Back in the day when an album was gold (500,000 copies), or platinum (1,000,000 copies), it often meant albums shipped to stores, which could have promptly been shipped right back. With Soundscan, you could tally exactly what an album sold, and it seem t

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. , Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Multi-channel retailer HSN today announced that legendary singer/songwriter Lionel Richie will be the first artist to participate in the HSN LIVE concert series on Friday, March 16 at 8 p.m. (EST) on HS

Surprisingly, or maybe it's not all that surprising, depending on how you look at it, there have been only two country winners and two country runner ups in the last 10 years of American Idol. Scotty McCreery - Winner Some Stats: Born October 9, 1993 in

HSN, the shop-from-your-couch network, is launching a live concert series on March 16, and they've enlisted Lionel Richie to help them kick it off. For the "Say You, Say Me" singer-songwriter, the first "HSN Live" concert is an opportune time and place t

Easy as it is to blame him, is Bobby Brown fully to blame for what happened to Whitney Houston? [EBONY]Brisk record sales have pushed Whitney back into the Billboard Top 10. [NYT]Harvey Mason reflects on Whitney's last recording session days before her d

Growing up in Tuskegee, Ala. , Lionel Richie was immersed in country music. In an exclusive interview with The Boot, the legendary singer-songwriter recalled listening to the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty and Buck Owens, among others.

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Growing up in Tuskegee, Ala. , Lionel Richie was immersed in country music. In an exclusive interview with The Boot, the legendary singer-songwriter recalled listening to the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty and Buck Owens, among others. His hig

He's just signed a £1million three year contract to carry on with the Radio 1 breakfast show - and it doesn't seem like Chris Moyles much fancies moving over to Radio 2 when he finally leaves the station. The loudmouthed star, 37, launched a verbal attac

The Timmins branch of Bestech, a Sudbury-based engineering firm, celebrated an important milestone Monday at the Shania Twain Centre. The company was named as one of Canada’s best small- and medium-sized employers by the Queen’s University’s School of Bu

I get that channel, and I tried for about 20 minutes to watch two different episodes of the Shania Twain “reality show.” It was mind-numbingly boring and featured Shania talking at length about how she was putting the pieces back together and challenging

Under Mr. Phillips leadership, AEG Live has grown to be the second largest live entertainment, concert and promotional organization globally while expanding to include fifteen regional and international offices as well as stand-alone divisions devoted to

Communication an integral part of patient care I have to admit that reading the letter to the editor from such a respected and well-regarded orthopaedic surgeon as Dr. Tombler felt like getting a kick under the pelvis. And the unexpected call to end dona

Around 2 p.m. ET today we expect two things will happen: 1) Lady Gaga will announce tour dates for her upcoming Born This Way Ball. (She promised as much last night on Twitter, anyway.) 2) Planet Earth will pass through some kind of wormhole, which will

Sure, the 45-year-old mother of three and self-proclaimed “luckiest girl in the world” belted her hits from past albums (including “Independence Day” and “Wrong Baby Wrong”). But songs from her newest album, Eleven, on which she took a larger role writin

JACKSONVILLE, UNITED STATES: British rock legend Paul McCartney performs at halftime of Super Bowl XXXIX 06 February 2005 at Alltel Stadium in Jacksonville, FL. AFP PHOTO/Roberto SCHMIDT (Photo credit should read ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images) JACKSON

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