By Sarah Pritchett

By Sarah Pritchett
It has taken over 30 years, but this week we had our 500th official number one single. Helen Reddy's Free and Easy was the first official number one in New Zealand in May 1975 and this week Gnarls Barkley's Crazy has taken the honours.
Source: tvnz.co.nz

Shawnna Earns BET Awards Nod
Shawnna nominated for Best Female Hip Hop Artist. LOS ANGELES, CA Friday May.26.2006 /netmusiccountdown.com/ -- Next month, Shawnna may be the happy winner of a BET Award.
Source: www.netmusiccountdown.com

06-09-06 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE
FAMILY OF BILLY PRESTON UPSET WITH FORMER MANAGER: In an EUR exclusive, manager Joyce Moore addresses accusations from Prestons sister. *A sister of Billy Preston has sent a letter to various media outlets expressing outrage at his former manager Joyce Moore, who they claim has kept her family from being at their brothers bedside during the last months of his life.
Source: www.eurweb.com

RESPOND win award for 'Student Leadership'
Twenty-six local teenagers were presented with awards last week (06/06/06) for their role in Rock Challenge 2006, a world-wide school's competition where young people used performing arts to promote the message that you can have fun and 'be your best ' without drugs and alcohol.
Source: www.hastingstoday.co.uk

L.A. Rebuffs B.I.G. Family
Did not, did too. Did not, did too Lawyers representing the city of Los Angeles filed papers in L.A. Superior Court Tuesday accusing the family of slain rapper Notorious B.I.G. of going to "odious" and "absurd" lengths "to satisfy their ambition to extract hundreds of millions of dollars" from the city. This action comes a week after the family's legal camp called the city's allegation
Source: www.eonline.com

Gnarls Barkley finally ousted from number one
LONDON (Reuters) - Gnarls Barkley has finally been ousted from the top of the pop charts after nine weeks at number one with Internet phenomenon Sandi Thom taking over, the official UK charts company said on Sunday.
Source: go.reuters.co.uk