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Best known for her breakout role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, Sarah Brightman went on to become the biggest-selling soprano of all time, selling over 25 million records, 2 million DVDs and playing sold-out shows worldwide. A true crossover artist, she has been embraced by Classical, Broadway and Pop music fans around […]

Fergie of the multi-platinum two-time Grammy Award winning group, The Black Eyed Peas, announces the release of her solo debut, “The Duchess.” The album will drop on September 19th, 2006 on will.i.am Music Group / A&M Records.
The album, “The Duchess,” is the eagerly anticipated first release from the will.i.am Music Group. The label is launched […]

Fans in search of Jessica Simpson’s new summer smash “A Public Affair” can now purchase the song in a completely personalized version. This is the first time music fans have been offered the innovative opportunity to put their own name into a customized pop song so that the lyrics are literally calling out their name. […]

12-time Grammy nominee India.Arie enters the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart this week at #1 with her third studio album Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship on Universal Motown Records. The acclaimed release was produced by longtime collaborators Shannon Sanders and Mark Batson, among others and has been receiving universal critical acclaim.
The album’s first […]

Curb Records has confirmed “Supawoman” as the first single from Kimberley Locke’s sophomore album, “Based On A True Story.” The tune, penned by Locke with her producers Mark Feist & Damon Sharpe, goes to Top 40 and Rhythmic Crossover radio and will be available for downloads at iTunes on July 4, 2006.
“I think it was […]

Three years since the release of 5-time Grammy Award-winner OutKast’s landmark RIAA diamond-certified #1 double-CD Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, Antwan ‘Big Boi’ Patton and Andre ‘3000′ Benjamin return this August with the new album, IDLEWILD, set for August 22nd release on LaFace/Zomba Music Group.
Three days after the release of the IDLEWILD album, Universal Pictures and HBO […]

Following this year’s most successful season of American Idol with over 35 million viewers tuning into the finale on May 24th, the 2006 winner Taylor Hicks signs a recording deal with Simon Fuller and 19 Recordings Limited, in conjunction legendary music man Clive Davis, Chairman of BMG U.S., and Arista Records.
The 29 year old Alabama […]

Music World Music/Sony Urban Music/Columbia Records will release B’Day, the new solo album from Beyonce, on Tuesday, September 5, 2006.
B’Day will be released worldwide on September 4, 2006, Beyonce’s 25th birthday.
The pop music superstar’s sophomore studio album premieres all new music co-produced, written and arranged by Beyonce. “Deja Vu,” the album’s first single, features guest […]

Platinum female recording artists 3LW are back with their third LP, POINT OF NO RETURN, set to be released in the US August 15, 2006. The group has had early success with their 1999 single “No More.”
After a four-year hiatus, Kiely Williams (19), Adrienne Bailon (21), and Jessica Benson (18), are getting reacquainted with their […]

Paying tribute to the music that inspired her, pop icon Christina Aguilera will release her third studio album, “Back To Basics,” August 15th on RCA Records. A modern take on vintage jazz, soul and blues from the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s, the album is wildly inventive with a throwback style creating a sound that’s gritty […]