AP - Like other country music stars, the guys from Montgomery Gentry aren't buying the idea that Sunday was the last time they'd see Garth Brooks perform for a while.

AP - Kenny Chesney leads all nominees at the 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards with 11 and can tie Garth Brooks by winning his fourth straight entertainer of the year trophy.

AP - Two proven superstars — on the music charts and on the football field — were no match for some young patients at Cook Children's Medical Center.

Reuters - Led by precocious teen songwriting partners -- vocalist Hayley Williams and guitarist Josh Farro -- Franklin, Tenn., pop-punkers Paramore peaked at No. 34 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Misery Business," the ubiquitous first single from sophomore CD "Riot!"

Reuters - Celine Dion, Christina Aguilera, Garth Brooks, Harry Connick Jr., Whitney Houston and Sarah McLachlan. They are just a few of the multiplatinum artists whose Christmas albums failed to reach No. 1 on The Billboard 200 between 1994, when Kenny G's "Miracles -- The Holiday Album" rang the bell, and last week, when Josh Groban's "Noel" became the first since then to do so.

Reuters - Retired country singer Garth Brooks' previously announced one-off wildfire benefit concert at the Staples Center in Los Angeles next month has quickly become five sold-out shows.

AP - Garth Brooks is more than a memory in Los Angeles. A series of concerts he's giving to raise money for victims of recent wildfires sold out in less than an hour Saturday, according to his Web site.

AP - An international audience joined a Kansas City crowd as Garth Brooks played the final show of the concert series that ended his nine-year touring hiatus.