Rich people seem to get even richer. All they have to do is find a prespering celeb to marry or date. This way they get on the Forbes’ list of top-earning couples.
According to the mag, Beyoncé Knowles and Jay-Z have earned more than anybody else in Hollywood making $162 million between June 1, 2007 and June 1, 2008.
POP/ ROCK MUSIC
1. FAVORITE MALE ARTIST
1. Chris Brown
2. Kid Rock
3. Usher
2. FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST
1. Mariah Carey
2. Alicia Keys
3. Rihanna
3. FAVORITE BAND, DUO OR GROUP
1. Coldplay
2. Eagles
3. Daughtry
4. FAVORITE ALBUM
1. Coldplay/ Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
2. Eagles/ Long Road Out of Eden
3. Alicia Keys/ As I Am
COUNTRY MUSIC
5. FAVORITE MALE ARTIST
1. Garth Brooks
2. Kenny Chesney
3. Brad Paisley
6. FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST
1. Reba McEntire
2. Taylor Swift
3. Carrie Underwood
7. FAVORITE BAND, DUO OR GROUP
1. Brooks & Dunn
2. Rascal Flatts
3. Sugarland
8. FAVORITE ALBUM
1. Garth Brooks/ The Ultimate Hits
2. Rascal Flatts/ Still Feels Good
3. Carrie Underwood/Carnival Ride
RAP/HIP-HOP MUSIC
9. FAVORITE MALE ARTIST
1. Flo Rida
2. Lil Wayne
2. Kanye West
10. FAVORITE BAND, DUO OR GROUP
1. G Unit
2. Three 6 Mafia
3. Wu-Tang Clan
11. FAVORITE ALBUM
1. Jay-Z/American Gangster
2. Lil Wayne/ Tha Carter III
3. Kayne West/ Graduation
SOUL/RHYTHM & BLUES MUSIC
12. FAVORITE MALE ARTIST
1. Chris Brown
2. J. Holiday
3. Usher
13. FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST
1. Mary J. Blige
2. Alicia Keys
3. Rihanna
14. FAVORITE ALBUM
1. Mary J. Blige/ Growing Pains
2. Mariah Carey/ E=MC2
3. Alicia Keys/ As I Am
SOUNDTRACKS
15. FAVORITE ALBUM
1. Alvin And The Chipmunks
2. Juno
3. Mamma Mia!
ALTERNATIVE ROCK MUSIC
16. FAVORITE ARTIST
1. Coldplay
2. Foo Fighters
3. Linkin Park
ADULT CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
17. FAVORITE ARTIST
1. Daughtry
2. Eagles
3. Jordin Sparks
LATIN MUSIC
18. FAVORITE ARTIST
1. Enrique Iglesias
2. Juanes
3. Wisin Y Yandel
CONTEMPORARY INSPIRATIONAL
19. FAVORITE ARTIST
1. Casting Crowns
2. MercyMe
3. Third Day
20. T-MOBILE BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST
Colbie Caillat
Flo Rida
Jonas Brothers
Paramore
The-Dream
21. ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Lil Wayne
Chris Brown
Alicia Keys
Eagles
Coldplay
Rihanna was caught rehearsing for the 2008 American Music Awards this week. Of course her boo, Chris Brown was caught close by. The event will take place on Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 at 8:00 ET/PT, Live on ABC. You can also catch glimpse of the seating arrangements below. BTW, with all that Pyrotechnic action going on, Rih Rih should watch out before she becomes Michael Jackson, circa his infamous Pepsi commercial.
After four-year hiatus, No Doubt give fans clues on how they will be hitting the road again and entering the studio for recording sessions.
Bringing out the news are the band's members themselves as they are posting a comical chat involving a talk on the possible touring and recording plans.
During the chat, keyboardist Tom Dumont said,
Singer Gwen Stefani answered humorously, poking fun at her need for second hand to help her with her kids."I have cabin fever. Maybe we should play some shows or something."
"I think we should go out now. I don't think we should wait. Pack up the babies and get a bunch of nannies. So fun! Would be so inspiring to get out there and play all those songs again."
Furthermore, the talk on the possible roadshow also leads to another topic about writing new songs for their next album.
"I think that if we go on tour, it will inspire us to write," Gwen shared to other members.
"Yeah. Totally. I think playing some shows will make the studio time event better, playing songs, writing songs, kicking ass, ND 2009," bass guitarist Tony Kanal responded to Gwen's statement.
No Doubt have taken timeout since 2004. During the hiatus, Gwen Stefani released two solo studio albums "Love.Angel.Music.Baby." and "The Sweet Escape". Meanwhile, Tony Kanal spent his time producing a reggae LP for singer Elan Atias and doing a remix for Gwen and Gang of Four.
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With the holidays so close, our favorite stars are beginning to celebrate already.
On Wednesday night Madonna was spotted at Gucci’s swanky dinner at the Plaza Hotel.
Terrific-looking singer was wearing a green feathered mini - one of this year’s hottest trends - from Louis Vuitton’s Spring 2009 collection.
She was so brilliant that it was hard to believe the singer is three months into a global tour and involved in a difficult divorce from Guy Ritchie.
Madonna, who in the past has tended to prefer longer, retro-inspired garments, showed off her slender legs wearing sexy fishnets and a pair of green gladiator shoes. The attire was accessorized by a golden belt setting off the emerald tint of her dress and massive designer bracelets. Madge proved once again that a woman can look at least a decade younger than she is.
Usually, there’s at least one album I’m excited to hear each Tuesday.
Although the music industry is undeniably filled with a lot of crap, there are almost always some good artists that manage to highlight a week of bad releases. While not all of the artists releasing albums today are ‘bad’, I can’t say I’m excited about any of them.
In case you didn’t yet notice through Beyonce’s new Myspace billboarding, she has got a new album out. Apparently, she is displaying her alter-ego in this release,
“I Am…Sasha Fierce“. First of all, I kind of hate the word ‘fierce’.
Beyonce has long referred to her on-stage persona as “Sasha” and now she’s given Sasha her very own album.
Sound nuts to you? Don’t worry; it sounds nuts to me, too. Her single,
“If I were a Boy”, is boring. She decorates the songs with her usual unsolicited arpeggios. I can’t say I expected anything more…but considering the album is oriented around her alter-ego, it would have been refreshing to hear something new and different out of Beyonce.
via coedmagazine.com
Sassy and savvy, confident and feisty, bright and unpredictable, smart
and multi-talented, sarcastic and sensitive, Katy Perry can be
different but what is important is that she’s always sincere in
everything she does. Katy Perry combines sass and spunk, the cheeky,
club-ready pop music of Lily Allen with the commercial pop/rock of
Avril Lavigne and Alanis Morissette adding provocative but humorous
texts to get what we see topping chart lists everywhere – unique Katy
Perry sound. “I don’t care who I’m compared to as long as people listen
to the music,” Perry says. Her songs are reflection of her life
experience and her emotions, it’s all in there. Love her or hate her,
but put music first, that’s all Katy Perry wants.
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In 1951, at the age of 12, Paul Mawhinney bought his first record, Frankie Lane’s Jezebel. His collection has grown quite a bit since: Mawhinney has dedicated his life to acquiring every recording issued in the U.S. His now 3 million-strong archive is organized alphabetically and cataloged in his Pittsburgh warehouse. It is the world’s largest record collection, and growing every day.
Mawhinney, who ran the RecordRama store for 40 years until it closed in February, has recently put the $50 million dollar collection up for grabs at a mere $3 million because the economy scares him — he’s got bills to pay, and three kids to help out. “My goal is to find a home for the history of music,” the 69-year old Pittsburgh native says.
He opened his 16,400 square foot warehouse, the RecordRama Archive, in 1968, when he had 160,000 records. In the mid-’70s, he started cataloguing the music on his computer, making him not only a vinyl connoisseur, but a pioneer. “I created the Music Master database, which is the largest database in the field of popular music,” he explains. Custom built shelves, temperature and humidity control keep his 6 million-plus song titles secure and organized — search for a track (or any keyword) in the electronic database, and it will direct you to the record on the shelves.
A study conducted by the Library of Congress determined that 87 percent of the music in Mawhinney’s vault is not available on the Internet. The collection’s most valuable record is a rare Rolling Stones album that was never commercially released — only 300 promotional copies were produced by London Records, and it’s valued at approximately $8,000. Mawhinney is also the owner of the first flat record ever made (an 1881 recording of Teddy Roosevelt), a copy of the most released non-hit record in history (”Let Me Love You,” by George Goodman), 15 promotional copies of an unreleased Elvis record called Joshua and hundreds of rare singles from Bob Dylan and the Beatles.
Over the years, Mawhinney and his massive collection have actually changed rock history. He helped out David Bowie’s career by pressuring RCA to send a reissue of the self-titled record featuring “Space Oddity” out to radio stations after it had been locked up in their vault for three years. “The manufacturers still don’t even understand what I did,” he says. “They don’t even have their own records. RCA, Columbia, Rhino — when they want to reissue a CD, they’ve come to me to get a master. Nobody was organized like I was.” And he’s not a fan of big-box stores dominating the record-sales biz today. In his opinion, music distributors have killed the business by cutting breaks to places like Best Buy and Wal-Mart, making it impossible for independent stores to be competitive.
Mawhinney dropped out on current rock scene post-2002, after which he says that music became nasty. He opposes CDs and MP3s, which is why he is adamant about preserving recorded history on vinyl. “When you take a record and put it on CD or tape, you’re compressing the whole thing from top to bottom, taking the highs and the lows,” he explains. “You’re only hearing half the song,” he says. “Believe me, you will never hear a song the way your hear it on a vinyl record with a good needle.”
Prospective buyers and the curious look at the collection almost every day, and Mawhinney gets inquiries from museums worldwide regularly. He’s had a few serious bidders, including the Library of Congress. “Every curator has wanted my collection there for the last 25 years,” he says. “But they don’t want to pay.”
Aside from the archive, Mawhinney owns seven record labels and a publishing company, “the best record washing company in the world.” But the vault is truly his life’s work. “I think that saving my collection is going to have a real wonderfulness in 20 or 30 years,” he says. “If this collection gets broken up and sold as crap, everybody loses big time.”
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It was like old times in MTV's Times Square
studio. There were superstars everywhere you looked, frantic stagehands
darting about, and down below — packed against police barricades — ... lots of screaming kids.
On Sunday night (November 16), after 10 years and more than 2,500 episodes, MTV's legendary "TRL" bid adieu to the airwaves with "Total Finale Live," a positively packed three-hour party that was as much about celebrating memories from the past as it was creating ones for the future.
It was a livewire, unpredictable and — fittingly — star-studded send-off for a show that prided itself in being all those things. It was a night full of big-time performances, big-name guest stars and nostalgic trips down memory lane. It was the kind of proper, celebratory goodbye that most of MTV's biggest programs (be it "Jackass" or "Beavis and Butt-head" or even "The Osbournes") don't actually get, which sort of makes sense, considering that "TRL" launched the careers of today's biggest stars, reimagined the concept of live television and, whether you realize it or not, probably defined a generation.
A who's who of "TRL" alumni rocked stages both inside and out of the studio, starting with Beyoncé, who, backed by a cracking live band, poured her heart and soul into "If I Were a Boy" and then flipped the switch and tore through muscled up versions of "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" and "Crazy in Love." Fall Out Boy (sans bassist Pete Wentz, who was with his wife Ashlee Simpson as she reportedly went into labor) followed her, braving the chilly New York night to shred on a flatbed truck parked in the heart of Times Square. Wentz even got some new-dad advice from Good Charlotte's Joel Madden on the show.
Later in the night, a trio of hip-hop heavyweights — Ludacris, Nelly and Snoop Dogg — performed their greatest "TRL" hits, then joined forces on the Doggfather's "Drop It Like It's Hot." Former "TRL" mainstays the Backstreet Boys took a nostalgic run at "I Want It That Way," and 50 Cent — who, in true Fiddy fashion, kept show producers waiting until the very last minute — pounded his way through "In Da Club" and his current hit, "Get Up." (Backstage, he had some choice words for Kanye West and Donald Trump.)
And though they didn't perform, tons of other stars stopped by to pay their respects. Justin Timberlake chuckled as clips of his frosted-tipped 'NSYNC past played on flat-screen TVs in the studio. Taylor Swift clutched a "TRL" yearbook that she got signed by everyone in attendance. Diddy — who appeared on the show more than anyone else — did a bit of hosting, a bit of joking and (of course) a bit of plugging for his new fragrance, I Am King, and the upcoming Notorious B.I.G. biopic "Notorious." And, in a move that could only happen on live television, Kid Rock wandered around with a stogie and a glass of beer, then greeted a female admirer in the audience with: "Hi, baby, you're much too young for me."
There were phoned-in congrats from Eminem and Christina Aguilera. Miley Cyrus geeking out in the "TRL" photo booth. More former VJs than you could shake a stick at. And plenty of video packages that recounted the most memorable moments from the show's 10-year history — everything from Mariah Carey's wacko striptease to Rudy Guiliani's appearance on the show's first broadcast post-9/11 — and goofy glimpses at your favorite stars' first appearances on the show (a barely legal Xtina, a super-slim Slim Shady, a giggly Britney Spears, to name just a few). There were on-air bleeps and teary pre-teens and even a few "Oh wait, what?!?" moments — you know, the stuff "TRL" was known for.
And, appropriately, there was also one last video countdown. Hosts Carson Daly and Damien Fahey guided viewers (and the screaming fans inside the studio) through the 10 most iconic clips in "TRL" history — everything from Outkast's "Hey Ya!" and 'NSYNC's "Bye Bye Bye" to Kid Rock's "Bawitdaba" — a list topped with Britney Spears' " ... Baby One More Time" (sadly, Brit Brit was not on hand to accept the accolades). The fact that all of this played out before a packed (and really squealy) studio audience — and on a massive screen outside in Times Square — only seemed right.
And then, as 11 p.m. drew close on the East Coast, it was time bring the show to a close. Surrounded by friends, fans and the famous, Daly and Fahey raised champagne glasses and attempted to sum up the show's 10-year run in a few sentences. Not surprisingly, this proved rather tough (and Kid Rock and Snoop's "pass the dutchie" antics didn't help matters much), but it was Daly who perhaps did it best, thanking everyone who's ever appeared or worked on the show for a decade's worth of memories, then turning to the camera, raising his glass high and asking, appropriately: "Why are we stopping this show?"
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