Josh Groban's No. 1 album now top release of '07
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Josh Groban set a new record on the  U.S. pop albums chart Wednesday as "Noel" became the first  Christmas album to lead the field for four straight weeks.
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Back at No. 1 for the 29th straight week, it's everybody's favorite ringtone. The music market tracker Billboard will begin ranking the customized mobile phone sound snippets beginning next week &#151; another sign that ringtones are fast becoming a staple of recording industry sales,
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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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Bob Dylan reached the top of the  U.S. albums chart for the first time in 30 years, and only the  fourth time in his career, according to sales data issued on  Wednesday.
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Bob Dylan reached the top of the   U.S. pop albums chart for the first time in 30 years on   Wednesday, becoming the oldest living person to launch a new   disc at No. 1.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Josh Groban's "Noel" ruled the U.S. pop album charts for a fifth week Thursday, a record for a Christmas release, while Mary J. Blige's new CD provided some stiff competition as overall sales surged in the holiday shopping frenzy.
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Robbie Williams' goes straight in at number one on the UK singles chart as REM top the album chart.
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Bob Dylan's first album in five  years, "Modern Times," and the infectious Gnarls Barkley single  "Crazy" topped Rolling Stone's picks for 2006, the magazine  said on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - It's been a stunning year for Brian  Wilson.
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Hailed by critics as her best album to  date, the new release from jazz vocalist Norah Jones, "Not Too  Late," was the most pre-ordered album of all time on the online  retailer Amazon.com.
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In a slow week for the Billboard chart, Alicia Keys reached No. 2 with 112,000 sales of âAs I Amâ (J); Mary J. Blige moved 89,000 of âGrowing Painsâ (Geffen) to reach No. 3; âNow Thatâs What I Call Music!â Vol. 26 is at No. 4 with 54,000; and the 18-year-old country singer Taylor Swift rose three spots to No. 5, though sales of her self-titled album, on the Big Machine label, dropped 39 percent last week to 47,000, Nielsen SoundScan reported. Radiohead reached No. 1 with the conventional release of âIn Rainbows,â through the ATO label, on CD and other formats. The indie-rock âJunoâ soundtrack (Rhino), popular online, opened at No. 8 with 38,000.
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A spiffed up version of Usher's "Confessions" and new releases by country mainstay George Strait and rock acts Good Charlotte and Korn took over the top four slots on the U.S. pop albums chart, according to sales data issued Wednesday.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Pop band Maroon 5's first album in four years opened at No. 1 on the U.S. charts Wednesday, while veteran rocker Ozzy Osbourne scored a personal best with his first release in six years.
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Reformed Take That top the UK's singles and albums charts simultaneously for the first time in their career.
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In a major week for new releases,   Justin Timberlake scored his first No. 1 solo album, while John   Mayer, Bob Seger and Lionel Richie also crashed the upper   echelons of the U.S. pop charts, according to Billboard.
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New songs from Josh Groban and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler will drive the holiday-themed soundtrack to "The Polar Express," due Nov. 2 on Reprise/Warner Bros. Records.
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Mary J. Blige ended Josh Groban's  five-week reign on the U.S. pop album chart Thursday, as the  R&B singer's latest release took the crown a week after it  debuted at No. 2.