Elvis Presley's 'Heartbreak Hotel' Back At No 1 In Billboard 50 Years Later!
LOS ANGELES (SONY BMG Music Entertainment) - This week, Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" returns to the No 1 spot on a Billboard chart 50 years after its initial debut. Presley's famous first RCA Studios session in 1956, just days after his 21st birthday, produced "Heartbreak Hotel" and the song became ...
| 'Ricky Nelson: Greatest Hits' CD Rockets Up The Chart As Billboard Top 100's Greatest Gainer & Debuts On Billboard's Top Internet Album Sales Chart
HOLLYWOOD, CA. (Capitol/EMI Music Catalog Marketing) - In a week that saw a thirty percent average sales drop across the music spectrum, Capitol/EMI Music Catalog Marketing and the Rick Nelson Company proudly announce that Ricky Nelson: Greatest Hits, released December 27, has rocketed up Billboard's ...
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Original Teen Idol Ricky Nelson Makes Highest Chart Debut In 34 Years With 'Ricky Nelson: Greatest Hits' CD and 'Ricky Nelson Sings' DVD
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Capitol/EMI) - Capitol/EMI Music Catalog Marketing and the Rick Nelson Company proudly announce that Ricky Nelson: Greatest Hits CD, released December 27, has entered Billboard's Top 200 Album chart at No 102, making it Nelson's highest-charting debut since Garden Party's 1972 entrance ...
| Whitesnake Releases First Single-CD Retrospective, 'The Definitive Collection,' & First Live DVD, 'Live... In the Still Of The Night (Special Collector's Edition)'
LOS ANGELES (Universal Music Enterprises) - With the latest shout-outs in the movie "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and Bowling For Soup's hit single "1985" ("She was gonna be an actress/She was gonna be a star/She was gonna shake her ass/On the hood of Whitesnake's car"), Whitesnake continues to prove that ...
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Graceland Launches A Year-Long Golden Anniversary Celebration Of Elvis Milestones Of 1956
MEMPHIS, TN. (By David Beckwith/ Elvis Presley Enterprises) - Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc.: - Beginning with the annual Elvis birthday festivities in January, throughout 2006 Elvis Presley Enterprises will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the year Elvis Presley became a superstar and the lightning ...
| Merle Haggard's Classic 1960s / 1970s Capitol Albums Remastered And Expanded
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Capitol Nashville/EMI) - Capitol Nashville/EMI Music Catalog Marketing is proud to announce "The Year of Hag," with several catalog titles planned for release in 2006 and 2007 to salute one of country music's true outlaws: the one and only "Okie From Muskogee," Merle Haggard. The in-depth ...
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Rhino Celebrates 'The Very Best Of Roberta Flack'
LOS ANGELES, CA (Rhino Records) - Refined and versatile, Roberta Flack's distinctive, jazz-influenced voice could kill the world softly with its smoldering intensity or set the night to music with a joyous shout. Rhino Records explores the sophisticated singer's musical range with this career-spanning ...
| Lenny Kravitz's Greatest Hits
Sydney, AU (EMI MUSIC AUSTRALIA) - Lenny's Greatest Hits Limited Edition CD/DVD contains 14 of his guitar weilding hits plus two new additions: "Dig In" and "Where Are We Runnin'". But wait, there's more, as the DVD includes 6 classic Lenny Kravitz videos: "Always On The Run", "Are You Gonna Go My Way", ...
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The Temptations Record 15 Classic Motown Songs for the First Time for New Album 'Reflections'
LOS ANGELES (By Sujata Murthy/ UMe Records/ www.umusic.com) - Finally, The Temptations, one of the most popular singing groups of all time, perform the Motown classics they always loved but never had the chance to record. Putting a fresh spin on 15 of Motown's greatest songs, "Reflections" (New Door/UMe) ...
| Hollywood Records Celebrates 30th Anniversary Of Queen's 'A Night At The Opera' With Special Collector's Edition Set
BURBANK, CA (Hollywood Records) - Hard to believe it's been three decades since the release of QUEEN's breakthrough album A NIGHT AT THE OPERA. The record, Queen's fourth since arriving on the scene in '73, went to No. 1 in several countries around the world, was the band's first to hit the top five ...
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25 Years After Death Of Lennon, Yoko Ono Says Of Family: 'You Know, This is Like a Shakespearean Drama Almost. Each Person Has Something To Be Totally Miserable About...'
NEW YORK, NY (Newsweek) - In the current issue of Newsweek, Senior Editor Jeff Giles takes a look at the lives of the family members John Lennon left behind 25 years ago and the turmoil that has plagued them since his death. "You know, this is like a Shakespearean drama almost," Lennon's widow, Yoko ...
| John Lennon Re-Releases Two Catalogue Albums On November 20, 2005
Sydney, AU (EMI MUSIC AUSTRALIA) - Following the release of 'Working Class Hero - the Definitive Lennon', Parlophone will be reissuing two Lennon catalogue albums on November 20. 'Some Time in New York City' and 'Walls and Bridges' are the latest releases in a campaign of reissues featuring remixed ...
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Linda Ronstadt's 1969-1974 Capitol Records Solo Output Presented In New 2-CD Collection, 'The Best Of Linda Ronstadt: The Capitol Years'
HOLLYWOOD, CA. (Capitol/EMI Music Catalog Marketing) - Linda Ronstadt's four seminal Capitol Records solo albums from 1969 to 1974 have been collected for the first time in a new 2-CD package, "The Best Of Linda Ronstadt: The Capitol Years." Due in stores on January 24, the 47-track collection from ...
| The Bee Gees' First Love Songs Collection: Pop's Greatest Group with Pop's Greatest Love Songs
LOS ANGELES, CA. (Universal Music Enterprises) - The Bee Gees have written some of pop music's greatest love songs-songs covered by innumerable artists throughout the years. But now, for the first time, The Bee Gees' original recordings of those love songs have been brought together on one album. Love ...
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Classic Deep Purple Album 'Who Do We Think We Are,' Released on Audio Fidelity's 24
Ventura, CA (Audio Fidelity) -There is gold in the vaults of Audio Fidelity! Another audiophile classic rock collection is now available. The Deep Purple Mark II lineup, arguably their finest, set the heavy rock-blues world on fire with their 1973 release Who Do We Think We Are. Now it's preserved in ...
| Limp Bizkit's' 'Greatest Hitz' Features Band's Classic Tracks
Santa Monica, CA.(Geffen Records) - One of rock's most influential and subversive bands is geared up to give fans exactly what they want, as Limp Bizkit releases its first-ever "Greatest Hitz" collection. The Flip/Geffen CD package contains tracks from each of Limp Bizkit's platinum and multi-platinum ...
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SRS Labs Release 'Duran Duran: Live From London' DVD in SRS Circle Surround
SANTAANA, Calif. (SRLS PR) - SRS Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: SRSL), one of the world's leading providers of audio technology solutions, and Coming Home Studios, a Los Angeles-based full service television and DVD production and distribution company, today announced the release of the much-anticipated single- ...
| Frank Sinatra's Acclaimed Final Studio Albums, 'Duets' and 'Duets II' Paired by Capitol/EMI for 'Duets and Duets II: 90th Birthday Limited Collector's Edition'
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., (Capitol/EMI Music Catalog Marketing) - December 12, 2005 marks the 90th anniversary of Frank Sinatra's birth. Combined, Frank Sinatra's final studio albums, the immensely popular all-star collaborations "Duets" and "Duets II," have sold more than four million units in the U.S. since ...
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Capitol/EMI To Release Two New Titles From The Original Teen Idol: 'Ricky Nelson: Greatest Hits' CD & 'Ricky Nelson Sings' DVD
LOS ANGELES,CA. (Capitol/EMI Music Catalog Marketing) - Capitol/EMI Music Catalog Marketing and the Rick Nelson Company proudly announce the December 27th release of Ricky Nelson: Greatest Hits on CD and Ricky Nelson Sings on DVD. The new CD collects 25 Top 25 hits from one of America's greatest icons, ...
| CD Debut of 'Indian Ocean' Highlights Definitive Two-CD Gold Retrospective from Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam
LOS ANGELES, CA. (UMe Records) - Collection Also Features The Hits "The First Cut Is The Deepest," "Where Do The Children Play?," "Hard Headed Woman," "Wild World," "Moonshadow," "Morning Has Broken," "Peace Train," "Oh Very Young" And More With the CD debut of "Indian Ocean," Yusuf Islam (aka Cat ...
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