Chart success not a goal for singer-songwriter Hawley
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U.K. crooner Richard Hawley has a  fast-growing reputation as a musician&#39;s musician.
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Life after not winning American Idol may not be   all Grammy Awards and People magazine covers, but the show's   also-rans seem to be holding their own.
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Josh Ritter didn&#39;t have a label home  when he started crafting his newest effort, &quot;The Historical  Conquests of Josh Ritter,&quot; but that didn&#39;t keep him from moving  forward full force.
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&quot;McPheever&quot; wasn&#039;t enough to carry hometown girl Katherine McPhee to victory on &quot;American Idol,&quot; but fans predicted she would end up a winner in the music industry.
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It's not like Steven Van Zandt doesn't have enough to keep him busy.
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By DAVID SINCLAIR  Roger Daltrey joined the Ageing Rockers' Hall of Infamy last week when - like Sir Cliff Richard and Status Quo before him - he ranted about the state of modern pop radio. "It's very hard for bands in our position to get airplay these days," the singer of The Who moaned.
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Mika heads the UK singles and albums charts despite a boost in sales for acts seen performing at the Brit Awards.
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The pathway to greater success may not be through the computers of song-swappers, though undoubtedly they will use the technology.
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Country music promoter and veteran manager Jerry Bentley doesn't care much for the prospects of most teenage singers.
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A quarter of a century into their career, most rock bands are content to wheel out a greatest hits album every now and then. Not Ireland's U2, who, according to their manager, are still getting better.
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Following a multiplatinum, Grammy-winning album can be a daunting task for any artist. Kelly Clarkson's path to releasing her latest CD, "My December," has been especially torturous.
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When country superstar Kenny  Chesney was approached about producing a new album for Willie  Nelson, he was initially underwhelmed.
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By Marijke Rowland, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Jun. 1--At 17, Taylor Swift has had the kind of success some artists twice her age can only dream about.   The Pennsylvania-born, Tennessee-based country artist's self-titled debut landed at No. 3 on Billboard's Country Albums chart, No.
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The surest bet in music these days is that all bets are off. The industry learned the hard way that even platinum divas (Mariah Carey), rock sensations (Limp Bizkit) and sizzling trends (teen pop) can go from royal flush to toilet flush in the blink of a Third Eye Blind.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - One of the strongest sellers  among music releases during the fourth quarter may be a dark  horse title.
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Despite more than 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started finding free tunes online rather than buying CDs from record companies, the recording industry has utterly failed to halt the decline of the record album or the rise of digital music sharing.
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The best days may still be ahead for Jordin Sparks, but the same may not be said for "American Idol."