These are the stories and developments we're tracking over the weekend. Check back for ongoing updates.

Nicki Minaj is getting super social on the Billboard Social 50 chart, as the hip-hop diva flies from No. 16 to No. 10 -- her visit to the top 10 since the Dec. 24 tally when she ranked at No. 8. She saw a 17% gain in Twitter followers in the tracking week and an 19% rise in YouTube views.

Lana Del Rey's major label full-length debut album, "Born to Die," is off to a fast start. Industry sources say that the set may sell between 60,000 to 70,000 copies by the end of the tracking week on Sunday, Feb. 5. That should easily give the album at No. 2 debut on the Billboard 200 chart next week.

Live Nation's stock jumped 3.4% Friday following reports that tickets for Madonna's 2012 tour would go on sale after Sunday's Super Bowl, where the singer is performing at the halftime show. Elsewhere, Amazon's Kindle Fire is helping get music to Android users but is still far behind the iPad, and Kickstarter's platform just keeps growing.

What's another thing that has little or nothing to do with sports? That would be indie music, which is why Sports Illustrated is making it a major part of its upcoming Swimsuit Issue.

Drake's ex-girlfriend, Ericka Lee, has claimed she was the voice on the other end of the now-famous phone call in "Marvin's Room," and is now suing Drake for excluding her from sharing co-writer royalties

All that plastic was supposed to save the music industry! Instead, it's now melting down the balance sheets of companies like Viacom...

Tunecore is beefing with Amazon, but it's also working on new deals.

Beyond Adele's continued supremacy on the charts, both Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" and The Wanted's "Glad You Came" roar up the Hot 100; while The Doors, Wilco, Tony Bennett and Blake Shelton make impressive gains on the Top 200 album survey.

A New Zealand court today denied an appeal for bail  by the jailed founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload. Kim Dotcom must now remain in jail at least until his first hearing in a U.S. extradition request, scheduled for Feb. 22.

Sister Sledge have banded together with an Oscar-nominated actress and songwriter to file a major class action lawsuit against Warner Music Group alleging they were cheated out of millions of dollars based on improper calculations of revenue from digital music sales. Eminem's publisher brought a nearly identical claim against Universal Music Group and won a fairly important decision at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2010

Viacom Inc., the owner of Paramount Pictures, MTV and Comedy Central, on Thursday posted a 65 percent drop in net income for the latest quarter, as it took a $379 million charge related to the "Rock Band" series of video games. Revenue was below analyst estimates, sending its stock down.

A controversial 2007 paper on P2P’s impact on CD purchases has got a second look -- with conclusions the music industry will like. A new paper based on the same survey data used in that 2007 paper finds clear evidence that P2P has negatively impacted music purchases in Canada. Also, Ticketfly put out some figures showing it too grew mightily last year. And Maybe the outcry over subscription service holdouts will subside a bit now that Coldplay’s “Mylo Xyloto” showed up on Spotify, Rdio, Rhapsody and Mog on Wednesday.

It's been official for a while now: the music industry of 2012 is exactly where other industries don't want to end up.

Billy Ray Cyrus, country star and father of singer/actress Miley, signed with Amazon.com to publish his upcoming memoir "Hillbilly Heart," due out in the spring of 2013.

BBC Radio 1 and 2 both saw listener increases of more than 2 percent, while BBC 6 Music recorded its highest ever listening figures in the latest RAJAR (Radio Joint Audience Research) figures, completing a turnaround for the under-fire station.

Bono and his company Elevation Partners, which he co-founded and for which he serves as managing director, stand to make a major windfall on Facebook's IPO filing, announced yesterday.

Joe Walsh played a private party at LA's Troubadour last night in front of an industry-heavy crowd that included Live Nation Chairman Irving Azoff, Paramount's Randy Spendlove, Grammy's Ken Ehrlich as well as musicians David Crosby, Stewart Copeland and Jeff Lynne. Walsh debuted music from his first original music album in 20 years as well as classics like "Rocky Mountain Way which featured Ringo Starr on drums.

The following is a note from Ditto Music CEO Lee Parsons, whose company is now offering free, emergency accounts to affected Tunecore customers.

Don Omar, whose hit "Danza Kuduro" just surpassed the 300 million views on youtube, has inked a deal with Mexico's Cerveza Sol for their Carnaval Sol 2012 campaign.