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Thursday, Nov 19
What Should the Fall Out Boys Do During Their Hiatus?
A solo Stump album is at the very top of my list of Patrick’s to-do list. You can tell he’s itching to stretch out from being in an easily and often mocked “S/scene” band into being a universally respected singer/songwriter. Patrick has already worked with practically everyone in music (Jay...
Friday, Oct 23
The People’s Choice Awards: They’re Really Serious About Letting The People Choose
“Beautiful,” Akon, Colby O’Donis & Kardinal Offishall “Crack A Bottle,” Eminem, Dr. Dre & 50 Cent “Run This Town,” Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West “Dead and Gone,” T.I. & Justin Timberlake “Live Your Life,” T.I & Rihanna “I’m On a Boat,” The Lonely Island & T-Pain
Tuesday, Oct 20
No. 47: Akon, “Sorry, Blame It On Me”
Yes, that’s right: Everything that happened on that stage is the fault of bad parenting and even worse bouncing, and also Akon apparently didn’t have the Internet while he was on tour with Gwen Stefani. Also, dude, Verizon dumped you and you’re still going to name-drop the brand in your son...
Wednesday, Sep 17
The BET Awards Continue To Wave The Banner For A "Best Ringtone" Award [Everybody's A Winner]
MVP of the Year DJ Khaled Jay-Z Lil Wayne T.I. Kanye West DJ of the Year DJ Drama DJ Felli Fel DJ Khaled DJ Tony Neal DJ Greg Street Hustler of the Year 50 Cent DJ Khaled Jay-Z Lil Wayne P. Diddy Best UK Hip Hop Act Chipmunk Dizzee Rascal Ghetto Giggs Skepta Wiley
Friday, Sep 12
Ruth Vs. Maris, meet "Twist" Vs. "Smooth": All-Time Hot 100 Pits Old Against New
1. T.I., "Whatever You Like" (LW No. 1, 5 weeks) 2. Pink, "So What" (LW No. 3, 3 weeks) 3. Rihanna, "Disturbia" (LW No. 2, 12 weeks) 5. M.I.A., "Paper Planes" (LW No. 5, 8 weeks) 8. Ne-Yo, "Closer" (LW No. 8, 21 weeks) 10. Kardinal Offishall feat. Akon, "Dangerous" (LW No. 6, 18 weeks)
Sunday, Jul 27
Whitney Houston Hopes That You Will Always Love Her
ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: The question "how does one make Whitney Houston musically relevant to those who only know her from Being Bobby Brown?" has apparently been answered with one word: "Akon." Over the weekend, a teaser single from her allegedly forthcoming album released, and the fact t...
Friday, Jul 25
Because She Got High: M.I.A.'s "Plane" Takes The "Express" Route To The Hot 100
2. Rihanna, "Take a Bow" (LW No. 2, 15 weeks) 3. Chris Brown, "Forever" (LW No. 4, 13 weeks) 5. Coldplay, "Viva la Vida" (LW No. 7, 11 weeks) 6. Leona Lewis, "Bleeding Love" (LW No. 5, 23 weeks) 8. Lil Wayne, "A Milli" (LW No. 8, 13 weeks) 9. Kardinal Offishall feat. Akon, "Dangerous" (LW No. 14, 11 weeks)
Thursday, Jun 5
Kardinall Offishall, "Dangerous (feat. Akon)"
There's really nothing to "Dangerous": A simple synth line, an uncomplicated beat, Akon doing his Akon thing on the chorus, and Kardinall Offishall pulling off a mix of dancehall and Trick Daddy. The girl described might be dangerous, but the song poses no threat whatsoever, and in the en...
Wednesday, Apr 16
Akon Not The Konvict He Claims To Be [Stretching The Truth]
Akon, you've got some explaining to do! The Smoking Gun is claiming that the omnipresent autotune addict behind "Locked Up" and Konvicted has been lying about his criminal record. While Akon claimed in interview after interview to have written his first album, Trouble, during a three-y...
Monday, Mar 10
Attention Actual Teenagers and Old Creepy Dudes: The Teen Dance Show Is Back!
I spend most Saturday mornings watching the local UHF channel's presentation of the best of Soul Train—entire episodes, including the Scramble Board!—and occasionally I wonder what happened to the teen dance show? Club MTV is long gone and American Bandstand didn't make it into the 90...
Thursday, Mar 6
All Clive Wants For Christmas Is The New Whitney
Hey! Remember that Whitney Houston comeback album that Clive Davis announced in 2004? And again in 2007? Well... start lining up in front of the record store now, because she's completed four songs! And there are four more in the pipeline, which may or may not be a bunch of Akon demos that Whitn...
Monday, Feb 11
The Kids Choice Awards: More Songs About Girls
Song: Beautiful Girls (Sean Kingston), Big Girls Don't Cry (Fergie), Don't Matter, (Akon), Girlfriend (Avril Lavigne.) Female Singer: Beyonce, Fergie, Miley Cyrus, Alicia Keys. Kids Choice Awards Announces Nominees [AP] Photo: AP]
Thursday, Jan 24
It's Time For A Good Old-Fashioned Flo Rida Vs. Norsemen Smackdown
Yeah, the StarGate sound is getting a little tired—which makes their latest Rihanna collaboration encouraging. "Don't Stop the Music" is a driving club throwdown—very Eurodisco and, with its Michael Jackson sample, certainly in their wheelhouse, but still a kinda-new thing for them....
Thursday, Jan 3
The U.K. Really Likes Reality TV Pop (Like, Even More Than "Umbrella")
2. Rihanna ft. Jay-Z - Umbrella 3. Mika - Grace Kelly 5. Take That - Rule The World 6. Sugababes - About You Now 7. Timbaland ft. Keri Hilson & DOE - The Way I Are 10. Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby 11. The Fray - How To Save A Life 13. Gwen Stefani ft. Akon - The Sweet Escape 16. Timbaland ft. One Republic - Apologize
Wednesday, Dec 26
New York's Top 40 Fans Discover This New Artist Named Timbaland
1 Timbaland & Keri Hilson - The Way I Are 15 Rihanna & Jay-Z - Umbrella 21 Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape 42 Akon - Dont Matter 49 Rihanna - Shut Up And Drive 55 Akon & Snoop Dogg - I Wanna Love You 60 Omarion & Timbaland - Ice Box 85 Rihanna - Dont Stop The Music
Thursday, Dec 20
Goodbye Alicia, Hello Alicia: New Hits Start Bubbling Up [100 And Single]
Ed. note: Chris "dennisobell" Molanphy, our resident chart guru, looks at the upward, downward, and lack of movement on the Billboard Hot 100 in the latest installment of "100 And Single": Twas the Night Before Christmas, and Snoop Was Horny: Here's a quick rundown of the biggest movers i...
Thursday, Dec 13
VH1's Viewers Sure Do Like Looking At Jess Mariano When He's Not Wearing A Shirt [Year-end Analysis]
25. Timbaland f/OneRepublic - Apologize 24. Daughtry - Home 22. Alicia Keys - No One 21. Pink - Who Knew 16. Amy Winehouse - Rehab 15. Gwen Stefani f/Akon - The Sweet Escape 13. The All-American Rejects - It Ends Tonight 6. Kanye West - Stronger 5. Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder 4. Rihanna f/Jay-Z - Umbrella
Monday, Dec 10
iTunes Proves People Really Are As Tasteless As You Think They Are [Year-end Analysis]
2 The Sweet Escape- Gwen Stefani 8 Don't Matter - Akon 32 Shut Up and Drive - Rihanna 51 I Wanna Love You - Akon featuring Snoop Dogg 55 Smack That (Dirty) - Akon featuring Eminem 78 Big S**t Poppin' (Do It) - T.I. 82 Hate That I Love You - Rihanna 95 Go Getta - Young Jeezy featuring R. Kelly
Sunday, Nov 18
Idolator Live-Blogs The American Music Awards: You Don't Have To Be Good, You Just Have To Be Popular [Putting The Pseudo In Pseudo-event]
9:02 p.m. Rihanna and the Kronos Quartet perform "Umbrella." 9:42 p.m. Me: "Aww, remember Michael Jackson?" Kate: "Who's that?" 10:43 p.m. Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist. Presented by Akon. The winner: Rihanna. The apologizer: Akon? Maybe? 10:44 p.m. Rihanna is full of love for everyone!
Wednesday, Sep 5
Project X Misses The Summer Like A Child Misses His Blan-ket [Project X]
For the week before, you just replace "Shawty" with Hurricane Chris's "A Bay Bay," and order the rest: Sean Kingston, Fergie, Timbaland, White T's, Kanye, Soulja Boy, T-Pain, Rihanna, Fabolous. Ho-hum, another week on the pop charts. Except that for me, this one coincided with a music fes...
Friday, Jun 22
Akon Is Truly The Master Of The Mastertone
Akon may have been given the boot by Verizon, but that hasn't stopped his songs from entering the memory mobile phones all across the country: Just recently, Akon grabbed accolades as the highest-selling master ringtone artist of all time, according to information from label SRC/Univ...
Wednesday, Jun 13
Apparently, Touring Really Cuts Into Akon's Apologizing Time
Akon has posted a song apologizing for most of his recent transgressions—at least all of those that predate that fan-tossing incident—to his MySpace page. Called "Sorry Blame Me," the track addresses a few people Akon has wronged, including, apparently, his mom; the last verse of the so...
Sunday, May 6
Right-Wing Pundits Give Akon A Bad Review
On Friday, Verizon Wireless announced that it was ending its association with Akon, the Senegalese crooner responsible for such hits as "Smack That," "I Wanna Fuck You" and "Can You Guess What I Want To Put In You (Here's A Hint: It's My Penis)." The company not only dropped Akon from its onl...
