Category: Songwriters

Kendrick Lamar Talks Breakout Year, J.Cole Project, & Favorite Album of 2012

 


Next Week’s Top 15 Predictions

Taylor Swift remains on top next week while Bruno Mars and a surgingMichael Bublé will compete for #2. Not included in today’s Top 15 is Columbia‘s 12/12/12: The Concert For Sandy Relief album. This will surely be a contender for the upper regions of the chart should it come out before the end of the week. If it’s not released until after…


Chart Moves: Tamar Braxton Feels the ‘Love’ on Hot 100; Taylor Swift’s ‘Trouble’ Increases; Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Advance

Hot 100 As previously reported, Bruno Mars bounds to the top of the Billboard Hot 100, as “Locked Out of Heaven” rises 2-1 in its 10th week on the chart. And Mariah Carey’s 1994 classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You” enters the tally’s top 40 for the first time, re-entering at No. 29. What other acts…


Bruno Mars Earns Fourth No. 1 Single With ‘Locked Out of Heaven’

Move over Rihanna. There’s a new boss on the charts. Bruno Mars tops the Billboard Hot 100 this week with his single “Locked Out of Heaven.” “Heaven” displaces Rihannna’s “Diamonds,” which reigned at No. 1 for three weeks. The first single off Bruno’s sophomore album Unorthodox Jukebox rises2-1 in its 10th week on the chart, becoming Bruno’s fourth Hot 100 No. 1 following “Just the Way…


MTV This Is How I Made It: Big Sean

 


Mase Speaks On His Retirements, Comeback & If He Would Sign To G.O.O.D. Music

 


Countdown to T.I. “Go Get It”


Trinidad James Is Rumored To Have Signed A Deal With Def Jam For 2 Million Dollars

Rumors of, Trinidad James, signing with Def Jam for a deal worth two million started yesterday. While I was doubtful at first, a few inside sources have said it is true. It is not uncommon for an artist to be signed off of one hot single, just look at Kreayshawn. Do you think this would be a good…


Of Monsters and Men’s Nanna and Raggi in Studio Q

Nanna Hilmarsdóttir and Ragnar “Raggi” Þórhallsson of Icelandic folk-rock troupe, Of Monsters and Men join Jian at the desk to talk about their new record “My Head is an Animal” and how their Icelandic heritage has shaped their musical identity.


‘O.N.I.F.C.’ To Debut At #2

Wiz Khalifa’s sophomore effort, O.N.I.F.C., will debut at #2 on the Billboard charts tomorrow with 131, 213 sold. Wiz will be staring up at Taylor Swift, who remains at #1 with another 170,656 copies of her album Red sold. Via Hits Daily Double