As if a performance slot on this Sunday’s 11th annual BET Awards isn’t enough to celebrate, Kelly Rowland‘s urban smash ‘Motivation’ has notched its 5th week at #1 on Billboard’s Hot R&B chart.  Ms. Rowland was sure to tweet the fans a personal thanks yesterday for the accomplishment.

Though the song slipped down one position from last week’s #23 on the Hot 100, it is worth mentioning that it has spent half of its 10-week chartlife perched atop the R&B chart.  Catch ‘Motivation’ get its first live performance treatment Sunday, June 26th at the BET Awards.

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Amidst a highly publicized panel switch-up, X Factor USA is rolling forward with a newly announced September premiere date.  USA Today reports the new FOX talent show will officially debut with two 2-hour episodes (Wednesday, September 21 and Thursday, September 22 at 8/7c).  The panel, to feature Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, L.A. Reid, and Pussycat Dolls’ Nicole Scherzinger, has reviewed open auditions nationwide (including Youtube submissions).

That Grape Juice wants to know, though: Will you be watching?

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R&B newcomer, Miguel, is riding high on the success of his first two hits ‘Sure Thing’ and ‘All I Want Is You’. The crooner recently announced  the next two singles to be lifted from his debut album are ‘Quickie’ and ‘Girls Like You’.

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Dance diva Wynter Gordon is following in the footsteps of fellow R&B songwriters Ester Dean and Keri Hilson and making her own waves.  This clip sees the ‘Surveillance’ singer, whose written for the likes of Jennifer Lopez and Danity Kane, putting an acoustic spin on Rihanna‘s #1 hit ‘S&M’.  Does she do the song justice?

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It seems that as Ms. Teairra Mari is hoping she will bag the title of having 2011’s  summer anthem, for she has released the video for the latest track lifted from her ‘Now Or Never‘ mixtape, titled ‘Pum Pum Shorts‘.

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Always one to push the performance limit , Beyonce is set to take fans in London to whole new heights with an upcoming show in the city’s Shepherds Bush Empire this Monday.

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90’s R&B girl group SWV has experienced a minimal pop culture revival of sorts, thanks to Chris Brown’s current single ‘She Ain’t You’, which plays off of the lady’s Michael Jackson-sampling hit ‘Right Here/Human Nature’. After hopping on the remix, the Sisters With Voices have now announced an upcoming album and reality show.

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Grammy award winner Jill Scott is Billboard Magazine’s latest cover girl. The ‘So In Love With You’ singer released her fourth studio album, Light of The Sun, this past Tuesday. The LP is on track for a No. 1 debut atop the Billboard 200. The set is predicted to sale as many as 125,000 copies in it’s first week. Check out the magazine cover story over at a Billboard.

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After the surfacing of an “unofficial” version of rumored first single ‘Feel Inside’ featuring Nicki Minaj, a new track from the Hip-Hop/Soul Queen has made it’s way to the internet. ‘Hero’ finds Mary J. Blige musing on self-empowerment over a bass heavy take on the piano ballad.

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Pop star Rihanna is to face legal action by a photographer who claims she knowingly copied concepts from his work and implemented them in her visual for the controversial ‘S&M‘ single.

This is now the second time the ‘We Ride’ performer has been threatened to be taken to court for this very video.

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Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias recently released the visual for new single ‘Dirty Dancer’ which features R&B heavyweight Usher and hip-hop titan Lil’ Wayne. Directed by Ethan Lader, the clip finds the Pop star surrounded by beautiful women in a futuristic gentlemen’s club.

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One time teen heartthrobs and long time collaborators, Bow Wow and Chris Brown, are back together again. This time, serving up a hard-hitting, explicit “freestyle” in the form of ‘I’m Da Man’, which finds Mr. Brown flirting with rap and referencing the leak of his “naked pics”.

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