Susan Boyle

For two months a year, Christmas music is inescapable. As a result, Christmas albums can be real cash cows, year after year. Which led us to wonder: Who's getting all that money? The recording artists? The songwriters (or their heirs)? Or some corporate fat cats in really sharp suits?

A lot of music fans this year asked for Taylor Swift (pictured) but got Susan Boyle, while some Inception fans probably got Blind Side-ed. Otherwise, people pretty much got what they wanted in 2010, according to an Amazon poll released on Dec. 30.

After getting into a salary squabble with the satellite radio company, the self-styled King of All Media resolved his beef and re-signed. Details of the deal aren't available, but it's likely Sirius represented the least-risky way for the star to keep his career flying.

New York City indie-pop band Vampire Weekend took its new album, Contra, to no. 1, evicting bad-girl pop star Ke$ha and fending off video sensation Susan Boyle. The feat signals more public interest in independent artists and labels without direct links to giant media corporations.

Susan Boyle's debut album I Dreamed A Dream is now in its sixth week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 to become 2009's No. 2 top-selling album, after Taylor Swift's Fearless. The Boyle-Swift horse race was a bittersweet victory for the music industry, which stayed in the doldrums in 2009.

Last week, British sensation Susan Boyle set the record for the highest single-sales week of 2009. This week, Boyle continued to lure consumers where they'd resisted going all year: the music aisle. I Dreamed A Dream, Boyle's debut for Sony's (SNE) Sony Music Entertainment, sold 527,000 copies in...

Now that "Britain's Got Talent" breakout star Susan Boyle is out of the hospital, she's getting down to business.Boyle has already said she will release her debut album on Simon Cowell's label, but now she's adding another heavy hitter to her management team: 62-year-old Ossie Kilkenny, best known...

It's been estimated that nearly 100 million people have now seen Britain's Got Talent contestant Susan Boyle perform "I Dreamed a Dream." She's an overnight tabloid sensation, a champion of the showtune, and a balm for the unappreciated of the world. She may even be a poster girl for mental...