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Oct 7th 2002

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                    This week's features

Aaliyah tribute album due Nov 26th 
MOBO Awards: the winners are... 
The Roots 'Phrenology' drops in Nov
Major labels to pay $140 million to consumers

 

 

Aaliyah tribute album due Nov 26th 

 

The long awaited tribute album for Aaliyah will be on record shelves November 26th according to Universal Records. The late singer's label Blackground Records (who has now signed a distribution with Universal) has not yet releeased any details as to who will appear on the album but I guesss all in good time.

Speaking of appearances there'a also a tribute concert sceduled. Missy Elliott, Eve and Tweet are among the performers who will take to the stage in New York City's Irving Plaza on October 22nd for Where My Girls At, a musical celebration honoring the fallen angel as she is known nowadays. The concert is part of the Vanity Fair In Concert series, co-organized by DKNY and the Step Up Women's Network.

Tickets for the event are avaliable through Ticketmaster... www.ticketmaster.com/artist/844105



Source - aaliyahonline.com   

 

 

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MOBO Awards: the winners are...

 

And speaking of Aaliyah, she was awarded the Best Video of the year at last week MOBO awards held at the London Arena and there were some surprise winners. The biggest most likely was newcomer Norah Jones beating out veterans Peter White, Hugh Masekela and Joe Sample in the jazz category and teen group Mis-teeq who beat out favourites So Solid Crew and Sugarbabes in the 'Best Garage' category.
 
The biggest winner on the night was North London's lovely lass and newest darling Ms. Dynamite who took home 3 of the 6 awards she was nominated in and newcomers Ashanti and Alicia Keys won for 'Best R&B Act' and 'Best Album' respectively.The entertainment was just as surprising with Craig David (who was snubbed at last year's award) performing his latest single from his yet-to-be-released sophomore set.
 
Here are the nominees and winners (in bold) for the 2002 MOBO Awards


Best R&B Act in association with Choice FM

Tweet
Usher
Ashanti (Winner)
Ms. Dynamite
Alicia Keys
Best Video in association with MTV Base

Eminem - Without Me
B. Rhymes ft. P Diddy - Pass The Courvoisier
Ja Rule ft. Ashanti - Always On Time
Aaliyah - More Than A Woman (Winner)
Ms. Dynamite - It Takes More

Best Newcomer presented by KISS 100

Ms. Dynamite (Winner)
Ashanti
The Streets
Alicia Keys
Daniel Bedingfield

Best Album presented by MasterCard

Ashanti - Ashanti
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Ja Rule - Pain Is Love
Ms. Dynamite - A Little Deeper
Alicia Keys - Songs In A Minor (Winner)

London Tonight UK Act Of The Year

Mis-Teeq
Ms. Dynamite (Winner)
Daniel Bedingfield
Beverley Knight
So Solid Crew
Sugababes

Best Single presented by Galaxy Network

Ja Rule ft. Ashanti - Always On Time
Nelly - Hot In Here
Ms. Dynamite - It Takes More (Winner)
Alicia Keys - Fallin’
Fat Joe ft. Ashanti - What’s Luv?

 

Best Producer presented by MP3.com

Neptunes (Winner)
Irv Gotti
Dr Dre
Missy Elliott
Timbaland

Best World Music Act presented by British Airways

Femi Kuti
Gilberto Gil
Angelique Kidjo (Winner)
Papa Noel / Oviedo P

Best Garage Act presented by The Daily Telegraph

Mis-Teeq (Winner)
Daniel Bedingfield
Heartless Crew
More Fire Crew
So Solid Crew

Best Hip Hop Act

Ja Rule feat. Ashanti (Winner)
Busta Rhymes ft. P Diddy
Nelly
Ludacris
Blak Twang

Best Reggae Act

Elephant Man
Sean Paul (Winner)

T.O.K
Beres Hammond
Capleton

 

 

 

Best UK DJ

Steve Sutherland (Winner)
DJ 279
Tim Westwood
Dreem Teem
Trevor Nelson
Matt White
Shortee Blitz
EZ
Simon ‘Schoolboy’ Phillips
Semtex

Best Jazz Act

Norah Jones (Winner)
Peter White
Hugh Masekela
Joe Sample

Best Gospel Act

Mary Mary
Michelle Williams (Winner)

Trin - I - Tee 5 7
Yolanda Adams

Raymond Weil MOBO Unsung Award

Street Politiks

MOBO Lifetime Achievement Award

Chaka Kahn

MOBO Contribution to Urban Music

Jimmy Cliff

MOBO Outstanding Achievement

Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopez

 
 
 
Source - mobo.net       
 


 

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The Roots 'Phrenology' due in Nov 

 

The Roots are back with a new set that's due Nov 26th. The Philadelphia outfit has been busy doing other projects since their last release 'Things fall apart' in 99 but all parites have come together to work on 'Phrenology'. According to their website www.theroots.com, there no tracklistings as of yet as they want to keep it under wraps until the set is released. I'll keep you posted as soon as they become available

Source - billboard.com 

 

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Major labels to pay $140 million to consumers   

 

The five major record label groups and the three largest music retailers have agreed to pay $143 million in cash and CDs to resolve a long-standing class action price-fixing case.

The settlement, announced Monday, brings to a close allegations that the major labels and retailers had violated antitrust laws and illegally inflated the cost of CDs. At issue was a policy called "minimum advertised pricing," or MAP, under which the major labels would jointly pay for advertising if a retailer agreed to sell CDs above a certain price.

This pricing practice began nearly a decade ago as a way for Musicland's Sam Goody, Tower Records and Trans World Entertainment to combat the loss of business when large department stores such as Wal-Mart and consumer electronics retailers such as Circuit City and Best Buy began selling CDs below cost. State prosecutors said this amounted to price-fixing, which not only cheated consumers by eliminating price discounting, but violated federal and state antitrust laws by reducing price competition among retailers, according to a suit filed in August 2000 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

"This is a landmark settlement to address years of illegal price-fixing," New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said in a statement. "Our agreement will provide consumers with substantial refunds and result in the distribution of a wide variety of recordings for use in our schools and communities."

As part of the settlement, the record labels and retailers admit no wrongdoing, but agree to stop using MAP policies and pay $67.4 million in cash to be refunded to consumers who overpaid for CDs between 1995 and 2000 and donate $75.7 million worth of CDs to charities, public schools, libraries and hospitals in all 50 states. Details are still being worked out to distribute the cash refunds, since it's not expected that the majority of those affected would have kept sales receipts. Prosecutors will make announcements later to inform consumers how to file claims.

The settlement amounts were determined by market share. Universal Music Group confirmed that their share will be $18,850,000 in cash and $21,750,000 in product for a total of $40.6 million in cash and CDs. Warner-Elektra-Atlantic will pay $29.4 million in cash and CDs, while Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) will pay $27.8 million in cash and CDs, Sony Music Entertainment $27.2 million in cash and CDs, and EMI Music Distribution $15 million in cash and CDs. Musicland, Tower Records and Trans World Entertainment will pay a combined $3 million.

 

Source: soulnotes.cc 

 

 

 

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