With the #4 bow of  femme-pop foursome Little Mix (on the Syco imprint) added to the ongoing, multiformat dance party that is Daft Punk (#1 for a second week), Rob Stringer‘s Columbia keeps the top spot once again this week. Meanwhile, Steve Barnett has gotta be feeling pretty amped, as the #2 and #3 debuts…

Jack White has dropped $142,000 towards Detroit’s Masonic Temple — where he’s performed nine times — to save it from foreclosure. The temple (the world’s largest of its kind) had gotten into tax debt in recent years, and had until yesterday (June 3) to pay its outstanding balance avoid foreclosure. White, one of Detroit’s most…

Brandy has signed with CAA. After recurring on BET’s “The Game” last season, the former “Moesha” star joined the cast full time in season six as Chardonnay, the wife of Coby Bell’s ex-athlete Jason Pitts. The network announced in April that it was renewing the dramedy for a seventh season. Brandy also recently appeared on…

Nina Simone news is arriving in waves, with producers of a biopic courting Dr. Dre for musical assistance, Issa Rae being cast as the songstress in a Lorraine Hansberry film and the Simone estate putting a documentary into production. @radical.media, producer of the Academy Award winner “The Fog of War,” the tribute to George Harrison…

Announcements of the WMG–Warner/Chappell deals with Apple‘s iRadio—and rumors of more deals to come—caused Pandora stock to tumble 12% on Monday to $15.06, almost $2 off Friday’s closing price. Apple shares edged up a bit, but the company’s stock has taken a beating lately. Meanwhile, as the likely debut of Apple’s service looms, there’s been…