Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe 'EMINEM SHOW' NOW IN STORES Interscope Records has moved up the release date of Eminem's new album "The Eminem Show" once again, now that the album has shown up on the Internet. Advertisement The album was originally scheduled for a June 4 release, but the label moved it up one week because unauthorized copies were showing up. Now that the item is available online, Interscope moved the release up two more days, to Sunday. The record will be in stores for nine days, rather than seven, before its first-week sales are counted up -- and the two extra days are both holiday weekend days. Industry analysts are interested to see what effect that might have on the record's debut week sales figures. Eminem's last album -- "The Marshall Mathers LP" -- set a record for first-week sales by a solo artist two years ago, selling 1.7 million copies. Advertisement FANS HURT DURING EMINEM SET IN D.C. More than 30 people were injured at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. Saturday night, one of them critically, as audience members in the mosh pit rushed the stage during a performance by Eminem at a two-day festival sponsored by an area radio station. Most of the injuries were just cuts, bumps or bruises -- but five people needed to be taken to hospitals for treatment, according to a report in the Washington Post. The paper said witnesses reported seeing people receive treatment all day for dehydration or injuries from fights at the festival -- promoted by WHFS-FM -- which has become a traditional event to start the summer season for music fans in the area. Alan Etter, a spokesman for D.C. fire and emergency services, told the paper there had been "aggressive dancing" in the mosh pit all day. Dan Strickler, an emergency medical technician with the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad, told the paper things got out of hand when Eminem came onstage about 9 p.m. "When Eminem came out," said Strickler, "the crowd went nutty." A 20-year-old fan was reported in critical condition from cardiac arrest. Advertisement Witnesses said Eminem was asked to stop the show so the injured could be taken out of the area, and resumed his performance after about 30 minutes. The concert ended before 11 p.m., and the audience left the stadium without incident. PAYOLA AGAIN? Top recording artists, major labels and other elements of the recording industry joined last week to demand that Congress pass tougher laws regulating what they described as "payola"-like methods of promoting music for radio airplay. They also urged the federal government to take a closer look at the implications of radio industry consolidation, one of the major results of deregulation of broadcasting that began in the 1970's and was virtually completed in 1996. They complain that consolidation allows radio companies to stiff-arm them into paying high costs to get records added to playlists. The statement was issued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which represents major labels as well as talent unions and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Radio companies insist that they decide which records to play based solely on extensive research into the tastes and preferences of listeners. The music industry coalition accused the radio companies of getting around 40-year-old laws against payola by using a system wherein labels are required to pay "independent" promoters, who in turn pay radio stations to get airplay for records. Advertisement NEIL YOUNG IN SICK BAY Neil Young had to bring his European tour to a premature end on Wednesday, when he canceled a show in London because of the flu. Ticket holders were advised to hang on to their tickets for a make-up show later this year. Young plans to North American tour this summer to supporting his latest solo album, "Are You Passionate?" -- dates to be announced.
