Richie Hawtin performs at Moogfest in Asheville, N.C. on Friday, October 26. Hawtin's CNTRL: Beyond EDM tour with Loco Dice is scheduled to launch this week. Adam Kissick for NPR hide caption
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Taylor Swift performs on Good Morning America earlier this week. Her fourth album, Red, was released Monday. Mike Coppola/Getty Images hide caption
Friday
Nashville veteran Deacon (Charles Esten) and upstart country-pop star Juliette (Hayden Panettiere) record a duet in a scene from ABC's Nashville. Katherine Bomboy-Thornton/ABC hide caption
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Meshell Ndegeocello's tenth album is Pour Une Ame Souveraine: A Dedication to Nina Simone. Charlie Gross/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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Beyonce confirmed this week that she'll perform at the halftime show of Superbowl XLVII in New Orleans on February 3, 2013 Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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R. Kelly's "Single Ladies" tour, which includes a "Ladies Only" section, began this week and runs into December. Randee St. Nicholas/RCA Records hide caption
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Tori Amos in concert in New York City on October 5th. Ebru Yildiz for NPR hide caption
Thursday
The Hardware: The Rio, a portable MP3 player introduced by Diamond Multimedia in 1998, had 32MB of internal memory, just about enough to hold one 35-minute album of MP3s encoded at 128 kBps. Getty Images hide caption
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Donna Summer performs in October 2011. Summer, who died in May, is nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year for the fifth time. Ethan Miller/Getty Images hide caption
Saturday
Psy won't quit. Here he is performing in Seoul on Tuesday. On Thursday he played a free show in the South Korean capital to more than 80,000 people. Kim Jae-Hwan/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Friday
Jaden Smith in a still from "The Coolest." Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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Jay-Z plays the first of eight concerts at Brooklyn's Barclays Center on Friday, Sept. 28. New York Daily News Archive/NY Daily News via Getty Images hide caption
Monday
This shot of a stack of CDs on photographer Mike Neilson's desk is captioned on his Flickr page like this: "I have this stack of CDs that I don't know what to do with. I haven't played one in a long time now. Do used CD places still exist? Who would buy CDs, much less USED CDs at this point?" Mike Neilson/flickr.com hide caption
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Mumford & Sons is led by singer Marcus Mumford (second from left). The band's second album, Babel, was released on Sept. 25 and is on pace to be the highest-selling debut of 2012. Courtesy of the artist hide caption