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Sony Pictures Entertainment, in conjunction with Sony Music Entertainment, today announced that the first 24-hours of pre-sales activity for Michael Jackson’s This Is It has resulted in record-breaking sales throughout the world as fans secure the first tickets to the two-week, limited engagement of the highly-anticipated motion picture.
With reports still coming in from nations around [...]

‘Enjoy it’ rapper tells fans
Jay-Z has reacted nonchalantly to the news that his forthcoming new album, “The Blueprint 3″, has leaked online.
The album is not set for official release until September 11, but it has leaked, with fans sharing the tracks from the Kanye West-produced album early.
“I may be the most bootlegged artist in history,” [...]

Ahmad Givens (Real) and Kamal Givens (Chance), reality stars, arrive at Los Angeles International Airport. The Real Chance of Love is awesome and as stars of this show.

Paula Abdul says it was her decision to leave the long-held position as a judge on American Idol late Tuesday.
Issuing a statement via Twitter, Paula says “With sadness in my heart, I’ve decided not to return to #IDOL. I’ll miss nurturing all the new talent, but most of all..Cont’d… I’ll miss nurturing all the [...]

Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter Ne-Yo shocked fans last night when he began to cry while on stage during a concert in Manchester, UK. Apparently, the crooner had been onstage for about an hour and just completed his rendition of Michael Jackson’s ‘Off the Wall,’ before calling it quits due to illness.
The seemingly confused crowd cheered — [...]

Eminem is planning a free show in the Detroit area on the same day his album “Relapse” is released.
He announced plans for Tuesday’s show on his MySpace page. Fans lined up for tickets Monday morning at Record Time in the Detroit suburb of Roseville. The tickets were to be given away later in the day.
The [...]

Coldplay will give a live CD away for free to fans at gigs during their coming tour of North America, underlining the dwindling financial importance for successful groups of selling physical records.
The group, who had 2008’s biggest-selling pop album with “Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends,” kick off their summer tour on [...]

You might not think  Ne-Yo and Barbra Streisand have many fans in common.
But just wait until next month when Streisand is honored at the Kennedy Center Honors gala.
I’ve just got word that Ne-Yo will be one of the performers paying tribute to the legendary diva. Yes, the 26-year-old R&B crooner will be singing a Streisand tune, [...]

Live Nation, which has been on a tear recently with major artist
signings and its own ticketing system that will soon replace a
contract with Ticketmaster, has confirmed that it will sell
unprotected MP3s from three of the four major labels. Rather than
an iTunes-style database, Live Nation’s MP3 store will route fans
to artist pages somewhat similar to the [...]

Fans can now catch their first glimpse of 50 Cent’s new reality show “The Money And The Power.” The reality competition pits 14 contestants against each other in a quest to find the next hip-hop mogul. It’s a battle to see if book smarts can beat out street smarts. Yeah, Yeah I know it sounds [...]

Motown Records patriarch Berry Gordy Jr. and hundreds of others attended Monday’s funeral for legendary Four Tops frontman Levi Stubbs, whose stirring baritone made the group one of the most recognizable in American music during the 1960s and into the ’70s.
“He made us walk in his shoes, felt what he felt and loved what he [...]

We never would have made this connection, and it’s too funny! Rihanna, with her cute new pixie haircut she’s been donning all summer, has been getting mistaken for Prince!
Star magazine reports that Rihanna, who is used to people yelling and screaming for her, will pass by fans and then realize they’re screaming the wrong name.
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