Rihanna.

Say what you will about her, but not only is her success “compelling”, she also stands as one of the most renown Pop polarizers in recent history.

Indeed, for many her “F effort” approach underlines all that is wrong with today’s music industry; while for others she represents a new generation.

Whatever your take on her, the fact is you have one. Alas, we’re keen to hear what you think about the model’s current predicament. Aged just 24, she has six albums under her wig (as well as a horde of awards), she also serves as one of the biggest Digital music sellers of all time, and yet remains respected by so few, with increasingly low album sales to boot.

In this ‘The Business Roundtable Special”, our resident host Patrick is joined by comedienne Bresha Webb and upcoming actor TQuan Wilson to “Rate Rihanna”. Hit ‘PLAY’ and be sure to let us know what you think about “That Rihanna Reign” below…

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Last week saw That Grape Juice‘s The Splash stage an intimate special christened ‘An Audience With Alexandra Burke’.

The Pop force performed a rousing set of material from her new LP ‘Heartbreak On Hold‘ for 20 of her loyalest fans. Set to premiere this week EXCLUSIVELY on That Grape Juice, you can check out the official poster for the episode above.

Trust us when we say: you won’t want to miss this! Keep it locked right here on TGJ!

Photo credit: Seye Isikalu / That Grape Juice

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Peep Beyonce, Jay Z and their daughter Blue Ivy making their way into Paris’ ‘Meurice Hotel‘ today.

Snapped by photographers on their way in, the snaps mark the first time the world has seen the family since the singer supported the Rapper at his ‘Watch The Throne‘ show last week.

She enjoyed the show alongside childhood friend Kelly Rowland, acclaimed director Spike Lee, The Dream and Gwyneth Paltrow.

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He once hailed her ‘The Queen of Rap‘, however- if tweets by Hot 97 DJ Funkmaster Flex are anything to go by- his relationship with serial chart topper  Nicki Minaj is well and truly over.

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Today saw the Official Singles Chart unveil their list of the ‘Biggest Selling Artists of All Time‘, shining a light on the tally’s top twelve.

A top twelve,who have sold a minimum of 10 million singles in the United Kingdom, published to coincide with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the 60th anniversary of the chart, first published in the ‘New Musical Express’ in 1952.

The ‘Diamond Dozen‘ below…

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‘1, 2 Step’ singer Ciara had spectators seeing red as she turned heads on tonight’s MTV Movie Awards red carpet. On hand at the Gibson Amphitheatre-hosted event to promote the Adam Sandler-led comedy ‘That’s My Boy’, the ‘Like a Boy’ hitmaker was red hot in this Balmain ensemble.

See Cici shine below(source):

The shots come on the heel of Ci’s announcement of her forthcoming album ‘One Woman Army’, marching onto shelves in the coming months.

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Love her or hate her, but we’d challenge anyone not to respect Nene Leakes’ ascent to the ‘top’.

Using Bravo’s ‘Real Housewives’ franchise as a launching pad for her own media oriented brand, Leakes-like Bethenny Frankel before her- has become one of television’s more bankable stars,commanding respect both on and off the small screen.

Now,she has weighed in on so called TV exec Shaunie O’neal and her ‘Basketball Wives‘.

On the show she told Vibe Magazine:

The truth is the truth. It has just gone too far. Too many fights, my God!

We (The Real Housewives) don’t do that. We definitely have had our verbal fights, but never physical fights. I can’t believe the fighting and the bullying. It looks bad. It really looks bad.

They can’t want to do too much in their careers. A good ole argument, everybody likes that every now and then to tune into, but you couldn’t be trying to have too much in your career because that stuff, it don’t work. You can’t represent a product and be that way. That just doesn’t work.

Not sure what Nene means?

Peep the middle aged tabloid hopefuls in all their glory here…

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When Rihanna announced she was to star in action flick ‘Battleship‘,expectations-to say the very least-were high.

Armed with the benefit of an all star cast, ‘Hancock‘ director Peter Berg and a budget of $209 million, the release was set to be the action flick of the summer.

However,much like all six of the singer’s LPs, the movie failed at reaching the US #1 and earned the record for being the lowest grossing movie with a budget of $200 million or more.

Now,in response to its well publicized tank, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts has labelled it a ‘unfortunate large miss‘.

On behalf of Universal who released the movie,he confessed:

We’ll have a negative quarter at NBC Universal,driven partly by the two flops,which will leave first-half financials flat to slightly down but right around where the company had expected — except for the effect of the Battleship flop. 

His remarks came during a speech at the Sanford C. Bernstein 28th annual Strategic Decisions Conference in New York last week, hours after fantasy film ‘Snow White & The Huntsman” was confirmed to have generated more capital in three days than ‘Battleship’ has in three weeks,with a cool $56 million.

Here’s hoping Fenty has better luck on her next endeavor.

Peep her promoting the doomed release above…

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It was set to be her biggest US appearance this summer.

However,following remarks made by Hip Hop annoyance Peter Rosenberg, Nicki Minaj has refused to perform at SummerJam 2012, hours before she was due to hit the stage.

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Earlier this evening, numerous reports claimed Rap Queen Nicki Minaj was to welcome Foxy Brown and ‘212‘ sweetheart Azealia Banks to the stage during her set at Summer Jam 2012, the event in which she is headlining.

This, for any aware of the star’s feud with Rap veteran Lil Kim, was seen a subtle dig at the MC as Foxy and Banks are-like Minaj herself- engaged in their own respective spats with her.

So in response to the reports, Kim took to Twitter to air out her feelings.

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Raz B.  Rihanna.  Miranda Lamberts.  Good Morning America (Robin Roberts).  Anderson Cooper. FOX News. Odd Future.  And now, Brian McKnight.

Besides at one time occupying some space on your television screens, the aforementioned entities all have had at least a taste of one other commonality – beef with R&B bad boy Chris Brown.

For, while his introduction saw him poised to follow in the steps of the legendary Michael Jackson (a la famed, talented child star whose star brightens into adulthood) and fill a space in R&B that had not been occupied since Usher, post-“the 2009 incident” has seen the ‘Run It’ singer’s public image run topsy turvy.

One minute loved and praised, the next minute reminded of that career-changing occurrence…

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The time is almost nigh! Usher‘s new album ‘Looking 4 Myself’ hits stores on June 12th; and so as to drum up heightened buzz, 30 second snippets of each track have been released.

We’ve heard much of the LP already, now it’s your turn. What are you waiting for? The goodies after the jump…

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