Entertainment & Arts
U.S. album sales fell 17% in the first quarter as rising online piracy and fewer new hits accelerated the music industry’s decline.
April 6, 2007
Pop & Hiss
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April 8, 2011
Movies
Hillsong United may sound like a lower division English football club, but it’s actually one of the biggest rock bands in the world, selling millions of albums, filling arenas and regularly topping the Christian pop charts.
Sept. 15, 2016
Music
The group isn’t a conventional band, but the brainchild of two smart college grads--jazz-loving perfectionists who like nothing better than writing and arranging in the recording studio, where they let a shifting roster of musicians execute their ideas.
Aug. 22, 1992
California
In nearly 30 years of globe-trotting, the Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers have rarely delivered rousing American folk spirituals to audiences that didn’t rise to their feet in appreciation, says longtime member Virginia White.
Aug. 14, 1993
Dec. 9, 2017
Company Town
Universal Music Group’s parent company plans to sell up to 50% of the venerable record label, looking for a major financial windfall after the rapid rise of online streaming helped revive the once moribund recorded music industry.
July 30, 2018
Archives
Legal music downloads in the U.S. and Europe leaped tenfold in 2004 after demand surged for iPod digital players and thousands of pirate websites were shut down, an industry group said.
Jan. 20, 2005
Six men with waist-length black hair woven into single braids down their backs stand beneath a twilight sky, peaches and lavenders tinting the underside of clouds.
Aug. 18, 1991
Following in the footsteps of Broadway’s “Motown: The Musical,” the Tony Award-nominated jukebox production that opened in New York last year, Concord Music Group is looking to launch a musical of its own, telling the story of the rise of the Stax Records label.
July 9, 2014