JAYDN MARIA
“Good Girls Like Bad Boys”
(Compound/Universal Motown)
You must be special when you’re the first artist signed to Ne-Yo’s
Compound Entertainment…and Jaydn Maria is that special! Her debut track
featuring Flo Rida is just the first taste from this soon-to-be star who
knows who she is and where she's going. We're expecting big things and
that alone makes her and
"Artist To Watch!"
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MARIAH CAREY
“Obsessed”
(Island/IDJMG)
Mariah Carey has released a brand new single for
the summer of 2009, “Obsessed.” It was written and produced by Mariah,
The-Dream and Tricky Stewart
and is the first single from her forthcoming
Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel, which is due in
stores on August 25 and is Mariah’s 12th studio album and the much
anticipated follow-up to her platinum-selling E=MC² and her
worldwide 10 million selling The Emancipation Of Mimi. It’s
hard to find an artist with Carey’s track record who seems to deliver
consistently over their entire career. Some things just seem to get
better with time and I for one have always been as much a fan of MC’s
lower vocal register as her signature high end power. There's no doubt
that Mariah can sing like no one else, but sometimes less is best, as is
the case on this hypnotic track that is sure to keep MC fans totally
“Obsessed!” And is it just me or is there a slim chance that MC
is sending a message to a certain someone? BET ON IT!
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KERI HILSON
“Knock You Down”
(Zone 4/Mosely Music/Interscope)
It’s been
quite a ride for Ms. Hilson with hit singles like "Energy" and Turnin'
Me On," but it's "Knock You Down" that has elevated her to another level
in what is destined to become her biggest record to date! It’s also
doesn’t hurt that it features Ne-Yo and Kanye West! It's #1 at Rhythm
radio for the second straight week with more than 6,700 spins (+307).
Make no mistake...Keri is buzzing BIGTME!
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KYLD/San Francisco APD Travis Loughran, Melanie, PD Cat Collins |
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KKND/New Orleans recently had Columbia rap star Bow Wow crash one lucky
High School's prom (L-R): PD Lebron Joseph, Bow Wow, Columbia's Brian
"B" Nolan.
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Melanie and KSFM/Sacremento MD
Tony
Tecate |
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Melanie and KBOS/Fresno MD Danny Salas |
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KUBE/Seattle APD/MD Karen Wild
and Melanie |
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MTV's Sway and Melanie |
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The
Black Eyed Peas
are beginning to hash out plans for a headlining
tour in support of their new album,
The
E.N.D.,
and they are
planning to up the ante with a very technical,
high concept show. The group will go into
rehearsals for the tour later this summer, after
they do a run of festival appearances in North
America and Europe.erica and Europe.
"It's going
to be the biggest tour, production-wise, that
we've ever done,"
Fergie
told
Billboard.com.
"We're actually planing for that now, which
we've never done before -- actually plan for a
tour. It's usually just learn the songs by
performing at festivals and that's our show. But
now we're stepping it up. We had some visuals
before, but now we are going to have a lot more,
and we're really excited about that."
Before the
headline tour, The Peas will play big events
over the next three months such as the
Virgin Festival
in Montreal, the
Glastonbury Festival
Montreux Jazz
Festival
in Switzerland and
the
Outland Lands Music
& Arts Festival
in San Francisco.
They will tour Japan in September, and they will
open five shows for
U2
in October.
Furthermore, Fergie has a role in the movie
version of the musical
Nine,
which comes out in November. The movie also
stars
Daniel Day-Lewis,
Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench
and and nd and
Kate Hudson.
Meanwhile,
The
E.N.D.
came out last week
and a deluxe two-CD version is being sold only
at
Target.
The deluxe version features the standard album
plus six new remixes of Black Eyed Peas hits,
four other bonus tracks of new songs, and
exclusive video interview footage.
Usher
has filed for
divorce from his wife of nearly two years,
Tameka Foster
Raymond.
The R&B star filed the petition Friday in
Superior Court in Atlanta, according to
People
magazine, but no
reason was given for the split. The couple, who
got married in August 2007, have two sons
together: Usher Raymond V, 18 months, and
Naviyd, 6 months. Usher and his wife have
reportedly been separated for months, and he has
relocated to Las Vegas where he is recording his
next album.
50 Cent
is putting out a
project of all-new material called
War
Angel LP
on Tuesday via
ThisIs50.com.
This is not his next official studio album, but
he says it's more like a street album than a
mixtape. He is in L.A. right now finishing up
the album
Before I Self
Destruct
with
Timbaland
and
Polow Da Don,
and he plans to unleash underground releases all
summer before dropping his official LP in
September. "Creatively, this is not even a
mixtape. That's why I put LP next to it," 50
told
MTV's
Mixtape Daily.
"My core audience will understand it
immediately, and it's written specifically for
that."
Kanye
West
sat down with the
ladies of
The
View
on Wednesday and
decided to reveal that he will be doing a
co-headlining tour with
Lady Gaga.
West did not go into detail about the when and
where, but he did say, "Me and Lady Gaga are
going on tour now. She's talented and she's so
incredible that she's not an opening act. We're
doing our show together, with, no opening act."
West is
obviously a fan , of Lady Gaga, as he recently
re-worked her hit song "Poker Face" into a track
called "I Make Her Say" with up-and-coming
Rapper
Kid Cudi.
He also talked about
American Idol
winner
Kris Allen
doing a cover of his
song "Heartless" on the show earlier this year.
"Everybody
who sings the song, sings better than me," he
joked to the hosts of
The View.
"The
Fray
are one of my
favorite rock bands, they covered it [too] and
that song got played on
American Idol
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