music charts this weekend,  but the king of rock'n'roll would be crying in the chapel over  the recent slump in record sales.
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Pop star Michael Jackson, angry  over a "demeaning and insensitive" new Eminem music video that  makes light of the child molestation charges against him, on  Tuesday asked that networks pull it off the air.
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Pop singer Janet Jackson has slammed her father for cheating on her mother and having affairs when she was young.
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Although she has only a handful of   national treks under her belt, Janet Jackson is one of the most   successful female touring artists of all time.
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For an upbeat guy, Alan Jackson sure sings a lot of sad songs. About half the 12 tracks on his new album "What I Do," set for release Tuesday, deal with lost love or loneliness.
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Before 2007 is out, Eve, Missy  Elliott, Foxy Brown, Trina, Shawnna and Remy Ma should have new  albums in stores, setting the stage for a banner year in the  world of female rap. For the long-suffering genre, that would  mean that more than two or three titles could finish in the top  100 of Billboard&#39;s year-end Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
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Away from the headlines of job  losses, grumbling artists and falling global sales, the music  industry is trying new business models to boost digital sales  and offset the decline in CDs.
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Somebody wants to be starting something with Michael Jackson.
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In a slow week for the Billboard chart, Alicia Keys reached No. 2 with 112,000 sales of âAs I Amâ (J); Mary J. Blige moved 89,000 of âGrowing Painsâ (Geffen) to reach No. 3; âNow Thatâs What I Call Music!â Vol. 26 is at No. 4 with 54,000; and the 18-year-old country singer Taylor Swift rose three spots to No. 5, though sales of her self-titled album, on the Big Machine label, dropped 39 percent last week to 47,000, Nielsen SoundScan reported. Radiohead reached No. 1 with the conventional release of âIn Rainbows,â through the ATO label, on CD and other formats. The indie-rock âJunoâ soundtrack (Rhino), popular online, opened at No. 8 with 38,000.
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Elvis Presley looks set to be crowned Britain's 1,000th number one in the music charts this weekend, but the king of rock'n'roll would be crying in the chapel over the recent slump in record sales.
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Singer Janet Jackson's new comeback single Feedback has not even cracked the top 100 download chart despite being on sale for three weeks.
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Facing criminal child molestation charges, pop star Michael Jackson has acknowledged that he has reached settlements in the past to avoid the media attention that would have ensued if he had gone to court.
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Business & money: Analysts forecast that Next will report a fall in like-for-like store sales in the run-up to Christmas
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Pop star Michael Jackson, angry over a &quot;demeaning and insensitive&quot; new Eminem music video that makes light of the child molestation charges against him, on Tuesday asked that networks pull it off the air.
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Jazz singer/pianist Norah Jones' first album in three years opened at No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts Wednesday, but its first-week sales were less than half those of its predecessor, according to Billboard.