Green Day Scores No. 1 Album with &#39;American Idiot&#39;
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Pop-punk band Green Day scored its first No. 1 album on the US pop charts on Wednesday with &quot;American Idiot,&quot; the group&#39;s fifth studio set and its first release in four years.
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Picking the greatest ever hip-hop album is a tall order and Entertainment Weekly admits its list marking 25 years since the birth of mainstream rap is subjective, with Eric B & Rakim at No. 1.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Consecutive nominations a first for Sheffield band  Â· Amy Winehouse is joint favourite on 12-strong list
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The debut album by Kanye West is named best album of 2004 in a round-up of the UK's end-of-year polls.
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LOS ANGELES, CA Wednesday 9.15.2004 /netmusiccountdown.com/ -- Truth tour mates Usher and Kanye West lead this year&#39;s nominations for the American Music Awards.
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&quot;Don&#39;t want to be an American idiot,&quot; declares Billie Joe Armstrong. Too late, bucko. Hey, we love Green Day as much as the next aging punk fan -- but come on, that&#39;s like Michael Jackson asking people not to call him wacko.
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Eminem goes back to the top of the US album chart a month after Encore first took the number one spot.
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Green Day has scheduled a slate of four club shows during which the punk trio will play its new album, "American Idiot," in its entirety.
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Arts & entertainment: Album chart topped by little-known band, with similarly under-hyped Amy MacDonald in second place
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Rapper Nelly takes both the number one and two spot in the US album charts.
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US punk-pop band Green Day's latest CD tops the UK album chart, selling 1.45m copies worldwide in a week.
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Kanye West got beaten up by a woman  on the latest U.S. pop album charts published Wednesday. A week  after the rapper&#39;s third album debuted to the highest numbers  in more than two years, West was bounced from the top spot by  country star Reba McEntire&#39;s &quot;Reba Duets.&quot;
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Bon Jovi topped the album charts for  the first time since 1988 on Wednesday, while rock duo the  White Stripes scored a personal best with a No. 2 debut for  their latest release.
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Terror Squad&#39;s Lean Back is No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart for the second consecutive week, Billboard reported Thursday.
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NEW YORK - Rolling Stone magazine has named the top 500 songs of all-time, and, well, the No. 1 song isn&#39;t exactly a complete unknown.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - California rock band Incubus earned its first No. 1 album on the U.S. pop charts Wednesday, though sales were less than half those of its previous release.
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After watching all of the talk about Iraq in president Bush's news conference Thursday, I couldn't get a certain song by the popular band Green Day out of my head -- "Wake Me Up When September Ends."