In the mood for a brand spanking new Rihanna performance?

You are? Well, if you a consider yourself a fan of the chart regular, now might be a good time to look away.

Indeed, once you see the performance she served up during the Twickenham leg of her ‘Diamonds World Tour‘, you may find yourself questioning your stance on her as a live act, but more importantly….her title as a ‘singer’.

Find out what we mean below…

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…and the sales predictions for this week’s album releases are in.

That’s right, after dropping on June 18th, stats pulled from sales generated by Kanye West, J.Cole and Kelly Rowland‘s respective releases now paint a picture of what they are to sell in total come next week.

Good news for all below….

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Can you keep up? Kelly Rowland is everywhere!

The R&B diva is blazing the campaign trail in support of her new album ‘Talk A Good Game’, most recently stopping by BET‘s 106 & Park to discuss the record.

Ms. Kelly got comfortable with hosts Bow Wow and Angela Simmons, dishing on the LP, touring with The-Dream, and her experience on The X Factor USA.

Check out the interview after the jump…

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Miley Cyrus foray into the world of Urban rolls on with the video for ‘We Can’t Stop’.

Unwrapped moments ago, the visual for the Mike Will produced cut should gift the song an added boost on the Billboard Hot 100, where it currently sits at #11.

Watch the 20-year-old former Disney star continue her “reinvention” after the jump…

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Whether speeding on R&B lanes or making waves on EDM seas, Ne-Yo– it would seem- is incapable of making poor music.

Perhaps with this in mind, he was enlisted by Camp Beyonce to submit material for her hotly anticipated new album recently after enjoying critical acclaim with his latest LP ‘RED’.

Now, in an interview with Billboard Magazine, the Grammy winning chart topper has revealed that Beyonce is still in the developmental stages of the album…and is yet to decide in which direction she hopes to take it.

Details below…

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With an album campaign that’s been nothing short of epic thus far, Ciara continues to one up herself today…by announcing that she is to unveil the video for her new single ‘I’m Out‘ at this month’s BET Awards!

Good news below…

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J. Cole‘s ‘Born Sinner’ is officially blazing the charts, yet the Roc Nation star is not resting on his laurels.

The MC stopped by Power 105.1‘s The Breakfast Club today to plug the set – which has found favour both commercially and with critics.

Watch below as he talks with Charlamagne and co about deliberately going head-to-head with Kanye West‘s ‘Yeezus’, disappointing Nas, and much more. A great, candid piece.

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Kelly Rowland kept her promo game a’blazing today, stopping by Good Morning America to perform Summer sizzler ‘Street Life’.

The Pharrell Williams produced cut features on the singer’s fourth studio album, ‘Talk A Good Game’, which hits stores globally this week.

Backed by her troop of dancers, The X Factor USA judge rocked the house with her own X Factor. Watch her werk after the jump…

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This week brought with it the arrival of Kelly Rowland‘s hotly anticipated LP, ‘Talk A Good Game’. And, in news that will delight her millions of “Rowland Stones”, the week also ushers in the video premiere of the R&B siren’s latest single ‘Dirty Laundry’.

Previewed on Good Morning America moments ago, word has it the visual will arrive in full any moment now. Until it does, peep the teaser below, which is conjoined with an interview that sees Ms. Kelly wax honest about the meaning behind the song.
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With most of his UK contemporaries unable to dust off the air of ‘basic’ that keeps them tied down, Wretch 32 continues on in his bid for global notoriety with the brand new cut ‘Doing OK‘.

Following the chart success of his Knox Brown produced ‘Blackout’, this cut sees the Rapper tackle even deeper thematic territory alongside Jacob Banks.

Is it any good?

We’d say so…so check it out for yourselves and weigh in below!

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Eminem lights the flame for his new campaign with a new single today, named ‘Symphony In H‘.

Pulled from his forthcoming new album, the Slim Shady fuelled cut actually features on DJ Tony Touch’s “PieceMaker 3: Return of the 50 MCs“, but goes a long way to build the hype for what will be Em’s eighth studio album.

Check it out below…

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Over the course of her illustrious career, Madonna has teased and toyed with a number of looks. It’s little surprise, then, that the Pop Queen showed up and showed out at the New York screening of her ‘MDNA Tour’ special.

The 54-year-old donned a male suit for the star-studded event, which saw the recently wrapped trek previewed to media ahead of its EPIX debut on June 22d at 8pm ET.

One of the most spectacular and controversial extravaganzas of last year, ‘Madonna: the MDNA Tour’ was filmed primarily in Miami as well as other locations. Factually, the highest grossing tour of 2012, the spectacle was seen by over 2.2 million people across the world over the course of its 88 (sold-out) shows.

More power to her!

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