As the inner workings of the music continued to be restructured in an effort to handle sinking album sales, there has been yet another major shift behind the scenes. Ne-Yo has officially left his longtime Def Jam Recordings home and signed with Motown Records as the new Senior VP of A&R.
The upcoming romantic comedy film ‘Think like a Man’ will star Chris Brown and Keri Hilson in supporting roles but the theme song for the movie was performed by a different musical duo. Jennifer Hudson and Ne-Yo joined forces for the track, which features a contribution by Hip-Hop heavyweight Rick Ross.
Billboard previously announced that Adele’s ‘Rolling in the Deep’ and ’21′ were the Top Song and Top Album of the December 4th 2010 to November 26 2011 period, respectively. However, the singer’s domination did not end there as it has been revealed that both titles were also the top-selling releases of the 52-week 2011 year that [...]
Did you know that before launching his own solo career, Ne-Yo was once a member of a boy band and was notoriously booed at the Apollo?
The final episode of ‘The X Factor (US)’ aired this evening but before the winner was announced, a range of artists hit the stage to further excited the crowd. Among the performers were Leona Lewis, 50 Cent and Justin Bieber, the last of whom was joined by the legendary Stevie Wonder for a festive Holiday-themed showing.
Shortly after his taped appearance on Martina McBride’s ‘A Home For The Holidays’ special aired last evening, yet another Justin Bieber Holiday concert was broadcasted on television. ‘This is Justin Bieber’ was shown via TLC and it depicted the young superstar performing a range of tunes including surprisingly tolerable covers of Usher’s ‘U Got It Bad’ and Ne-Yo’s ‘Because of [...]
After months of grueling competition, ‘The X Factor (US)’ will reach its climax this week and Simon Cowell has promised that it will be the biggest finale event that he has ever constructed. In fact, in addition to several guest performers, the head judge also announced that three “mega superstars” will be performing with the [...]
Trey Songz stopped thinking about himself just long enough to perform at his ‘Angels with Heart’ benefit concert last evening. Hosted at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, the show featured the R&B crooner performing several of his biggest including ‘Can’t Be Friends’ and ‘Love Faces’.
Adele denied Rihanna the opportunity of landing her 11th #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 this week but nobody could prevent the Pop star from conquering the United World Track Chart. Indeed, Rihanna’s ‘We Found Love’ has ended the 8-week reign of Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera’s ‘Moves Like Jagger’ to become her 9th [...]
When we reflect on 2011, there will be one name that will symbolise the year’s greatest commercial accomplishments – Adele. In fact, after holding the the #1 spot for an astonishing 26 weeks on the United World Chart, the singer has gone far beyond what any other singer achieved during the last calendar year as her ’21′ [...]