Rihanna has been headline news for much of 2015…for all the wrong reasons.

The chaos surrounding her serially delayed album has been the subject of ample debate, the lion-share of which has questioned her relevancy in the marketplace.

But could Team Rih be aiming for the ultimate turn-around in a mere matter of days?

Details below…

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Can you guess whose toned abs this body belongs to?

Hint: This singer was once signed to Pharrell Williams‘ label.

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Chris Brown‘s solid sales forecast for new album ‘Royalty‘ may have appeased fans, but the singer isn’t impressed.

It figures, then, why he is hitting the media run with vigour in support of the set.

The 26-year-old’s quest has landed him a-front of VIBE magazine’s December/January issue. Inside the publication, the seasoned stage blazer candidly dishes on freedom, fatherhood, and the future.

Are you checking for C. Breezy this go round? As ever, let us know below…

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‘Fantasea’ supplier Azealia Banks recently revealed that she had teamed up with ‘ANTI’ sensation Rihanna to create material for the latter’s new LP.

Read all about it here.

Unfortunately, if tweets published by the ‘Count Contessa’ rapper are anything to go by, fans will never hear the song.

Why?

Her explanation below…

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Did moves by the Pop force that is Rihanna make life at Roc Nation unbearable for Rita Ora?

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Now forced to compete with the mega-sellers hat are Drake & Bruno Mars  Chris Brown has found that he has a very serious problem on his hands.

What it is? The general public seems to be more interested in consuming his life via social media than consuming his music by purchasing it.

Now, seemingly annoyed by the fact that his latest LP ‘Royalty’ is to open with under 200,000 units in its opening week, the gifted and talented entertainer has shared his thoughts on why he feels his social media power has outperformed his value as a commercial act.

His conclusion?

Fake fans.

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Adele, Drake, Justin Bieber, Fetty Wap, and The Weeknd are the year’s undoubted success stories. Alongside Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift‘s 2014 offerings, the quintet have dominated the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 and ultimately kept the music industry afloat with their respective releases.  But, as has been the case for some 20 years now, when the year nears its end, one name makes its way back to the forefront of charts – Mariah Carey.

Carey, a monarch of many musical things, is the uncontested queen of Christmas.  As if tightening her already taut grip on the record for “best selling holiday album by a female artist” isn’t enough (as her 1994 release, ‘Merry Christmas,’ has been certified platinum 5x times over in the U.S. alone), the album’s most memorable release – ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ – holds the record for the most downloaded holiday tune of all time.  Standing as her most successful international single to date, ‘All I Want’ sits pretty as the 12th best-selling single of all time.

From the looks of things that record will be unbothered for quite some time.  For, as of this week, the song reached its Hot 100 peak…over 20 years after its release.  Tuck in below to find out where it landed and get your weekly Hot 100 chart check here:

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Welcome to the latest edition of ‘Screen Juice‘, the TGJ original feature whipped up to keep your appetite for all things Film and TV satisfied.

Ready to find out why John Boyega and Mariah Carey have good reason to celebrate today?

Drink up below…

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Only 10 albums released in 2013 went platinum that year.  In 2014, only 5 acts who released projects in that calendar year crossed the platinum threshold before December 31st (Taylor Swift, Sam Smith, Pentatonix, Ariana Grande, Jason Aldean).  This year is set to see that precious metal elude more acts than ever.

As of this week, only 3 albums released this year have gone platinum in the U.S.  Interestingly, not one is by an American-born act.

That’s right, Canadian emcee Drake laid claim to the first title when his surprise fourth album, ‘If You’re Reading This…,’ crossed the platinum threshold in summer 2015.  It wasn’t until late November when powerhouse diva Adele nabbed the second title after her blockbuster comeback album, ’25,’ sold over 3 million its first week.  The sales give her the distinct honor of being the only multiplatinum release of 2015.

Now, courtesy of a sales bump, the two will be joined by Canadian crooner Justin Bieber as his comeback album, ‘Purpose,’ is now in the 2015 platinum club.  Details below:

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Lil Wayne‘s legal woes continue to rise to astromonical heights this year.

Unfortunately, as he battles his former friend and mentor Birdman for money he claims he is owed for his work under the Cash Money music group, he has now learned that he is being sued…by his own lawyers.

Bad news below…

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Another day, another Adele record right?

Much to the dismay of competition, despite consistently selling over 650,000 copies every week since its release, the songstress’s ’25’ shows no signs of slowing.

Already etched in history books as the only album to sell over 1 million copies in two separate sales weeks, the ‘Hello’ singer has been greeted with refreshed reports the tune’s parent album is set to sell another million by the end of tallying this week.

Will the third time be the charm?

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With the video for ‘Get Ugly,’ the fourth single from Jason Derulo‘s fourth album ‘Everything is 4,’ the Miami-born maestro brought his high octane moves back to the forefront.  A winning move for the young singer, let us tell it, as it will hopefully bring his name back to the forefront of the Billboard Hot 100’s upper rankings.

For, despite being kicked off by the mega-successful ‘Want To Want Me,’ his quaternary release has failed to launch another single that has even touched the top 50 on the tally.  In a bid to turn this not-so-pretty sales situation around, Derulo is inviting fans to a behind the scenes peek at the James Larese-directed affair.

Get into ‘Get Ugly’s creation below:

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