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2022 The presale for Taylor Swift's Eras tour crashes Ticketmaster, leading to frustrated fans and a federal investigation. Despite the snafu, 2.4 million tickets are sold, the most for one artist ever in a single day.

2018 Thanks to the hashtag #JusticeForGlitter, Mariah Carey's long-maligned 2001 album Glitter climbs to #1 on the iTunes US Albums chart.More

2016 Less than a year after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer, country singer Holly Dunn, age 59, dies at a hospice facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2011 Mark "Moogy" Klingman (keyboardist for Utopia) dies of bladder cancer in New York City, at age 61.

2007 The first episode of Daryl Hall's show Live From Daryl's House airs on the web, with Hall performing from his home in Millerton, New York. The series gains traction and gets picked up by the Palladia network. Over the years, Smokey Robinson, Joe Walsh, Cee Lo Green, Rob Thomas and many other musical luminaries appear, performing a mix of their own songs, covers and Hall & Oates tracks.

2007 In a charity auction, a 25-year-old man from Scotland pays $170,000 for two tickets to the Led Zeppelin reunion show at the O2 Arena in London. Over a million people entered a lottery for the 18,000 tickets, which sold for a face value of $255.

2005 Alabama, Glen Campbell and DeFord Bailey are inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

2004 Shania Twain's album Come On Over is certified double diamond by the RIAA, with over 20 million copies sold in the US. It's just the seventh album to do so, and the only one by a female artist.

2003 Alejandro Fernandez, Bacilos and Mana are the big winners at Mexico's second Premios Oye! in Mexico City, taking home two awards each. Fernandez is named Best Ranchero Act, and his "Nina Amada Mia" wins Best Popular (regional Mexican) Song. Bacilos wins Best Pop Group and Best Pop Song for "Caraluna." Mana wins Best Rock Group; its Revolucion de Amor is voted Album of the Year.

2000 Due to the throat troubles of their frontmen, Chino Moreno and Fred Durst, Deftones and Limp Bizkit, respectively, cancel separate shows north of the US border. Deftones were to play to several thousand fans at the Aberdeen Pavilion in Ottawa, while Durst et al were to rock Vancouver with its Anger Management Tour.

2000 Michael Abram, the Liverpool native who broke into George Harrison's home and stabbed him in an incident earlier in the year, is found not guilty by reason of insanity at Oxford Crown Court. Abram is to be confined to a mental hospital for an indefinite period of time.

1999 KoRn play their album Issues (released the following day) from start-to-finish at a venue not known for hosting nu-metal: the Apollo Theater in Harlem.

1999 People magazine declares Tim McGraw the sexiest man in country music. McGraw says as long as his wife, Faith Hill, thinks he's sexy, that's all that matters to him.

1997 Saul Chaplin, composer and musical director, dies after a bad fall in Los Angeles, California, at age 85. Collaborated for the scores and orchestrations of An American in Paris (1951), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) and West Side Story (1961).

1997 Ralph "Pee Wee" Middlebrooks (trumpeter/trombonist for The Ohio Players) dies at age 58. Circumstances undisclosed.

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Carrie Underwood Releases Landmark Debut Album

2005

American Idol winner Carrie Underwood releases her debut album, Some Hearts. Featuring the hits "Jesus, Take The Wheel" and "Before He Cheats," it becomes the best-selling album of the year.

During Underwood's Idol season 4 run, she made an impression on the show's notoriously surly judge, Simon Cowell. After belting out a rendition of Heart's 1987 power ballad "Alone," Cowell predicted she'd not only win the competition, but she'd sell more records than any previous Idol winner. The country singer begins fulfilling that prophecy with her debut album, Some Hearts, which is the year's bestselling album in the US across all genres. Debuting at #2 on the genre-spanning Billboard 200 and #1 on the Top Country Albums chart, it sells 315,000 copies in its first week. Four out of six of the album's singles are Top 5 hits on the country chart, but two in particular exemplify her crossover appeal: "Jesus, Take The Wheel," an emotional ballad about her Christian faith, peaks at #20 on the Hot 100, while "Before He Cheats," a twangy revenge tune that has her taking a baseball bat to her cheating beau's tricked-out four-wheel drive, lands at #8. Both songs earn her Grammy Awards for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. Critics are also kind to Underwood, taking note of her powerhouse vocals and universal appeal, but the annual Country Music Critics' Poll of 2007 shows a clear preference for another blonde country crooner: Miranda Lambert. Nearly 100 critics from across North America prefer the gunpowder and lead of the Nashville Star alum's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend to Oklahoma's favorite Girl Next Door. But sales don't lie. Some Hearts is the bestselling country album of 2006 and 2007, and the bestselling solo debut by a female country singer in the genre's history. By 2007, it sells more than 7 million copies worldwide. But what of Simon's bold claim that Underwood would outsell her fellow Idols? Flash forward to 2020 and the singer, now a seasoned country veteran, makes good on the judge's word. She has sold more than 65 million records worldwide, far surpassing any other Idol competitor.

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