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Good music alert!

Brit-Pop princesses Charli XCX and Rita Ora team up for the feel-good bop ‘Doing It‘, pulled from Charli’s second studio album.

Named ‘Sucker’, the project was released in the US back in December and will now touch down in the UK on February 16th, featuring the jam awaiting your first spin below!

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Fox have scored a touchdown with their freshman series ‘Empire’.

The Lee Daniels directed drama, which stars Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson, premiered last night and delivered mega ratings.

Find out how the music series fared below…

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It’s a bird, it’s a plane…it’s Fergie!

The Black Eyed Peas front-woman swooped down onto the court at the Los Angeles Clippers game to give a surprise performance of her new single ‘L.A. Love (La La)’.

Played out as a flash mob, the showing saw dancers, ushers, and camera-men get on the action.

Hilariously, the team’s Steve Ballmer got…his…life.

Check it out below…

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With the piercing lens on civil rights seemingly at its height yet again some 50 years later, the release of ‘Selma’ – a film depicting the historic Martin Luther King Jr.-led voting-rights march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol of Montgomery in 1965, couldn’t come at a more opportune time.

That Grape Juice was privy to an advanced screening of the Ava Duvernay film and now offer to you, courtesy of our resident editor Richard Pittman, a review of the movie that we can tell in earnest will be done a great disservice if not decorated with the award golds it so rightly deserves.

It all awaits below:

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Both Rita Ora and Charli XCX enjoyed mega-success last year with their respective collaborations with Iggy Azalea.

Now, the Pop starlets have interestingly teamed up for a track of their own.

23-year-old Ora joins the ‘Fancy’ singer on the remix of her new single ‘Doing It’, a still from the video of which was revealed today. Check it out above.

The next few months are set to be uber busy for Roc Nation Rita. For, beyond this collabo, she’s gearing up to release her own new single ‘Testosterone’ in March, will begin starring as a coach on The Voice UK from this weekend, and will unleash her hotly anticipated new album (which’ll dub as her US debut) this Summer.

Exciting times.

Your thoughts?

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‘OWN’s hit TV series ‘The Have & Have Nots’ continues to soar on a ratings front this year, recently reaching a brand new viewership peak when it returned for a second season this week.

Fantastic news below…

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Comeback alert!

February 10th marks the spot for SisQo‘s new album ‘The Last Dragon’, the final instalment of his ‘Dragon’ album series.

Now, he pulls a brand new bop from the project, pushing it out to boost momentum for the release.

Its name? ‘Monsta.

Tuck in below…

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Interest in his music may be at an all time low, but that hasn’t stopped the hit maker that is Ne-Yo from setting a January 27th release date to release his brand new album ‘Non-Fiction.’

Today, with the phenomenal new bop ‘Make It Easy‘, the singer goes a long way to reignite said interest, giving music lovers good reason to support the project once it drops.

Ready to give it a spin?

Hop in below…

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After besting Drake, Nicki Minaj, Jay Z, and mentor T.I. for ‘Best Hip Hop Artist’ honors, Iggy Azalea brought forth a white hot performance of her latest Billboard smash ‘Beg For It’ to last night’s 2015 People’s Choice Awards.

See how the Aussie rapstress fared at the Anna Faris and Allison Janney-hosted affair:

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Fifth Harmony are swinging their way up the charts with new single ‘Sledgehammer’.

Yet, with debut album ‘Reflection’ due out in a mere matter of weeks, the Epic Records collective have put their spin on one the year’s biggest hits thus far – Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson’s ‘Uptown Funk’.

Beyond covering the cut, the quintet shot a viral video in support of their rendition, which also features Jasmine V, Jacob Whitesides and Mahogany Lox.

Check it out below…

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Bruno Mars has done it again.

The electrifying performer has charged to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with his latest release, ‘Uptown Funk’.

Details below…

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Nicki Minaj has been leaving her ‘Pinkprint’ on the charts of late with her new album of the same name.

The Rap maesta may have come out of the gate with her opening numbers, but she isn’t chilling just yet.

New promotional snaps have surfaced of her with renown photographer Terry Richardson.

Lensed in the minimalist style that has come to define Richard’s shoots, the pics can be viewed above and below. Ms. Minaj looks stunning, we must say!

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