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“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
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...
1. DJ Skee Intro 37. I Don’t Need It - Jamie Foxx & Timbaland 47. Climbing Up The Walls - Chris Cornell & Timbaland 56. Ghetto Rock - Mos Def 57. Speaker Busting - David Banner, Akon, Snoop Dogg & Lil’ Wayne 58. Rock Song - Young Jeezy
Gwen Stefani, "Hollaback Girl" 6 WtP Rihanna, "S.O.S." 12 WtP Chamillionaire feat. Krayzie Bone, "Ridin'" 14 WtP Akon feat. Snoop Dogg, "I Wanna Love You" 8 WtP Akon, "Don't Matter" 10 WtP Rihanna, "Umbrella" 7 WtP Rihanna, "Take a Bow" 5 WtP Rihanna, "Disturbia" 8 WtP
Single of the Year: Kardinal Offishall, "Dangerous" Songwriter of the Year: Dallas Green ("Waiting..."; "Sleeping Sickness"; "The Girl" from Bring Me Your Love by City and Colour) Rap Recording of the Year: Kardinal Offishall, Not 4 Sale JUNO Awards [Official site]
Diddy also offered Brown and Rihanna two shoulders to cry on, and a Miami-based home to chill at, as they try to reconcile, because he's a big-hearted guy. [MTV] Brown remains a nominee at the upcoming Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, even though that's really skeezy and the producers shou...
Lay It On The Line," Divine Brown Dangerous," Kardinal Offishall feat. Akon Lost," Michael Bublé Gotta Be Somebody," Nickelback RAP RECORDING OF THE YEAR A Captured Moment In Time, DL Incognito The Book, D-Sisive I Rap, Now Famous Not 4 Sale, Kardinal Offishall
AKA the "we made this up so she would show up" award.) Best Pop Male: Kid Rock I have to break here to let you know that Michael Jackson was up for this award. Seriously.) Best Rock Act: Coldplay Best Hip-Hop/Rap Artist: Lil Wayne Best DJ: Laurent Wolf Biggest Internet Artist: Akon Africa: Akon
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
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)
Hot 100 1. T.I., "Whatever You Like" (LW No. 1, 4 weeks) 2. Rihanna, "Disturbia" (LW No. 2, 11 weeks) 3. Pink, "So What" (LW No. 9, 2 weeks) 4. Chris Brown, "Forever" (LW No. 3, 19 weeks) 5. M.I.A., "Paper Planes" (LW No. 6, 7 weeks) 6. Kardinal Offishall feat. Akon, "Dangerous" (LW No. 5, 17 weeks)
Each week, dozens of songs and albums from up-and-coming (or just plain unknown) bands debut on the world's music charts. Some of these bands will never be heard from again; some may become the next little thing. That's why we have Chuck Eddy exploring the world beyond the Billboard 200, whe...
1. T.I., "Whatever You Like" (LW No. 71, 3 weeks) 2. Rihanna, "Disturbia" (LW No. 1, 10 weeks) 5. Kardinal Offishall feat. Akon, "Dangerous" (LW No. 7, 16 weeks) 8. Ne-Yo, "Closer" (LW No. 8, 19 weeks) 9. Pink, "So What" (CHART DEBUT) 10. Rihanna, "Take a Bow" (LW No. 8, 20 weeks)
1. Rihanna, "Disturbia" (LW No. 1, 9 weeks) 2. David Archuleta, "Crush" (CHART DEBUT) 3. Chris Brown, "Forever" (LW No. 2, 17 weeks) 6. M.I.A., "Paper Planes" (LW No. 5, 5 weeks) 7. Kardinal Offishall feat. Akon, "Dangerous" (LW No. 7, 15 weeks) 8. Rihanna, "Take a Bow" (LW No. 4, 19 weeks)
2. Rihanna, "Take a Bow" (LW No. 2, 16 weeks) 3. Chris Brown, "Forever" (LW No. 4, 14 weeks) 4. Rihanna, "Disturbia" (LW No. 15, 6 weeks) 5. Coldplay, "Viva la Vida" (LW No. 5, 12 weeks) 6. Lil Wayne, "A Milli" (LW No. 8, 14 weeks) 8. Kardinal Offishall feat. Akon, "Dangerous" (LW No. 9, 12 weeks)
Akon is konvinced that his collaboration with Michael Jackson, "Hold My Hand," is going to put the King of Pop back in his throne, and maybe fix the planet's woes as well. ""The concept is to bring all the people together as one person linking as one world. At the state of where the world is now, w...
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...
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)
It has come to our attention that DJ Khaled is screaming over giant, Jeep-ready beats that have lots of names and almost nothing else of any merit going for them. Again. Now and, apparently, forever, but instead of "We Takin' Over" the name of the new album is We Global Now, continuing the leas...
ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: Girl, you're lonely and you think nobody understands your pain. But you're wrong. Akon understands. And Michael Jackson? He understands too. So just take their hands and let them fly you away from all this misery. For if there's one place you'll be happy, it's resting safe...
THE REST Kardinal Offishall ft. Akon, "Dangerous" Weezer, "Pork & Beans" Scooter, "The Question Is What Is The Question" David Guetta, "Love Is Gone" Hotstylz ft. Yung Joc, "Lookin Boy" Kid Rock, "All Summer Long" Brooks & Dunn, "Put A Girl In It"
Sure, the possible summer jam-in-waiting "I'll Be Lovin' You Long Time" is set to be released by Island Def Jam shortly, but it has to sting Mariah Carey that her current single, the "We Belong Together" reworkign "Bye Bye," has been moving up the charts slo-o-owly (Last week, its eighth o...
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...
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...
It's not fair. Akon gets to have multiple wives. I don't. Akon gets to hump teenage girls on stage and throw teenage boys off. I don't. Akon gets to write a hit song about how he didn't respond to the press furor about his wanton ways because he was on tour with Gwen Stefani. I don't, and I wasn't. I bet yo...
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...
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...
Just as Kanye West took one good album concept and kept rubber-stamping all subsequent releases with increasingly nonsensical titles following the same theme (seriously, how does a dropout graduate?), Akon is following up his somewhat cleverly titled 2006 album Konvicted with Acqu...
Which leaves Thriller at No. 2 on Billboard's Comprehensive Chart—the listing of top-selling albums that combines current albums and catalog albums, and that was last covered in this space during the whole Eagles/Britney kerfuffle—leading some to wonder whether or not that chart, in...
On that note, the current musicians who Iovine thinks are geniuses Pharrell, Timbaland, Dr. Dre, Akon, and the "still not on the Billboard 200 despite everyone else getting a Grammy bump" will.i.am. (So wait, is it always the music that's stupid, then?)
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]
8:04 p.m. "To appear on the Grammy Awards is to duet with history," said Alicia Keys. 11:25 p.m. Oh my God, it's a medley of Grammy-winning songs. Like "Don't Worry Be Happy." And "Beautiful Day." And ... "Beat It"? It's time for the Michael Jackson tribute!
Akon, Nelly Furtado, Dave Koz and Taylor Swift are all nominees this year. Akon is nominated for four awards: Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals ("The Sweet Escape" with Gwen Stefani), Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals ("Bartender" with T-Pain), Best Contemporary R...
• Michael Jackson will appear onstage at Sunday night's ceremony, but he has apparently "won a stare-down" against the producers, who wanted him to perform a medley of reworked Thriller hits. So instead, he'll just... stand around? Wave his glove in the air? Who knows. The upside: The chance o...
Today Kelefa Sanneh wrote about All $tar, a Nashville rapper who's been the city's "next big thing" for three years now--excxept for the fact that his debut album, Street Ball, has been in limbo since 2005, thanks to his label, Cash Money/Universal, going over the preparation for the alb...
Ed. note: Chris "dennisobell" Molanphy, our resident chart guru, looks at the upward, downward, and lack of movement on this week's Billboard charts: And then, like a table-dancing angel from above, Rihanna answers your prayers.
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....
3. Timbaland feat. OneRepublic, "Apologize" (LW No. 3, 23 weeks) 5. Fergie, "Clumsy" (LW No. 6, 13 weeks) 11. Rihanna feat. Ne-Yo, "Hate That I Love You" (LW No. 15, 19 weeks) 15. Wyclef Jean Featuring Akon, Lil Wayne & Niia, " Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill)" (LW No. 12, 17 weeks)
It was that very first post-SoundScan post-Christmas, after all, that gave Nirvana its dawn-of-a-generation moment, as hordes of teens home for the holidays in 1991 returned the Michael Jackson CDs their grandparents gave them for Nevermind.
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
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
• 20,000 Googlers agree: The words "VH1's 100 Greatest Songs Of The 90s" are the new "Zac Efron." • We lamented two hours spent watching Akon and friends dressed up like Super Mario Bros. 2 villains when we could have just been playing Super Mario Bros. 2. (Or BurgerTime, for that matter.)
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...
ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: "Remixing" or "updating" or "mauling" Thriller is pointless/infuriating out the box, so best to assess these new versions of MJ's classics by will.i.am, Akon, Fergie, and Kanye West (released to coincide with the album's 25th anniversary) for what they are. The hump...
THE WHAAAA? Pitchfork's (institutional) embrace of the pop charts is still so odd. (That it was one of the weakest years for American pop in my living memory notwithstanding.) For instance, nothing by Lloyd, Ne-Yo, Amerie (who they favorably reviewed, even if she scored no American hits t...
2. Konvicted, Akon (Konvict/Upfront/SRC/Universal Motown/UMRG) (release date: 11/14/06) 4. Hannah Montana soudntrack (Walt Disney) (release date: 10/24/06) 9. Now 23 (Sony BMG Strategic Marketing Group/EMI/Universal/Zomba/Sony Music) (release date: 11/7/06)
3 "Umbrella" Rihanna 4 "D.A.N.C.E." Justice 9 "Boyz" M.I.A. 14 "I Get Money" 50 Cent 19 "1234" Feist 31 "Don't Matter" Akon 66 "Big Shit Poppin'" T.I. 70 "Bed" J. Holiday 76 "Go Getta" Young Jeezy 78 "The Songs That We Sing" Charlotte Gainsbourg 85 "It's Me, Bitches" (Remix) Swizz Beatz
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
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
28. Lloyd ft. Lil Wayne, "You" (The Inc./Universal Motown) 18. Swizz Beatz ft. Lil Wayne, R. Kelly & Jadakiss, "It's Me Bitches (Remix)" (Universal Motown) 8. DJ Khaled ft. Akon, T.I., Rick Ross, Fat Joe, Birdman & Lil Wayne, "We Takin' Over" (Koch) 4. Rihanna ft. Jay-Z, "Umbrella" (Def Jam)
In case you ever wondered to yourself, "Wouldn't it be fun to be at the taping of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin Eve?" here's some evidence that strongly suggests the answer is "no": "Glittery confetti was on the floor, teens lined up in the faux VIP section next to a fake bar (no alcohol was s...
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!
50 Cent is telling anyone who'll listen that he's pissed off at MTV and BET for forcing a name change on his new single, the Akon collaboration/best track on Curtis "I Still Kill," in order for it to get airtime on the two stations' video shows. In response to the song being rechristened "I Sti...
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...
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...
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...
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...
What, no Akon? He's on everything this year. The most interesting name in that line-up is Merle Haggard, who's already written a song about Hillary Clinton; clearly, he hasn't made up us mind yet, meaning that we can expect a rainy-night ballad about Joe Biden by mid-June.
1. Fergie ft. Ludacris, "Glamorous" (Interscope) 2. Mims, "This Is Why I'm Hot" (Capitol) 3. Akon, "Don't Matter" (Universal Motown) 4. Gwen Stefani ft. Akon, "The Sweet Escape" (Interscope) 5. Gym Class Heroes ft. Patrick Stump, "Cupid's Chokehold" (Lava)