On Thursday, Billboard reported that this week's chart, released on Wednesday, will most likely be topped once again by Eminem.
On Thursday Billboard will begin to publish a new chart — On-Demand Songs — that ranks singles according to the number of times they were listened to on those six Internet services — Spotify, Rhapsody, MOG, Slacker, Muve Music and Rdio.
Hall filed a complaint for defamation to the Los Angeles superior court on Thursday, Billboard reports, in which he described O'Connor – who had a No 1 hit with the song Nothing Compares 2 U, written by Prince – as "a desperate attention-seeker … now known perhaps as much for her bizarre, unhinged rants as her music".
After the clip popped up online Tuesday — only to be quickly taken off YouTube because, a rep said, it wasn't supposed to launch until Vevo debuted it Thursday — Billboard opined that the video squeezed "Gwen Stefani's Japan fetishization into an even more unseemly package" and was "more of a train wreck than the track itself". .
Beginning on Monday, billboards in Times Square, above 723 Seventh Avenue at 48th Street, are to depict a silhouette of a man in a cowboy hat behind a simulated, 46-foot-tall shower curtain.
One day the billboard is up, and five days later it's down.
Then Shaun sees a "Have a Day Off" billboard on the side of a passing bus and a lightbulb goes off.
(On Tuesday night, Billboard reported that Bob Dylan would appear in a Chrysler ad on Sunday, though the company would not confirm it).
Adele may be the biggest-selling singer and songwriter to come out of Britain in years, but a newcomer to the British pop scene, Jessie J, swept the MOBO awards in Glasgow on Wednesday night, Billboard and other wires services reported.
On Monday, the billboard will be replaced by a new one featuring Shaun White, the gold medalist snowboarder, holding a pack of Stride Mintacular, a new flavor that features his likeness on the package.
