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There is just no stopping the power of Lady Gaga! For the sixth time in her career, the princess of pop has a song in the top 10 of the Billboard charts Hot 100. ‘Telephone’ featuring R&B singer Beyonce came in at number 9 this week. Don’t expect it to stay there forever though. Just as with all of Lady Gaga’s other singles, I’m pretty sure the song would be on the rise and well on its way to the top in the coming weeks – maybe even next week. I can guarantee it! And with Lady Gaga, that’s pretty much a fool proof bet.

Lady Gaga is busy taking over the world with her Monster Ball Tour and putting the finishing touches on her music video for ‘Telephone’ with Beyonce but a rep at her label has revealed that there are talks about a 3D concert and DVD in the near future for the princess of pop. Is this what the singer has been prepping her fans for when the deluxe edition of her album ‘The Fame Monster’ included a pair of 3D glasses? That’s the only other reason that I can think of and I am utterly excited about this piece of news. I can already imagine the crazy stuff that she’s going to pull off.

Beyonce Knowles has been named the official face of the ‘Fashion for Haiti’ shirt. The 28-year old R&B singer and actress is encouraging people to buy the shirt, created by Peter Arnell, who also created a mended heart logo shirt that raised $2 million for charity after 9/11. Beyonce was named the spokesperson through the Council of Fashion Designers of America. The shirt costs $25 and will benefit the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. Beyonce said “Join me and the fashion industry by buying and wearing the Fashion for Haiti T-shirt. Together we can send a message of hope by raising much needed funds for the people of Haiti.”

A woman who hit Beyonce’s father, Matthew Knowles, with a paternity lawsuit has given birth to a son.

The child’s mother, AlexSandra Wright, filed the paternity suit against the troubled record company executive in October last year.

Wright is a 38-year-old Canadian actress who appeared on Scrubs.

She claims she and Knowles had a relationship that ran for 18 months. She claims that she and Knowles picked the baby’s name – reportedly Nixon.

Wright will appear in court next week in a bid to get child support from Knowles.

Knowles, who also managed his other daughter Solange’s musical career, is credited with creating the group Destiny’s Child, Beyonce’s launch pad.

It seems that Beyonce still wants to expand her musical horizon. After the Grammy Awards information surfaced that she might have approached Kings of Leon and proposed collaboration for a track. This is what a source related on the matter: “Beyonce looked stunning and was chatting to virtually every major star on hand. She kissed Kings of Leon on their cheeks and congratulated them on winning an award for Use Somebody. They were chatting for ages. She knows how huge they are in the UK and loves their album. She was scouting for people to collaborate with and has been talking about doing something different with a rock band. Kings of Leon would be perfect.” Of course they would be perfect… after all, they’re the ones that won a Grammy and Beyonce is probably not going to work with just anyone. There are standards that need to be respected here!

She may have invented a word that made it into the Oxford English Dictionary, but Beyoncé Knowles has said she wishes she had thought of a better word instead.

The 28-year-old singer, who wrote the 2001 hit Bootylicious, said: “I still can’t believe it! It’s hilarious.

“I actually wish it was another word that I created. I wish it didn’t have ‘booty’ in it.”

She also revealed that she has outgrown her sassy stage persona Sasha Fierce.

She said: “Sasha Fierce is my alter-ego… and I have used this person to take over when I’m too scared or too shy.

“The thing that’s interesting is, I don’t need Sasha Fierce anymore, because I’ve grown and I’m now able to merge the two.

“I want people to see me. I want people to see who I am.”

And that means women all over the world – including countries such as Egypt, where last year Islamic groups called her show a “nudity concert”.

Knowles said that she knew nothing about the controversy beforehand, but that she was thrilled to see the audience enjoying themselves.

She said: “It made me feel really proud to see the ladies putting their arms up saying, ‘To the left, to the left’, and jamming…

“I’m a voice for those women, and it makes me feel like my job and my music are doing what they’re supposed to do…

She added: “It gives me chills just thinking about it: women so empowered, singing every word, their fists up, their hands up, feeling strong.”

It seems that Alexandra Burke rolls in the best of circles. The singer is apparently in close contact with some very famous people, including Beyonce whom she mails regularly. This is what Alexandra Burke related on the matter: “We talk through email. She’s a lovely woman, the most whole woman I’ve ever met and with her success you wouldn’t expect her to be, but she is. She’s the ultimate diva. We just talk about how everything is going. She asks me what I am up to, and how my career’s going. It’s just normal, weirdly normal.” The ultimate diva? Mariah Carey is the ultimate diva, if Alexandra Burke has found such a good friend in Beyonce she’d better hope she never becomes an ultimate diva. Divas don’t have friends… they have subjects.

Grammy nominations leader Beyonce will be among the performers at the Grammy Awards ceremony next year.

The Single Ladies star, who is nominated in 10 categories, was confirmed by the Recording Academy on Tuesday.

Taylor Swift, who is up for eight awards at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center, will also perform, as well as Black Eyed Peas, Lady Antebellum and Maxwell at the January 31 event.

Black Eyed Peas and Maxwell each have six Grammy nominations, while Lady Antebellum has two.

Beyonce and Swift will be going head to head in the top three Grammy categories of album, record and song of the year.

Beyonce better watch her back because one of her girls isn’t pleased with her daddy. News has come out that Destiny’s Child is heading to court regarding a copyright infringement lawsuit for their song ‘Cater 2 U’. This legal mess that the singers find themselves in has Kelly Rowland pointing the finger at Matthew Knowles for trying to push his daughter ahead of the pack. A source said “Matthew [Knowles] has a long history of trying to get songwriters to add Beyonce’s name to songs she didn’t compose, just so she gets publishing royalties. That information eventually became widely known, and now anyone who wants to accuse Kelly or Destiny’s Child of stealing material has ammunition to file a lawsuit. Kelly is livid.”

Beyonce’s single lady days have been numbered – all in the name of her career.

But the wildly popular star is preparing to take some time off and be just that – a single lady. She told a music website: “I promised myself that it’s time to smell the roses. I’m going to take – hopefully – a couple of months off. I’m not going to plan anything. I’ll perhaps take some art classes, I’ll visit some museums and I’ll check out some shows on Broadway.”

Beyonce, 28, will complete some dates in February before she takes the break. She continued: “I’d like to travel somewhere – maybe Egypt – without anyone, without any security, and focus on things I’ve always wanted to do myself.”

She revealed her sacrifices for her career that stemmed from the way she was raised. She said: “I just sacrificed life. Being able to walk down the street and being able to make mistakes and not have it recorded forever. Being able to have regular relationships and dates. Just regular, normal things that people probably don’t even think about. Sometimes it’s hard. I haven’t had longer than a couple of months off ever in my life, since I was 15. But I was raised that anything that’s worth anything takes a lot of sacrifice. And when anything is too easy for me I get scared.”

After already witnessing to the world that she is the coolest, with no small amount of modesty one might add, it seems Miley Cyrus has finally found her role model in life. The young singer had this to say about none other than Beyonce: “I want to be like Beyonce. She is the ultimate woman. You look at her and you don’t think, I wonder what her personal life is like. You look at her and you go, That girl on the stage is a superstar. You don’t care about anything else; you only care about her music. So I would hope that would be me in the future.” What’s the point of setting such goals for herself? Miley Cyrus is already the most super-dooper-uber-pooper-mega coolest person there is. Why does she even want to lower herself to Beyonce’s level?

Singer Beyonce has confirmed that she will be producing another new album next year.

The 28-year-old singer released album I Am… Sasha Fierce a year ago and recently finished her I Am… tour in Belfast, Ireland, after starting it in March.

During a gig in Nottingham, UK, on November 20 the singer said to the crowd: “I’ll see you in a year with a new album.”

The star released I Am… Sasha Fierce in November last year and has released several tracks off of it including If I Were A Boy, Single Ladies, Halo, Sweet Dreams and Broken-Hearted Girl.

The MTV Europe Music Awards 2009 took place in Berlin, Germany at the O2 World arena. The show was hosted by Katy Perry

Here is the List of MTV Europe Music Awards 2009 Winners

Best Video
Beyonce – Single Ladies

Best Female
Beyonce

Best Group
Tokio Hotel

Best Push Artist
Pixie Lott

Best Male
Eminem

Best New Act
Lady Gaga

Best Alternative
Placebo

Best World Stage Performance
Linkin Park

Best Song
Beyonce – Halo

Best Rock
Green Day

Best Urban
Jay-Z

Best Live Act
U2

Best European Act
maNga

Taylor Swift and Michael Jackson lead the nominations at this year’s American Music Awards

Nominees Are:

ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Kings of Leon
Taylor Swift
Lady Gaga
Eminem
Michael Jackson

POP/ROCK – Favorite Male Artist
Eminem
Michael Jackson
T.I.

POP/ROCK – Favorite Female Artist
Beyonce
Lady Gaga
Taylor Swift

POP/ROCK – Favorite Band, Duo or Group
The Black Eyed Peas
Kings of Leon
Nickelback

POP/ROCK – Favorite Album
Fame – Lady Gaga
Number Ones – Michael Jackson
Fearless – Taylor Swift

COUNTRY – Favorite Male Artist
Jason Aldean
Darius Rucker
Keith Urban

COUNTRY – Favorite Female Artist
Reba McEntire
Taylor Swift
Carrie Underwood

COUNTRY – Favorite Band, Duo or Group
Rascal Flatts
Sugarland
Zac Brown Band

COUNTRY – Favorite Album
Unstoppable – Rascal Flatts
Fearless – Taylor Swift
Foundation – Zac Brown Band

RAP/HIP-HOP – Favorite Male Artist
Eminem
Jay-Z
T.I.

RAP/HIP-HOP – Favorite Album
Relapse – Eminem
Blueprint 3 – Jay-Z
Paper Trail – T.I.

SOUL/R&B – Favorite Male Artist
Jamie Foxx
Michael Jackson
Maxwell

SOUL/R&B – Favorite Female Artist
Beyonce
Keyshia Cole
Keri Hilson

SOUL/R&B – Favorite Band, Duo or Group
The Black Eyed Peas
Day26
Mary Mary

SOUL/R&B – Favorite Album
I Am…Sasha Fierce – Beyonce
The E.N.D. – The Black Eyed Peas
Number Ones – Michael Jackson

SOUNDTRACKS – Favorite Album
Hannah Montana: The Movie
Hannah Montana 3
Twilight Soundtrack

ALTERNATIVE ROCK – Favorite Artist
Green Day
Kings of Leon
Shinedown

ADULT CONTEMPORARY – Favorite Artist
Daughtry
Jason Mraz
Taylor Swift

LATIN – Favorite Artist
Aventura
Luis Fonsi
Wisin Y Yandel

CONTEMPORARY INSPIRATIONAL – Favorite Artist
Jeremy Camp
Brandon Heath
Mary Mary

Australian A-listers have succeeded in securing from Sydney publicists a rush of last-minute tickets to Beyonce.

The silver tickets – 200 in number – were released at the last minute ahead of two sold-out dates. The hottest tickets in town are known as production seats and provide seating at the very side of the stage.

Australian fans continue to draw big names and pay out large sums for acts such as Beyonce. While the country has brushed with recession, most consumers have tightened their wallets.

But fans are still prepared to pay out. This weekend more than 35,000 music lovers have forked out between $25 and $170 for a seat to see Beyonce, Wolfmother, Shihad, John Farnham and Colin Hay among others.

Daily Telegraph music critic Kathy McCabe notes: “There were positive signs early in the year that the Australian concert industry would ride out the storm when tickets to Leonard Cohen, Coldplay, The Veronicas, Fall Out Boy, Jason Mraz and Kings Of Leon gigs were snapped up as soon as they went on sale. And then there was Pink.”

Pink broke national records with the number of concerts she filled up at the likes of Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena.

A Moshtix ticket agency poll of 2100 people found that almost 60 percent of punters had not foregone their live music pleasure because of the economic downturn. “Aussies will always spend money on great gigs that are priced well and held at the right venue,” said Moshtix general manager Adam McArthur.

Source: Splash News

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The adorable Taylor Swift won Best Female Video by beating out Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Beyonce at the MTV VMAs. It was the country singer’s first VMA but her moment was rudely taken from her. When Taylor started to give her acceptance speech, Kanye West jumped up on stage and took her mic to proclaim that Beyonce really had one of the best videos of all time. What a douche bag! The crowd then started to boo and the rapper stormed off stage and left Taylor speechless. All of that went down just a few minutes before she was set to take the stage again to perform.

MTV Video Music Awards 2009 winners:

BEST VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Beyonce, Best Video of the Year

BEST NEW ARTIST
Lady Gaga

BEST MALE VIDEO
T.I. featuring Rihanna, “Live Your Life”

BEST FEMALE VIDEO
Taylor Swift, “You Belong With Me”

BEST POP VIDEO
Britney Spears, “Womanizer”

BEST HIP-HOP VIDEO
Eminem, “We Made You”

BEST ROCK VIDEO
Green Day, “21 Guns”

BEST VIDEO (THAT SHOULD HAVE WON A MOONMAN)
Beastie Boys, “Sabotage”

BEST BREAKTHROUGH VIDEO
Matt and Kim, “Lessons Learned”

Beyonce says that she is shy and insecure about the curvy figure many admire.

The 27-year-old singer laid her shyness to not having a “normal social life” growing up.

She said: “Sometimes, I get curvy in the wrong places too much.”

Married to rapper Jay-Z, the singer revealed that she keeps her bottom in shape through stairs workouts.

She said, “After New Year, I do stairs. They are the best thing for bum cheeks!”

Singer Beyonce said Michael Jackson was “incomparable” and his death is a “tragic loss”.

The 27-year-old singer revealed her grief at the death of the King of Pop, who passed away in LA aged 50 after reportedly suffering a heart attack.

She told Entertainment Tonight: “This is such a tragic loss and a terrible day. The incomparable Michael Jackson has made a bigger impact on music than any other artist in the history of music.”

She added: “He was magic. He was what we all strive to be. He will always be the king of of pop. Life is not about how many breaths you take, but about how many moments in life that take your breath away.

“For anyone who has ever seen, felt, or heard his art, we are all honoured to have been alive in this generation to experience the magic of Michael Jackson. I love you Michael.”

Source: Splash News

Lil’ Wayne and Beyonce lead with 5 nominations each.

THE NOMINEES

Video of the Year
Beyoncé – “If I Were a Boy”
Beyoncé – “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)”
Jamie Foxx feat. T-Pain – “Blame It”
T.I. feat. Rihanna – “Live Your Life”
Kanye West – “Heartless”

Best Male R&B Artist
The-Dream
Jamie Foxx
Ryan Leslie
Ne-Yo
T-Pain

Best Female R&B Artist
Beyoncé
Keyshia Cole
Keri Hilson
Jennifer Hudson
Jazmine Sullivan

Best Male Hip-Hop Artist
Lil Wayne
Rick Ross
T.I.
Kanye West
Young Jeezy

Best Female Hip-Hop Artist
Lil Mama
M.I.A.
Trina

Best Group
Day26
GS Boyz
N.E.R.D.
The Roots
Three 6 Mafia

Best New Artist
Keri Hilson
Kid Cudi
Ryan Leslie
M.I.A.
Jazmine Sullivan

Viewer’s Choice
Beyoncé – “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)”
Keri Hilson feat. Lil Wayne – “Turnin’ Me On”
Lil Wayne – “A Milli”
Soulja Boy Tell’em feat. Sammie – “Kiss Me Thru the Phone”
T.I. feat. Rihanna – “Live Your Life”
T-Pain feat. Lil Wayne – “Can’t Believe It”
Kanye West – “Love Lockdown”

Best Collaboration
Jamie Foxx feat. T-Pain – “Blame It”
Keri Hilson feat. Lil Wayne – “Turnin’ Me On”
Jim Jones feat. Ron Browz and Juelz Santana – “Pop Champagne”
T.I. feat. Rihanna – “Live Your Life”
Yung L.A. feat. Young Dro and T.I. – “Ain’t I”

Video Director of the Year
Benny Boom
Rik Cordero
Gil Green
Chris Robinson
Hype Williams

BET J Award
Musiq Soulchild
Raphael Saadiq
Seal
Solange
Jazmine Sullivan

Best Gospel Artist
Regina Belle
Shirley Caesar
Mary Mary
Smokie Norfu
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