Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Un-beliebable! Bieber Fans Threatening Selena Gomez on Twitter



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!"



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.


Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Gwyneth Paltrow Eyes Potential Music Career



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



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



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?



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.