Rod Stewart on Track to Top U.S. Pop Charts
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - When Rod Stewart and Clive Davis  decided to inaugurate the singer's J Records deal with a  collection of gems from the Great American Songbook, did you  ever imagine that repertoire would become a franchise for the  British rocker? Now Stewart's third such album in three years  is on the verge of being his first No. 1 album in 25 years.
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Veteran singer Rod Stewart&#39;s 26-year-old son was free on 60,000 dollars bail Wednesday after being arrested on assault charges, Los Angeles police said.
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British rock  star Rod Stewart married Penny Lancaster on Saturday in a  low-key ceremony on Italy&#39;s Ligurian coast. Stewart, 62, and  Lancaster, 36, have been together since the break-up of  Stewart&#39;s second marriage in 1998 and tied the knot in a civil  ceremony in a villa with only Lancaster&#39;s parents as witnesses.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Due to a reporting error from a  mass merchant, Nielsen SoundScan on Wednesday reprocessed the  U.S. pop albums chart, allowing country veteran George Strait  to claim the No. 1 spot, having initially come in second to R&B  star Usher when the data were released earlier in the day.
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During the past two years, old tunes have breathed new life into the careers of Rod Stewart and Michael McDonald. Both artists return to the musical well this month for a new round of classics.
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers join the ranks of artists notching up the most weeks in the UK charts.
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In a slow week for album sales,  Bruce Springsteen returned to the top of the U.S. pop charts  Wednesday, a week after he lost the crown to Kid Rock.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Toby Keith scored his third No. 1 on the U.S. pop album charts Wednesday, although sales were down sharply from his previous release.
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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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Rod Stewart turned up at Buckingham Palace in a rock-and-roll outfit on Thursday to collect a medal for his services to music in a ceremony he described as &quot;cool&quot;.
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Paul McCartney reached his highest spot on the U.S. pop charts in a decade on Wednesday with his first album for coffee retailer Starbucks Corp., a sign that veteran artists can thrive outside major labels.
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Raspy-voiced British Rock star Rod Stewart kept a 780,000-dollar cash advance made for an abortive concert tour out of &quot;greed and arrogance,&quot; a Los Angeles court has been told.
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LONDON  &#151; He's been a rocker, a soul boy, a spandex-clad disco belter. Now Rod Stewart is settling comfortably into a late career as a classy crooner of 20th-century classics.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Paul McCartney, George Harrison and the songs of John Lennon can all be found in the top 15 of the U.S. pop album chart, the biggest confluence of ex-Beatles in years.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Bon Jovi topped the U.S. 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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Soul music legend Ray Charles  returned to the U.S. pop charts on Wednesday three months after  his death as his final studio album, a collection of duets with  fellow recording stars, opened at No. 2.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Kanye West looks set to win the closely watched duel with rival rapper 50 Cent for the No. 1 slot on next week's U.S. pop album chart, according to preliminary sales data issued Wednesday.