As it approaches its third birthday, Rihanna‘s fifth studio album ‘Loud’ continues to win over the hearts of British music buyers this week, as it spends its 151st non-consecutive week in the Urban Top 40!

Chart check below!

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Ever keen to broaden our musical scope, recent months have seen That Grape Juice venture into a number of new musical landscapes including, most recently, gospel.

Spearheaded by well-received interviews with gospel singers Yolanda Adams, Hezekiah Walker, Fred Hammond, Kierra Sheard, Dorinda Clark Cole, Israel Houghton, and more, TGJ is now offering readers ‘The Overflow’ – a collection of the top gospel-themed news stories from the week.

Tuck in below for the latest news on Donald Lawrence, Jennifer Hudson, Paul Porter (with Ruben Studdard & Leandria Johnson), Mali Music,  and much more…

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Ever keen to broaden our musical scope, recent months have seen That Grape Juice venture into a number of new musical landscapes including, most recently, gospel.

Spearheaded by well-received interviews with gospel singers Yolanda Adams, Hezekiah Walker, Fred Hammond, Kierra Sheard, Dorinda Clark Cole, Israel Houghton, and more, TGJ is now offering readers ‘The Overflow’ – a collection of the top gospel-themed news stories from the week.

Tuck in below for the latest news on Tamela Mann, Mary Mary, Fred Hammond & United Tenors, John P. Kee, Bebe & Marvin Winans, Donald Lawrence,  and much more…

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She may have been the innocent party in their ‘Twitter beef’ last night, but an image posted by dancer Teyana Taylor during her run in with Pop singer Rihanna may have cost her an endorsement she currently holds with Uli Becker‘s ‘Adidas-Reebok’.

Full story below…

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One night after forcing Rihanna to end the Twitter feud she started with this video, Teyana Taylor made her way to Emmis’ ‘Hot 97’ via telephone to dish on the nasty spat- labelling the star a ‘cyber-bully’.

Her estimation of the ‘fight’ below…

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If the last week has taught us anything, it’s that Rihanna spends too much time on Instagram and too little time working on that voice.

Unfortunately, the good people of Singapore learned that the hard way when the star arrived in Padang to greet fans with her ‘Diamonds World Tour’, armed with vocals the likes of Paula Deen no doubt would have taken a liking to.

Deep fried.

Watch, as she bleats, grinds and drinks her way through 2009’s ‘Rude Boy’ after the jump….

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 …and it continues.

Hours after kicking off, the feud between Teyana Taylor and ROC star Rihanna took a cruel turn for the worst minutes ago, when Taylor responded to a move pulled by new found foe.

What happened, you ask?

Meet us below…

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As his new album ‘Nothing Was The Same‘ sits atop iTunes USA, ‘From Time‘ lyricist Drake has taken time to share his thoughts on Pop’s leading lady Beyonce, and her fellow  singer  songwriter  star Rihanna.

Pictured alongside the ‘Young, Single and Sexy’ Rita Ora above, Drake’s quotes on both ladies were spewed during the promo run for the aforementioned ‘Same‘, sure to see him win over the hearts of many a Beyonce loyalist!

His words below…

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Jimmy Iovine‘s Interscope is gearing up to recall every single Blu-ray copy of Madonna‘s ‘MDNA World Tour’, it has emerged today.

Why?

All the details below…

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Is there anything Jessie J cannot sing?

If you think the answer is “yes”, then you sure haven’t heard her amazing covers of Rihanna‘s ‘We Found Love‘ and Chris Brown‘s ‘Fine China’.  Now, it seems the songstress has her eyes on slaying another of pop’s most recent top hits.

In heavy promotion of her newest album ‘Wild’, Miss J dropped by BBC Radio 1′s Live Lounge today to lend an emotional rendition of Taylor Swift‘s ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’ – swiftly turning the song from a whiny pop mid-tempo to an acoustic soul session.

Did she do it justice?  We think so.  But, judge for yourself…

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Let’s be honest, supporting Contemporary R&B hasn’t been easy in the last few years.

Left to fend for itself in a world without substantial radio backing, thinly spread budgets and widespread talk of it being ‘dead’, the genre has been dealt more than its fair share of commercial blows recently, much to the dismay of those who hold it most dear.

However, it seems there is light at the end of the tunnel today. A light, made a whole lot brighter by the force that is….Ciara.

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He’s the Hip Hop sensation on course to take his scene by storm with his budding smash ‘I Luv This’.

His name? August Alsina– currently housed at Island Def Jam alongside ‘Nostalgia’ creator Frank Ocean and R&B’s fastest rising star Elijah Blake.

Standing as one of the many acts everyone here at TGJ HQ is excited about, August is fast becoming a staple name on the YouTube cover scene, with thousands of budding stars taking to the outlet to perform their renditions of the song.

So, you can imagine our joyful surprise when we came across a cover of the song which- in all honesty- sounds much better than the original! A cover, recorded by an act named Candice Nicole who we fell in love with yesterday and wanted to introduce you today.

Meet her below!

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