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Everybody loves Radney
The Randy Rogers Band (Radney Foster not pictured).
Photo by Michael O’Brien
What do the Randy Rogers Band, Wade
Bowen and Brandon Rhyder all have in common, apart from being three of the hottest
acts on the Texas country scene? All three
called on the talents of fellow Lone Star
Radney Foster to help write (and in the case
of the RRB and Rhyder, produce) their new
albums. The highest profile will likely be the
Randy Rogers Band’s self-titled fifth album
(due Sept. 23), which will mark their second
release for major label Mercury Nashville.
Foster, a longtime mentor to Rogers, cowrote the track “Let It Go” and produced
the set (he also helmed the band’s last two
albums). Foster also produced and contributed co-writes to Rhyder’s Every Night
(Aug. 19), which follows Rhyder’s Foster-produced 2007 Live album. Bowen co-produced his forthcoming If We Ever Make It
Home (Sustain, Sept. 30) with J.R.
Rodriguez, but he did team with Foster to
co-write the songs “From Bad to Good” —
plus Randy Rogers for “Why Makes Perfect
Sense” and “Nobody’s Fool.” Earlier this
year, Foster’s “Sweet and Wild” was recorded by Nashville hitmaker Dierks Bentley as a
new song on his Greatest Hits: Every Mile a
Memory 2003-2008. Foster, a native of Del
Rio who now lives in Nashville, has a string
of Texas dates through the end of the
month, including stops at Plano’s Love and
War in Texas on Aug. 22 and Gruene Hall on
Aug. 23.
Jon Dee home from hospital
“I’m so full of holes, I whistle when the wind
blows,” sang Jon Dee Graham on “Holes,”
off his 2006 album, Full. Well, now he’s got
a new one where his spleen used to be.
“While I am not faithless, I am now spleenless,” he noted with characteristic wry
humor in an Aug. 11 MySpace blog — his first
message to fans since coming home from
the hospital following his July 25 auto acci-
dent. Graham is also recovering from broken
ribs and fractured vertebrae, but added that,
pain aside, “I feel pretty goddamned
blessed.” Graham expressed heartfelt thanks
to the fans, family and friends who showered him with get-well wishes and support;
he also said needs “to get back to work”
and, oh yeah, find a new car. Graham survived his accident (he fell asleep coming
home from a gig in Grand Prairie and hit a
median on I-35) but his Volvo didn’t.
Cory Morrow: “Registered Texan”
The Texas Department of Transportation
has tapped Cory Morrow as its spokesman
for “Registered Texan,” a Web-based campaign to encourage drivers to register their
vehicles on time. The site features Morrow’s
photo, biography, a song clip and a link for
other musicians to sign up as “registered
Texans.” In his bio, Morrow reminisces about
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This week in Alejandro news ...
Citing exhaustion, Alejandro Escovedo
wound up canceling all of his planned
appearances in August — including a slot on
Late Show with David Letterman — but
planned to honor his commitment to perform at the Austin Child Guidance Center’s
Triple Play fund-raiser Aug. 28 at Antone’s.
The singer-songwriter, who’s getting some
of the best reviews of his career for his new
album, Real Animal, is a longtime supporter
of the organization and an honorary chairman of the event with Don Harvey, who
also organized it. Drummer Harvey, who
also is co-founder of the Austin musicians’
mental health organization SIMS, will perform with his mates in Ian McLagan & the
Bump Band, who just returned from a whirlwind 19-date tour of Europe. Also appearing
is a reunited Reivers, one of Austin’s
beloved old bands that sold out two shows
in February when they got back together
for the first time in 16 years. Escovedo is
also planning to show up for his Aug. 30 gig
with Bruce Springsteen at HarleyDavidson’s 105th anniversary celebration in
Milwaukee. Several other scheduled
September dates are on as well, including
appearances at Austin’s Shady Grove on
Sept. 25 and the Austin City Limits Festival
Sept. 26. Carrie Rodriguez is opening on
most of the out-of-town September dates.
For tickets to the fund-raiser, visit
www.antones.net.
Okkervil River takes a stand
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Antone’s. Throughout the run, Kweller will be
previewing songs from his upcoming fourth
album, Changing Horses, which is tentatively
set for release in January.
Charlie, Emily Robison divorce
Okkervil River at Lollapalooza 2008
Photo by Cindy Royal
Austin indie band Okkervil River is set to
release The Stand Ins on Jagjaguwar on
Sept. 9. The band’s fifth full-length release, it
is positioned as the sequel to 2007’s The
Stage Names. The first track, “Lost
Coastlines,” is currently available on iTunes.
Coming off rave reviews for their performance at Lollapalooza in Chicago, the band is
now on a break before a cross-country tour
in September and October. They’ll make a
short pit stop at home in late September for
the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Then it’s
off to Europe at the end of October through
November for shows all over the continent in
Denmark, Sweden, Great Britain, France,
Norway, Italy and Austria. Look for a couple
of Okkervil River songs on the soundtrack for
the upcoming film In Search of a Midnight
Kiss, which also includes tracks from former
Okkervil keyboardist Jonathan Meiburg’s new
band Shearwater.
Ben Kweller readies his Horses
Dallas-reared alt-rocker Ben Kweller will kick
off a 24-date fall club tour on Sept. 25 at the
Big D’s Pontiac Garage at House of Blues, with
additional Texas dates Sept. 26 at Houston’s
Walters on Washington and Nov. 2 at Austin’s
Nine years after the courtship and storybook wedding that inspired one of the Dixie
Chicks’ biggest early hits, “Cowboy Take Me
Away,” Charlie and Emily Robison have officially split. The couple filed for divorce in
January, and the papers — citing “discord or
conflict of personalities” — were finalized
last week at the Bexar County Courthouse
in San Antonio. In happier Dixie Chicks
news, Emily’s sister and bandmate Martie
Maguire gave birth to her third daughter,
Harper Rosie Maguire, on July 25 in Austin.
METV receives Telly Awards
ME Television, the 24-hour regional music
and entertainment network based in Austin,
won three bronze Telly Awards in recognition
of its work on ME Live! From Austin. The
awards, presented in silver or bronze for
entries in several categories, honor local,
regional or cable TV programs, segments or
promotional pieces in national and international competitions. The episodes for which
the station was honored featured Hanson,
Alpha Rev and the Band of Heathens.
Another festival joins the fray
Hare may not even show up on most Texas
maps, but it was on the radar for Ben
Morris & the Great American Boxcar Chorus
when they decided to launch their own daylong summer festival. The eclectic young
country-rockers have invited several of their
fellow Central Texas upstarts to the tiny
hometown of Boxcar drummer Bucky
Bachmeyer for an Aug. 23 show at Pancho
& Lefty’s Tavern. Among the 15 acts on tap:
the Britt Lloyd Band, the Slow Rollin’ Lows,
Andrea Marie & The Magnolia Band, Chad
Boyd and Britni Hoover.
Got cash? Party with Willie
Willie Nelson’s fan club is called Club Luck,
but you don’t need luck to get up close and
personal at his Oct. 22 show at Floores
Country Store in Helotes. Cash will do it.
Members can purchase VIP party packages
that include one concert ticket and early
entry to the venue (so you can get a good
spot up front, leaving all the “little people” in
your dust), admission to a pre-show party
with dinner and drinks, a $50 credit for
Willie’s online store and other perks. Willie
first offered the VIP treatment for his Fourth
of July picnic, and it was so successful, he
decided to do it again. Next thing you know,
he’ll be sitting people in Rolling Stones-style
onstage skyboxes.
Bands on the run
In conjunction with the Austin Music
Foundation, the Nike+ Human Race will
host two training sessions leading up to the
Aug. 31 10K run, each of which will be followed by a free performance by a local
band. Participants in what is being billed as
the world’s largest one-day running event
can work out with fellow runners on Aug.
18 and Aug. 26 by meeting at Güero’s Taco
Bar, 1412 S. Congress Ave., at 7 p.m. Nathan
Singleton & His Sideshow Tragedy will perform after the first training session, and
Gary Clark Jr. will play after the second.
Austin is among 25 cities worldwide participating in the race. Among the three charity beneficiaries is Lance Armstrong’s
LiveStrong foundation. www.nikeplus.com.
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Scott H. Biram heads for studio
Psycho-blues-billy-rock-punk shouter Scott
H. Biram, the apparently demon-possessed
“Dirty Old One-Man Band,” is heading back
into the studio in September to work on the
follow-up to his last Bloodshot Records
release, Graveyard Shift. Certain to contain
more of the hellfire-and-damnation vs. lordloving-redemption tug-of-war that characterizes Biram’s work, the new album is targeted
for a spring 2009 release. He’s wrapping up
a 45-city tour with an appearance Aug. 30
at Austin’s Room 710.
SXSW is already, like, close
South by Southwest is officially taking registrations for the trio of conferences/festivals
that gives new meaning to the term “March
madness” in Austin. The 2009 SXSW, No. 23,
begins with the Interactive Festival (March
13-17) and Film Conference and Festival
(March 13-21) and segues into the mother of
it all, the SXSW Music and Media Conference
& Festival (March 18-22). Showcase applications are also being accepted for the music
festival, and now would be the time to buy
program ads or sponsorships as well, if you
feel a need to jump on that bandwagon. For
info on all that is SXSW, visit www.sxsw.com.
Wanna help save Austin music?
The Year of Austin Music/Save Austin
Music is filming a series of public service
announcements featuring some of the
area’s most renowned artists, and plans to
launch the PSA campaign with a premiere
party and fund-raiser Oct. 17 at One World
Theater. Volunteers are still needed to
assist with various aspects of production or
to donate goods and services. For more
info, visit theyearofaustinmusic.org or call
Troy Dillinger at 512-773-5697.
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KGSR Unplugged at the Grove with
Shawn Sahm and the Tex Mex Experience
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Shady Grove
KGSR Live at the Lake
Austin
with Fastball
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Lakeway Resort and Spa
Austin
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Texas International Blues Festival
Sons of Hermann Hall
Bleu Edmondson plays the rodeo Aug. 19,
but he won’t be wearing no Stetson.
North Texas State
Fair and Rodeo
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Dallas
Cavender Chevrolet Music Series
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with Casey Donahew
The County Line
San Antonio
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North Texas State Fairgrounds
Denton, Aug. 15-23
Margarita & Salsa Festival
Heart O’ Texas Fair Complex
Waco
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KGSR Live at the Lake
Feel a need to “cowboy up”
this week — or at the very
least, watch other people cowboy up while you wait for
some great live music? Then
Fastball performs at Austin’s Lakeway Resort
point your horse, wagon or
and Spa on Aug. 17.
that trendy little hybrid car of
KGSR Blues on the Green
yours toward Denton for the
with Doyle Bramhall & Gary Clark Jr.
80th annual North Texas State Zilker Park
Fair and Rodeo. In addition to Austin
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concert schedule boasts such
95.9 FM The Ranch Texas Music Series
Texas favorites as David Ball,
with Mark McKinney & Ray Wylie Hubbard
8.0 Restaurant and Bar
Mark David Manders, Bleu
Fort Worth
Edmondson, Johnny Cooper,
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the Randy Rogers Band,
Reckless Kelly, Two Tons of
Rudolph Chevrolet/Honda Music Series
Steel, Corb Lund and — just in with Miles From Nowhere
case none of those cats ring a The State Line
El Paso
bell — Restless Heart. Adult
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tickets are $12 per day or $40
for a four-day pass. Aug. 15-23, 21
North Texas State Fairgrounds, Concerts Under the Stars
with Buttercup
Denton. 940-387-2632.
San Antonio Botanical Garden
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San Antonio
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with Hayes Carll
Lakeway Resort and Spa
Austin
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Cavender Chevrolet Music Series
with the Dust Devils
The County Line
San Antonio
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with Ryan Turner & Keith Davis
8.0 Restaurant and Bar
Fort Worth
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Rudolph Chevrolet/Honda Music Series
with Vallejo
The State Line
El Paso
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Vallejo performs at the State Line in El Paso
on Aug. 17.
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Jason Boland & the
Stragglers
Comal County Blue
(Proud Souls/Apex)
If Jason Boland snuck up
behind you in a dark room
and started to sing, you’d swear it was the
ghost of Waylon Jennings. More than any of
his peers on the Texas/Red Dirt scene,
Boland’s voice resonates with a grit and
growl not heard since the heyday of the baddest of the original country outlaws. Not all
of his tunes kick quite as hard as you’d like
them to — he’s yet to top his killer debut,
Pearl Snaps — but on Comal County Blue, the
Oklahoma transplant and his road-hardened
band still serve up a satisfying platter of
genuine honky-tonk that’s more sophisticated than redneck hokum, but far too lonesome, ornery and real for the Music City hit
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Luke Olson
Red River Blue
(Sustain)
The Texas country scene
often leans toward rootsy
Americana. But, on Red River Blue, San
Antonio’s Luke Olson achieves a slick,
Nashville sound. The title track is a nostalgic
reminder of Alabama’s “Old Flame,” and the
opening number, “Man on a Tractor,” features a guitar solo reminiscent of Jackson
Browne. His sweet, twangy vocals throughout this ballad-heavy album are of the same
ilk as Brad Paisley or Clay Walker. There’s an
overarching introspective melancholy, a
yearning for a simpler time, that makes this
a good one to listen to when you need to get
away from it all. CINDY ROYAL
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The Twilight Zone
(Smith Entertainment)
Brandon Rhyder
Jason Allen has been pushing
Every Night
his brand of honky-tonk for
(Reserve Records)
over a decade now, often havIf you try to pigeonhole
ing a hard time standing out from the glut of
Brandon Rhyder’s eclectic fifth
regional crowd-pleasers. But this time around,
album, you’d have to make a
he shows some growth and daring that should
long list of styles that would include rhythm ’n’
please his longtime fans and win over new
blues, country, folk and even a little rock ‘n’ roll.
ones. The Twilight Zone is almost a concept
The first single, “This Ain’t It,” is a fast-paced
album, shedding most of the clichés that
tune that is sure to be a hit for two-steppers.
sometimes hinder modern Texas troubadours,
Other standouts include the Radney Foster coand reaching back past Willie & Waylon to the
writes “When You Wake Up” and “Let’s Don’t Go likes of Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison for inspiDown That Road,” though Rhyder proves he can ration. Sometimes an offbeat risk pays off in a
definitely hold his own as a poet on songs like
big way: covering Stevie Wonder’s “I Just
“Fingers to the Bone,” written for his father after Called to Say I Love You” as a straight-up
he survived cancer, and “Pea-Pie,” a lullaby he
country shuffle might not sound good on
wrote for his daughter. The real gem here, how- paper, but it works wonderfully on record; elseever, is “Again,” which also stands out as the
where, old habits prove hard to break — there’s
most musically intriguing track on the album
a little cheese here, a little corn there. But
with its varying tempo start and gradual
overall, the album’s heart remains firmly in the
crescendo. AMANDA PALM
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Aug. 24
George Jones
Brandon Rhyder
Hot Club of Cowtown
Jason Boland
& the Stragglers
Aug. 26 Roger Creager
Aug. 26 Solange Knowles
Aug. 26 Electric Touch
Aug. 26 Derailers
Aug. 26 Kenny Rogers
Sep. 2 Rodney Crowell
Sep. 2 Norah Jones
Sep. 2 Bruce Robison
Sep. 9 Jessica Simpson
Sep. 9 Jackopierce
Sep. 9 Okkervil River
Sep. 9 Hal Ketchum
Sep. 16 Redd Volkaert
Sep. 16 Kyle Park
Sep. 16 Various Artists
Sep. 16 Eli Young Band
Sep. 23 Randy Rogers Band
Sep. 30 Roy Orbison
Sep. 30
Oct. 7
Oct. 14
Oct. 21
Nov. 4
Wade Bowen
George Strait
Sixpence None the Richer
Lee Ann Womack
Lucinda Williams
I Don’t Know Where I’m Going
But I’m On My Way
Burn Your Playhouse Down
Every Night
Best of Hot Club of Cowtown
Comal County Blue
Here It Is
Sol-Angel and the Hadley
St. Dreams
Electric Touch
Guaranteed to Satisfy
50 Years
Sex & Gasoline
Live From Texas (DVD)
The New World
Do You Know?
Promise of Summer
The Stand Ins
Father Time
Reddhead
Anywhere in Texas
The Imus Ranch Record
Jet Black and Jealous
Randy Rogers Band
The Soul of Rock and Roll
(Box Set)
If We Ever Make It Home
Classic Christmas
The Dawn of Grace
Call Me Crazy
Little Honey
Hummingbird Records
Bandit
Reserve Records
Shout! Factory
Proud Souls/Apex
Fun All Wrong
Music World
Justice
Palo Duro
Cracker Barrel
Work Song/Yep Roc
New West
Premium
Columbia Nashville
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Curb Records
Telehog Records
Rockin’ P Records
New West Records
Universal South
Mercury Nashville
Monument/Orbison
Records/Legacy
Sustain
MCA
Nettwerk
MCA
Lost Highway
The Derailers aim to satisfy
Having paid their respects to their late hero Buck Owens on the 2007 tribute album, Under
the Influence of Buck, Austin’s Derailers get back to writing their own tunes on the retrorockin’ Guaranteed to Satisfy. Recorded at Cristobal Studios in San Marcos and produced by
frontman/guitarist Brian Hofeldt, the album finds the Derailers (Hofeldt, bassist Ed Adkins,
drummer Scott Matthews, pianist Sweet Basil McJagger and pedal steel guitarist Chris
Schlotzhauer) joined by such noted guest musicians as former LeRoi Brothers Band guitarist Casper Rawls and violinist Haydn Vitera. Palo Duro will release the album Aug. 26.
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How chaotic is it getting ready to release a
new album with a new daughter at home?
Brandon Rhyder
Well, my son, Dusty is 2 1/2 years old, and that
was quite different from Mahala. You know,
After spending just
the first one, everything’s so new and it’s your
five minutes with
Brandon Rhyder, you first child and they’re breakable. You’re afraid
and everything just centers around them. I’ve
start to wonder how
always heard people talk about having a seche can be so utterly
ond child and it’s just, they don’t get as many
upbeat and positive.
He will repeatedly tell pictures and they kind of just fall in, and that’s
you how blessed he is exactly right. We’re so much busier now than
and how grateful he is we were when Dusty was born, and that’s a
good thing, to have that problem businessfor those blessings.
But blessings only get wise. Mahala just flew right in and we said, “All
right, c’mon girl, let’s go.” It completed me,
you so far, and
Courtesy Brandon Rhyder Rhyder’s success on
because that’s my family. With Dusty, we had
the Texas music scene hasn’t been for lack of planned on having another one, and Mahala
has definitely completed that puzzle. The hard
effort. After ditching his college degree and
the job that went with it, then ditching his full part is being gone, but the beautiful part is
band and going at it alone, Rhyder arrives with coming home and getting to have those three,
four, five days or whatever it is that we get to
his fifth album, Every Night, the anticipated
spend all together, from daylight to dark. I
follow-up to 2005’s Conviction. He wrote or
co-wrote every song on the record, and it’s not wouldn’t trade that aspect of it. I hate the
leaving, but I sure love the coming home.
hard to see how he landed a publishing deal
with Harlan Howard Publishing in Nashville
What was it like having Radney Foster as a
and on Radney Foster’s radar.
producer?
You just completed your first video shoot I think this is some of the best, if not the best
production he’s done. Everything sounds so
at Gilley’s in Dallas a couple weeks ago.
full and amazing. From top to bottom, it’s the
What was that experience like?
It was a little intimidating at first, but once the record I’ve always wanted to make, and I think
cameras got rolling, it worked out really cool. it also sounds, sonically, the way I’ve always
wanted a record to sound. It’s not too polThat was the live portion of it (the “story
part” was shot at a Houston home). It’s gonna ished, but it sounds pretty. That’s key for me,
not to overpolish, but to make it sound full.
have the live portion coming in and out and
This is my first full effort to work with (Foster)
then the story part, where me and this girl
on the production side, and he put everything
are saying, “If there was a day to quit, baby
this ain’t it.” It’s funny how things just kind of together perfectly for me. It’s really cool to
fall together sometimes. You have to work for have someone in your corner like that.
so much of it, but then you end up running
You refer to your music as “ourstream.”
into someone. The director is a high school
Who coined the term?
friend of mine, and we haven’t seen each
other or spoken since high school. And now, I did. So many people ask me, what kind of
music do we write? What kind of music do we
you know, we just kind of came back into
each other’s lives, kind of by mistake. He was play? Obviously it falls in the country genre, I
like, “You need a video.” And I was like, “Yes, I think, because you just kind of get put somewhere. I think I have country roots, and I’ve
do.” It worked out perfectly.
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always said that and love those country
roots. But I never write a song for a specific
genre. I write for the moment; I write for the
song, what it lends itself to. There are so
many different ways of saying what we play. I
think we are our own “stream,” and I think
that could be mainstream. I really do. If
enough people get around us and they give
us the opportunity, I think it could be something that’s completely different. I love songwriters who can do their own thing and get
away with it. If you can do that and be your
own person, then people will gravitate to
that. It may take a little bit longer than if you
come out and you sound right down the middle, but if you continue to develop your
sound and your style, it lends to really beautiful creative work.
How has your approach to touring changed
since your last album?
We tour pretty much 49 out of 52 weeks. We
actually had a week off just recently, but that
doesn’t happen that often. I think the thing is
you gotta strike while the iron is hot. We have
such a growing fanbase right now, and we want
to continue to branch out from that as well.
We’re playing dates coming up in New Mexico
and Kansas and Oklahoma and places where
we’ve never played, and we’re going to continue to do that. I look at it like a pro-football
career. We can’t tour 200-something dates a
year every year for the rest of our lives, so you
gotta go out there, and you gotta make the
most of it while you can. You gotta really work
it, because there is gonna come a point and
time in your life where it slows down. You have
to look at other options, what are you gonna
do there. And then you fall into people like Walt
(Wilkins) and like Radney, who are now looking
at production, and they’re producing records
for guys like us who are coming up and are
huge fans of theirs. But while we’re getting
there right now, we still have so far to go. I
started playing guitar 10 years ago, and I started playing out seven years ago, so we’ve come
a long way in a short time, but we’ve still got a
long way to go. AMANDA PALM
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1,516
1,491
1,458
1,201
1,186
Rankings for the MySpace chart are determined by a point system factoring in the
number of profile views, song plays and friends on the artists’ official MySpace pages.
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