Reuters - Coldplay sold 125,000 copies of its new album on the first day of release in Britain, a solid tally industry experts say should be music to the band's ears and those of its ailing record label EMI.

Reuters - Grammy-winning musician Peter Gabriel believes the Internet has drowned users with too much choice, failed to democratize the pop industry as much as was hoped and eroded the quality of what people listen to.

AP - The jury in the R. Kelly child pornography case has reached a verdict after less than a day of deliberations.

E! Online - Indestructible had to live up to its name this week.

E! Online - Is Madonna a wee bit nervous about her brother Christopher Ciccone's about-to-be-released memoir?

E! Online - Mötley Crüe has kick-started legal action against another former manager.

E! Online - A picture is worth 1,000 words. But that's apparently nothing compared to what a whisper is worth.

AP - Chad Hugo is nervous.

AP - Trey Anastasio probably wouldn't be confused with a folk act, even if the former frontman for the jam band Phish stepped on stage solo with an acoustic guitar. The same goes for the Black Crowes, whose bluesy guitar-driven rock would easily drown out the average acoustic troubadour.

Reuters - Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are hoping to turn their platinum-certified, Grammy Award-winning "Raising Sand" into a going concern.

Reuters - Blood-splattered videos for R&B singer-songwriter Ashanti's single "The Way That I Love You" sparked a protest by demonstrators in Los Angeles, prompting the artist and Universal Records to remove the clips from the Internet.

Reuters - R&B star R. Kelly's child pornography trial went to the jury on Thursday with prosecutors calling him a sexual predator and his attorneys saying he is wrongly accused and possibly the victim of an extortion plot.

AP - Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin will headline the 2008 JVC Jazz Festival.