November 21, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Another top artist is premiering music online. MySpace Music exclusively debuted Kanye West’s much-anticipated forthcoming album, “808s & Heartbreak” earlier today. Fans are able to stream the album in its entirety for free on MySpace Music.
This official premiere comes days before the album hits stores on Monday, November 24. Kanye West’s MySpace profile features the latest music, videos and news.
“808s & Heartbreak,” West’s fourth album, is set to follow the pace set by his first three land-mark #1 releases - 2004’s “The College Dropout,” 2005’s “Late Registration” and last year’s “Graduation.” The first two albums generated a total of six Grammy Awards, including consecutive wins for Best Rap Album of 2004 and 2005, and Best Rap Song of 2004 (“Jesus Walks”) and 2005 (“Diamonds From Sierra Leone”).
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November 14, 2008
BURBANK, Calif.
On the next “TV One Access,” host Tatyana Ali takes viewers through an inside look at pop icon Beyonce’s rise to stardom. “Beyonce: It Girl To Icon” is an hour-long special produced by Access Hollywood’s longest running spin-off, monthly entertainment news program, TV One Access. The special premieres Sunday, November 16, 2008 (check local listings) on cable’s TV One.
Beyonce, whose new album entitled “I Am…Sasha Fierce” drops Tuesday, November 18th, sits down with Tatyana Ali to discuss life, love and her plans for the future.
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October 22, 2008
SANTA MONICA, CALIF.
“Chinese Democracy” has finally arrived.
One of the most highly anticipated albums in rock history, the long-awaited “Chinese Democracy” marks the first album of new material from Guns N’ Roses since 1991’s simultaneous release of “Use Your Illusion I” and “Use Your Illusion II.”
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October 17, 2008
NEW YORK, NY
Grammy, Tony, and Emmy Award-winning Arista recording artist Barry Manilow will release his new album, “The Greatest Songs of The Eighties,” a brand new 12-song collection that will arrive in stores from Arista Records on November 25, Access Hollywood has confirmed.
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October 15, 2008
NEW YORK, NY
Britney Spears is making history with her new single, “Womanizer.”
This week, “Womanizer” has made an unprecedented leap from No. 96 to claim the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 Singles chart. This is the first time a song has ever made a leap of this magnitude on the singles chart.
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October 02, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Tween starlet Demi Lovato is a hit with kids, scoring the number two album on the Billboard charts this week with “Don’t Forget.” But on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” on Wednesday, the singer says when she was in seventh grade, she was so unpopular she had to leave school.
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September 29, 2008
NEW YORK, NY
Katy Perry is on a roll.
After spending spring and summer re-writing the record books with the seven-week Billboard Hot 100 #1 single “I Kissed A Girl,” the follow-up single “Hot N Cold,” now bulleted at No. 13 nationally, and the RIAA gold-certified album “One of the Boys,” Capitol Records pop/rock phenom Katy Perry takes one more dive into pop culture iconography with a doll created in her likeness.
Perry collaborated with fashion designer Jason Wu in the creation of the 12 inch-tall doll, which will be sold worldwide in a limited edition retailing for $49.99 from Integrity Toys, where Wu also serves as creative director for Integrity’s high-end fashion doll lines.
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July 30, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Vanity Fair photo shoot uproars and YouTube spats with fellow Disney pals can’t keep Miley Cyrus from the top of the charts. The ‘tween sensation will land in the coveted top spot with the debut of her latest album, “Breakout,” according to Billboard.
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June 18, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Lil Wayne now has official numbers to back up his bragging — the rapper’s new CD has sold a spectacular 1 million copies its first week.
“Tha Carter III” is easily the best selling first week of the year, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures.
Even Kanye West’s “The Graduation” didn’t eclipse that mark in its first week last year (though it was only about 50,000 copies short).
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