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Chris Daughtry
is officially the bestselling
artist of 2007, with his band's self-titled debut,
Daughtry, selling 3.2 million copies, per Billboard.
Meanwhile, Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable," a
Grammy nominee for Record of the Year, was the number-one
single, and the Police's reunion tour was
the year's top act, raking in $212 million. |
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Scott Weiland's
arraignment on DUI charges has been continued untl Jan.
17...A trial date of Feb. 19 has been set in Joe
Francis' misdemeanor sexual battery case
stemming from an alleged run-in he had with an
18-year-old woman at a Hollywood party. |
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The
reunion tour by the Police was the
highest-grossing tour of 2007, raking in more than $212
million while selling 1.8 million tickets, according to
Billboard Boxscore. It was followed by another
boomer-riffic reunion tour — Genesis came in
second on grosses of $129 million, followed by Justin
Timberlake, who took in $126.8 million and drew more
than 1.6 million fans worldwide. |
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Also making the top 10 was
Christina Aguilera, who nosed in at #9 on grosses
of $48.1 million. Despite the massive grosses by the top
acts, overall the magazine reports that North American
concert dollars and attendance were down double digits
for the year, with grosses slipping 10.2 percent and
attendance down 19.2 percent. |
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Florida
prosecutors on Monday dropped a domestic battery charge
against Scott Stapp after the former
Creed frontman completed anger
management counseling and substance-abuse evaluation.
The singer, originally charged with aggravated assault
with intent to commit a felony before a judge knocked it
down to a misdemeanor, had been accused of throwing a
glass Orangina bottle at wife Jaclyn Nesheiwat.
The judge had determined that the bottle was not a
deadly weapon before granting the rocker "supervised
release." |
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Pimp C
was remembered Thursday at a
memorial service in his hometown of Port Arthur, Texas.
The rapper, one-half of the duo UGK, was found dead Dec.
4 in a Los Angeles hotel room. He was 33. |
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- Stories courtesy of Eonline.com and MTV.com |
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