Adele’s hugely successful ’21’ album has been named as Amazon’s best-selling album of all time. As the Independent reports, the London singer’s second studio album tops Amazon’s list of big-selling records. Since its release in 2011, it has sold 28 million copies worldwide and has been certified platinum in the UK 16 times. Adele was…

People aren’t interested in buying music. Even Lada Gaga and Miley Cyrus have struggled to sell huge numbers of their respective albums. 2013 is the year where it all became startlingly clear, that is until Beyoncé launched her shock self-titled album. After selling 80,000 copies within three hours of its unexpected midnight release on Friday,…

“My choice of the word ‘renown’ rather than ‘success’ here is important because the primary issue that I addressed in the video was the disparity in the perception of success – gleaned from an artist’s healthy online profile, good press etc – and the actuality for the musicians: which is that not many people are…

Thursday night — just as Twitter was coming down from Scandal‘s midseason finale, and it’s hard to think of this as a coincidence — dropped an album out of nowhere. The news ricocheted through social media. People called it Bey Day and Christmas come early. In , Beyonce herself tied it to “,” the 13-minute-long…

Kendrick Lamar says that he’s happy to be nominated for Album Of The Year at the Grammys. “That’s crazy that it’s even in that [nomination] because that album is a really raw album,” Kendrick Lamar says of his good kid, m.A.A.d. city album during an interview with Power 106. The Compton, California rapper performed with…

Nate Ruess, singer/songwriter for Grammy award winner FUN. joined Renman to talk about his long journey to international success in the music business. Whether you are an aspiring artist, music industry pro or just a fan of the band, Nate’s story will be an inspiration for you to do something great in your life. industryRenmanMB…

Less than a month after its lineup of top tier Jamaican acts was announced on his Facebook page, Damian Marley’s inaugural Welcome to Jamrock Reggae Cruise has sold out all of the 2,300 available cabins aboard the Norwegian Pearl cruise liner, Damian told Billboard.biz in an exclusive interview. So named for Damian’s 2006 Best Reggae…

Get More: Danny Brown, RapFix Live, Full Episodes Danny Brown recently sat down with Sway during MTV’s RapFix Live. The Detroit rapper who recently released his album ‘Old’, took time to speak on his music, a recent trip to South Africa, and meeting Eminem. via 2DB [Al Lindstrom]

Back to a full panel this week, first we talk about the new Vangelis film with a clip of live improvisation, then the drum machine collection of Joe Mansfield, then the Kiwi Tech Juno 106 CPU upgrade, finally we help Mark decide if he needs a Guitorgan in his life. [Sonic Talk]

Producer and Drummer Eric Valentine join Dave and Herb on the 141st episode of Pensado’s Place! Eric has produced albums for artists such as Good Charlotte, Lost Prophets, Taking Back Sunday, Nickel Creek, Queens of the Stone Age, Third Eye Blind, Smash Mouth, The All-American Rejects and Slash. [Pensado’s Place]