- So far in 2007, Rod Stewart has embarked on the year’s most successful tour, narrowly edging out Justin Timberlake and the reformed Police. Sting and Co. are expected to easily take the year-end crown, and unlike album sales, concert profits have improved, with a 2.9 percent increase over the same time period last year.
- The Smashing Pumpkins, no strangers to internet outreach, are looking for the no-longer-conjoined twins that appear on the cover of Siamese Dream.
- A dehydrated Kelly Rowland collapsed onstage during a concert in Nigeria. Based on this footage, the singer wasn’t pulling an Amy Winehouse.
- Rihanna’s “Umbrella” is one more chart-topping week away from overthrowing Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” as the most successful song in the U.K. in more than a decade.
- Approximately three million copies of Prince’s Planet Earth were given away with the U.K. newspaper The Mail on Sunday.

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