Adele's 21 is set to duke it out with Van Halen's brand new album with David Lee Roth, A Different Kind of Truth, for No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. It would be Van Halen's sixth No. 1 album, while Adele is gunning for her 20th nonconsecutive week at the summit.

The Concord Music Group/Hear Music catalog of Paul McCartney was ordered removed from subscription services, affecting some of his recent solo albums, as well as a slew of older releases by McCartney and Wings that were reissued in 2010.

Grammy Glam, presented by CoverGirl, Olay, and Venus and featuring guest DJs Erykah Badu and DJ Spinderella, last night kicked off the week of festivities leading up to the Grammy awards. The event also provided an opportunity for Recording Academy President Neil Portnow to comment on the planned protests against the Grammys' decision to cut 31 categories from this year's awards.

Afo Verde, who since 2009 has been serving as president, Latin Region, for Sony Music Entertainment, has been promoted to the post of Chairman and CEO for the Latin Region, Spain and Portugal.

Colombian star Juanes played MTV Unplugged alongside stars Paula Fernandes and Joaquín Sabina in a taping attended by Universal Music Latin America/Iberian Peninsula Chairman/CEO Jesús López, UML Entertainment President Victor González, and the managers of Enrique Iglesias and Ricky Martin.

Much talked-about singer/songwriter Lana Del Rey makes her expected arrival at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with "Born to Die." It's the highest entry for a female artist's full-length major-label debut since Jackie Evancho's "Dream With Me" bowed at No. 2 on July 2, 2011. Adele's "21" sits tight at No. 1 for a 19th nonconsecutive week.

While Bruno Mars has six nominations for this Sunday's Grammy Awards -- including one for album of the year for the worldwide best-seller "Doo-Wops and Hooligans -- it's also the Smeezingtons time to shine. The trio is nominated in the producer of the year category for their hits with Mars, but also Lil Wayne and the Far East Movement.

Backstage at Diane Birch's first show in six months at NYC's Joe's Pub, New York S-Curve Records CEO/President Steve Greenberg congratulated the young singer on her evolution as a performer who happened to be dreaming about Michael McDonald.

Vevo made headlines last week when the video service announced it had generated $150 million in revenue in 2011. A week later some independent music publishers are saying it’s time they got their share. Also, Flingo plans to use the $7 million it has raised in Series A funding from August Capital to build out the infrastructure for its automatic content recognition technology. And comedian Louis CK proves that young People will pay for content through his recent video offering.  

With her second studio album set for this April, hip-hop diva Nicki Minaj has announced a wave of news, including her next single, Grammy plans, and a performance at the 2012 NBA All-Star Game.

The Guild Of Music Supervisors will hand out awards in nine different categories at a brunch prior to the Grammy Awards, honoring music supervisors for film, television and games.

Drake, Feist and Nickelback were some of the big names leading the 2012 Juno Award nominations announced today. Each artist received four nominations, while Dan Mangan, Hedley and City and Colour also received four nods.

Island Def Jam President/COO Steve Bartels announced Gabrielle Peluso would be taking over as General Manager, Def Jam Recordings, a promotion from her prior position as Senior Vice President, Video Promotions at Island Def Jam Music Group.

Last night, after the first of two charity concerts at Carnegie Hall, Jay-Z celebrated at his NYC nightclub, The 40/40 club, with wife and new mom Beyoncé, who made her first public appearance since giving birth, as well as rapper Nas, BET's Stephen Hill, Roc Nation's Rich Kleiman, Def Jam's Shawn "Pecas" Costner of Def Jam and many more.

ReDigi, an upstart digital company that sells "used" digital music, has announced that it has successfully fended off the recording industry's motion for a preliminary injunction.

Today marks the release of "We Are The Works In Progress," an album to benefit Japanese disaster relief featuring such artists as Terry Riley, Four Tet, Fever Ray, Deerhunter, Interpol and David Sylvain and Ryuchi Sakamototo performing alternate and demo versions of songs. The album was compiled and organized by Kazu Makino of Blonde Redhead. 

In an ongoing effort to reinstate 31 categories that were eliminated from the Grammy Awards, musicians are planning a protest and a musical showcase on the same day as 54th installment of the awards show on Feb. 12, according to a spokesman for the recording artists who filed a lawsuit last year against the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

File-sharing site BTJunkie shut down of its own accord, following in the footsteps of FileSonic and FileServe in willingly removing itself from the fray in the wake of the highly-publicized Megaupload and Pitate Bay legal actions. Elsewhere, the death of SOPA leads to even more questions about Internet law, and Google+ keeps growing but still lags behind.

During the week of Feb. 6 in Billboard History: The day the music died: when a plane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and Big Bopper tragically crashed, the show went on -- for which Bobby Vee was grateful. Also, Motown goes country, jazz and Pat Boone; and "High School Musical" has "Glee"-like numbers pre-"Glee."

The Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville played host to the launch of Artist Growth, a suite of cloud-based artist management tools for web and mobile. The launch brought out stars from Vince Gill and Steve Winwood to Artist Growth CEO Matt Urmy and Nashville Mayor Karl Dean.