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American Idol Continues to Be A Monster: Leslie Moonves CEO of CBS called Fox’s ratings hit “American Idol” a “monster” and urged somebody to “kill that show.” ‘American Idol’ continues to be a monster,” Moonves said. “It’s a phenomenon. If somebody would kill that show, I’d really appreciate it. But it’s a national phenomenon, and it continues to do extremely well. It’s tough to compete with it.”

Trent on Radiohead: The Nine Inch Nails front-man has been quite vocal these days and this time he critiques Radiohead’s offering of Rainbows. “I think the way [Radiohead] parlayed it into a marketing gimmick has certainly been shrewd,” Reznor said when speaking to Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Michael Atkin.

“But if you look at what they did, though, it was very much a bait and switch to get you to pay for a MySpace-quality stream as a way to promote a very traditional record sale.”

“There’s nothing wrong with that,” Reznor continued, “but I don’t see that as a big revolution [that] they’re kinda getting credit for.” To me that feels insincere. It relies upon the fact that it was quote-unquote ‘first,’ and it takes the headlines with it.”

Are Excessive Lyrics Ruining Pop Music? The year-end top 10 songs from 1960 to 1969 have an average word count of 176. The year-end top 10 songs from 1960 to 1969 have an average word count of 176. Chris Brown and T-Pain use 742 words in their “Kiss Kiss.” While music can express what words cannot, music rarely gets a chance in contemporary pop, and certainly not in “Kiss Kiss.” Except for the first two seconds, vocals fill the song’s every moment. Read full article here.

Trent Never Stops: NIN have teamed up with YouTube to host a “film festival” around Ghosts. The concept is for the fans to submit videos for their favorite tracks.

Active Rock Charts….

1. Puddle Of Mudd – Psycho
2. Foo Fighter – Long Road To Ruin
3. Theory Of a Deadman – So Happy
4. Breaking Benjamin – Until the End
5. Avenged Sevenfold – Almost Easy
6. Seether – Fake it
7. Five Finger Death Punch – The Bleeding
8. Ashes Divide – The Stone
9. Atreyu – Falling Down
10.3 Doors Down – It’s Not My Time

How to Become Famous: Forget about routing a tour or adding friends on myspace. Instead, find yourself a high profile government official and show him a good time. Instant fame. Ashley’s first song “What We Want” hit Amie Street’s top price of 98 cents before midnight last night. She uploaded a second track “Move Ya Body”. The tracks suck but I’m sure they are selling.

Artist updates: Chasing Satellites by Hello Operator got 16 weeks on Much Music.

Kings of A&R: We need a shot in the arm. Send us new music. Email tips@kingsofar.com with a link to your myspace and a song we should be listening to.

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