Kanye tops Fiddy on US charts
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Arts & entertainment: 50 Cent bumped down to number two by highest-selling album in two years.
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Kanye West won three awards at the Source Hip-Hop Awards ceremony in Miami, the most by any single artist. The Chicago producer-performer took Breakthrough Artist of the Year, Album of the Year for two-million
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U.S. artists are expected to dominate  Britain's biggest black music awards on Thursday, with Chicago  rapper Kanye West boosting a record number of nominations.
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British rock band Radiohead scored its second No. 1 album on the U.S. pop charts on Wednesday with a release that was initially sold on the Internet under a revolutionary "name-your-own-price" system.
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Hip-hop star Kanye West is pleased that his latest release is doing better than rapper   50 Cent's new album.
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Chicago rapper Kanye West, who survived a near-fatal car crash to score one of the biggest hits of the year with his debut album, led an eclectic field of commercially
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R&B star Mary J Blige dominates the Billboard music awards in the US, winning nine prizes.
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Chicago rapper Kanye West, whose debut album was one of the most acclaimed releases of the year, lead the field of Grammy Award contenders with nominations in 10 categories.
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Ray Charles' final studio album enters this week's US chart at number two. Plus other entertainment news in brief.
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Rapper Jay-Z came out on top of the  post-Thanksgiving U.S. pop album charts Wednesday, tying the  Rolling Stones for the third-most No. 1 hits.
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It's not like Kanye West needed an ego boost, but here it comes: Sales figures appear to confirm his "Graduation" album outsold 50 Cent's "Curtis" in the much-hyped rap sales showdown.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Two popular rap acts occupied the top two spots on the U.S. album charts Wednesday, with the Game's "Doctor's Advocate" coming in at No. 1.
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Radiohead top the US album chart with In Rainbows, initially sold via the internet for a price chosen by fans.
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Eminem goes back to the top of the US album chart a month after Encore first took the number one spot.
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Rapper Kanye West beats rival 50 Cent in the stand-off to claim the best-selling album in the UK.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Green Day topped the U.S. pop  albums chart for a second consecutive week Wednesday, passing  the two million sales mark and extending its lead over Eminem  during a quiet sales period.
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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.