Eminem, 50 Cent & Dr. Dre "Crack" Kelly Clarkson
Eminem, with assists from high-powered pals 50 Cent and Dr. Dre, has landed at No. 1 on the charts and in the record books with his latest single, "Crack the Bottle."
The track was (legally) downloaded a record 418,000 times in its first week and easily bounced Kelly Clarkson’s "My Life Would Suck Without You" from the top slot on Billboard’s Hot 100.
It marks his second No. 1, after 2002’s "Lose Yourself." For Dr. Dre and 50 Cent, it’s trips three and four, respectively.
"Crack the Bottle" is the lead single from Em’s forthcoming Relapse album, but it’s also likely to appear on Fiddy’s own Before I Self Destruct, out next month, and Dre&rsq...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) Irish supergroup U2 have found what they are looking for to promote their new album in the United States a five-night gig on the "Late Show with David Letterman."
For the first week of March, U2 will perform every night on the late night chat show, CBS said on Thursday. It’s the first time a musical act has been booked for an entire week on the show.
U2 starts the weeklong gig Monday, March 2, and ends it the following Friday. During the week on March 3 the band and its label, Interscope Records, will release the album "No Line on the Horizon."
The band kicked off the Grammy Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles with a performance of their single "Get on You...
NEW YORK When India.Arie debuted in 2001 with "Acoustic Soul," a CD brimming with messages about self-worth, inner-beauty and positivity, she was seen by many as a strong, self-assured musician who was impervious to the more vain and superficial pitfalls of celebrity.
Not really.
The 33-year-old singer says people misinterpreted her image as a "role model" and she struggled with her own insecurities.
She’s taking a new approach with her fourth studio CD, "Testimony, Vol. 2: Love & Politics," released this week.
The Grammy-winner hopes to expand outside the R&B/soul genre to a more world music sound with her new disc. She traveled alone to Hawaii for 10 days to refresh ...
LOS ANGELES It was a dreamy night for a couple of "Dreamgirls." Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson both glided away with trophies Thursday and wowed the audience with individual performances during the 40th annual NAACP Image Awards.
Beyonce, who opened the show with a wind-swept rendition of her song "Halo," won the female artist category while Hudson, who performed "The Impossible Dream" for President’s Award recipient Muhammad Ali, picked up the new artist award. They costarred in the 2006 film "Dreamgirls."
"This is where we come from," Hudson said, accepting the trophy. "So it’s always an honor to come home and feel welcome and to feel the love. I really cher...
Los Angeles (E! Online) Oh, the Jonas Brothers’ ears must have been ringing on Grammy night.
And it wasn’t because of all that music at the Staples Center.
After the big awards show in downtown L.A., new besties and performance partners Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift headed uptown to meet up with Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato at the Improv comedy club, where Lovato was hosting a screening party for the premiere of her new Disney Channel series Sonny With a Chance.
So what do these four do when they get together?
Oh, nothing too crazy.
Cyrus and Swift made a beeline for Gomez and Lovato’s table when they arrived at about 7:45 p.m. "The girls all hung toget...