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Bern Beetz, the CEO of $4.1 billion beauty company Coty, goes one-on-one with DailyFinance to give us a peek at some of the beauty products and trends that have captured -- and will soon capture -- the imagination of America's female shoppers.

The Queen Monster's $90 million in earnings and mastery of social media pushed her past perennial winner Oprah Winfrey. Not that Oprah's doing badly.

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.

Grammy-winning producer Jim Jonsin discusses the economics of winning an award: the ability to demand $75,000 per song from a music label, and the potential to demand $150,000.

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...

Interesting to know that the Taylor Swift stock index has been outperforming the U.S. stock market indexes. _______________ Does an increase in turkey consumption signal the recession is over? _______________ A merger arb anecdote from Kid Dynamite. _______________

President Obama isn't the only one who seems to have lost the adoration of the media recently. Jay Leno, who rode a wave of fawning press in the weeks leading up to the premiere of his new 10 p.m. talk show, has fared less well in the days since. I determined that using Newssift, an "intelligent...

Thanks to a powerful promotional push and a serendipitous bit of booking, more than 17 million viewers tuned in last night to observe Jay Leno's prime time debut. If critics' reactions are any guide, quite a few of those 10 million went to bed underwhelmed. The Jay Leno Show represents a new...