Briefly: Shania Twain, Clay Aiken, Billboard awards, Warner Music

NBC-TV will air a Shania Twain special dubbed "Shania Up! Close and Personal" on Tuesday (11/25), a day earlier than originally scheduled.

According to NBC, the program features Twain performing before a small, live audience in Nashville.

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American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken has established The Bubel/Aiken Foundation, a charity that aims "to change society's perception of the developmentally disabled."

The foundation's website is scheduled to launch on Tuesday (11/25).

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Beyonce, Clay Aiken, Foo Fighters , Shania Twain, Evanescence and No Doubt will perform at the 2003 Billboard Music Awards, Billboard.com reports.

The awards will be handed out during a Dec. 10 ceremony at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, and will air on the Fox-TV network.

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Time Warner has announced that it will sell its Warner Music subsidiary to an investor group led by Edgar Bronfman Jr. for $2.6 billion. The EMI Group was also bidding for Time Warner's music interests, but reportedly was outbid by more than $1.5 billion.

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