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A Russian appeals court on Wednesday upheld the two-year jail sentences for two members of punk band Pussy Riot for a protest in a cathedral but freed a third member by suspending her sentence.

Pandora pays over 2,000 artists more around $10,000 a year, and over 800 make $50,000. Top-tier artists like Adele are in the $1 million range, while others are tripling that sum. Not bad, in other words, especially since this is only taking into account Pandora payments, not those from Rhapsody, Spotify, or any other online streaming service. In fact, Pandora only accounts for about 6.5% of all online radio.

"Listen to my story! Listen to my pain and suffering!" Afghanistan's first female rapper Sosan Firooz pleads into her microphone. With her first rap song, the outspoken 23-year-old singer is making history in her homeland where society frowns on women who take the stage. She is already shunned by some of her relatives.

Apparently Lady Gaga will not be outdone by Justin Bieber. She vomited onstage during a concert over the weekend in Barcelona, one week after Bieber did the same thing when his tour opened in Phoenix. Unlike the Biebs, Gaga booted and rallied during “Edge of Glory” without leaving the stage even once. She also tweeted the YouTube video of the incident, and referred to herself as Lady PukeGA. Note to Rihanna and/or Taylor Swift: it’s up to you now to do this a third time and make it a legitimate trend.

Relax, "American Idol" fans! Everything is fine despite all the reports about judges Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey feuding! Well, that's what the show's producers are saying on Friday after yet another day of reports of trouble between the two superstars.

Last month, Mariah Carey denied she was fighting with fellow "American Idol" judge Nicki Minaj, joking that they'd only been together two days and "a feud takes a little longer to happen." Well, it looks like it's been long enough - video has surfaced of Minaj cursing out the pop star on the "Idol" judges' panel.

Lil Wayne is not only making rap history, he's rock 'n roll history: the rapper has surpassed Elvis Presley as the leading male with the most entries on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.

With a string of gold albums, a hit TV series and the signature "Moon River," Andy Williams was a voice of the 1960s, although not the '60s we usually hear about.

Warner Music said its recorded music chairman and chief executive, Lyor Cohen, will resign after more than eight years at the company.

When the members of No Doubt got together again to make new music, something unexpected came with them: a bit of doubt. It had been 11 years since they'd put out "Rock Steady" and their priorities had changed. Each of the four had gotten married and had kids, producing eight babies between them. Music was no longer the most important thing in their lives.