2002Jay-Z releases "'03 Bonnie And Clyde," which features Beyoncé, who is making her first solo appearance since the breakup of Destiny's Child. It's the first hint that the couple are dating, as Jay declares them "the new Bobby and Whitney" on the track.
2001Embracing the Internet at a time when broadband is rare, U2 webcasts a concert from their Elevation tour in South Bend, Indiana, for free on U2.com.
1992Country music is all the rage in America, as The Chase by Garth Brooks debuts at #1 on the albums chart, supplanting Some Gave All by Billy Ray Cyrus, which has held the top spot for 17 weeks.
1977An audience member throws an M-80 firecracker on stage at an Aerosmithshow at The Spectrum in Philadelphia. The explosion injures lead singer Steven Tyler's cornea and guitarist Joe Perry's hand. The next year, Tyler is hit in the face with a bottle when they play the arena.
1972James Brownalienates much of his audience by meeting with President Richard Nixon in the White House and endorsing him in his bid for re-election.More
2010R&B/soul singer Solomon Burke dies on an airplane at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. Though the cause of death was not known, the singer had long struggled with his weight and his health, and his doctor suspected he had a pulmonary embolism.
2009Pop singer Stephen Gately (of Boyzone), age 33, dies of a congenital heart defect in Majorca, Spain.
2007Art Todd (half of the singing duo Art and Dotty Todd) dies of congestive heart failure in Honolulu, Hawaii, at age 93. Known for the '50s hits "Broken Wings" and "Chanson D'Amour."
200621-year-old Lily Allen, who has gained fame in her native England, plays for the first time in the United States, performing at the Hiro Ballroom in New York City.
2002Six months after Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes is killed in a car accident, TLC release their fourth album, 3D, which she worked on before her death.
2001Under pressure to change their name because of letter attacks using anthrax germs, the metal band Anthrax issues a press release explaining they will not. "In light of current events, we are changing the name of the band to something more friendly, 'Basket Full Of Puppies,'" they state. "Actually, just the fact that we are making jokes about our name sucks."More
1999Las Vegas' Grand Hotel holds an auction of several hundred thousand dollars' worth of Elvis memorabilia, including the King's wristwatch, cigar box, and his 1956 Lincoln Continental.
1998The deadly force of Hurricane Georges not only knocks out telephone, water, and electricity services in Puerto Rico, it also bumps the Hot Latin Tracks chart from Billboard Magazine. For the first time in its 10-year history, the chart is not published because of damage to Broadcast Data Systems monitors caused by the storm, which hit the island late in September.
1997Davy Jones sings "Daydream Believer" to Melissa Joan Hart on the Sabrina, the Teenage Witch episode "Dante's Inferno."
1997Jimmy Osmond, who is the youngest of the singing Osmond family, welcomes his second child, Zachary, who is the 50th grandchild of George and Olive Osmond, the parents of the nine Osmond siblings.
1995Peter Frampton releases Frampton Comes Alive II. The album is the sequel to his 1975 smash Frampton Comes Alive - the best-selling live album in history.
1992Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash gets married for the first time, tying the know with actress Renee Suran in Marina Del Rey, California. They divorce in 1997; Slash gets married again in 2001.
1985Luciano Pavarotti's 1976 Christmas album 0 Holy Night becomes the first classical album certified Platinum, with sales of over a million copies in America.
1979Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley declares "Fleetwood Mac Day," and the group receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6608 Hollywood Boulevard. Two days later the album Tusk is released, the highly anticipated follow-up to Rumours.
Radiohead Let Fans Choose Price Of New Album
2007
Radiohead takes an innovative approach with the release of their seventh studio album, In Rainbows, by offering it as a pay-what-you-want download. Most people pay nothing for the download, but the album still fares well - better, in fact, than the previous Hail to the Thief album - through pre-sales for "discbox" editions.
Music fans are beginning to move away from physical media such as CDs and near-obsolete cassettes in favor of digital downloads that put the tunes straight onto their (OK?) computers as strings of code. MP3 players have replaced the Sony Discman as the portable player of choice, and record stores around the world are closing their doors for good (Tower Records shuttered in 2006).
When Radiohead decides, after their six-album contract with EMI ends, to release their next album digitally and with no set price before the official release date, industry officials fear that it could be the nail in the coffin for physical album sales. It's bad enough that fans are downloading music for free illegally via sites like Napster; now the artists themselves are giving it away. Surely, In Rainbows will be a commercial failure.
Not quite. While many fans pay nothing for the digital album, Radiohead's Thom Yorke confirms that before the physical album release in December 2007, sales of In Rainbows will have topped the total sales of their previous album, Hail To The Thief. The discbox, which contains two CDs, two vinyl albums, a lyric booklet and custom artwork, sells roughly 100,000 copies.
On December 29, 2007, In Rainbows is released in physical form in the US. It immediately hits the top of the Billboard 200, indicating that rather than hindering physical album sales, digital media can actually be an effective means of sales promotion. And once again, Radiohead finds success by going against the grain.
When Radiohead decides, after their six-album contract with EMI ends, to release their next album digitally and with no set price before the official release date, industry officials fear that it could be the nail in the coffin for physical album sales. It's bad enough that fans are downloading music for free illegally via sites like Napster; now the artists themselves are giving it away. Surely, In Rainbows will be a commercial failure.
Not quite. While many fans pay nothing for the digital album, Radiohead's Thom Yorke confirms that before the physical album release in December 2007, sales of In Rainbows will have topped the total sales of their previous album, Hail To The Thief. The discbox, which contains two CDs, two vinyl albums, a lyric booklet and custom artwork, sells roughly 100,000 copies.
On December 29, 2007, In Rainbows is released in physical form in the US. It immediately hits the top of the Billboard 200, indicating that rather than hindering physical album sales, digital media can actually be an effective means of sales promotion. And once again, Radiohead finds success by going against the grain.
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