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By Gail Mitchell, Las Vegas
| 5:11 PM, May 19
As Billboard’s second annual Battle of the Bands wound down last night (May 18), Magnum Ice Cream kept the Billboard Music Awards energy revved up with its private party—featuring Natasha Bedingfield—at Hard Rock Hotel club Body English.
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By Keith Caulfield, Los Angeles
| 10:54 AM, May 19
Despite how nearly half of the late Donna Summer's studio albums are off the market, the diva's catalog is due to make waves on the Billboard charts next week.
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By Billboard Staff, New York
| 6:29 AM, May 19
With pop-punk hooks, fist pumps aplenty and some fancy footwork, Patent Pending, an impossibly high energy "rag-tag bunch jerks" from Long Island, NY, earned a golden ticket to perform at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday (May 20, ABC at 8:00 p.m. EDT) after besting five other acts to win the Battle of the Bands showdown.
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By Billboard Staff
| 10:45 PM, May 18
The Billboard Battle of the Bands begins at 8 pm (PT) with six of the country's best and most talented unsigned acts as voted on by Billboard readers. Check out the live stream right here.
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By Jem Aswad, Las Vegas
| 6:52 PM, May 18
The 2012 Billboard Music Awards, airing Sunday at 8 p.m. on ABC, will feature tributes to the Beastie Boys’ Adam “MCA” Yauch and Donna Summer, co-executive producer Richard Beckman told Billboard.biz in an expansive interview about the show.
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By Keith Caulfield, Los Angeles
| 6:16 PM, May 18
While it seems that Adam Lambert is on the verge of his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with Trespassing, a number of other acts are set to debut in the top 20 next week, including Tenacious D, Garbage, and the 'Glee' cast.
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By Ray Waddell (@billboardtour), Nashville
| 4:15 PM, May 18
Live Nation Ticket Sales are up 25% year-to-date thanks in part to a strong lineup of tours that touches on virtually every genre: Roger Waters, Madonna, Lady Gaga, Radiohead, Coldplay, Dave Matthews Band, Jason Aldean, Brad Paisley, Nickelback, Aerosmith, Toby Keith, Tom Petty and others are helping the world’s largest promoter and amphitheater operator rebound after an industry downturn in 2010. Plus, there's the $4 beers...
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By Glenn Peoples, Nashville
| 3:26 PM, May 18
Contrary to widespread reports in the media, Bono is not about to rake in $1.5 billion on Facebook's IPO today. He is a managing director for a private equity firm -- Elevation Partners -- and may be set to make around $10 million on the sale. Elsewhere, Amanada Palmer's Kickstarter hits $750K, and Nathan Hubbard takes to Twitter to talk Ticketmaster fees.
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By Ray Waddell (@billboardtour), Nashville
| 3:22 PM, May 18
Though rumors are flying as to why Van Halen pulled the plug on the final 30 dates of the band’s current tour, according to a reliable source close to the tour, the premature ending is not due to illness, injury, internal strife or lagging ticket sales. Rather, “fatigue” is the culprit, according to the source, who adds that that the dates are being postponed, not cancelled.
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By William Gruger (@wGruger), New York
| 2:00 PM, May 18
At 7pm on a rainy Tuesday evening right in the middle of Internet Week NY, tech entrepreneurs and music enthusiasts alike filed into the Gramercy Theater to attend the 3rd annual FlashFWD awards show. Presented by SoundCtrl, a NYC-based event platform for the convergence of music and digital media, in conjunction with Fuse and Pepsi, FlashFWD aims to recognize companies and individuals who have made significant innovations in the music industry.
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By William Gruger (@wGruger), New York
| 12:15 PM, May 18
Ryan Seacrest's official Web site recently launched a Bieber-off contest, in the hopes of finding the best fan-created cover of "Boyfriend." Popular YouTube coverband Cimorelli (comprised of six sisters) have jumped in with their own rendition and have made it past the first Bieber-off cutoff along with MattyB and previous Social 50 resident Tyler Ward.
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By Marc Schneider, New York
| 12:04 PM, May 18
It's a topic that's tough to avoid when discussing the accomplishments of Donna Summer, who died Thursday of cancer: Why is the legendary singer not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? The chairman of the Hall's nominating committee today called the omission "regrettable."
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By Billboard Staff
| 11:45 AM, May 18
Each Friday, Billboard presents "Bubbling Under," a weekly look at new and noteworthy acts making their way toward Billboard chart success. Up this week: Emeli Sande, Gavin Creel, A$AP Rocky and Rhett Walker Band.
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