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Beyonce May Go Vegas- Fiddy Says F*** the Grammys- She & Him Again- Miley Goes Gaga Over Lady, Not Queen Meeting- Bryant Gumbel Has Cancer and more
Wynn Las Vegas officials say they're in preliminary talks with Beyonce to bring the superstar singer back to the Las Vegas resort, according to AP. Wynn Resorts spokeswoman Jennifer Dunne says there's no deal yet, despite published rumors of a lucrative, long-term contract. more

50 Cent, who got multiple nominations at the Grammy Awards but won none of them, recently told MTV that he doesn't care about the awards show. "Man, f*** the Grammys! I couldn't care less about the Grammy Awards," he said. more

The country-folk duo of M. Ward and actress Zooey Deschanel, known as She & Him, is slated to return in 2010, proving that the 2008 collaboration wasn't just a one-off affair. more

On Monday (December 7), Miley Cyrus attended the Royal Variety Show in Blackpool, England, where she performed her hit, "Party in the U.S.A.," shaking hands with the Queen afterward. However the "Hannah Montana" star later took to her blog and, overlooking the Queen meeting, talked about how excited she was to meet Gaga, reports MTV. more

Pink will headline the 2010 Wireless festival in London's Hyde Park on July 2. more

Check out the new leak 'Mind The Drop' off of Toronto Electro producer Paul D.'s new album 'Throwdowns' here

Elton John's partner says the musician was devastated that he wasn't allowed to adopt an HIV-positive Ukrainian toddler, but plans to support the boy anyway more

Prosecutors have charged two people with threatening to sell photos of actor John Stamos unless he paid them $680,000. The actor's spokesman said Tuesday that the pictures were benign. more

Bryant Gumbel says he's recovering from lung- cancer surgery and treatment. The former "Today" show anchor says a malignant tumor and part of his lung were removed two months ago. more

Danny Cahill was crowned The Biggest Loser's eighth-season champion during last night's live finale broadcast of the NBC reality weight-loss series, according to Reality TV world who report that he lost a total of 234 lbs during the competition. more

If Antwan Andre "Big Boi" Patton has his way, 2010 will be a busy year for he and Outkast mate Andre "3000" Benjamin -- collectively and apart. more

In an unusual move, the Vatican has listed Tupac Shakur's 1998 hit "Changes" as one of the institution's "12 Favorite Songs" as part of a playlist on MySpace Music. more

It's become an annual winter tale: A young boy gets his tongue stuck to a metal pole, perhaps as the result of a dare. This year, the scene straight out of the movie "A Christmas Story" unfolded Tuesday morning in Boise with a boy of about 10. more
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Susan Boyle Still No. 1, R.Kelly Debuts in Top 5 and Adam Lambert Drops 74%
It looks like Britain's Got Talent runner up Susan Boyle is dreaming in platinum as second week sales of her debut album have pushed the total number of copies sold in the U.S. past 1.2 million according to a tally released on Tuesday.

We told you yesterday that the trend on the Hits Double Daily chart showed that Boyle would retain the top selling album in the U.S. for a second week, the numbers were finalized on Tuesday and they show she sold 509,610 copies this past week, easily beating Andrea Bocelli's 437,435 in sales for the top of the charts. Last week the SoundScan numbers showed more sales than the HDD, so Boyles final tally may end up higher than the half a million copies this chart reports.

American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert was less fortunate. After failing to meet the first week sales projections for his debut, this week his sales fell a staggering 74%, which dropped him out of the Top 20 entirely from his third place debut on last week's chart. His album, "For Your Entertainment" sold 50,648 copies last week according the Hits Double Daily chart. Perhaps the SoundScan numbers will give him a bump and he'll remain in the Top 20 once those numbers are finalized. - more on this story

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Black Eyed Peas and Kings of Leon Score Biggest Digital Song and Album of 2009
iTunes has revealed its "Rewind 2009" roundup of the year's top songs, albums and more. iTunes is the #1 music retailer in the US. The top 10 song and album sales are below:

TOP-SELLING SONGS: 1. "Boom Boom Pow," Black Eyed Peas 2. "Right Round," Flo Rida 3. "Poker Face," Lady GaGa 4. "I Gotta Feeling," Black Eyed Peas 5. "Gives You Hell," The All-American Rejects 6. "Just Dance," Lady GaGa & Colby O'Donis 7. "Party in the U.S.A.," Miley Cyrus 8. "The Climb," Miley Cyrus 9. "Dead and Gone (feat. Justin Timberlake)," T.I. 10. "Use Somebody," Kings of Leon

TOP-SELLING ALBUMS: 1. Kings of Leon, "Only By the Night" 2. Various Artists, "Twilight (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)" 3. Lady GaGa, "The Fame" 4. Taylor Swift, "Fearless" 5. Dave Matthews Band, "Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King" 6. Michael Jackson, "The Essential Michael Jackson" 7. The Fray, "The Fray" 8. Jay-Z, "The Blueprint 3" 9. Eminem, "Relapse" 10. Black Eyed Peas, "The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies)"

- Check out the full special here for more lists etc

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Kylie Minogue's Debut U.S. Tour Highlighted in New Live Album
Pop superstar Kylie Minogue has announced that she will release a live digital album Kylie Live In New York (EMI's Astralwerks Records) on December 15th. The album was recorded on Oct. 13th on the last date of her sold out North American tour at NYC's Hammerstein Ballroom.

Fans will be able to listen to the first half of the New York concert pre-release, exclusively on YouTube for 24 hours, starting at Midnight on December 12th on Kylie's youtube at http://www.youtube.com/kylieminogue.

iTunes customers will receive 3 bonus tracks. Kylie's sold out U.S. tour, her first in the region was nothing less than a spectacle with dazzling costumes, set changes, a live band, dancers, back-up singers and a light show built for a stadium. - more on this story

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Barry Manilow Covers Love Songs on New Album
Barry Manilow's brand new studio album entitled The Greatest Love Songs Of All Time is set for release on January 26th.

On The Greatest Love Songs Of All Time, produced with Michael Lloyd (Somewhere in Time and Dirty Dancing), Manilow presents loving interpretations and arrangements of classic, nostalgic love songs for the Manilow and music fan alike. The album selections include jazz and American standards, as well as songs from the "Great White Way" and silver screen including: "As Time Goes By" (originally written by Herman Hupfeld for the Broadway musical Everybody's Welcome and re-introduced in the film classic Casablanca), Irving Berlin's "How Deep Is The Ocean," "You Made Me Love You" (written by James V. Monaco), George Gershwin's "I've Got A Crush On You," Fats Waller's "I Can't Give You Anything But Love," "The Shadow of Your Smile" (written by Johnny Mandel), "When You Were Sixteen" (written by James Thornton and revived and popularized by Al Jolsen in 1929), "The Theme From Love Story (Where Do I Begin)" (written by Francis Lai), "Nevertheless, I'm In Love With You" (written by Harry Ruby), Gershwin's "Our Love is Here To Stay," Johnny Mercer's "Fools Rush In," and "It Could Happen To You" (written by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen).

The album also features great renditions of "The Look Of Love" (written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David), "We've Only Just Begun" (Written by the songwriting team of Roger Nichols and Paul Williams), and "The Twelfth of Never" (written by Jerry Livingston and Paul Francis Webster). - more on this story

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LMFAO Join Black Eyed Peas Tour
Grammy nominated LMFAO will be party rockin' with The Black Eyed Peas in 2010! LMFAO's Redfoo & Sky Blu will join the Peas on the North American leg of their "The E.N.D. World Tour 2010."

Produced by AEG Live, the tour will kick off at Philips Arena in Atlanta on February 4, 2010, and conclude on April 11th at GM Place in Vancouver. National ticket on-sale dates begin December 12th. Ticket prices will carry reasonable value and will be accessible to all fans.

LMFAO's debut album Party Rock was released this past summer and has sold over 100,000 copies to date. "I'm In Miami Bitch," "La La La" and new single "Shots" featuring Lil Jon, have sold over 1.5 million copies combined. LMFAO is currently on the road headlining their sold-out Party Rock tour, a non-stop party of continuous music open to all ages. - more on this story

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MASK Featuring Sonja Kristina (Curved Air) and Marvin Ayres To Release Second Album
Much to the anticipation of the music press and fans worldwide, MASK are releasing their second album 'Technopia 'on r.a.r.e (Repertoire) Jan 2010 and will be performing in UK and Europe in April - May 2010. This is MASK's first release since their UK Top 20 Club hit single 'Waking The Dream'.

MASK are actress/singer Sonja Kristina (Curved Air) and modern classical composer/producer/Cellist Marvin Ayres . Both established innovators in music and performance. Marvin Ayres's album Cellosphere (Mille Plateaux) established him as a groundbreaking composer/producer.

Sonja Kristina has been touring with the reformed Curved Air in support of the band's recent CD release Reborn (featuring two of Marvin's productions) and incorporating music from the first three classic Warner Bros Curved Air Top 20 albums, Air Conditioning, Second Album and Phantasmagoria. - more on this story

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Air Taps AM For Tour
Los Angeles-based musician AM has been invited by French electro-pop kings Air to open their first North American tour in three years. Kicking off March 13 in Miami, the jaunt will serve as the perfect launching pad for AM's forthcoming sophomore album, Future Sons & Daughters, produced by Charles Newman (The Magnetic Fields) and due for release February 9 on Filter U.S. Recordings. The run will end in AM's hometown with a concert at the illustrious Walt Disney Concert Hall in L.A.

The imminent new year will start with a few shows at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where AM will perform at the Sundance ASCAP Music Caf�, Friday, January 28 and Saturday, January 29. No stranger to the film world, AM's music, which possesses an undeniable cinematic quality, has been featured in more than 80 movies and television shows, including two films that premiered at Sundance last year, including the biggest acquisition of 2009's Fest, Ashton Kutcher's "Spread." Now, AM has added film scoring to his impressive resume, co-composing his first motion picture, "Man Maid" (Warner Bros.), alongside established composer Tom Hiel ("The Practice," "Swimming With Sharks").

As a Tulsa-born, New Orleans-raised artist with a flare for distilling global musical influences into his own unique and infectious pop confections, AM's genre-blurring music, while hard to classify, goes down as smooth as a Mai Tai on a tropical island. Or as Creative Loafing succinctly put it, "AM has an uncanny knack for crafting pop songs shaken and stirred with Philly R&B, Motown soul, '60s rock and folk, and Brazilian rhythms that get in your head and swirl around for a spell." - more on this story

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Debbie Allen's Alex In Wonderland Coming To DVD
Has a fairytale ever made you want to dance and sing? Well, clear your throat and get out your dancing shoes for the must-have, family friendly DVD of the New Year. Debbie Allen's ALEX IN WONDERLAND will be available everywhere DVDs are sold on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 .

In Debbie Allen's ALEX IN WONDERLAND, The internationally recognized Golden Globe and three-time Emmy Award winner director/choreographer Debbie Allen puts a fun twist and a gender switch into her dreamy, "dansical" retelling of the Lewis Carroll classic Alice in Wonderland.

Written, directed and choreographed by Debbie Allen, with an original score by Debbie Allen, Diane Louie and three-time GRAMMY Award winner James Ingram, Debbie Allen's ALEX IN WONDERLAND is a re-imagined fairytale that has been contemporized, funkified and stylized for a new generation - more on this story

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