Grammy Viewership Hits Lowest Level Since 1995
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With "Desperate Housewives" as competitors, the Grammy awards on Sunday drew their lowest total viewership in a decade and also fell sharply among the audience of 18- to 49-year-olds most coveted by advertisers, according to preliminary figures released on Monday.
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The number of consumers legally downloading recorded music has fallen to 1 million from a high of 1.3 million in April, The Hollywood Reporter said Wednesday.
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Ratings for the MTV  Video Music Awards plunged 31% among viewers in the cable  network's target demographic, those aged 12-34.
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Whether it was competition  with Tony Soprano&#39;s farewell or some other factor, Sunday  night&#39;s Tony Awards fell to the lowest ratings since at least  1992.
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Eric Prydz's chart-topping single had the lowest ever sales for a UK number one, compilers confirm.
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On a night when only one of its prime-time series won an award (James Spader for &quot;The Practice&quot;), the network played host to the lowest-rated Emmy Awards since 1990.
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The 47th Annual Grammys on Sunday  were long on tributes and short on controversy thanks to a  self-censored performance by punk trio Green Day and Sheryl  Crow's peek-a-boo yellow gown, which covered just enough.
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CBS and ABC fell to their  lowest ratings among the coveted adults 18-49 demographic in  two decades last week, as reruns and summer alternatives drove  viewers from their couches.
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ABC's telecast of the 56th annual  Primetime Emmy Awards proved to be one of the least watched  editions of the show in years, with 14 million viewers tuning  in, according to preliminary figures on Monday.
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Album sales have continued their downward slide this year, but sales of digital tracks are up almost 50 percent over this time last year.
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So far 2008 has not been a good year for music sales. This week Alicia Keys, below, stays atop the Billboard chart with âAs I Amâ (J), but the number of copies that CD sold is barely above the historic low for a No. 1 album. Nielsen SoundScan reported that 61,000 copies of the album sold last week; the least number of weekly sales for No. 1 is 60,000, set by the âDreamgirlsâ soundtrack a year ago. (The numbers are rounded.) This week the âJunoâ soundtrack (Rhino) is at No. 2 with 58,000, Mary J. Bligeâs âGrowing Painsâ (Geffen) is No. 3 with 52,000, and Radioheadâs âIn Rainbowsâ (ATO) is next with 46,000. The R&B singer Raheem DeVaughn opens at No. 5 with 45,000 sales of âLove Behind the Melodyâ (J) and John Legendâs new âLive From Philadelphia,â available only through Target, reached No. 7 with 33,000.
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A resoundingly retro Grammy Awards left its biggest winners nearly speechless.
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Fans and athletes give Olympic judges low marks.
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LOS ANGELES  - When the Grammy Awards telecast bursts into full-throated song on Sunday night, live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, it will mark the awards show's 50th year. But there will be another milestone to celebrate as well -- the Grammys' 35th year on CBS.
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A lot of great music was released in the fourth quarter of 2006. But as usual, none of it is being considered for Sunday's Grammy Awards.
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Voter turnout for last week's Republican primary to choose a challenger to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was just 5.6 percent, the lowest level ever recorded, election officials said.
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U.S. mortgage applications sank last  week to the lowest level since the end of last year despite  falling borrowing costs, an industry trade group said on  Thursday.