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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 (E! Online) Turns out, Britney Spears’ upcoming tour is a going to be a kid friendly one after all. Particularly for her kids. A week after the pop star’s premature proclamation that sons Sean Preston and Jayden James would be joining her for her North American road trip and less than a week after Kevin Federline’s attorney said otherwise E! News has confirmed that a deal has, at last, been made for the Federtots to join their mother for Circus time. Federline and Spears have hashed out a custody deal for their road tripping, which will more or less mirror the terms of their current arrangement. K-Fed attorney Mark Kaplan tells E! that all necessary p...

Los Angeles (E! Online) Chris Brown has been canceled, while Rihanna has canceled once again. Brown, who’s under investigation for allegedly beating his "Umbrella" singer girlfriend, has been completely nixed by a Cleveland radio station. WAKS "Kiss" FM 96.5 has dropped "Forever," "Kiss Kiss" and all other tracks by the 19-year-old R&B star from its on-air playlist. "After the alleged incident, the phones exploded," evening host Java Joel said on the channel’s website. "It’s all that people wanted to talk about. They were outraged at his alleged behavior and wondered why we were continuing to support his music. I agreed and immediately pulled all Chris Brown...

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...

Los Angeles (E! Online) Move over, Vanity Fair. Madonna and Demi Moore are on their way of becoming the new queens of Oscar night. I just got word that the two Hollywood sirens will, as they did last year, cohost a party with Guy Oseary at Oseary’s L.A. area home after this year’s awards ceremony on Feb. 22. Among the guests at last year’s soiree were Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Cameron Diaz, Orlando Bloom and even Sir Elton John and his husband David Furnish, who made their way there after hosting their annual AIDS fundraiser. Madonna and Moore’s guest list will again be invite only. Hopefully, Moore and hubby Ashton Kut...