Reuters - Best Buy will be the exclusive retailer for Guns N' Roses' long-in-the-works new album "Chinese Democracy" before year's end, sources close to the situation told Billboard.

AP - Los Angeles County prosecutors say they have decided not to file felony charges against Kanye West and his manager over an incident in which a paparazzo's camera was broken.

Reuters - It might seem a bit of a paradox that after winning the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music's male vocalist titles, Brad Paisley turned to mostly instrumental work on his new album.

Reuters - Cover songs are hardly foreign to James Taylor's repertoire. In fact, the veteran troubadour's top 40 roster is populated with his distinctive versions of such songs as Marvin Gaye's "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)," the Drifters' "Up on the Roof," Jimmy Jones and Otis Blackwell's "Handy Man" and Carole King's "You've Got a Friend," among others.

AP - Dave Matthews has acted in a few films, but the Grammy-winning musician has been playing a behind-the-scenes role in Hollywood of late — that of film producer.

AP - Celebrity disc jockey DJ AM has been released from a Georgia hospital after suffering severe burns in a fiery plane crash a week ago, a spokeswoman for the musician said Friday.

Reuters - Funny thing: Bob Ritchie avoided the family business of auto sales in Detroit, but as Kid Rock he's a super-salesman who'll get you into all sorts of musical vehicles -- and he'll throw in those extras at no charge.

AP - TEL AVIV, Israel — Paul McCartney performed his first concert in Israel, kicking it off with the familiar Beatles' song "Hello, Goodbye" to the joy of tens of thousands of cheering fans.

AP - Rapper Busta Rhymes says he will ask Britain's High Court to rescind a government order that would prevent him from playing a charity concert.

AP - Musicians will.i.am and Angelique Kidjo, actress Kristin Davis and model Elle Macpherson have helped launch a new campaign to cut global poverty in half by 2015.

AP - "I didn't expect to be nervous because we've done all the previews, we've had all the critics here. ... But I was terrified before we went out. I was like, `Omigod, this is it.'" — Daniel Radcliffe, on the Broadway opening of "Equus."

AP - Grammy-winning Tejano singer Emilio Navaira, still recovering from injuries suffered in a bus wreck six months ago, has been discharged from a hospital after another traffic accident.