Gwyneth Paltrow Eyes Potential Music Career

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After marrying superstar Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin, guest-starring on Glee, and earning the starring role of a country star scorned by fame in her latest flick, Country Strong, Gwyneth Paltrow has the itch to perhaps begin a career in music. The 38 year-old reveals that she used Beyonce as inspiration for the film. She said,

Lady Gaga, Queen of Magazine Covers

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As if a sold-out 200+ date tour, a multi-platinum certified album, and countless corporate sponsors was not enough to complete the Gaga-domination of 2010, the singer has another title under her belt: Queen of Magazine Covers. The 24 year-old cultural icon has graced numerous magazine covers this past year and it seems that her popularity has been newsstand gold. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, Gaga was 2010's most successful cover girl, as issues of Rolling Stone, Cosmopolitan, and Vanity Fair that featured the pop singer became among their best sellers. Her machine gun-wielding Rolling Stone issue sold 245,000 the week it was released, a number that is three-times the average weekly sales for the year, while Cosmopolitan's Gaga feature sold 1.7 million, its biggest seller through October. It appears everything Gaga touches turns to gold, and I have a feeling 2011 will be another winner for the singer.

Rick Ross & Drake Lovin' on Rihanna

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Rihanna's got the men of hip hop around her little finger, doesn't she? At least, that's what a new Rick Ross and Drake collaboration reveals, in which both Rick Ross and Drake name-drop the singer. The song, which was intended to lead off his Ashes to Ashes mixtape, features a polished, looping beat and lyrics in which Ross mentions Katy Perry, T-Pain, Wiz Khalifa and Rihanna, among others. In it, he rhymes:

"That 65, I call it Rihanna / It got a red top but it's white like Madonna"

Will A Lauryn Hill Comeback Materialize?

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When Lauryn Hill came up, she was quite the anomaly. She could spit like the best of them and had the vocal chops of an R&B angel. Her lyrics were as much poetry as they were social commentaries, and rather than slump into the predictable, hardcore hip hop direction of the femcees during mid to late 1990s, she stood out by ushering in positivity and building bridges with words. This uniqueness of hers would culminate to her solo masterpiece, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. That was 1998, and since her solo debut, she staged a mysterious exit from music, an absence that is almost 13 years in length.