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Canada's Nelly Furtado continues to celebrate her "best pop and rock act in the world" gong and plans to release a new single.   The song, All Good Things (Come To An End) was co-written by Nelly, Coldplay's Chris Martin and uber-producer Timbaland. She said: "It was a great story. He came in a jam with us in Miami actually. We were jamming all night and he had to leave cos he had a Coldplay gig the next day. I said, why do all good jams have to come to an end and then the next jam was this song

Thrilled supermodel Kate Moss was high as a kite last night — after landing tickets to tonight’s live X Factor show.   The 32-year-old catwalk beauty is a huge fan of the ITV1 hit and asked producers for VIP seats for her and rock star lover Pete Doherty. She is keen to back sexy Leona Lewis — the talent show’s last female singer.   An insider said: “Kate has been keeping an eye on the show and she’s been impressed with Leona. She's asked for tickets, so it will be a real honour to have her com

The Crazy Frog is returning with a new song for the festive season - a cover of Wham's hit single 'Last Christmas'.   The single will be released on December 11 and the video for the track sees Santa's workshop being overtaken by evil characters who abduct Santa and put him behind bars, before the Crazy Frog comes to the rescue. The Crazy Frog was originally created in Sweden and became a hit ringtone.   The irritating amphibian had a number one single in June 2005 with a cover of Axel F, whic

The label family that includes Capitol, Virgin, and Astralwerks bucks the trend and takes its videos to Gotuit.com   EMI, whose labels put out records by such Spin mainstays as Coldplay, Gorillaz, the Decemberists, Liz Phair, and many more, signed a deal to distribute its videos to consumers for free via Gotuit.com, the two companies announced today.   "Gotuit offers viewers an exciting and high-quality way to enjoy our artists' videos," said David Munns, EMI's North American CEO. "They're a val

EMI's failed attempt to buy Warner Music earlier this year cost the music company more than £6m, the world's third largest music group revealed yesterday.   The £6.2m exceptional charge added to restructuring costs of £33.5m in the first half for EMI. Overall, its revenue fell 4.1 per cent to £867.9m while profits before tax more than halved to £18.6m, compared with £41m last year.   EMI believes it sales this year will be boosted by strong sales of albums over the Christmas period from big-nam

EMI, the world's third largest music group, reported first-half profits ahead of expectations this morning and reiterated its optimism about a second half that will see releases from Robbie Williams and Norah Jones.   After taking into account the effect of an accounting fraud at its Brazilian arm revealed by EMI last month, underlying profit before tax came in at £18.6m for the six months to September 30. That was down sharply on last year's £41m but above City analysts' forecasts for £18m. The

EMI Group said it was confident it was on track to deliver results in line with full-year expectations as it posted first-half underlying pretax profit slightly above forecasts on Wednesday at 18.6 million pounds.   The world's third largest music company had said its profits in the six months to end-September would be down from the 41 million pounds posted last year because its release schedule is stronger in the second half than the first.   Analysts had expected profits of around 18 million p

The Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department gave antitrust approval Tuesday to Universal Music Group's planned acquisition of BMG Music Publishing for $2.09 billion.   The deal must now receive approval from European regulators to become final.   BMG - owned by German media company Bertelsmann AG - owns the rights to more than a million songs by contemporary recording artists such as Nelly, Maroon 5 and Coldplay, as well as classic hits by the Beach Boys, Barry Manilow and other ente

Boy Kill Boy have committed their support to War Child, dedicating their next single Shoot Me Down (released November 13th) to the charity, with a proportion of royalties from sales going to the charity, as well as adding their name to a soon-to-be-announced London benefit gig.   Boy Kill Boy have had a splendid 2006 of sold out shows and hit singles. Their debut album Civilian was released in May and has sold nearly 100,000 copies. Boy Kill Boy join the likes of Radiohead, Blur, Oasis and Cold

Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. (SCEA) announced today the release of SingStar Rocks!, available exclusively for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system. Developed by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's London Studio, SingStar Rocks! is an innovative new title that invites players to step into the spotlight and exercise their vocal chords in an engaging, social experience that encourages even the shyest singer to unleash their inner rock star.   SingStar Rocks! features 30 full

At the end of May 2005 a friend told me of a development I assumed was a joke.   The number one single in the United Kingdom had just been confirmed. Beating out the rap group Akon, as well as the incessantly popular Coldplay by nearly four copies to one, was a blue, animated froglike creature from a German mobile phone company.   It seems a ring tone, a retake on the huge 1980s hit “Axel F.”, had become England’s favorite music. It would hold the premiere UK spot for the next four weeks. Over t

Do you have a living room big enough to house a tenpin bowling alley? Or does your home have a internal wall of at least 30ft - high enough to build a climbing wall?   If so, and you are based in central London (zones one or two), and interested in selling, you could have just what Simon Harris is looking for. He is the founder of Cityscope, a property search and sales agency which deals exclusively in 'unconventional living spaces'.   On the search side, his clients have included a couple of pr

ELVIS is expected to top the chart once more at a charity auction being held on Friday night.   A Cherry Records receipt signed by The King himself could be the biggest fundraiser of the night at the auction of 85 film, sport and music memorabilia items being held on behalf of Larkrise School, in Trowbridge.   Other big names to feature in the lots of signed photographs, shirts and other items include Pirates of the Caribbean stars Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp, top bands the Kaiser Chiefs and C

Coldplay, Iggy Pop, Rolling Stones and U2 set for new video   Iggy Pop, The Rolling Stones, Patti Smith, Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2, Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake have teamed-up to appear in a Johnny Cash video. The artists are among a host of 36 celebrities who all make cameos in the clip for 'God's Gonna Cut You Down'.   They join Hollywood actors Johnny Depp, Dennis Hopper and Chris Martin, who also appear. The video, which is taken from Cash's recent album 'American V: A Hundred Highways', sees

British acts dominated the list of top-selling bands and artists across Europe this year heralding a "golden age" for the country's music scene, the UK record industry's trade association said on Thursday.   Performers such as Coldplay, The Kooks, Katie Melua and the Kaiser Chiefs scooped 19 out of 36 Platinum awards given to artists selling more than one million copies of an album across Europe, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) said.   U.S. artists took 12 of the awards run by the Intern

SANTA ANA–More than 1,400 people gathered at St. Barbara’s Catholic Church church today to say good-bye to fallen firefighter Pablo Cerda.   The church overflowed with mourners. Father Richard Kennedy told the crowd Saint Barbara was the patron saint of firefighters, a remark made poignant by the presence of hundreds of Cerda’s fellow firefighters from all over Southern California.   The ceremony concluded with a slideshow presentation featuring photos of Cerda as a baby, playing soccer for Los

Chris Martin attended the Sir Paul McCartney’s live show at The Royal Albert Hall on Friday November 3rd where he premiered Ecce Cor Meum (”Behold My Heart”) a four-movement work for chorus and orchestra.   This is McCartney’s fourth classical album since the Liverpool Oratorio was released in 1991.

German media company Bertelsmann AG said Wednesday its profit in the first nine months of the year fell by almost half because of income tax expenses and one-time items including a legal settlement over Napster.   The company, which owns a range of media properties including European broadcaster RTL Group SA and publisher Random House, said net profit fell to 243 million euros ($309.9 million) in the nine months through September compared with 475 million euros a year earlier. Bertelsmann did no

A Cornish theatre and concert venue says it is facing a financial crisis. The Hall For Cornwall in Truro has made a loss of £100,000 and claims it may have to raise ticket prices or shut its doors if extra funding is not found.   Despite a rise in the number of ticket sales, managers claim the end of Objective One funding and rising maintenance costs are to blame. The venue, which opened in 1997, attracts about 180,000 theatre and concert-goers a year.   The hall is used for a wide variety of

NEW YORK -- While sales of recorded music and attendance at concerts continue to slide, profits in the increasingly legitimate secondary ticketing market have surged so dramatically in the past year that music dealmakers now liken the industry climate to a Wild West gold rush.   With FM radio no longer shaping American musical tastes and music labels seemingly less focused on artist development, agents and promoters now have a vital new channel for artist financing, consumer data-mining and dire

1. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles 2. Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys 3. Revolver, The Beatles 4. Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan 5. Rubber Soul, The Beatles 6. What’s Going On, Marvin Gaye 7. Exile on Main Street, The Rolling Stones 8. London Calling, The Clash 9. Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan 10. The White Album, The Beatles 11. The Sun Sessions, Elvis Presley 12. Kind of Blue, Miles Davis 13. Velvet Underground and Nico, The Velvet Underground 14. Abbey Road, The Beatles 17. Never

Coming from the makers of desktop-based widget app Goowy, is Yourminis, which is set to launch on November 6th. Yourminis is the latest entry to the web-based widget desktop space currently lead by Netvibes, Pageflakes, and Protopage. Unlike its competitors which are all AJAX-based, yourminis is built on Flash and has its own share of advantages all together.   Yourminis allows, like its every other competitor, for you to essentially have your own desktop on the web with all sorts of funky thing

From a Kevin Federline chat transcript:   spongebob asks what musicians do you admire? Kevin Federline says Tons of people man, right now I’m liking Lupe Fiasco, Ludacris, Jay Z and the fact that he is comin’ back. Other artists like Coldplay, and even older people that aren’t around anymore like Jimi Hendrix and a couple of rock ‘n roll people.   More on this here [thanks boomslang]  

Joseph Arthur returns for show Monday at Lime Spider   When singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur returns to his native Akron to perform at the Lime Spider on Monday night, it will be another special event in what has been a year full of them.   After bouncing from label to label, Arthur decided to go the DIY route and release his latest album, the relatively stripped-down Nuclear Daydream, on his own Lonely Astronaut records. The subsequent tour has been his first with a four-piece backing band. Earl

Dead! bounces manically from Queen-like bluster to stylish punk-pop.   Teenagers is a grandiose grind, built on testosterone and T. Rex-styled guitars. I Don’t Love You opens like Coldplay’s Yellow, before turning into an anthem like Green Day’s Wake Me When September Ends.   (Producer Rob Cavallo, who worked on Green Day’s American Idiot, helps My Chemical Romance build a concept album that’s just as good.)   Source: http://www.ohio.com