New Music: "Raise Your Hands" by David Guetta featuring Miguel

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R&B newcomer Miguel has teamed up with dance/pop producer David Guetta for a new song included on the latter's re-release of his album, One Love. The track, a much more upbeat, dance number than Miguel's current urban hit "All I Want Is You", has the archetypal ingredients of a Guetta track. From the thumping beat to the pulsating synths and computer-altered vocals, the song is specifically engineered for techno clubs and dance radio. There's also a subtle sampling of Robin S.'s 1993 dance hit "Show Me Love," incorporating the instrumentals as a nice ode to the era of house/techno domination of the early-mid 1990s. If there were any concerns of Guetta straying away from the sound that has defined his early successes, have no fears as the song fits perfectly within the confines of his previous musical masterpieces. Add to that the fact that Miguel's vocals are equally convincing within the musical constructs of an R&B and dance jam, this track is something that definitely works to both of their advantages.

Check out the new track below:

Keri Hilson Recreates The Supremes on Letterman

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Her name is Keri, and she's so very 60's glam during her performance on Letterman this week. Dressed in a white, sequin studded gown and sporting a Dusty Springfield styled hairdo, the singer croons through her hit single "Pretty Girl Rock" with the jazzy musical and visual embellisments of a late 60's Ed Sullivan performance. Although choreographed with minimal physical movements, the performance is appropriate for the era it is trying to recreate. The vocals sound great and, as the song is one of the winners from her sophomore album, No Boys Allowed, I found the overall performance both aesthetically and musically pleasing.

Check below for the video:

Rihanna Poised to Make UK Chart History

2010 was a very good year for Rihanna and it appears that 2011 may conserve that momentum. After selling one million albums in the United Kingdom alone with her fifth studio album Loud in less than two months, the Bajan singer's single "What's My Name?" may make it to number one this week on the singles chart. According to midweek figures, the U.S. number one hit is poised to take Matt Cardle's X-Factor coronation song's spot at the top this week, making it her fifth number one in as many years.

Un-beliebable! Bieber Fans Threatening Selena Gomez on Twitter

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It seems some Beliebers on twitter are misbehaving, but perhaps that may be an understatement. After the photos of Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez swapping spit circulated the internet over the past few days, some Bieber fans have become so blinded by lust and love that they have taken to twitter to publicly threaten the 18 year-old former star of Disney Channel's Wizards of Waverly Place. And they're not just threats, they're actually death threats, with some Belibers making twitter pages dedicated to @KillSelenaGomez because of her recent romantic rendezvous with the pop star.

Here are just a few tweets that have threatened Gomez in the past few hours:

Nicki MInaj on Album Success: "I deserve it this time!"

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Last Christmas, Nicki Minaj had dreams of success; this Christmas, she's reveling in it. And for good reason too, as the 26 year-old emcee has sold 852,000 copies of her debut album, Pink Friday in less than two months of release. The singer/rapper talked with MTV about her success this past year, including the platinum-certified album of hers and how its sales are stacking up with the other big name of hip hop who released the same week as her.

"[Kanye] got a good start, he beat me the first week," she said, as she has narrowed down the 100,000 sales advantage of West's first weeks sales to a mere 30,000, a number that will likely continue to narrow if her recent sales edge over her peer emcee persists.

U.S. Billboard 200 Chart Update

The thing about releasing a holiday album is that although it may dominate sales during the holiday season, it will inevitably spiral down the charts after Christmas, something most evident in this week's Billboard 200 chart. Some of last week's strong chart players have tumbled down the charts, such as Susan Boyle's The Gift, which loses 92 percent of last week's sales and free-falls from number 2 to number 31 with 19,000. Jackie Evancho's O Holy Night has 89 percent of last week's shaved off to fall from number 4 to number 34, while the Glee Christmas album collapses from number 3 to leaving the top 100 at number 108, a sales hit of 96 percent.