Poppedy Popped Culture

If it weren’t for her mother, Alicia Keys might have a radically different image. Keys, who has a new album titled “As I Am,” says that when she was trying to choose a professional name she went through a dictionary and stopped on the word “wild.”
She tells Newsweek in the magazine’s November 19th issue that […]

There was a time around 1997 when no matter where you were — in the car, on the StairMaster, at the dentist’s office — you couldn’t help but hear “My Heart Will Go On,” the soaring Celine Dion ballad from “Titanic.”Resistance was futile. It did go on, and on, and on — an example not […]

Entertainer of the Year - Kenny Chesney
Female Vocalist of the Year - Carrie Underwood
Male Vocalist of the Year - Brad Paisley
Horizon Award - Taylor Swift
Vocal Group of the Year - Rascal Flatts
Vocal Duo of the Year - Sugarland
Single of the Year - Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats” Produced by Mark Bright
Album of the Year - […]

Once considered on the cutting edge for his use of the Internet, Prince has become enemy #1 to some of his fans:
Fan sites dedicated to Prince say they have been served legal notice to remove all images of the singer, his lyrics and “anything linked to Prince’s likeness,” and have vowed to fight what they […]

Love her or hate her, Beyonce is a worldwide force to be reckoned with:
Some 5,000 adoring fans in Ethiopia — a country normally unimpressed by Western music — turned out to see Beyonce. In this country, even teens tend to be loyal to music in the national language, Amharic. But Beyonce got a hysterical welcome […]

“Blackout,” Britney Spear’s first album in more than four years, will come out in the United States on October 30 via Jive Records, and a day earlier internationally. I wonder how many albums she will sell. Hmmm…

Wow, I really didn’t think that Jive would actually release Britney’s new CD. But not only are they going ahead with plans to release the new CD, they are moving the release date up by two weeks.
Britney Spears’ “Blackout” is coming sooner than expected.
The pop star’s eagerly anticipated new album will be released Oct. […]

Radiohead said its seventh studio album “In Rainbows” would be available from Radiohead.com from October 10 in MP3 format, meaning it can be played on all digital devices. In the latest twist in the move to digital music, fans can choose how much to pay, or can pay nothing if they prefer. source

After nearly a decade away without releasing an album, Chaka Khan is poised to make a return to the music scene:
Khan teamed up with producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis to make “Funk This,” which is being released by the Sony-distributed Burgundy Records imprint.
The album mixes originals and covers, the latter including Prince’s “Sign O’ […]

A lot of divas and others have decided that November is the month to release an album:
Rumored releases:

Mariah Carey
Mary J. Blige
Britney Spears
Madonna
Jay Z

Locked in dates:
November 13th

Celine Dion “Taking Chances”

November 26th

Kylie Minogue “X”