It’s been a turbulent few years for R&B vixen Teairra Mari. Indeed, since departing Roc-A-Fella in 2006, the singer’s career has been plagued by label drama and many a failed single.

Hoping to turn the tide, the 23 year old has announced that she has severed ties with Warner (to whom she’s been signed since 2008), and has jumped ship to Rico Love‘s Division 1 imprint over at Universal Motown.

Check out her official announcement after the jump…

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Her role as a supporting act on Britney Spears‘ ‘Femme Fatale Tour‘ has undoubtedly helped to push her name further into the Pop stratosphere and last night.

So in appreciation of the opportunity, Rapper Nicki Minaj shocked the audience when she revealed how the tour has changed her life.

Find out what she said below…

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Last night, news emerged that her husband Jay Z is of the impression that she is the second coming of Michael Jackson.

Now, check out Beyonce tributing the man that she has cited as an inspiration for many years last night during a performance on her ‘4 Intimate Nights With Beyonce’ showing.

Watch below…

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Peep the official cover for the Sugababes’ latest single ‘Freedom’, the video for which premiered last week.

Clearly the bi-product of many a Photoshop brush, the cover does go someway to solidify this line-up’s new ‘edgy’ image. Whether it’ll be enough to take them to the top of the charts will be interesting to see.

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Check out the 2nd screen grab to be released from Lady GaGa‘s hotly anticipated video for ‘You & I’.

In the shot, GaGa’s swollen  feet can be seen in impressively high heels most likely due to the fact that the video will seeher walk from from one side of the US to another.

All to find her ‘Nebraska Guy‘.

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Check out ‘Work Out‘, the latest visual offering delivered by none other than Rapper J Cole.

Sure to further intensify the excitement surrounding her debut LP, the Sun stained video comes some time after the release of ‘Who Dat’, the Rappers explosive introduction to the mainstream.

Watch below…

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Beyonce‘s ‘4 Intimate Nights In New York’ show sets sail in spectacular fashion last night at the Roseland Ballroom.

Check out King B doing what she best to ‘4’ favourites including ‘I Was Here’, ‘1+1’, ‘Party’ and ‘Countdown’ – the latter of which saw yours truly catch the Holy Ghost!

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That Grape Juice‘s envelope-pushing series The Splash continues next week.

Following show-stopping showings from the likes of Keri Hilson and Daley, episode 7 of the acoustic show continues our trend of giving a platform to great talent.

Here’s a little ‘Motivation’ to tune in…

Click here to watch previous episodes of ‘The Splash’

In what will be sure to strike up debate in all corners of the Popverse, Pop Culture  icon Jay Z has given his thoughts on where he thinks his wife and fellow musician Beyonce compares to King Of Pop Michael Jackson.

Find out what he said below…

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This week saw us ask you who you who you considered to be the reigning Queen of Pop. For many, that title belonged to none other than Madonna!

By constantly reinventing herself, she has tackled numerous musical genres and has amazed the masses by being equally comfortable singing Pop-by-the-numbers tunes or fearlessly riding a Hip-Hop beat.

Today we will travel back to a time when her Madgesty was experimenting with R&B, cue this week’s From The Vault – ‘Human Nature’.

The final single from her underrated sixth album, 1994’s‘Bedtime Stories’, the G-Funk tinged cut is an open-letter to the press after the backlash she had suffered following the ‘Erotica’ era (especially the Sex book). She adopts an unapologetic attitude and explains that she shouldn’t be stoned for exploring her fantasies, for expressing herself – urging the listener to do the same.

‘Nature’s accompanying visual is even more notorious than the song. Deemed by many as avant-garde, the latex-heavy video depicts a corn-rowed material girl as a bondage queen, backed by a group of dancers, executing intricate choreography and acrobatics. What sets it apart from other clips is its remarkable art direction and cinematography as well as its simplicity, once again proving that less can indeed be more.

No matter which blonde currently rules the world charts and no matter what her naysayers think of her, Madonna should forever be respected, if not for her impressive back catalogue, amazing videos and critically-acclaimed tours; at least for universally raising the bar for Pop acts, especially female acts, and making it the norm to constantly want to push social or cultural barriers release after release.

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Heralded as two pioneers at the forefront   Brit Pop’s re- emergence in the United States, Adele and Amy Winehouse have always seemed to come hand in hand in Pop debate and if this weeks Official UK Album Chart is anything to go by, that will not be changing at anytime soon.

Find out where both women charted this week below…

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Pop vixen Aubrey O’Day continued to show her on-going support for the gay community this weekend, when she hosted a Pride celebration at the Shark Club in Costa Mesa, California.

Ms. O’Day looks good and all, but an update on her album wouldn’t go amiss. The material was sounding hot tamale. Yet, all has gone noticeably silent since the end of Oxygen’s ‘All About Aubrey’ and the announcement of her record deal with SRC/Universal.

In any case, peep more pics of the singer, 27, spreading that rainbow love below…

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