Chris Brown is gearing up to assault the charts on all fronts. With his recently released Pop single, ‘Yeah 3x’, sitting comfortably at #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 (without a single live performance to promote it) and is climbing quickly on the international charts, the young singer is ready take over the Urban formats as well.

As such, Brown has announced that his next single will be ‘Look At Me Now (Ft. Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes)’. There is no word as to whether this song will be featured on his upcoming ‘F.A.M.E’ LP (due in March). Furthermore, Brown’s highly anticipated ‘Calypso’ track, which was supposed to be the next Urban single, has yet to be released.

Thoughts?

2010 has been a great year for Monica. The R&B singer scored 2 top 10 singles on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and her latest album, ‘Still Standing’, has sold over 600k in the US to date.

However, don’t think for a second that Monica is ready to take a break. In fact, she is already planning to release 2 new records in 2011 – a studio album and a Christmas collection. See what she had to say about the projects below:

(more…)

A new song from Keyshia Cole surfaced today. ‘Last Hangover’ features Timbaland and will appear on her new album, ‘Calling All Hearts’ (in stores on December 21st). Give track a listen below:

(more…)

Diddy-Dirty Money made yet another promotional appearance on television last evening. This time they visited ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ where they performed ‘Ass On The Floor’ and were interviewed by the funnyman host. Look below for the footage:

(more…)

Following her epic showing on Ellen earlier this week, Ciara brought her stage-show spectacle to the ‘Lopez Tonight’ stage moments ago. The 25 year old turned in another high octane performance of ‘Gimmie Dat’.

Check out Ciara in action below…

(more…)

*Pinned: Normal Posts Continue Below*

2010 is quickly winding down but the energy here are That Grape Juice  is higher than ever! In our continued effort to bring you the latest exclusive information about your favourite artists, we caught up with none other than one of the industry’s hottest producers Kenneth ‘Soundz’ Coby.

Having worked a wide range of artists including Rihanna, Usher, Brandy and others, Soundz is quickly establishing himself as one of the game’s key power players. During our discussion the ‘Gimme Dat’ producer spoke openly about how he got started in the industry, his experiences working with Ciara as well as her followup to ‘Basic Instinct’ and his thoughts on Rihanna’s vocal ability.

Soundz even surprised us by giving us the title of Kelly’ Rowlands highly anticipated new single and answered the burning question of whether Beyonce actually writes her own songs. If there was ever an interview that you had to read then this is it!

Check out all the action below:

—————————————————–

Interviewer: Trent //  Questions by: Trent // Edited by: Trent

—————————————————–

Soundz Shouts Out That Grape Juice

(more…)

Jamie Foxx’s ‘Best Night of My Life’ will be released on next week and an official stream of the record has been posted on his Myspace to generate buzz for the record. Expect to hear contributions from Ludacris, Justin Timberlake, T.I and more on the the LP out on December 21st.

Listen to the full album below:

(more…)

There is no stopping the promotional force that is Diddy-Dirty Money. During their recent takeover of ‘106 & Park’, the trio performed songs from their new ‘Last Train To Paris’ LP including ‘Ass On the Floor (Ft. Swizz Beatz)’, ‘Loving You No More’ and ‘I Hate That You Love Me’.

Check out all the action below:

(more…)

Pop force Alexandra Burke took to the stage on The Alan Titchmarsh Show today to perform new single ‘The Silence’.

Sung entirely live, peep Ms. Burke’s spine-tingling showing after the jump…

(more…)

Ciara has just released yet another batch of promo pics to support her recently released ‘Basic Instinct’ album. Look below for more shots via Ultimate-Ciara:

What do you think of the pics?

With her new album, ‘Basic Instinct’, on course to sell an underwhelming 35-40k in its 1st week, Ciara has ironically addressed the issue of low album sales with the Associated Press. The ‘Gimme Dat’ performer denounced the importance of record sales, claiming that they are “becoming smaller fraction of branding”.

See what Ciara had to say about the issue below:

(more…)

It is not secret that Leona Lewis is a huge fan of Mariah Carey. Therefore, it’s no surprise that when she decided to sing some Christmas carols for her fans she chose to do a cover of the diva’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’.

Check out Lewis’ renditions of the song as well as ‘O Holy Night’ below:

(more…)