Emmis Hip-Hop WQHT (Hot 97)/New York’s has announced its annual Summer Jam concert lineup: Kanye West, Rihanna, T-Pain, Ray J & Yung Berg, The-Dream, D Block featuring Styles P & Sheek Louch, Public Enemy, and Lil Wayne featuring Gym Class Heroes. Summer Jam 2008 returns to New Jersey’s Giants Stadium on Sunday June 1.

Regent Rhythmic CHR WRCL (Club 93.7)/Flint MD/morning show host Clay Church has been upped to PD replacing Nathan Reed who resigned last month to accept the PD position at Clear Channel CHR/Top 40 WVKS (Kiss 92.5)/Toledo. Night host Ian Richards fills Church’s position as MD.

Capitol Music Group National Director of Crossover Glenn Aure exits due to company restructuring. Prior to his label promotion position he worked at Clear Channel urban KMEL/San Francisco as Music Director/mixer.

Driven by the huge hit single "Touch My Body," Mariah Carey's new album, E=MC2, debuted at #1 this past week by selling 463,000 copies, according to SoundScan. This marks the highest first week sales of Mariah's storied career.
"Mariah's an inspiration, the true definition of a star," said Antonio 'L.A.' Reid, Chairman of Island Def Jam Music Group. "She continues to amaze us with every incredible new album she creates. Now Mariah has added another plateau of success to what has become her virtually unapproachable track record on charts around the world. She proves beyond a doubt that with talent, ambition, and sheer force of will, all things are possible."

While Fergie's solo album, The Dutchess, was already a huge hit, it's not over yet. Fergie Ferg plans to reissue it as a deluxe edition on May 27 with extra tracks. One song on the new edition of The Dutchess will be "Party People," which is also featured on Nelly's upcoming CD, Brass Knuckles.
"'Party People' with Nelly, I'm thrilled with that one. It was originally going to be on The Dutchess, but we didn't finish it," Fergie explained to MTV News. "So Polow Da Don played it for Nelly, and he put his thing on it without me even knowing. I had originally recorded a version of it with Trina, and I thought I was saving that one for my next album, but Polow played it for me with Nelly on it. They called me over the phone: 'Fergie Ferg, what's up? You're gonna die!' And I just went, 'OK, maybe I should save this one for the next album,' 'cause it just really excited me when I heard it. It's that song that just gets me going."
Meanwhile, a new Fergie song called "Labels Or Love" will be heard in the upcoming Sex & The City movie.

This year's Rock The Bells festival expands to a full tour, as the Hip-Hop festival will visit ten cities this summer. It will be headlined by A Tribe Called Quest, Nas, Mos Def, De La Soul, Rakim and the reunited Pharcyde. The festival kicks off in Chicago on July 19 before wrapping up in Vancouver on August 30. This year's tour will make its first stops ever in Philadelphia (August 3), Vancouver and Toronto (July 20).

Solange Knowles will release her second album via Geffen Records on August 26. The album, titled Sol-Angel and The Hadley Street Dreams, is a follow up to 2003's Solo Star and has some big time guest producers including Q-Tip, Mark Ronson, Pharrell and Gnarles Barkley's Cee-Lo. Knowles boasts a change in her sound, which draws heavy inspiration from music of the '60's and '70's. According to her MySpace blog, Knowles says, "I have faith that people are ready for a change and diversity and an intelligent ear and I hope this record can fit into that mold." Knowles also makes room on her album to pay homage to the iconic Marvin Gaye song "What's Going On," in the song "Ode to Marvin."