Teenage country queen Taylor Swift, one of … [Programming Notes]

Nancy wrote to us about:
Teenage country queen Taylor Swift, one of the few musical artists whose albums are still available at American retailers, will be the musical guest on this week’s Saturday Night Live. Also, her cat…

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Lil Wayne, Taylor Swift Do Their Part To Save The Music Industry [Year-end Analysis]

John told us about:
Nielsen SoundScan has released its year-end numbers for music sales, and perhaps unsurprisingly, they aren’t all that great—no albums cracked the three-million-sold mark this year, with Lil…

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Yep, Lots Of People Will Get The Taylor Swift Album For Christmas This Year [Who Charted]

Bob emailed us this:
Taylor Swift’s Fearless moved back into the top spot on the album charts this week, thanks to a 29% sales gain that brought the album’s one-week sales totals just shy of the 250,000-sold mark. And…

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Doubled His Pleasure, Quadrupled His Fun: Chris Brown is 2008’s Stealth Chart Star [100 And Single]

Priscilla sent us a link to this:
The release today of Billboard’s tallies for the year’s biggest U.S. singles and albums produce few jaw-dropping surprises. The top eight songs of the year, according to the Hot 100, come directly…

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Live-Blogging The 2009 Grammy Nomination Special [Everybody’s A Winner]

Found this post:
Welcome to Idolator’s live-blogging of the inaugural Grammy Nominations Concert, which apparently kicks off the countdown to “music’s biggest night.” (Wait, I thought music’s biggest night was going…

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The Top Five Albums That Are Going To Be Given As Holiday Gifts This Year: An Unscientific Survey [A Who Charted Special Report]

This is an interesting post:
Sure, Black Friday was a disappointing day for artists who had new releases out, but a little bit of digging into SoundScan shows that the numbers weren’t all bad. Taylor Swift, for example, had…

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