The "Les Miserables" soundtrack album jumps to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart this week with 92,000 copies sold according to Nielsen SoundScan. ... Read more
Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Mumford & Sons are among the first performers announced for this year's Grammy Awards.
The Black Keys and Fun. will also take the stage at the 55th annual ceremony, which will be televised Feb. 10 on CBS from the Staples Center in LA.... Read more
Sony Corp. and German media giant Bertelsmann are looking set to team up again in a bid for Parlophone and possibly other top EMI music labels being sold off by Vivendi's Universal Music Group.... Read more
Kat Von D is off the market -- again.
Deadmau5 took to Twitter to propose to his girlfriend, tweeting a picture of a similar engagement ring that she would soon receive.... Read more
Ravi Shankar, a master of the sitar who brought the music of India to the Western world in the 1960s aided by a mystical collaboration with George Harrison, has died. He was 92.... Read more
Jenni Rivera's father and brother confirmed on Telemundo that the singer died in a plane crash Saturday night, NBC News reported late Sunday.... Read more
A rep for Rick Ross confirmed to Billboard today that the remaining dates of the rapper's tour with his Maybach Music Group have been cancelled. The dates include Sunday in Nashville, the 12th in Memphis, 13th in Houston, 15th in Detroit and the 16th in New York. ... Read more
Mexican pop/rock duo Jesse & Joy ran away with the night as four-time winners of the Latin Grammy Awards, taking home trophies for best record, song and contemporary pop vocal album.... Read more
Iconic Australian rockers INXS have called time on their music career, announcing at a gig in Perth on Sunday night that they were playing their last concert together.... Read more