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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For the first time since Jimmy Carter sat in the White House and   Star Wars had no sequels, Rod Stewart has the nation's number one   album.
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The global marketing behind Green Day's  "American Idiot" is making the newly restructured Warner Music  look smart under Edgar Bronfman Jr.
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Top-selling bands The Beatles, Oasis, U2 and Westlife go head-to-head in the album charts.
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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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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - 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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&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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LAS VEGAS (Billboard) - With a No. 1 debut for its current  album "American Idiot," and now Tuesday's news of six Grammy  nominations, Green Day has found itself back in the spotlight.  But if the punk-rock trio has its way, its Reprise album may  yet fuel a crossover into an entirely new medium.
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Rod Stewart has scored his first US number one since 1978 this week, as &quot;Stardust...The Great American Songbook Vol. 3&quot; ousts George Strait from the top of the Billboard Top 200.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - In a battle between two top-selling female acts, Miley Cyrus triumphed over Kelly Clarkson to score the No. 1 position on the U.S. pop album charts Wednesday.
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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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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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Californian band Maroon 5's first album in four years has gone straight to the top of the US album chart.
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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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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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Eminem fans have turned out en masse to snap up their rap idol's newest album, propelling it to No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts after just three days in release.
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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.