Pete Townshend utilized his keynote address at the South by Southwest festival to unveil a new music Web site dubbed the Method. The site will allow subscribers the chance to "create their own musical composition by 'sitting' for the Method software composer, just as you would site for a painter making your portrait," according to a statement.

B.B. King will be joined by fellow legends Al Green and Etta James on a 16-city trek beginning July 24 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Miami, Billboard.biz has learned.

The late Notorious B.I.G.'s "Greatest Hits," bows at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 this week, selling 99,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. And moving 92,000 units, Montreal-based rock troupe Arcade Fire scores its best charting and sales week ever with the No. 2 bow of sophomore Merge set "Neon Bible."

Last.fm has struck a deal which will bring an estimated one million tracks to the Internet radio service.

According to sources, children's audio and video label Sony Wonder, once the home of "Sesame Street" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," will soon be history.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the Canadian government broadcast regulator, intends that the growing rate of media concentration in Canada merits public debate.