|
January
31st: Brit nominations are in! Click here
for the full list.
January
30th: British songstress, Gabrielle, has gone to number
one this week with her version of Bob Dillon's "Rise".
She managed to knock Britney Spears off the top, who was
number one for one week with "Born To Make You Happy".
January
24th: British company EMI have been taken over by American
Time Warner in a massive £12bn merge. EMI, famous
for having The Beatles and the Spice Girls as their artists,
have today become Time Warner EMI. The company now have
2500 artists, and will release over 2000 albums this year.
January
23rd: Britney Spears has taken this weeks number
one single with her slow, romatic number "Born To Make
You Happy". It is the 18 year old's fourth release
from her multi-platinum selling album "Baby, One More
Time". Last weeks number one was the Manic Street Preachers.
January
22nd: Rumours have been flying over the net and in the
press that Celine Dion is pregnant with twins. A spokesman
said that Celine was shocked to hear about the rumours,
all of which have been denied. Watch this space for more
details!
January
18th: The results are in from
this year's American Music Awards. Unusually, no one artist
swept the board, as in recent years. Backstreet Boys, Britney
Spears, Shania Twain, Santana and Ricky Martin, all walked
away with one award each. The awards, which are voted for
by the public, are the second biggest music ceremony in
America to next month's Grammys.
January
17th: The Manic Street Preachers got the number one
single yesterday with "The Masses Against The Classes".
The Manics, with their huge fanbase, managed to get to the
top spot with no promotion at all for the song. Talking
on Capital FM, the band said that they decided not to make
a video or promote it at all. They managed to knock Westlife
off the top, sending them down to number 5.
January
11th: MusicNet now has all the nominations for the two
major music awards shows in the USA. The Grammy
Awards are set to take place on February 23rd. Check out
Grammys.com for information
on all the performers and presenters. The other big awards
show is the American Music Awards,
set to take place on the 17th of January. Look at ABC's
special website,
which also has all the information on the performers and
presenters. Be sure to come back to MusicNet though, as
we will have the results as soon as they are available.
Watch this space!!!
January 1st 2000: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
| 
