Five songs will be nominated for Academy Awards in the Original Song category after the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences approved additional rules for the 85th Academy Awards. Changes in the Original Song category were the most significant of the board¹s rule changes. The academy spells it out:…

Just a lazy, late-August summer day ahead a three-day weekend. And the worst day yet for Facebook on Wall Street.  As of this writing, shares of FB are grovelling above $18, based on continued investor skepticism over Facebook’s flimsy model.   This is now a huge problem for Spotify, which is now effectively married to…

No wonder music fans are confused! Here’s a sampling of some of the most popular ways to pay (or not pay) for music today…  [DigitalMusicNews]

Bolstered by strong sales from the Christian market, tobyMac should win the fight for #1 next week, the first Christian/gospel artist to do so in recent memory. Here’s how it looks headed into the Labor Day weekend, with no releases selling in six figures: *tobyMac (Forefront) 60-65k *Slaughterhouse (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope) 50-55k Trey Songz (Atlantic) 40-45k *Alanis Morissette…

Shouts to Rap Rehab for coming up with this dope list. I’ll skip right to the countdown, cause I know that’s all you care about. Read on below: Mixtapes: I noticed a lot of artists will spend money on studio time, features and beats to record a mixtape but spend no money or very little…

Somethin ‘Bout Kreay, which she describes as a “musical ride through time.” Due September 18, the project features the singles “Gucci Gucci,” “Go Hard (La.La.La),” and the 2 Chainz-assisted “Breakfast (Syrup),” with contributions from Chippy Nonstop, V-Nasty, Sissy Nobby, Jean Baptiste, Diplo, and Kid Cudi, who appears on “Like It or Love It.” The WZRD…

TOP 10 TRACKS OF THE WEEK: The leaderboard is once again topped by Taylor Swift, whose latest retains its momentum, and then some, while Maroon 5’s “One More Night,” the second single from Overexposed, goes #7-4-2, adding another 25k. The lone newcomer is Neon Trees’ “Everybody Talks,” which jumps five slots to #10. 1. Taylor Swift, “We Are Never Ever Getting…