After Baauer's "Harlem Shake" reached #1 on the Billboard Top 100, Baauer and his label (Mad Decent) are being asked to pay royalties for the uncleared samples.
Both Mr. Musson and Mr. Delgado are seeking compensation from Mad Decent Records, which put out the single last year. The label and Mr. Rodrigues declined to comment. But the tale of how an obscure dance track containing possible copyright violations rose to the top of pop charts illustrates not only the free-for-all nature of underground dance music but also the power of an Internet fad to create a sudden hit outside the major-label system.
What did you listen to last week? Our last.fm charts for artists, albums, and tracks have been posted; sign up for our group to have your listening habits included in our charts.
Top 10 Artists
01) Brand New
02) Death Cab for Cutie
03) Coldplay
04) Jimmy Eat World
05) Say Anything
06) Fall Out Boy
07) Weezer
08) Alkaline Trio
09) New Found Glory
10) Blink-182
This week's top 15 alternative rock songs on AOL Radio can be seen below. We hope that you are enjoying this new feature and will perhaps discover some new favorite music in the process. Click here to check out AOL Radio.
This week's top 15 alternative rock songs on AOL Radio can be seen below. We hope that you are enjoying this new feature and will perhaps discover some new favorite music in the process. Click here to check out AOL Radio.
Steel Train's sophomore release Trampoline is in its second week and is still one of Billboards Top Ten Heatseekers (#10), top New Artists, and top Independent Albums (#34). Entertainment Weekly called it “relentlessly sincere and introspective”, Esquire.com called it “one of the best albums of 2007” and Relix Magazine says “having spent a nonstop life on the road, this band proves that they deserve the attention.” The band is currently finishing up a headlining tour with Ace Enders and Kevin Devine that is in it’s last week.
What did you listen to last week? Our last.fm charts for artists, albums, and tracks have been posted; sign up for our group to have your listening habits included in our charts.
Top 10 Artists
01) Brand New
02) Paramore
03) Fall Out Boy
04) Cartel
05) Taking Back Sunday
06) Straylight Run
07) blink-182
08) Circa Survive
09) Jimmy Eat World
10) Say Anything
What did you listen to last week? Our last.fm charts for artists, albums, and tracks have been posted; sign up for our group to have your listening habits included in our charts.
Top 10 Artists
01) Brand New
02) Fall Out Boy
03) The Academy Is...
04) Taking Back Sunday
05) Bright Eyes
06) blink-182
07) Jimmy Eat World
08) Anberlin
09) New Found Glory
10) Say Anything
Cobra Starship sold 7,826 copies of While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets in its first week, debuting at #125 on the Top 200 chart, #1 on the Top New Artists chart, #1 on the Alternative New Artist chart, and #7 on the Independent Artist chart.
A Change of Pace's new album Prepare The Masses, debuted this week at #155 on the Billboard Top 200 as well as placing #4 on the Top New Artists chart.
AFI moved over 200,000 units and debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts. Moreover, they received the first ever MySpace Award, which is given to a band who receives 500,000 plays in one day. For more information check out the article here.
Congratulations to Halifax! The Inevitability of a Strange World debuted at #1 on this week's Billboard Heatseekers Chart! The band's new music video for "Our Revolution" is premiering on Monday on Fuse's Daily Download (5pm EST) and Oven Fresh (1:30pm EST). The song will be available to download from fuse.tv on Monday only as part of Daily Download. Halifax would like to announce today that they will be touring with Sugarcult, The Spill Canvas, Maxeen, and So They Say from September 8th through Octtober 11th. Stay tuned for more tour info!
What did you listen to last week? Well, you can see what our last.fm group played during the last week in our charts below. Make sure to sign up for our group to have your listening habits included in this list; also members of the website add your last.fm username to your profile.
Unique Artists: 8880
Total Tracks: 73020
1 Fall Out Boy 498
2 PANIC! at the disco 452
3 Thrice 433
4 Taking Back Sunday 421
5 Brand New 415
6 Death Cab for Cutie 410
7 Jimmy Eat World 388
8 Motion City Soundtrack 384
9 blink-182 340
9 Saves the Day 340
11 The Starting Line 337
12 Armor for Sleep 331
13 Say Anything 324
14 Cartel 315
15 Mae 310
16 Coheed and Cambria 307
17 Something...
Interested in who sold what last week? Of course you are. The following are the number of albums sold last week (and total) for the week ending 11/06/2005. Disappointed with the results? Keep buying the music you love.
Blink 182 - Greatest Hits: 71,575 (71,731)
Ashlee Simpson - I Am Me: 54,190 (348,006)
Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree: 43,955 (983,545)
Slipknot - 9.0: Live: 42,089 (42,206)
Nirvana - Silver-Best of the Box: 38,308 (38,374)
Green Day - American Idiot: 34,792 (4,545,722)
Coldplay - X&Y: 18,144 (2,305,017)
Death Cab For Cutie - Plans: 15,042 (289,972)
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge: 13,603 (1,132,164)
Avenged Sevenfold - City of...
