Billboard Update: Decade-End Billboard 200 Albums (2000-2009)

With the year of 2009 coming to a close, we also see the 2000s coming to a close. So it was time for everyone to list the best things of this decade. For EdgeMusic, we only began in 2007, so we're going to take a look at what made other decade-end lists. No one had their lists more eventful than Billboard. For the next two weeks, we will present to you the outcome of most of the decade-end charts. We start off with the Billboard 200 charts. The #1 album this decade was *NSYNC's "No Strings Attached" (2000). They never were an EdgeMusic Artist of the Week, but we wanted to point out how much the music industry has suffered ever since they got that boy band out of their sights. Anyways, here's how our alumni did:

#29. KELLY CLARKSON "BREAKAWAY" (2004) - HIGHEST POSITION
#34. BACKSTREET BOYS "BLACK & BLUE" (2000)
#38. PINK "M!SUNDERSTOOD" (2001)
#45. BACKSTREET BOYS "MILLENNIUM" (1999)

Also, the list includes two soundtrack entries which include EdgeMusic alum, Ashley Tisdale (June 21 - 28, 2009):

#44. HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK (2006)
#102. HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 SOUNDTRACK (2007)

Kelly Clarkson Hates "Already Gone"

Kelly Clarkson (March 8 - 15, 2009) is now releasing her third official single from her fourth album "All I Ever Wanted". Turns out, the song was the one she NEVER wanted: "Already Gone".

Teen Choice 2009 Nominations

EdgeMusic's creator, Turk182, has registered to vote on the 2009 Teen Choice Awards, and he can reveal to you who is up for a nomination within our EdgeMusic alumni. Even if none of them win, there's still reason to watch, as the Jonas Brothers (August 31 - September 7, 2008) are hosting this event. Here's what we have for our nominees:

Ashley Tisdale (June 21 - 28, 2009) is nominated one time in the Movie Actress: Music/Dance category for her role in "High School Musical 3: Senior Year". The movie is also nominated for Movie: Music/Dance and Music Album Soundtrack.

Kelly Clarkson (March 8 - 15, 2009) is nominated only one time in Music: Single for "My Life Would Suck Without You".

Demi Lovato (April 26 - May 3, 2009) is nominated two times (ONLY TWO TIMES? WHAT GIVES?) She has a nomination in Other Stuff Red Carpet Icon - Female, a nomination for TV: Breakout Star Female, and a nomination for Music Tour. My bad. That's really THREE NOMINATIONS, which isn't that bad.

David Archuleta (January 18 - 25, 2009) is nominated three times. He received a nomination in Music: Breakout Artist, a nomination in Music: Love Song for "Crush", and a nomination in Music Tour as an opening act for Demi Lovato.

The Jonas Brothers are nominated in Movie: Music/Dance for their 3D concert film, a nomination in Other Stuff Male Hottie (not that I'd vote in that category), a nomination in Other Stuff Red Carpet Icon - Male, a nomination in TV Actor: Comedy for their TV show "JONAS", a nomination for TV: Breakout Show for "JONAS", a nomination is Music: Love Song for "Lovebug", a nomination in Music Album Soundtrack for their 3D concert film, a nomination in Music Tour, and a nomination in Music Album Group for "Lines, Vines, and Trying Times", which got knocked out of the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 today by fellow nominee, The Black Eyed Peas.

The Teen Choice Awards air August 10th on FOX.

Our New Semi-Finalist

Well, the poll has been closed Sunday night. The votes have been tallied, but the announcement was pretty much overdue. So, let's go ahead and reveal what happened in our April preliminaries for our EdgeMusic Artist of the Year Faceoff.

This was the second time that a preliminary round has been run for April 2009. Hinder won the first one, but they were disqualified after we forgot that their reign began on March 29th. Therefore, that contest was redone. This time, we had a better outcome. 10 votes were cast in this round, which was better than the first time we did it. Winning by only half of the vote...

JUNIOR DOCTOR IS NOW A SEMI-FINALIST IN OUR EDGEMUSIC ARTIST OF THE YEAR FACEOFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to Junior Doctor for advancing to the next round, and thanks to everyone who voted. Junior Doctor completes the lineup of our first semi-final round. In that round, the band will go up against Locksley, Seymoure, and Kelly Clarkson. The semi-finals will be held at the end of the year. The next preliminary round will take place this Sunday, and we will find a representative for our May 2009 winners.

Final Results:

JUNIOR DOCTOR - 50%

The Airborne Toxic Event - 30%

The Chuck Shafer Picture Show - 20%

EdgeMusic Artist Of The Year Preliminary Round #4

So right now, we are running a special contest called the EdgeMusic Artist of the Year Faceoff. This contest decides who was the best EdgeMusic winner of the entire year. Our first annual Faceoff took place in 2008. We had 12 preliminary rounds, 3 semi-final rounds, and one final round. Above All Else was declared the champion this past January.

The official contest for 2009 began back in April. We ran four preliminary rounds in the middle of April, choosing four semi-finalists. We usually begin our preliminaries right at the end of each month while the winners were still fresh off of their reign. The January preliminaries were the first to be held, followed by the February preliminaries, then the March preliminaries, and then the April preliminaries being the latest.

However, the winner of the April preliminaries was Hinder, whose reign actually began on March 29th and ended on April 5th. We usually sort the preliminaries by the beginning of each winner's reign, so Hinder was disqualified. But Kelly Clarkson (March 8 - 15, 2009) was allowed to remain a semi-finalist when Hinder's votes were compared to the results of the March preliminaries. Kelly will participate in the semi-finals at the end of the year along with Locksley (January 4 - 11, 2009) and Seymoure (February 8 - 15, 2009). But the April preliminaries only received 2 votes, with Hinder winning unanimously. The 3 winners from April lost to a winner whose reign began in March.

So today, the April preliminaries will be redone. This round will last the whole day, and it will include all the winners from April except the winners from the Bamboozle contest, as that week had 7 winners, but they will have a big surprise ahead of them. For now, here are our candidates:

*The Airborne Toxic Event (April 5 - 12, 2009)

*The Chuck Shafer Picture Show (April 12 - 17, 2009)

*Junior Doctor (April 17 - 26, 2009)

The poll closes at 11 PM EST tonight. To vote, go to our MySpace profile, or you can vote on here:

POLL CLOSED. RESULTS COMING UP SOON.