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BEST LONGFORM MUSIC VIDEO a ` 1 .%. .4 Billboard 1 ON THE CHARTS ALBUMS PAGE ARTIST /TITLE THE S YLE, BILLBOARD 200 32 THE GIFTIFT JASON A / TOP INDEPENDENT 34 MV KINDA PARTY KIDCUDI/ TOP DIGITAL 34 MAN ON THE MOON It THE LEGEND OF MR. RAGER 34 SUSAN BOYLE / TOP INTERNET TnE GIFT OCEAN WAY / HEATSEEKERS ALBUMS 35 OCEAN WAY SESSIONS (EP) TAYLOR WIFT / TOP COUNTRY 39 SPEAK NOW DIERKS BENTLEY / TOP BLUEGRASS 39 UPON THE RIDGE KID / TOP R &B /HIP -HOP 40 MAN ON THE MOON II'. THE LEGEND OF MR. RAGER UNO / TOP CHRISTIAN 42 0 (DISAMBIGUATION) LECRAE / TOP GOSPEL 42 REHAB UPFRONTl' LADY GAGA / TOP DANCE /ELECTRONIC 5 READY, SET, SHOP 10 Digital Entertainment 43 THE FAME CHRISTINA AGUILERA 11 MICYO BUGLE / Merchants' video focus On The Road TOP TRADITIONAL JAZZ 43 HOLLYWOOD:W THE DELUXE (EP) could undermine 12 Latin FOURPLAY TOP T CONTEMPORARY JAZZ 43 LET'S TOUCH THE SKY strong release schedule 13 Global VARIOUS ARTISTS / TOP TRADITIONAL on Black Friday. 14 The Indies CLASSICAL 43 BIZET: CARMEN: DUETS 8 ARIAS THE CANADIAN TENORS / 7 Retail Track 15 Q &A: Dan Mason TOP CLASSICAL CROSSOVER 443 PERFECT GIFT 8 6 Questions: David CELTIC THUNDER / TOP WORLD 43 CHRISTMAS Viecelli, Legal Matters SLEELSL TOP LATIN 44 EL SOL FEATURES `. `SONGS COVER STORY jSALEPAGE ARTIST / TITLE THE BILLBOARD FA MOVEMENT! 16 OUTSIDE THE BIG BOX HOT 100 36 LIKE A S6 BRUNO MARS / From its initial refusal to make HOT 100 AIRPLAY 37 JUST THE WAY YOU ARE videos to its unpopular war against HOT DIGITAL SONGS 37 TEENAGE DREAM Napster, Metallica has always played HEATSEEKERS MUMFORD 8 SONS ! by its own rules. 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Groom) >t LA ROUX / Hutchinson HOT DANCE CLUB SONGS 43 IN FOR THE KILL DJ MUG FEATURING SARAH LYNN / HOT DANCE AIRPLAY 43 SOMEWHERE DAVE KOZ FEATURING LEE RITENOUR / SMOOTH JAZZ SONGS 43 PUT THE TOP DOWN DON OM R LUCENZO / HOT LATIN SONGS 45 DANZA AUGURS Online Print JUST A DREAM / HOT .COIVI EXCLUSIVES YEAR -END ISSUE MASTER RINGTONES 10 NELLY This week on Billboard Who'll be Billboard's THIS WEEK ON .biz ARTIST / TITLE .com, watch the archived 2010 Artist of the Year? x1 SESIFT YLE/ video of our live Q &A What were the top stories TOP HOLIDAY THE GIFT VARIOUS ARTISTS with Wyclef Jean, who of the past 12 months? pr1 TOP MUSIC VIDEO SALES ERIC CLAPTON CROSSROADS GUITAR FESTIVAL 2070 answered fans' tweeted Find out Dec. 11 when M/ HOT p1 VIDEOCLIPS flIGHTRIGHT THRU7HRU ME questions from our New Billboard publishes its issue, TOP DVD SALES TOY STORY 3 York offices. year -end double the Year in Music. NOVEMBER 27, 2010 www.billboard.biz 3 201 YEAR N MI US C WITH EXCLUSIVE YEAR -END CHARTS AND ANALYSIS The issue referenced year -round by the most powerful people in the world of music. Covering Artists, Albums, Touring, Publishing, Technology AND MORE On Sale: Dec 11 Special Section Ad Close: Nov 24 Issue Ad Close: Dec 3 SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S ISSUE On Newsstands For Two Weeks TO ADVERTISE, CONTA w Y rk: 646 -.54 -4627 Los Angeles: 323- 5 -2 99 Nashville: 6 5- 352 -0265/615 -376 -7 _ Hz G z 7 THE LATEST HOT TOPIC BEST BUYS SIDELOAD THIS KINECT THE DOTS RADIO GAGA NEWS MTV to launch Music Labels work to keep EMI v. MP3Tunes heads New dance music CBS' Dan Mason talks FROM 16- Meter buzz index hits collections relevant toward denouement videogames hit stores about top 40 format » >EMUSIC LOSES THREE INDIE LABELS Digital retailer eMusic removed repertoire from Domino, Merge and the Beggars Group of labels on Nov.18 after they were unable to reach an agreement on licensing terms. The move came the same week that eMusic added about 250,000 tracks from Universal - Music Group, the third major to reach a deal BY ED CHRISTMAN with eMusic. (EMI is the only holdout.) eMusic president/ CEO Adam Klein said indies labels on Ready, Set eMusic won't suffer in the wake of recent price changes, adding Shop that some might even benefit. Merchants' Video Focus Could Undermine Strong Release Schedule On Black Friday » >WMG NET LOSS WIDENS A slate of new superstar releases has vendors putting together aggressive IN 04 the recording industry hopeful for a pricing programs." Warner Music Group robust Black Friday, even as physical An executive at another mass mer- reported a net loss of retailers focus greater attention on chant says, "The video guys get aggres- $46 million in the DVD and videogame releases. sive every year to take advantage of fiscal fourth quarter Widely anticipated Thanksgiving - Black Friday. The music guys do noth- ended Sept. 30, week releases include Kanye West's ing. They just sit back and wait for the widening from a net loss of $18 million in "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy," hammer to fall." the same period last Nicki Minaj's "Pink Friday," Ke$ha's Black Friday sales circulars reflect year. Revenue during "Cannibal," Ne -Yo's "Libra Scale" and far more real estate dedicated to DVDs the quarter totaled My Chemical Romance's "Danger and videogames than music. $752 million, falling Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Best Buy is featuring six albums for from $867 million a Killjoys." They will join a host of re- $6.99: Bon Jovi's "Greatest Hits," Katy year earlier. WMG's cently released titles that are also ex- Perry's "Teenage Dream," Maroon 5's recorded -music pected to continue doing brisk sales, "Hands All Over," Rihanna's "Loud," business posted including Rihanna's "Loud," Susan Keith Urban's "Get Closer" and Car- operating income of ole King & Taylor's "Live at $7 million in the Boyle's "The Gift," Taylor Swift's James the quarter, plunging "Speak Now" and Cee -Lo Green's "The Troubadour." Target's circular fea- from $49 million a Lady Killer." tures only three titles, all priced year earlier, while its "The release schedule, which looked at $6.50 and none of them re- music publishing bad back in the summer, is pretty OK leased this year: Lady Antebel- business posted and it's maybe better than last year," lum's self -titled album, Guns 'N operating income of Attention shoppers: Black Friday crowds at a Universal Music Group Distribution Roses' "Greatest Hits" and Em- Target store in Chicago in 2009; Lady Antebellum's $38 million, falling president /CEO Jim Urie says. inem's "Curtain Call." debut album (inset), which will be available at from $43 million. The head of sales at another label "That's just silly," says a senior Target for $6.50.