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Friday, December 29, 2006

PREDICTIONS FOR 2007

With 2006 coming to a close, here's a look into music's future:

* Taking his cue from Bruce Springsteen's We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, Kid Rock will pay tribute to one of his music heroes with an all-covers album called Turn the Page: The (Bob) Seger Sessions.

* With The Sopranos coming to an end, Steven Van Zandt will keep his TV career and his mobster persona alive in Silvio Dante's Streetcorner Serenade, a reality show in which he scours the nation's biggest cities in search of a great undiscovered doo-wop group.

* Fed up with every wailing waif being deemed a diva no matter what her track record may be, Aretha Franklin has the word "diva" trademarked.

* Apple will release its Itty-Bitty iPod. It's the same size as a Tic Tac and is able to store 1 million songs. But when accidentally consumed, it doesn't provide fresh breath.

* The Recording Academy will enact a law forbidding artists from qualifying any song that's included on an all-new album released only in the CD format as a "bonus track."

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