Music and Lyrics

The Black Eyed Peas are back in North America where they kicked-off in mid-July the second US/Canada leg of "The E.N.D" Tour. Fergie & Co. found a break between dates to perform a live gig on Good Morning America at Central Park in NY on Friday.

Carrie Underwood stopped by early on Friday on NBC's The Today Show to perform a mini-concert live from Rockefeller Plaza in New York City - The country diva is currently on the road with her latest US tour in support of her platinum-certified third album "Play On".

English singer Joe Brooks is a new artist that was signed in 2009 to Lava Records/Universal Republic. He's steadily making his way into the music scene and has already released his debut single entitled "Superman". The single is available since late April on iTunes.

Flo Rida hit the stage very early on Thursday on NBC's The Today Show to perform his club-ready single "Club Can't Handle Me". It wasn't the fancy performance at Rockefeller Plaza but a more "intimate" show - if you will - in the NYC studios.

In what is nowadays a typical strategy by Universal Motown, Nelly will have a dual release for the first single off the upcoming album "Nelly 5.0" (out September 21st) - The club banger that we could listen to yesterday "Tippin' In The Club" will be sent to the urban formats while thi...

Here we have a new track by Nicki Minaj called "Ice Cream Man". This comes off the latest summer mixtape from Lime Light Exclusives. It's not going to be on Barbie Nicki's debut album (out November 23rd), nor is a smash hit like "Your Love" BUT it's quite enjoyable.

Here's the official version of the song "No Gravity" by Shontelle. A demo of this track leaked back in March but the Barbados native confirmed via her Twitter account that it was not her singing on it.

50 Cent shocked the world when he released back in May some jaw dropping pictures of himself weighing a slender 160 pounds. The rapper-turned-actor fell from 214 pounds to 160 over a 9 week period for his upcoming film "Things Fall Apart" (in theaters in 2011).

Jermaine Dupri - who has made some hits for the likes of Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey or Usher - is planning a comeback to his solo career. The producer/rapper released the last material of his own back in 2001 with the album titled "Instructions".

Hotel heiress & Pop singer Paris Hilton confirms to have completed her second studio album which is expected to hit stores later in 2010. "My record is just in production now. I recently finished recording it.

R&B crooner Usher will release the Polow Da Don-produced "Hot Toddy" as the second single from his upcoming extended play (EP) "Versus" (out August 24th). The single which is set to impact on US radios on August 9th has leaked today in the Internet.

Natalia Kills is the latest signing from Interscope/Cherrytree Records (also home of Lady Gaga) and is set to release her debut album "Perfectionist" later in 2010. She was discovered two years ago by will.i.am who went on and signed Nat.

R&B songstress Estelle has world premiered her music video for "Fall In Love" via VH1 on Tuesday. This DJ Frank E production serves as the lead single from the English star's upcoming third album "All Of Me" out later in 2010 via Atlatic Records.

British singer Natasha Bedingfield has just premiered the music video for "Touch". The Julian Bunetta and Steve Kipner co-production serves as first single from NB's upcoming album "Strip Me" out later in 2010. Loving Touch from listen one, and still playing it a lot on my iPod.

Listen to these new leaks from R&B singer Ne-Yo. Both are Stargate productions from the recording sessions of Ne-Yo's upcoming album "Libra Scale" - slated for release this September.

Rapper Nelly is back with the new single "Tippin' In The Club", the official first cut from his upcoming album "Nelly 5.0" in stores on September 21st. Club banger! Loving this. The beat especially is sick! This is totally what Nelly needed to put out this summer.

The soundtrack album of the upcoming film "Step Up 3D" has hit stores today, July 27, so we can finally check out this new Jesse McCartney song called "Up". There was a snippet that leaked to the Web last week but here's the real deal in full. "Up" is a mix of urban/electronic music.

Lumidee has just premiered the music video for her newest promo single "End Of Time". I'm pretty sure you remember her from her monster hit "Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh)" back in 2003. That song has huge, but then again she proved to be a one hit wonder.

Check out this new Teairra Mari track entitled "Coins". The urban banger features dancehall artist Mavado and is set to be included on Mari's upcoming sophomore album "At That Point".

Ain't nobody stopping Robyn. The Swedish singer just released last month her latest album "Body Talk Pt 1", from which spawned the single "Dancing On My Own" that peaked #8 on the UK Singles Chart and #3 on Billboard's Dance Club Songs Chart.