&#39;Spring Awakening&#39; Tops Billboard Cast Album Chart Following Tony Win
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Playbill - The original Broadway cast recording of Spring Awakening has dethroned No. 1 stronghold Wicked for the top of the Billboard Top Cast Album chart. Company&#39; &#39;and A Chorus Line re-enter.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - The soundtrack to "Juno" moves up from No. 2 to No. 1, becoming the Rhino label's first chart-topper on the Billboard 200.
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The Broadway show sees its first significant cast change.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Alicia Keys began a fourth week at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart Thursday, while another tune from the R&B singer flew up the rankings.
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In the final week of 2007, Mary J. Bligeâs âGrowing Painsâ (Geffen) took the top spot on the Billboard chart from Josh Grobanâs âNoÃ«lâ (Reprise), which had five straight weeks at No. 1 and was the best-selling record of the year.
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Irish accents are the flavor of the  month on Broadway with three out of five of this year&#039;s Tony  Award nominees for best actor starring in plays set on the  Emerald Isle.
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It was all about R&amp;B and hip-hop at Wednesday night&#39;s Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. Usher was the big winner with 11 awards, followed by Alicia Keys with seven, Outkast with five and Kanye West with four.
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Russian revolutionaries and rebellious teenagers were the big hits at the Tony Awards on Sunday when Tom Stoppard's "The Coast of the Utopia" and the rock musical "Spring Awakening" took home the top honors.
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Having a No. 1 album just isnât what it used to be. This week Alicia Keys is back atop the Billboard chart with âAs I Amâ (J), but the 61,000 copies it has sold is barely above the historic low for a No. 1 album, Nielsen SoundScan reported. The âJunoâ soundtrack, on Rhino, fell to No. 2, with 55,000 sold. New releases dot the chart this week. The Mars Volta, which revels in head-spinningly complex progressive rock, opened in the third spot with 54,000 sales of âFrances the Muteâ (Universal); the Welsh heavy metal band Bullet for My Valentine reached fourth place with âScream Aim Fireâ (Jive), selling 53,000; and the â2008 Grammy Nomineesâ compilation (Hip-O/Universal) moved 50,000, opening at No. 5. The remix album âHannah Montana 2: Non-Stop Dance Partyâ (Disney) bowed at No. 7, and Vampire Weekend, the acclaimed New York indie band, reached No. 17 with its self-titled debut on the XL label.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Country star Tim McGraw lived it  up on top of the Billboard 200 for a second consecutive week  Wednesday, while Ray Charles, Jill Scott and LL Cool J entered  the pop albums chart in the next three spots.
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Playbill - The studio cast album of the rock-driven bare - the musical with a flavor and tone somewhere between Rent and Spring Awakening - will be released Oct. 30.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - If you were caught a little off guard by the explosive success of this year's Disney's "High School Musical," well, you weren't alone.
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Amid debuts by several major new  releases this week, Justin Timberlake narrowly managed to hold  on to the top spot on the U.S. pop album charts, according to  sales data published by Billboard Wednesday.
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Amid debuts by several major new  releases this week, Justin Timberlake held on to the top spot  on the U.S. pop album charts, according to final sales data  issued by Nielsen SoundScan Friday.
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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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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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Variety - NEW YORK -- Columbus Day weekend was a boon to Broadway as grosses skyrocketed 12.8% to &#36;12,689,073 during Week 19 (Oct. 4-10), with attendance up 10.2% to 192,379.