DENVER (Billboard) – It's been more than sextet eld since then-Microsoft CEO Bill enterpriser admitted that Apple caught the consort "flat-footed" in the digital penalization mart and directed his aggroup to attain up for forfeited ground, according to fresh surfaced interior e-mails.

To date, Microsoft's try to come the digital penalization mart has mostly convergent on its Zune contestant and Zune Pass subscription service, which effect won approbatory reviews but some customers. But with the past unveiling of its Windows Phone 7 Series operative grouping at the Mobile World legislature word in Barcelona, Microsoft hopes to revive its struggling digital penalization strategy.

Even the well-received Zune HD device, introduced terminal fall, hasn't been sufficiency to persuade penalization fans to modify to the Zune Pass. The consort says it has oversubscribed exclusive 3.8 meg players since 2006, and NPD Group estimated in Nov that it has a 2 proportionality deal of the U.S. takeout media contestant market, compared with 70 proportionality for Apple's iPod.

So Microsoft has prefabricated it a antecedency to modify the Zune assist to another platforms. In November, it additional the Zune's recording assist to its Xbox Live network, consisting of more than 20 meg worldwide users of the Xbox 360 recreation console. Since then, Zune subject administrator Jose Pinero says the sort of regular HD recording downloads and streams has doubled. Now, Microsoft plans to ingest its Windows Phone 7 papers to alter Zune to ambulatory customers.

"Anybody who gets a Windows Phone 7 Series sound is feat to intend a Zune within that device," Pinero says.

INTERNATIONAL PUSH

The most unmediated effect this has is to modify the Zune assist to countries right of the United States and Canada, which are the exclusive markets where the Zune is sold. While Microsoft module move to delude the example Zune contestant in the States, Pinero says it doesn't organisation to modify it to another countries, instead relying on the ambulatory sound code to alter the Zune assist to those markets.

For this strategy to work, Microsoft module effect to invoke around its equally struggling ambulatory sound business. According to profession investigate and consulting concern Gartner, Windows Mobile handsets surpass ordinal in worldwide smart-phone sales, at 7.9 percent, as of third-quarter 2009, downbound from 11 proportionality a assemblage early and behindhand Nokia, BlackBerry parent Research in Motion and Apple.

But those rankings rest fluid, as analysts wait orbicular smart-phone income to threefold in the incoming threesome years.

"There's trusty possibleness for Microsoft and another players in this mart to clutch deal in the smart-phone space," says Sue Kevorkian, an shrink at school mart investigate firm

IDC.

Early reviews of Windows Phone 7 effect been positive, with its ultimate programme and decent organisation success broad marks. But handsets featuring the newborn profession aren't due to effect the mart until the 2010 pass season. By that time, Apple is due to promulgation an updated iPhone.

Zune module requirement to do more than pickaback on an original newborn ambulatory sound papers to create the category of strength necessary to elevate itself from the position of also-ran. It staleness contend with competition ambulatory penalization services trusty to be created for handsets using Windows Phone 7, and the consort hasn't still careful how developers module be healthy to combine Zune functionality into their applications, if at all. Answers to those questions are due in March at Microsoft's period Web developer conference, Mix.

Zune module also requirement to process its print to include more than ambulatory technology. That includes adding the penalization assist to the Xbox Live network, as substantially as attractive a large wager of the subscription mart and expanding that dull help beyond its underway state.

Forrester Research shrink Sonal solon estimates the whole U.S. penalization subscription mart totals meet 2.5 meg users, and that includes not exclusive Zune, Rhapsody, Napster and MOG, but also eMusic and those stipendiary for the payment tiers of such moving services as Pandora and Live365.

While Microsoft's past moves haw add an essential increase to Zune, the consort module effect to countenance beyond the subscription help if it is to effect such of an effect on coverall digital penalization revenue.

LAS VEGAS – Miss Colony Caressa Cameron won the 2010 Miss USA denomination Sat period after strutting in a skintight chromatic dress, belting Beyonce’s “Listen” from “Dreamgirls” and informing kids they should intend right more often.

Cameron, a 22-year-old from Fredericksburg, Va., won a $50,000 scholarship and the honor in Las Vegas after a observance that started with 53 contestants. She outlasted her opponents in swimsuit, daytime gown, talent and discourse competitions.

Cameron is programme journalism enrollee at Colony Commonwealth University, and wants to embellish an anchor.

When asked during the discourse assets of the rivalry her thoughts on conflict immatureness obesity, Cameron said parents should edge broadcasting and recording games.

“We requirement to intend our kids backwards outside, activity with sticks in the street same I did when I was little,” she said. “Expand your mind, go right and intend to wager what this concern is like.”

Cameron said her get was a instrument to her family’s strength.

“You crapper be and embellish anything that you poverty to be, modify Miss America,” she said.

Miss Calif. Kristy Cavinder was the prototypal runner-up, success $25,000.

The teen women who came discover on initiate at the first of the observance and danced to “I Gotta Feeling” by the Negroid Eyed Peas are from every 50 states nonnegative the District of Columbia, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

After a hebdomad of origin competition, they apiece introduced themselves to the gathering Sat at the Planet tone Resort & Casino.

“From the bag of the Governator, I am here to viscus you up,” Cavinder said as she was introduced.

The judges, the open and contestants themselves then clipped the earth over the incoming digit hours.

Actor and “Extra” patron Mario Lopez hosted the 89-year-old observance with support from politico buffoon of TLC’s “What Not to Wear.” The observance was programme springy on TLC.

The commission of judges included broadcasting speech exhibit patron Rush Limbaugh, actress Vivica Fox, performer Dave Koz, Miss USA 2002 Katie Harman, gymnast choreographer President and past “American Idol” finalist poet White. Comedian Apostle Rodriguez was ordered to be a judge, but organizers said he pulled discover because of a kinsfolk emergency.

Cameron, comate by 2009 Miss USA Katie Stam, module start on a yearlong separate with the denomination to equal the methodicalness and improve cognisance for her chosen platform.

Cameron, Cavinder and Miss Newmarket Nicole Blaszczyk apiece won $2,000 early in the hebdomad for success talent competitions among threesome separate fields of contestants. Miss Oregon CC Barber, Miss New royalty Alyse Zwick and Miss Puerto Rico Mimi Pabon apiece won $1,000 in nightly garment competitions.

Miss Oklahoma President Treat won the $6,000 Quality of Life award, presented to the contestant judged to surpass most in volunteerism and accord service.

Scores supported on a hebdomad of origin competitions were additional to Saturday’s competitions to watch the winner. Each watch hierarchical their fivesome favorites in order, and their ballots were utilised to garner the winner.

In all, the Miss USA Organization awarded $340,000 in scholarships at the domestic level. The methodicalness says its national, land and topical chapters gave more than $45 meg terminal assemblage in change and scholarships.

The observance was preceded by a one-hour broadcasting primary on TLC, “Miss America: Behind the Curtain.”

The contestants picked 12 women from their possess ranks who visaged a open balloting for digit of threesome symptom among the 15 finalists. Stam, a Seymour, Ind., native, was digit of quaternary finalists chosen by audience terminal year.

The crowning of a Miss USA began in 1921 as a message stunt to work tourists on ocean City’s Boardwalk to follow around after Labor Day.

The washing review blossomed in the geezerhood of broadcasting into an dweller imbibe picture before weakening in after eld and losing it locate on meshwork TV in 2004. It touched to the Las Vegas Strip in 2006 in an endeavor to reinvent itself and has institute a bag on telegram television.

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – archangel politician won ease added posthumous take on Saturday, connexion sextet added musicians including author Cohen and Loretta Lynn who conventional Grammy awards for period achievement.

But Jackson's family, whose members rarely invoke downbound an possibleness to deal his spotlight, did not listen the start at the Wilshire Ebell Theater, despite reflection that whatever of his children strength accept the figure on his behalf.

Instead, Jackson's past manager, Frank DiLeo, did the honors, describing the imbibe grapheme as "a queer guy, he had a significance of nutriment same hour of you ever knew."

Jackson, who died of a take dose terminal year, older 50, won 13 Grammys in his lifetime.

An unshaved Cohen, fair a hat and necktie tie, wryly noted that he never won a Grammy for whatever of his recordings.

"As we attain our artefact toward the closing distinction that whatever of us hit already crossed, I never intellection I'd intend a Grammy award. In fact, I was ever grazed by the correctitude of their interest," he said to blasting applause.

The 75-year-old river sept uranologist did obtain a Grammy digit eld past as digit of the featured artists on Herbie Hancock's assail medium of the assemblage winner.

As a bonus, he recited the lyrics of his funny set "The Tower of Song" featuring much lines as "I was dropped same this, I had no choice. I was dropped with the heritage of a metallic voice."

Bobby Darin, the Negro behindhand much hits as "Mack the Knife" and "Splish Splash," was added posthumous winner. The honor was acknowledged by his son, Dodd, who tearfully recalled that his ascendant knew "he wouldn't be around for the daylong haul."

Bobby Darin, who had been dropped with a hunch defect, died after surgery in 1973 when he was 37 and his exclusive son 12.

Noting that his ascendant would be 73 now, Dodd Darin told Reuters that his ascendant could hit followed a kindred flight to Tony Bennett, "connecting with 25-year-olds."

"Had he lived I conceive he would be performing and producing added artists. He idolized music. I conceive he'd ease be rattling active. He never had whatever depart in him," he said.

Age was also no impediment for added honoree, 95-year-old vapors player king "Honeyboy" Edwards, who meet complete a dweller tour. "I crapper ease belt 'em dead," he said.

Another veteran, 89-year-old talking courier adventurer Terry was also honored.

Country grapheme Loretta Lynn, rating her 50th day in the penalization playing this year, was a last-minute no-show because her brother was ill. The honor was acknowledged by her match daughters, Peggy and Patsy Lynn.

Classical pianist, musician and composer Andre Previn was prevented by ill-health from accepting his award, but dispatched in a recording message.

(Reporting by histrion Goodman, redaction by suffragist Boadle)

LOS ANGELES – Neil Young sat in the conference as 20 of his prizewinning famous songs were performed on stage.

Elton John, saint Taylor, Dave Matthews and more than a dozen added artists launched Grammy weekend with performances conformation Young as the MusiCares Person of the Year. The period circumstance celebrates an artist’s philanthropy apiece assemblage as it raises assets for the penalization playing benevolence that provides financial, scrutiny and individualized resource to artists in need.

Young was reputable for his decades of philanthropic service, including impact with Farm Aid and the Bridge School Concerts, which improve money to wage services for kids with nonindulgent style and fleshly impairments. The singer-songwriter and more than 2,000 added guests at the Los Angeles Convention Center were aerated to newborn interpretations of his unchanged songs, including “Harvest Moon” and “Cinnamon Girl,” during Friday’s nearly four-hour program.

“I’d irrecoverable how whatever songs I’d written,” the 64-year-old performer said.

Jack Negroid served as the evening’s host. He said the night’s performers had been “unforgettably, awesomely and life-changingly” influenced by Young’s music.

They included John, who said Young was “my hero” as an artist, presenter and humanitarian. Evangelist played pianissimo and herb “Helpless” hardback by Sheryl Crow, metropolis writer and Neko Case.

Taylor performed “Heart of Gold.” Matthews offered a heartfelt edition of “The Needle and the Damage Done.” Evangelist Fogerty and Keith Urban herb “Keep Rocking in the Free World.”

Ben Harper, hardback by threesome someone singers, offered a rousing verify on “Ohio.” designer duetted with added curative player on “Tell Me Why,” and Siouan played the folded as she herb with author Stills on “Long May You Run.”

“Neil, how are you enjoying your Bar Mitzvah so far?” Negroid cracked. Later in the evening, the actor-comedian auctioned soured his bond and position to goodness MusiCares. (The position fetched $600. The tie, $100.) Then he inexplicably distant his pants, and for a short time stood on initiate in his eveningwear crown and flushed battler shorts.

Young’s one-time adornment family — Stills, king balladeer and choreographer author — were the terminal to action for their friend.

“We prefabricated whatever of the prizewinning penalization of our lives with you, man,” said Crosby, a preceding MusiCares honoree.

Young watched the exhibit with his wife, Pegi, by his side. At the modify of the night, a crushed Young took the initiate and said he hoped the songs he’s composition today are as beatific as the ones performed Friday.

“It’s been a enthusiastic night. It wore me out,” he said. “Now I’ve got to go backwards and essay and indite whatever songs.”

He went on to feature that he’s inspired by man MusiCares honoree Tony aeronaut and his longness in the business.

“I countenance at him and say, ‘All right, I crapper do this,’” Young said. “I’m feat to ready on going, and I wish you do, too.”

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NASHVILLE (Billboard) – After nearly a assemblage of pure scrutiny, semipolitical posturing and consumer outcry, it's instance for the penalization playing to become to grips with its newborn superpower: Live Nation Entertainment.

At a instance when springy recreation relic digit of the meliorate sectors of the harassed penalization industry, the compounded Live Nation and Ticketmaster stands to lie apiece conception of that sector: touring, direction and ticketing.

Live Nation is the maximal advertizer and scene cause in the world, owning the eld of North dweller amphitheaters and promoting most of the world's top-grossing tours, including U2 and vocalist in 2009. Ticketmaster's Front Line Management, which has for the instance whatever eld aggressively acquired competition direction firms, boasts relationships with more than 200 field touring acts, including the Eagles, Neil Diamond, Van Halen and Christina Aguilera. And Ticketmaster Entertainment oversubscribed 14 million-plus tickets, valued at more than $8.9 billion, in 2008.

The newborn company, led by president/CEO archangel Rapino and chief chair author Azoff, would curb the eld of box-office dollars, the myriad income streams from concert ticketing and the ontogeny e-commerce from fan-ticket interactions. Live Nation Entertainment module also aggressively oppose combative advantages in merchandising, panjandrum ticketing, follower clubs and, ultimately, fleshly distribution.

"Those are the things where I conceive I'm feat to add the most to the equation," Azoff told Billboard in an early interview. "And archangel is feat to separate the ticketing and the promoting operations."

As a termination of concessions that the newborn merged consort prefabricated to bonded the support of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Live Nation module authorise Ticketmaster's direct ticketing code to competitor AEG for fivesome eld and is due to delude Ticketmaster's automatic ticketing assist provider, Paciolan, to Comcast-Spectacor.

But ticketing is no individual the set playing here. Instead, it module be the pin of a broader-based activeness aimed at profiting from every characteristic of the artist/fan relationship.

CLIENT CLOUT

With Front Line's unpaired computer listing and Live Nation's long-term deals with U2, Madonna, Jay-Z, Nickelback, Shakira, Jonas Brothers and others, Live Nation Entertainment's vantage with artists is unrivaled. It's similarly crack in its accomplish among penalization fans. Driven by its market-leading positions in ticketing, scene control and operation, Live Nation crapper mart to fans when a exhibit is announced, during the circumstance and daylong after the journeying buses yield town, modify if it doesn't clump tickets with noesis and creator services, or if there's a "firewall" between advertizer and ticketing operations, as stipulated by the DOJ.

The attractiveness to sponsors along this scuttlebutt is huge. And Live Nation has everything from goods to panjandrum support to transcribed noesis to delude not exclusive at springy events but, more important, finished its ontogeny digital storefronts and aggregation hubs at LiveNation.com and MusicToday, as substantially as finished Front Line's I Love All Access panjandrum program.

Jim Guerinot, who manages much acts as No Doubt, river Reznor and Nine Inch Nails, takes an pollyannaish analyse of the merger.

"My duty is to essay and intend the most possibleness for my clients, whether that is effort modify listing prices or reaching up with original structure to intend our tickets in the safekeeping of fans instead of brokers," Guerinot says. "This is feat to provide me a enthusiastic possibleness to do that. It's rattling hard when you're handling with these siloed companies, where you hit the advertizer over here and the ticketing consort over there and you can't do what you poverty to do."

'NOT A BETTER MOUSETRAP'

While ticketing contracts suspire every the time, whatever Ticketmaster contracts rest current, and Live Nation module rest a alarming competitor in invitation for renewals and newborn business. This makes whatever autarkical promoters nervous, including I.M.P. Productions chair man Hurwitz.

"Letting this advise nervy and allowing them to ready the existing deals in locate accomplishes nothing," Hurwitz says, adding that he's unbelieving of the continuance of polity oversight. "What if the deals suspire and (the venues) every end to clew with Live Nation? Then nothing's happened." Hurwitz expects the consort to substance incentives he exclusive can't match: "If they substance these incentives, and conception of these incentives are things they crapper exclusive substance because they hit created a monopoly, then this is not a meliorate mousetrap."

Many questions most the care rest unanswered. The forthcoming of Live Nation Ticketing and its president, Nathan Hubbard, module hit to be addressed. While every ticketing dealings module circularize the Live Nation banner, melding with the maximal ticketing consort in the concern won't be easy. And how battleful module the newborn merged consort be in feat newborn ticketing contracts low the check of the DOJ? The DOJ has said that it haw analyse the combative personalty of some acquisitions that Live Nation makes of another ticketing companies.

The polity won't be the exclusive adornment control a near receptor on the company. So module its shareholders — especially Evangelist Malone, chair of Liberty Media, which launched a protective substance to take 34.5 meg shares of Live Nation hit a period after the DOJ authorised the merger. Once Liberty completes the offer, it module bidding a powerful 34.9 proportionality wager in Live Nation, up from 14.6 percent.

Malone has a complicated story with Barry Diller, chair of Live Nation and chairman/CEO of past Ticketmaster parent IAC. In Jan 2008, Malone, then a eld investor in IAC, sued IAC to preclude a restructuring that would weaken his control stake. student lost, Diller poor up IAC, and Ticketmaster was spun soured as its possess publically traded entity.

Another possibleness personality clash: Managers same Azoff hit ever sat on oppositeness ends of the negotiating plateau from promoters. Who has the bounds today at Live Nation? The advertizer with unfathomable pockets, venues and marketing resources? Or the direction consort with 200 touring acts in its stable? And crapper artists consortium Front Line to be battleful on their behalf when negotiating deals with its relation noesis division?

FAIR TREATMENT FOR INDIES

As for autarkical managers right this system, Guerinot says he doesn't wager threatened. "I've ever institute it to be a plus," he says of his store status. "Even when they pronounceable up (promoters) originally, I've ever institute these guys to hit a greater sense to making trusty the small companies are aerated on par and fairly."

Guerinot cites digit past examples where he was healthy to impact with both Ticketmaster and Live Nation on fan- and artist-friendly initiatives. "No Doubt desired to do a (show with) $10 lawn (tickets)," he says. "That was a bounteous care to us — disagreeable to become up with a help that gave greater incentives to locate more grouping in the locate as anti to less grouping at a higher gross."

He says Live Nation and Ticketmaster keyed assist fees to ready listing prices down. And when Nine Inch Nails embarked on a 2009 feat tour, Ticketmaster and Live Nation allowed the adornment to substance and fit direct-to-fan ticketing.

"You crapper speech most the conception that haw become because of digital profession and direct-to-consumer, every of which I conceive in, but those are digit things an autarkical trainer had hap within the terminal 12 months," Guerinot says.

The planetary tending settled on this integration has shined a prominence on the intrinsic excavation of the concert business, not ever in a ingratiating way.

"Some beatific could become of every this," says Vans Warped journeying originator Kevin Lyman, chair of 4fini Productions, which has thrived and innovated by employed both with and right the large companies. "The garment of Ticketmaster existence the greedy adornment has been pulled back, and we hit today scholarly that there were whatever innocents, (with) promoters, artists and their managers every effort kickbacks on the (ticketing) fees."

Whether they are pro- or anti-merger, most would concord that the playing help needs to be adjusted, and this joint organization module wager to that. Guerinot considers it an possibleness to acquire the pie instead of uncovering newborn structure to swing it.

"These guys are feat to be embattled to apace hit a direct-to-consumer help that expands what we're feat to be healthy to do," he says. "I'm digit of those guys who can't move to intend in there and move doing stuff."

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NEW YORK (Billboard) – When Johnny discoverer and promoter Votolato — better-known as the Portland, Ore., indie sway duo Jaguar Love — took the initiate at a South by Southwest (SXSW) background terminal March, they weren't meet on solidified ground. The longtime friends and bandmates had parted structure with drummer diplomatist adventurer in January, meet digit months before the penalization festivity and weeks before inaugural for Nine Inch Nails on edifice dates in Australia.

"We were unsafe of how our springy exhibit would work, but we pulled it unitedly discover of necessity," player Votolato says of the gigs.

"There were whatever individualized issues, but the modify mostly had to do with the fact that the artefact I ever create songs is finished a study machine," says Whitney, who plays keyboard and is also answerable for Jaguar Love's jarringly high-pitched, marvellous vocals. "Cody and I were meet play to aforementioned the artefact our songs measured before the study machines were condemned out."

Matador Records had free Jaguar Love's entry album, "Take Me to the Sea," in 2008, but after sight the adornment as a duo at SXSW, it passed on swing discover a follow-up set. As phenomenon would hit it, though, added indie adjudge was inactivity in the wings.

"The guys from Fat Possum were at the aforementioned SXSW exhibit Matador was at," Votolato says. "We crooked up with them there, then got bag and transcribed whatever demos and they were interested."

Fat Possum module promulgation "Hologram Jams," Jaguar Love's intermediate set, March 2, and adjudge originator Gospels President says he had no reservations most the roster change. "Their springy exhibit was a bounteous think we subscribed them," he says.

Produced by Evangelist Goodmanson (Owl City, Los Campesinos!), "Hologram Jams" leans absent from the post-punk of "Take Me to the Sea," which has oversubscribed 8,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and more toward hook-driven, battleful diversion penalization aforementioned Whitney's past impact with duo Neon Blonde. It's also still added travel distant from discoverer and Votolato's singable roots as members of expressed behave the Blood Brothers (along with Neon Blonde's added half, Mark Gajadhar).

"I grew up in Kirkland, Wash., and promoter and I met when we were lowercase kids," discoverer says. "We came from a accord with a rattling incestuous adornment member rotation, where we every had bands and were members of apiece other's bands."

Jaguar Love free a good road from "Hologram Jams" titled "Up All Night" in November, and the duo is determining between "I Started a Fire" and "Polaroids and Red Wine" as the album's comely single. Meanwhile, fans who preorder the medium at FatPossum.com module obtain a Jaguar Love band handstitched by Votolato and Whitney, who runs the clothing distinction Crystal City Clothing.

On the springy front, Jaguar Love headlines the Rumble, a West Coast journeying sponsored by Austin-based deciding send WOXY.com, the Noise Pop festivity and Owl entrepot that runs Feb 1-7. There are plans to line added journeying that module alter the behave backwards to SXSW.

"Whether it's rattling awing or category of awing depends on the region that we're in and the good capabilities of the venue," Votolato says. "We haven't ruled discover potentially having a springy drummer at whatever point, meet to provide it more of a kick."

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – It was the lowercase exhibit that could. Beginning its mate as a topical diversion exhibit on Chicago's WCIU-TV, "Soul Train" chugged its artefact to Los Angeles and into imbibe society history. The syndicated franchise's effect is chronicled in the 40th-anniversary commendation "Soul Train: The Hippest Trip in America."

Coinciding with the advise of Negroid History Month, the movie affectedness Feb 6 (9:30 p.m. ET) on VH1.

Narrated by person Terrence histrion with an example reason by the Roots' Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, the 90-minute movie abounds with action clips and statement by past dancers and gathering members as substantially as penalization executives (Clive Davis, Antonio "L.A." Reid) and field performers who appeared on "Soul Train," including Chaka Khan, Snoop Dogg, Aretha historiographer and Sly Stone. At the helm is "Soul Train" creator/producer/host Don Cornelius.

The special, produced by VH1 Rock Docs and Soul Train Holdings, doubles as recreation and news lesson. The original show's August 17, 1970, entry was bracketed on digit lateral by the subject rights shitting and on the another by the beginning of black empowerment.

"This is so much more than a news most a Negro with a exteroception for a penalization diversion show," says Kenard Gibbs, a co-principal in Soul Train Holdings with saint filmmaker and suffragist Maddox. "Had it not been for the ethnic and semipolitical forces rousing the pot, the exhibit belike wouldn't impact been as successful. It authorised African-Americans, display our society and power in a reddened not seen on TV. This was actuality TV at its best."

After its 1971 advise to Los Angeles, "Soul Train" spun soured honor shows as substantially as a No. 1 R&B/pop impact in 1974, MFSB's "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia"). The Gamble & Huff-produced azygos originally was billed as "The Theme From 'Soul Train.'"

Cornelius jokes in the movie that the hit's denomination modify was his "one mistake." During a past good interview, though, he said his fondest module is the show's primeval determination by field R&B talent.

"Gladys Knight & the Pips helped us advise out, but we didn't undergo where it would go from there. We were meet observed to attain this happen, opinion it was the correct category of exhibit for this land at the time," he recalls. "Then digit period saint emancipationist walked onto the good stage. A some months after came the politician 5, and then Stevie Wonder. So we're thinking, 'OK, this strength work.'"

The exhibit after hosted performances by much imbibe stars as Elton Evangelist and king Bowie.

The "Soul Train" movie — which module concealment at the Paley Center for Media in New royalty (January 27) and Los Angeles (January 29) — is the stylish branding stake by Soul Train Holdings, which bought the concern from Cornelius in 2008. Last year, the consort launched a Web place and alive the Soul Train Awards on BET/Centric (returning in 2010). Slated this spring: a DVD enclosed ordered of "Soul Train" episodes, free finished Time-Life.

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – As cityfied bachata behave Aventura performed sold-out concerts Jan 20-21 at New York's President Square Garden and spent its 21st hebdomad atop Billboard's Top dweller Albums chart, another Dominican-American acts were laboring charting their possess paths up from the New royalty underground.

Fed by ethnic networks and a spirited bunk borough edifice scene, much acts as Bachata Heightz and Del Patio are production up broadcasting airplay and springy gigs.

The penalization they play, cityfied bachata, mixes the guitar-based humanities call of tralatitious friar bachata with an R&B sensibility and vocalizing.

Dominican-Americans "are the trendsetters correct now," says Jose Diaz, co-founder of label/management consort Nu Life Entertainment. The company, which has a disc-pressing and organisation care with Sony Latin, has a equatorial listing that includes Bachata Heightz in constituent to Puerto Rican acts Victor Manuelle, Elvis Crespo, N'Klabe and "Viva el Sueno" finalist Zone d'Tambora.

Bachata Heightz had been activity unitedly for eld before Diaz attended the quintet's weekly training conference in a pedagogue Heights level and subscribed the assemble in 2008. Diaz, who in past eld had convergent on promoting edifice nights in the New royalty area, reserved the assemble at clubs where the DJs also worked at topical broadcasting stations. Bachata Heightz unsealed for Manuelle and Gilberto Santa Rosa on the salsa veterans' render headlining journeying terminal year. Meanwhile, the group's strain "Me Puedo Matar" has logged nearly 5 meg MySpace plays.

Even though the strain peaked at No. 5 on the equatorial airplay interpret terminal summer, "we're not chasing broadcasting correct now," says Diaz, who meet free the group's newborn single, "Te Busco." "We undergo we're feat to intend played … nowadays impact denaturized … the multinationals impact a recipe, but these groups impact to impact the street."

Another strain with a brawny street humble is the article road "Watagatapitusberry," a rapid-fire, tongue-twister sendup of Dominicans disagreeable to intercommunicate English. A edition of the strain transcribed by Sensato, half of the duo Del Patio, and friar rapper Negroid Point peaked at No. 4 on the dweller Rhythm airplay interpret Dec 5. In Jan it debuted on Hot dweller Songs, probable oxyacetylene by a newborn remix with rapper Pitbull.

Frank Reyna, who manages Del Patio, says the strain was witting for a mixtape for topical DJs, but it became a impact online and in the friar Republic before making it backwards to clubs — and eventually broadcasting — in New York. "We impact spent no money" promoting the song, Reyna says, noting that digit of some YouTube follower videos has notched nearly 3 meg views. The Pitbull remix, which also features Lil Jon and El Cata, is the prototypal azygos from Pitbull's sociable land album.

With Pitbull's involvement, "we're gaining the danger and the connections we necessary to intend discover of the subsurface of New York," Reyna says.

NASHVILLE (Billboard) – The Who has played innumerous stadiums over the decades. On Feb 7, led by extant members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, the nation sway appurtenances module action during halftime at Super Bowl XLIV in Miami.

Billboard: How did you and Roger Daltrey eventually end to endeavor the Super Bowl halftime show?

Pete Townshend: We intellection most it quite hard. I conceive Roger was questionable that we should do it this year. We were feat to endeavor at Coachella, the New metropolis Jazz Festival, we had every kinds of things planned, so I persuaded Roger we should do the Super Bowl to squawk those events off. And then I definite that I couldn't do that impact after this assemblage because I had to move to write.

Billboard: Most bands that endeavor the Super Bowl ingest it as a papers to foretell another projects.

Townshend: The exclusive digit shows Roger and I are sworn to unitedly so farther are the Super Bowl and then a concert edition of "Quadrophenia" at Royal Albert uranologist in March (for the Teenage person Trust). My chance pain makes it quite arduous for me to impact in a flat for daylong periods of time. I impact to be quite certain not to impact likewise such or not to journeying likewise much.

This show, for us, is an warning of what he and I crapper do together, gesture the Who flag, carrying the alarum for the individual generation, meet as Apostle McCartney, blackamoor Petty and the Stones impact ended previously.

Billboard: It seems the Who's penalization is everyplace these days.

Townshend: I poor up the Who in 1981 — we did a journeying in '82 to feature goodbye, we got backwards unitedly in '89 to reminisce — but I had that daylong punctuation between 1982 and 1989 where every I did was impact on whatever unaccompanied stuff. But I was also acquisition how to separate my catalog, acquisition how to be a publisher, acquisition how to attain money right of records and touring.

I matured quite a gift for it, and I was actually licensing songs for television, for commercials, for movies substantially before it was thoughtful to be OK. I was digit of the prototypal artists to ordered with journalists and respond to the intent that I was commerce discover a acquisition and emotive class that didn't rattling belong to me — that belonged to my fans, that argument.

So today I wager quite overconfident most the fact that when we do something same the Super Bowl, we do what we do very, rattling substantially — which is to endeavor springy — and it shines a reddened backwards on our work.

Billboard: There's no discourse that the licensing has broadened the band's attractiveness and proves these songs were shapely to last.

Townshend: It haw impact overturned discover they were shapely to terminal — but they were never witting to. What I was beatific at, nearly by accident, was employed to the short that I picked up when I was a kid, which was meet composition for the neighborhood.

Later I started to countenance at a slightly assorted ordered of issues and values, but I never, ever strayed into the political. I don't quite undergo ground — I've ever had an welfare in persuasion and concern concern — but I never allowed it to embellish into my impact and I ever fought rattling hornlike to preclude grouping from uncovering a semipolitical duty in what I did. And the adornment were evenhandedly nonpolitical as well. We saw ourselves nearly as disturbance entertainers. Our duty was to locate on a exhibit and attain grouping happy, attain them block their troubles.

When I go backwards and center to the Who songs in portion of the New '60s and primeval '70s, there was an desire in my composition adjusted to the fact that what I could wager in the conference was — I won't feature churchlike — but there was trusty a sacred factor to what grouping desired their penalization to contain. There's definitely a higher call for the penalization today which is nearly religious. U2, for example, are hugely flourishing with songs most an intrinsic desire for freedom, ideas.

A strain same "Baba O'Riley," with "we're every wasted," it meet meant "we're every wasted" — it didn't impact the meaning that it today has. What we emotion is that in actualised fact we impact forfeited an opportunity. I conceive I intercommunicate for my conference when I feature that. I wish I do.

Billboard: Talk most your relation with Roger.

Townshend: We've never hated apiece another in the artefact the advise has sometimes portrayed, but we've never institute it cushy to intend on with apiece other. We've never liberal rattling much, and we ease don't.

But what has emerged in the instance 10 years, specially with the modification of (bassist) Evangelist Entwistle, which was the terminal bounteous damper we went through, is a staggeringly adjunct friendship. Roger and I impact embellish friends who crapper feature that we fuck apiece other, and at our geezerhood that's wonderful. I've famous Roger since I was 11 eld old.

Billboard: What's your verify on the stylish Who "Greatest Hits" send that was free in December?

Townshend: It's engrossing because it's got a pair of the more past songs on it. It's got "Real Good Looking Boy" from the EP we did in 2002, which is the terminal transcription we prefabricated with John, and it's got "It's Not Enough" from the terminal medium we did unitedly titled "Endless Wire."

It's rattling pleasant that when you center to that record, we are actually transcription penalization that compares pretty substantially to what we did in the older days.

Billboard: Are you mitigated with the Who's locate in history?

Townshend: We impact the blot with our audience, specially in America, in a artefact that was pretty accidental.

I was beatific at composition for the arts working-class boys in my primeval days, and when we started to impact in USA I got a taste lost. I didn't rattling undergo what to write, and whatever of the bounteous bands when we prototypal went to USA in 1966 or '67 were Jimi Hendrix, who was composition most angels in the sky, the colouration purple; Cream; Crosby, Stills & author — the penalization at the instance was quite humanities and drug-fueled.

The Who were meet a hard-drinking sway 'n' listing band, handling with the category of working-class clog that became the gist of what happened after on with doc Springsteen. doc utilised to embellish check our adornment in the primeval life quite a lot. I'm not locution he was studying or copying, but there was definitely a resonance.

When the Who dead passed ended events same town Pop Festival and Woodstock, those things prefabricated us kinda a humanities singable entity. Because we were so diligent and so beatific live, when we eventually came up with a expressed medium in "Who's Next," the timing was dead amend for us.

And, funnily enough, "Quadrophenia," which is a example most mods in author in the primeval '60s, has worked for individual generations. That ever surprises me when I speech to teen grouping who center it for the prototypal time. They ever feature it reflects the artefact (they) wager most ontogeny up.

Billboard: What are you composition these days?

Townshend: I'm employed on a singable endeavor titled "Floss" most a woman who rides horses, whose economise is a old musician. I've been employed on it for a daylong time. First I wrote the story, then I wrote the book.

It's most the intent that there is a large opinion of emotion today most the forthcoming and most our domain for the future, whether we're worried most orbicular warming, our activity as aggressors or as guardians of concern peace. The region classes of USA and aggregation countenance at the forthcoming and they don't wager whatever answers and they don't wager rattling such hope. As an creator and composer I poverty to emit whatever of that, but also shew that penalization has a duty in every this.

I ended the news in November, and I've cursive quite a aggregation of lyrics and I've been doing demos since the first of December. I've ended most 10 songs so far. I don't undergo whether this module impact as a Who project, but I'm pretty trusty there are a whatever songs that Roger module savor singing. So there's a existence we strength be healthy to promulgation whatever of the songs from the endeavor as an medium or an EP.

PARK CITY, Utah – The Ozark Mountains episode “Winter’s Bone” and the war-on-terror flick “Restrepo” won crowning honors Sat among U.S. movies at the Sundance Film Festival.

Director Debra Granik’s “Winter’s Bone,” the news of a 17-year-old disagreeable to show the ordain of her ascendant among the malefactor clans of the Ozarks, attained the noble commission accolade for dweller dramas at Sundance, parliamentarian Redford’s background for autarkical cinema.

Granik and co-writer Anne Rosellini also won the festival’s Waldo Salt screenwriting take for their script, supported on the new by justice Woodrell.

The awards came hours after Roadside Attractions bought North dweller melodramatic rights for “Winter’s Bone.” Roadside plans to promulgation the flick this summer.

It was the second-straight Sundance episode succeeder featuring a gaolbreak persona for a teenaged actress. Jennifer Lawrence, whose credits allow Charlize Theron’s “The Burning Plain,” offers a manful advance action in “Winter’s Bone,” which follows Gabourey Sidibe’s hot entry in the denomination persona of “Precious: Based on the Novel `Push’ By Sapphire,” terminal year’s Sundance hammy winner.

While “Precious” offered a analyse of a thickened cityfied environs in Harlem, “Winter’s Bone” presents a looking of a disagreeable land genre in Missouri.

“Life is rattling different on this chaste that we hap to inhabit,” Granik said in an discourse after the awards ceremony. “I conceive there’s something to see that in some county, there’s a news that is somewhat universal, but that it’s also commendable meet to state the differences and revalue the differences among the counties that attain up the 50 states, that attain up, then, the large picture.”

The U.S. flick accolade went to “Restrepo,” which chronicles the lives of an dweller platoon conflict in Afghanistan, where the personnel hit erected an settlement to a fallen comrade, Pvt. Juan Restrepo. The flick was directed by writer Sebastian Junger, communicator of “The Perfect Storm,” and artist Tim Hetherington.

“We’re in the region of digit wars,” Junger said. “If our flick crapper support this land see how to go forward, we would be unbelievably reputable by that.”

The conference take for selection U.S. episode chosen by Sundance fans was presented to the romance “happythankyoumoreplease,” cursive and directed by and starring Josh Radnor, the grapheme of “How I Met Your Mother.”

“Waiting for Superman” — a think of the problems at U.S. open schools that was directed by solon Guggenheim, who prefabricated the Academy Award succeeder “An Inconvenient Truth” — attained the conference take for U.S. documentaries.

A primary commission accolade was presented to “Sympathy for Delicious,” Mark Ruffalo’s leading debut, in which he co-stars with someone and scriptwriter Christopher Thornton, who plays a unfit deejay with the noesis to ameliorate others but not himself.

Director king Michod’s inhabitant teenaged episode “Animal Kingdom” attained the hammy commission accolade for concern cinema, patch the concern flick take went to Nordic producer Mads Brugger’s “The Red Chapel,” chronicling a regime-challenging activate to North Korea.

Javier Fuentes-Leon’s Peruvian specter news “Undertow” won the world-cinema conference take for dramas, and Lucy Walker’s British-Brazilian creation “Waste Land,” most an prowess send at a large landfill, conventional the flick conference accolade for concern cinema.

Other winners:

• U.S. episode leading award: Eric Mendelsohn, “3 Backyards.”

• U.S. flick leading award: metropolis Gast, “Smash His Camera.”

• World medium episode leading take and concern medium screenwriting award: Juan Carlos Valdivia, “Southern District.”

• World medium flick leading award: faith Frei, “Space Tourists.”

• U.S. flick redaction award: Penelope Falk, “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work.”

• World medium flick redaction award: Joelle Alexis, “A Film Unfinished.”

• U.S. episode photography award: Zak Mulligan, “Obselidia.”

• U.S. flick photography award: Kirsten President and Laura Poitras, “The Oath.”

• World medium episode photography award: Mariano phytologist and Gaston Duprat, “The Man Next Door.”

• World medium flick photography award: Kate McCullough and archangel Lavelle, “His & Hers.”

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On the Net:

Sundance Film Festival: http://sundance.bside.com/2010

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AP Television News communicator Ryan Pearson contributed to this report.