R&B star Chris Brown kicked off his ‘Fan Appreciation Tour’ in a sold-out venue at the House of Blues in Houston, Texas on Saturday. Included in the set list was the very first live performance of the 2nd single from his upcoming album, ‘Graffiti’. The song, entitled ‘Crawl’, has already managed to debut at #99 on the Hip-Hop R&B charts after only 3 days of official release. The video for the track can be seen here.

Great performance. It looks like Rihanna isn’t the only one who has been taking vocal classes recently. I applaud him for singing this live given the high energy, dance-infused nature of his show. Keep it up Chris.

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Icon Mariah Carey was featured in a special episode of ‘T4’ in the UK. The programme highlighted several aspects of her promotional tour over the last few months. The diva also discussed her new album, ‘Memoirs of An Imperfect Angel’, and her role in the film ‘Precious: Based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire’.

All in all a very interesting watch for anyone who wants to see the kind of effort needed to plug an album, fragrance and movie all at the same time. You have to admire Mariah’s work ethic because she operates like a 25 year old and has yet to show any sign of slowing down. Good stuff.

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A few weeks ago ThatGrapeJuice was the first to show you an exclusive pic from singer Michelle Williams’ ‘Alter Ego’ photoshoot. Now we have the pleasure of presenting the entire production which was crafted by famed photographer Derek Blanks. Fierce!

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The ever sexy Ciara hit the red carpet at the 30th Anniversary of The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles recently. She looks fantastic! The old saying is that you can’t have both beauty and brains. Well in the music industry, it’s more about having beauty and talent, and Ciara is one of the few who have both.

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The Black Eyed Peas took over Saturday Night Live a few hours ago to perform some of their biggest hits – all of which are interestingly from their latest LP ‘The E.N.D’. While their newest material hasn’t stirred me in the way their previous hits have (‘Boom Boom Pow’ aside), I’m really happy for the success they’re having now, it’s very much deserved.

Meet Me Halfway

I Gotta Feeling

Boom Boom Pow

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To celebrate the release of Janet Jackson‘s career-spanning ‘Number Ones’ compilation (due November 17th), Flash Mob America organised a Janet Jackson flash mob to take place today in Los Angeles. For those unaware of what a ‘flash mob’ is, it’s generally when a group of people break into uniform dance in the random-est of places and usually in front of unsuspecting passers by.

The participants in la Jan’s flash mob, who have been practising for weeks, launched into some of the iconic choreography from some of Janet’s biggest hits including ‘If’ and ‘Nasty’ right there in the middle of the street at The Grove. Kudos to all those involved; they killed it.

A bigger kudos, however, goes to Janet’s team, who have been on fire with her promotion as of late. They’re on some Papa Knowles ish (for Bouncy alone, of course!!! LOL). Loving it 🙂

Tidbit: Janet herself was watching this from the rafters. Click here to see

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The drama that is the Pussycat Dolls‘ reality shows no sign of subsiding. Member Kimberly Wyatt has sensationally gone on record to reveal an apparent rift between herself and lead /only singer Nicole Scherzinger. According to Wyatt, she and Scherzinger have not spoken in months, effectively since the band went on ‘hiatus’. Here’s what she had to say:

“I haven’t seen Nicole at all. I stay in touch with the other girls but not with her. I did send her a couple of emails but I haven’t heard back.

I never really had the chance to do a lot on the creative side, but now I’m working on my own thing. I have no idea how long the break will be or if we will get back together” {Source}

Wow…you’ve got to love her honesty, which is rather refreshing in an age of media-trained responses and the same interview duplicated a million times over. While I’m sure there is a lot more to this Pussycat Dolls hoo-harr than meets the eye (i.e. why Nicole is continually pushed to the forefront when the public are sick of her), I can’t see how so publicly airing out their drama is going to allow anyone to believe any notion of solidarity they may try and fake should they ever come back. What’s funnier is that their creator Robin Antin seems hell-bent on insisting to anyone that will listen that the group is staying together, yet evidently things are crumbling apart for everyone to see. Denial, much?

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Many thanks to the thousands of you who entered our Nokia-sponsored competition to win tickets to see Rihanna perform live in London this coming Monday (November 16th).

See the answer to the our given question below:

Rihanna’s 2007 smash ‘Umbrella’ was #1 in the UK for how many weeks?

c) 10

The 5 winners who will each receive a pair of tickets to see Ms. Fenty live at a secret location here in London are:

1) George Valez

2) Nathan North

3) Sophia Semambo

4) Ezania Bennett

5) Jonelle Roberts

Congratulations!

We *MAY* have a an extra pair of tickets to give-away on Monday in a ‘ONE MORE CHANCE’ billed give-away. In the event that it actually takes place, this will be a Twitter-only competition (similar to the Sean Kingston ticket give-away we ran on Twitter recently). Therefore to be in with a chance…

Click here to join That Grape Juice on Twitter!

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Peep episode 3 of Monica‘s BET reality show ‘Still Standing’. I loving this show and how legitimately real Ms. Arnold keeps it. More power to her!

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Check out the official TV commercial for the hotly anticipated American Music Awards, which air next Sunday. With Janet, Whitney, Rihanna and co on the bill, it’s hands-down the most exciting award show in a long while…and it hasn’t even happened yet! Can’t wait!

Tidbit: Music feels so exciting again: Janet, Whitney, Mariah, Alicia, Beyonce, GaGa, RiRi, Usher, Chris Brown, Leona, Alexandra…all out at the same time!

Tidbit 2: Kudos to UK group the The Noisettes for landing this year’s show theme tune with ‘Don’t Upset The Rhythm’.

Tidbit 3 (lol): Janet stans, what do you hope she performs as part of her medley? I’m a sucka for some of Ms. Jackson’s ‘newer’ material, hence would love to see a little ‘Feedback’ in there, as well as ‘All Nite’.

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