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The 2011 NRJ Awards were held on Saturday's night at the Palais des Festivals et des Congres in Cannes, France. These are the most popular music awards in France, organised by radio station NRJ in partnership with the national television network TF1. Last's night ceremony saw perform on stage…

I only hope this doesn't mean the whole album is gonna leak this early - Remember that new Nicole Scherzinger track entitled "Cold" that first leaked last year in a super short snippet, and then last week a lengthier snippet did? Well, the Dave Aude-produced song has found its way online in its…

Jay Sean is back with a new single! "Hit The Lights", a club banger, featuring Lil' Wayne has recently surfaced on the Internet. The J-Remy & Bobbybass-produced track ("Down" & "Do You Remember") will be officially released in the UK on February 8th. Jay's new studio album "Freeze Time" will hit…

What do we have here? It's Avril Lavigne in only lingerie! Ahead of its official premiere later on Sunday, the full edited, although in mid-quality, music video of Avril Lavigne's new single "What The Hell" has already leaked online. The Max Martin production serves as the lead single from Av's…

UK hit rapper Tinie Tempah premiered today (January 22nd) the music video for "Wonderman", the official fifth single from the Londoner's debut album "Disc-Overy". The Ellie Goulding-assisted single will be released on March 7th in the UK. This is one of my fave songs on Tinie's album and the one…

Before Blink 182's 'comeback' album - the band's first studio work since they went into 'indefinite hiatus' in 2003 - sees the light of day this upcoming summer, member Travis Barke will release on March 15th his debut solo record "Give the Drummer Some" via Interscope. The album's lead single…

The full version of Panic! at the Disco's new single "The Ballad of Mona Lisa" has leaked online moments ago, only a couple days after the release of a 30-sec snippet - The uptempo rock cut will serve as the lead single of Panic's forthcoming third album "Vices and Virtues" which is due out on…

Electro-hop duo 3OH!3 have recently premiered the music video for "Touchin' On My", the official third single taken from their latest studio LP "Streets of Gold" (Photo Finish Records/Atlantic) - The Matt Squire-produced song was released as a digital download in May 2010 (before the album hit…

Diddy-Dirty Money visited this week the United Kingdom to promote their new studio album "Last Train To Paris" which will arrive in stores in the mentioned European country next Monday (January 24th) - The hip-hop trio began the British promotional rounds with a 'CD signing' (of new single "Coming…

Timbaland provided us yesterday with "Round Da Way Tim", the second installment in his free music series, "Timbaland Thursdays" - It all pointed out that Timb' was going to release yesterday the full version of "Warped", a collab' with Missy Elliott & Sebastian, since a snippet leaked a couple…

Lady Gaga put together a remix of a song from her upcoming album "Born This Way" to be used as the soundtrack of the Thierry Mugler menswear fashion show in Paris on Tuesday - Only poor quality videos of yesterday's event were uploaded to the Internet so we've had to wait until today for Mugler…

Pop/rock star Pink just premiered the music video "F**kin' Perfect", the new single lifted from her latest "Greatest Hits...So Far!!!" compilation disc - The Max Martin-produced song went for radio adds in America earlier this month and has thus far peaked at #24 on the Mediabase Airplay Chart and…

After a short visit to the UK in September 2010 to play only a club gig, new superstar Bruno Mars has returned to British soil to fully promote this time his debut album "Doo-Wops & Hooligans" which has hit stores in said country this week. The Hawaii-born singer kicked things off performing an…

Platinum-selling artist Keyshia Cole performed her new single "Take Me Away" on TBS's "Conan O'Brien Live" last night - The R&B songstress has selected the Chink Santana-produced song as the third official cut to be lifted from her latest LP "Calling All Hearts" - which is about to cross the 200k…

The results are in! Avril Lavigne's new single "What The Hell" has debuted at #13 on the Hot 100 Chart - Backed up mainly by its digital sales, the single has had IMO a more than respectable debut - Just wait until the music video comes out, radio airplay garners up, and of course Avril starts…

Big week this is for The Script. The Danny O'Donoghue-led Irish rock group released this Tuesday their latest studio LP "Science & Faith" in the USA, which means lots of promotion. In total, The Script will have played live performances in 5 major American TV shows by next week. They kicked things…

'Jenny from the Block' Lopez stopped by 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' on Tuesday to plug the new season of American Idol - which premieres today, January 19th, in the States - During the little chat Jennifer had with Ellen, the pop diva shared her experiences on the AI auditions and why she's so…

The ultra-talented Adele paid her dear friend Alan Carr a visit on his popular Channel 4's show "Chatty Man" this last Monday - The Grammy-winning singer performed last night her new single "Rolling In The Deep" (finally available for purchase in the UK and currently peaking at #2 on the local…

Maroon 5 performed their new single "Never Gonna Leave This Bed" last night on NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" - This becomes the group's third *official* single from their latest album "Hands All Over" - The Adam Levine-led band released in December 2010 a cool visual for the album's title…

Jennifer Lopez just gave Ryan Secreast the green light to world premiere her new single "On The Floor" on both Ryan's radio show and website - As announced, this is the *final* version of the RedOne-produced cut - And I'm glad to say it's sooo much better than the leaked demo! As I requested (-->…

(Image credits: cyber_arts, 2001) British pop/R&B singer Alexandra Burke kicked off her debut concert tour "The All Night Long Tour" last week - The opening show took place at the Pavilion Theatre in the city of Rhyl in Wales - The 32-date tour will visit various cities across the United Kingdom,…

This was bound to happen! Lil' Wayne helps Cash Money partner Nicki Minaj on "Roman's Revenge 2.0", a remix to the Swizz Beatz-produced record - included on "Pink Friday" - where Weezy takes over Eminem's spot (the original featured artist). I LIKE IT! Weezy simply slaaaayed. By the way, I wonder…

American rapper J.Cole adds a new verse in this (un)official remix to Rihanna's new single "S&M" - The beat and Rihanna's parts are the same btw...the only thing new is J's rap verse after the first chorus - I was actually wondering the other day how a rapper would fit in "S&M"...and I think it…

UK rapper Aggro Santos performed his new single "Like U Like", a collaboration with Girls Aloud's Kimberley Walsh, this morning (January 17th), on ITV 1's 'Daybreak' show. This is the first televised performance of the Steve Mac-produced track...finally. I mean, I was getting a little impatient…

British pop star Ellie Goulding has recently premiered the music video for "Lights" - The Richard Stannard-produced song becomes Ellie's FIFTH single from the "Lights" (album) era - Amazing, just one album in the market and fifth singles out (including two Top 5 hits in the UK)! And I wonder if…

Melody Thornton, former The Pussycat Dolls member, performed the US national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Los Angeles Lakers vs Clippers game at L.A's Staples Center on Sunday (January 16th) - Now that the PCD era is a thing of the past for Melody, the girl from Phoenix, Arizona is…