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Space Bound is the fourth single from Eminem's latest solo release, Recovery. Controversial or not, you should be warned about that this visual as it contains very strong images. I'm actually surprised it doesn't even have an advisory.



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2011 Bonnaroo Live Performances

Take a look at some of the live performances at this year's Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival being held from June 9 through 12 in Manchester, Tennessee.

J. Cole - I Ain't Mad At Cha


Florence + The Machine - Between Two Lungs


Lil Wayne - Bill Gates


Arcade Fire - Wake Up


Big Boi - So Fresh, So Clean


The Black Keys - Tighten Up


Eminem - Love The Way You Lie

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Eminem, Mumford And Sons, Lady Gaga dominate Billboard Music Awards 2011

From NME.com:

Eminem dominated this year's Billboard Music Awards, scoring six prizes including the award for Top Male Artist at the Las Vegas ceremony last night (May 22).

The rapper also picked up Top Artist, Top Billboard 200 Album, Top Rap Artist, Top Rap Song and Top Rap Album honours at the MGM Grand Garden Arena ceremony.

Justin Bieber walked away with half a dozen awards, while Mumford and Sons scored a trio of prizes for Top Alternative Artist, Top Rock Album and Top Alternative Album for their 2009 debut 'Sigh No More'.

Lady Gaga and Rihanna walked away with three prizes each while Beyonce, Neil Diamond and U2 were honoured with a special prize each. US First Lady Michelle Obama, Stevie Wonder and Barbra Streisand paid a special tribute to Beyonce for her Millennium Award.

The awards were determined by a combination of chart performances and social and streaming activity as chronicled in Billboard magazine and on Billboard.com. The event was last held in 2007.

The full list of winners is:

Top Artist: Eminem
Top New Artist: Justin Bieber
Top Male Artist: Eminem
Top Female Artist: Rihanna
Top Duo/Group: The Black Eyed Peas
Top Billboard 200 Artist: Taylor Swift
Top Hot 100 Artist: Katy Perry
Top Digital Songs Artist: Katy Perry
Top Radio Songs Artist: Rihanna
Top Touring Artist: U2
Top Social Artist: Justin Bieber
Top Streaming Artist: Justin Bieber
Top Digital Media Artist: Justin Bieber
Top Pop Artist: Lady Gaga
Top R&B Artist: Usher
Top Rap Artist: Eminem
Top Country Artist: Taylor Swift
Top Rock Artist: Train
Top Alternative Artist: Mumford & Sons
Top Latin Artist: Shakira
Top Dance/Electronic Artist: Lady Gaga
Top Christian Artist: Chris Tomlin
Millennium Award: Beyonce
Touring Award: U2
Icon Award: Neil Diamond
Top Billboard 200 Album: Eminem - 'Recovery'
Top Pop Album: Justin Bieber - 'My World 2.0'
Katy Perry - 'Teenage Dream'
Top R&B Album: Usher - 'Raymond v. Raymond'
Top Rap Album: Eminem - 'Recovery'
Top Country Album: Taylor Swift - 'Speak Now'
Top Rock Album: Mumford & Sons - 'Sigh No More'
Top Alternative Album: Mumford & Sons - 'Sigh No More'
Top Dance/Electronic Album: Lady Gaga - 'The Fame'
Top Hot 100 Song: Taio Cruz - 'Dynamite'
Top Digital Song: Taio Cruz - 'Dynamite'
Top Radio Song: Bruno Mars - 'Just The Way You Are'
Top Streaming Song (Audio): Nelly - 'Just A Dream'
Top Streaming Song (Video): Justin Bieber Feat. Ludacris - 'Baby'
Top Pop Song: Taio Cruz - 'Dynamite'
Top R&B Song: Usher Feat. will.i.am - 'OMG'
Top Rap Song: Eminem Feat. Rihanna - 'Love The Way You Lie'
Top Alternative Song: Neon Trees - 'Animal'
Top Latin Song: Shakira Feat. Freshleyground - 'Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)'
Top Dance Song: Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina - 'Stereo Love'

US Charts: Adele Continues To Dominate

From Rolling Stone:

WINNER OF THE WEEK: Adele. In an era when the record business is severely handicapped from breaking new stars, with certain crucial exceptions such as Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga, the British singer-songwriter has sold roughly 1.2 million copies of her album 21. Plus, she's establishing a rare quality – staying power on the pop charts. She returns to Number One this week, selling 153,000 copies, after giving ground to the Foo Fighters last week. So far, she's doing everything right, particularly building buzz with a concert tour by "underplaying" venues, such as the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, rather than abruptly jumping to summer amphitheatres that she probably is still too new to sell out. Easter Weekend helped her sales, as did Haley Reinhart's red-polka-dotted-dress version of her unstoppable single "Rolling in the Deep" on American Idol last week. (The single also hit Number One on iTunes' weekly chart.) In addition to being pretty great, Adele fits snugly into the void Amy Winehouse left when she disappeared to do her drugs or what-not – tough, soulful singer with a killer, Motown-style, R&B band.

LOSER OF THE WEEK: Lady Gaga, whose second single "Judas" dropped from Number Four to Number Six on Billboard's Hot 100, and from Number Four to Number Five on iTunes' Songs chart. Our feeling about this song is pretty much summed up in the following YouTube comment: "TUNA TUN-NA-NA, TUNA TUN-NA-NA, TUNA TUN-GA-GA, TUNA TUN-NA-NA She likes tuna's lots!!!_" Nonetheless, it's up to more than 11 million views, and could easily reverse direction on the charts as soon as Gaga emerges from her bunker to do more aggressive promotion in her new, improved meat dress. The current leg of her long-running Monster Ball tour concluded Wednesday in Cleveland, just in time for Gaga to shift focus to Born this Way, due May 27th.

A WORD ABOUT THE BIEBS: The traditional charts (and we include iTunes in this description) may be all about Adele, Glee, and Alison Krauss and Union Station, but Justin Bieber is clearly still King of the Internet. Billboard's Social50 chart – which uses technology by Boulder, Colorado, startup Next Big Sound to determine the top artists on social networks such as Facebook, YouTube and MySpace – ranks the Biebs Number One for the second week in a row. (He displaced Gaga from the top slot last week.) Sales aside, which means not taking account geezers who still, you know, buy units of music at stores, this chart is a pretty good estimation of what artists are truly popular with the kids. The top 10: Bieber, Gaga, Rihanna, Eminem, Shakira, Katy Perry, Lil Wayne, Black Eyed Peas and Britney Spears.

Artists Comes Together For Japan

From NME.com:

John Lennon, Adele, Foo Fighters and Eminem are among the acts featured on the final tracklisting of the new 'Songs For Japan' charity album.

Labels Sony , EMI, Universal and Warner have joined forces to release the 38-song album. Profits will go to the Japanese Red Cross to benefit the victims of the recent Japanese earthquakes and tsunami.

The album is available now to download from Itunes.apple.com and will come out physically on April 4.

Meanwhile, Beady Eye, Primal Scream, Graham Coxon, Paul Weller and more are set to for a benefit gig for victims of the Japan disasters in London next month.

The tracklisting of ’Songs For Japan’ is:

John Lennon - 'Imagine' (remastered)
U2 - 'Walk On'
Bob Dylan - 'Shelter From the Storm'
Red Hot Chili Peppers - 'Around the World' (live)
Lady Gaga - 'Born This Way' (Starsmith remix)
Beyonce - 'Irreplaceable'
Bruno Mars - 'Talking to the Moon' (acoustic piano version)
Katy Perry - 'Firework'
Rihanna - 'Only Girl (In the World)'
Justin Timberlake - 'Like I Love You'
Madonna - 'Miles Away' (live)
David Guetta - 'When Love Takes Over' (featuring Kelly Rowland)
Eminem - 'Love The Way You Lie' (featuring Rihanna)
Bruce Springsteen - 'Human Touch'
Josh Groban - 'Awake' (live)
Keith Urban - 'Better Life'
The Black Eyed Peas - 'One Tribe'
P!nk - 'Sober'
Cee Lo Green - 'It's OK'
Lady Antebellum - 'I Run to You'
Bon Jovi - 'What Do You Got?'
Foo Fighters - 'My Hero'
R.E.M. - 'Man On the Moon' (live)
Nicki Minaj - 'Save Me'
Sade - 'By Your Side'
Michael Buble - 'Hold On (radio mix)'
Justin Bieber - 'Pray' (acoustic)
Adele - 'Make You Feel My Love'
Enya - 'If I Could Be Where You Are'
Elton John - 'Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me'
John Mayer - 'Waiting On the World to Change'
Queen - 'Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)'
Kings of Leon - 'Use Somebody'
Sting, Steven Mercurio & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - 'Fragile' (live in Berlin)
Leona Lewis - 'Better In Time'
Ne-Yo - 'One In a Million'
Shakira - 'Whenever Wherever'
Norah Jones - 'Sunrise'

Lykke Li Owns Top 2

It comes to no surprise that Lykke Li is getting ready to make a big presence in the chart now that she tops the Number 1 and Number 2 positions this week. First, with no signs of slowing down, she scores a second week at the top with I Follow Rivers (The Magician Remix), but she's her own competition now that the album track Love Out Of Lust jumps, yet again as Greatest Gainer, to the #2 position in only its third week. And more Lykke Li floods the chart now that Silent My Song and Sadness Is A Blessing debut at #53 and #79 respectively. This of course has propelled Wounded Rhymes to the top of the Albums chart.

And Britney Spears also sets a high note now that her second single Till The World Ends becomes her highest ranking song so far on the chart. The title makes an incredible jump to #11 in its second week. Only her song 3 had charted higher, peaking at #18 back in 2009. But the Highest Jump belongs to The Decemberists and their song This Is Why We Fight, which storms sixty spots to #14 this week.

The Highest Debut belongs to Ke$ha this week and her track The Harold Song which makes a big impression to land at #33. This is her sixth song to chart so far. One spot higher at #34 is Power Play of the week and new entry by Brandon Flowers with his third official single Jilted Lovers & Broken Hearts, which adds more momentum to his Flamingo album.

More debuts include I Need A Doctor by Dr. Dre featuring Eminem and Skylar Grey at #70, Lupe Fiasco's All Black Everything at #80 and Snoop Dogg's return to the chart with Wet at #94.

Dr. Dre, Eminem & Skylar Grey › I Need A Doctor

Watch this great video by rapper Dr. Dre featuring Eminem and Skylar Grey. I Need A Doctor is a song taken from Dr. Dre's long-awaited album Detox, slated for a release sometime during 2011.




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3 Weeks Of Obsessions

Not a lot of change for the whole Top 5 as Marina & The Diamonds scores a third week at the top with Obsessions and only Kanye West's All Of The Lights and T.I.'s Poppin Bottles swap the #2 and #3 spots. White Lies score big with Bigger Than Us as the song jumps to #7 in only its second week and Lykke Li is about to become Top 10 royalty with I Follow Rivers (The Magician Remix) going to #11 as Greatest Gainer of the week.

The Highest Debut belongs to Nicki Minaj and Eminem with Roman's Revenge entering at #65. Another Minaj collaboration, Moment 4 Life, this time with Drake, enters at #97. More new songs include The Black Eyed Peas' Just Can't Get Enough at #71 as Power Play of the week and Lupe Fiasco & Skylar Grey debut at #79 with Words I Never Said.

This week's Biggest Jump belongs to Jessie J and B.o.B's Price Tag, which rockets 59 spots to #30 in it's second week.

Ad #2 For Eminem

No. Not another Brisk commercial. This one is a Chrysler ad shown during the Super Bowl. Did he not like to do commercials? Eminem sure seems to be working hard for the money! Two thumbs up for the Lose Yourself instrumental.



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The Eminem Superbowl Commercial

We've been waiting for it. The Brisk commercial that aired during this Sunday's Super Bowl featuring an animated Eminem talking about why doesn't do commercials.



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Year-End Top Songs 75 - 51

And the countdown continues... We're now halfway down on The TMJ Charts Top 100 Songs of 2010 with the 75 to 51 positions. This one includes The Chart's current No. 1 song by Drake and Young Jeezy, Unforgettable, at No. 75 and double spots for Interpol, Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Katy Perry, Timbaland and La Vida Bohème.

Don't know what this is all about? Read yesterday's post. More tomorrow, but for now check these out:

The AMA 2010 Winners and Performances

There's just too many things that I could say about last night's American Music Awards ceremony but I don't feel like going through all that pain again. (Hint: Just check the tweets for most of the reactions from last night). The highlight for me? Well, it's gotta be P!nk's rocking Raise Your Glass performance. If you wanna know the list of predictable winners check it out below plus a few, mostly-live performances.

Artist of the Year: Justin Bieber
Favorite Pop / Rock Male Artist: Justin Bieber
Favorite Pop / Rock Female Artist: Lady GaGa
Favorite Pop / Rock Band, Duo or Group: Black Eyed Peas
Favorite Pop / Rock Album: Justin Bieber – "My World 2.0"
Favorite Male Country Artist: Brad Paisley
Favorite Female Country Artist: Taylor Swift
Country Favorite Band – Duo or Group: Lady Antebellum
Favorite Country Album: Carrie Underwood – “Play On”
Favorite Rap / Hip-Hop Male Artist: Eminem
Favorite Rap / Hip-Hop Album: Eminem – “Recovery”
Favorite Soul / R & B Male Artist: Usher
Favorite Soul / R & B Female Artist: Rihanna
Favorite Soul / R & B Album: Usher – “Raymond Vs. Raymond”
T-Mobile Breakthrough Artist: Justin Bieber
Favorite Soundtrack Album: “Glee: The Music – Volume 3 Showstoppers”
Favorite Alternative Rock Artist: Muse
Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist: Michael Buble
Favorite Latin Artist: Shakira
Favorite Contemporary Inspirational Artist: MercyMe

P!nk - Raise Your Glass


Bon Jovi - Greatest Hits Medley


Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie / What's My Name / Only Girl (In The World)


Justin Bieber - Pray


Katy Perry - Firework


Ke$ha - Take It Off / We R Who We R


Usher - DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love


Backstreet Boys & New Kids On The Block - Medley

EMA's 2010 Live Performances

Did you miss the live performances or did you not watch the awards show altogether? If you just want a quick recap before the countless - and likely censored - reruns check out the winners at the 2010 MTV Europe Music Awards plus a few live performances from the event, held in Madrid, Spain and hosted by Eva Longoria.

Best New Act: Ke$ha
Best Pop: Lady Gaga
Best Alternative: Paramore
MTV EMA Global Icon: Bon Jovi
Best Rock: Thirty Seconds To Mars
Best Male: Justin Bieber
Best Video: "California Gurls" by Katy Perry and Snoop Dogg
Best Hip Hop: Eminem
Free Your Mind: Shakira
Best Live Act: Linkin Park
Best Female: Lady Gaga
Best Song: "Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga
Best European Act: Marco Mengoni
Best Push Artist: Justin Bieber
World Stage: Tokio Hotel

Kings Of Leon, Radioactive


B.o.B & Hayley Williams, Airplanes


Linkin Park, Waiting For The End


Katy Perry, Firework


Ke$ha, TiK ToK


Thirty Seconds To Mars & Kanye West, Hurricane / Power


Rihanna, Only Girl (In The World)

2010 American Music Awards Nominees

Mmmm yeah, the votes are in. These are the nominees for this year's American Music Awards. I guess I'll be rooting for Eminem, Usher, B.o.B, Drake and Katy Perry.

From Billboard.com:

Eminem and Lady Antebellum lead the nomination race for the 2010 American Music Awards, both with five nominations. The nominees were announced today (Oct. 12) in Los Angeles by emcees Taio Cruz and Demi Lovato.

Eminem's nominations include Artist of the Year, as well as both Pop/Rock and Rap/Hip-Hop genres for Favorite Male Artist and Favorite Album awards. Lady Antebellum is nominated for Favorite Band, Duo or Group in the Pop/Rock and Country categories, as well as Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist, Breakthrough Artist and Favorite Country Album awards.

Justin Bieber received four nominations, while Katy Perry, Ke$ha, B.o.B and Usher all tied for third with three nominations each. Bieber and Perry join Eminem in the Favorite Pop/Rock Album category, as well as the Artist of the Year category alongside Lady Gaga and Ke$ha. Usher's nominations include Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist, Favorite R&B/Soul Male Artist and Favorite R&B Soul Album for "Raymond v Raymond."

Drake holds down the Favorite Rap/Hip-Hope Male Artist and Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album categories alongside Eminem, while Gaga, Alicia Keys and Sade also walk away with two nominations each.

Taylor Swift grabbed one nomination for Favorite Country Female Artist, with Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert also nominated. Underwood was also nominated for Favorite Country Album for "Play On" alongside Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" and Jason Aldean's " Wide Open."

For Favorite Soundtrack, the Gleeks will have to battle the fans of Twilight since both "Glee, The Music: Volume 3 The Showstoppers" shares the category with "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse." Or AC/DC may pull a surprise win with the band's work on the "Iron Man 2" soundtrack.

The AMAs will air live on ABC on Sun. Nov. 21 at 8pm ET and feature performances from Ke$ha, Katy Perry, Usher, Pink and Bon Jovi. For the fourth consecutive year, the winners will be determined by viewer voting on ABC.com and AMAvote.com.

Here is the complete list of nominees:

ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Justin Bieber, Eminem, Ke$ha, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry

BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST
B.o.B, Justin Bieber, Taio Cruz, Jason Derülo, Ke$ha, Lady Antebellum, Travie McCoy, Mike Posner

POP/ROCK
Favorite Male Artist: Justin Bieber, Eminem, Usher
Favorite Female Artist: Ke$ha, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry
Favorite Band, Duo or Group: The Black Eyed Peas, Lady Antebellum, Train
Favorite Album: Justin Bieber, "My World 2.0"; Eminem, "Recovery"; Katy Perry, "Teenage Dream"

COUNTRY
Favorite Male Artist: Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Brad Paisley
Favorite Female Artist: Miranda Lambert, Taylor Swift,Carrie Underwood
Favorite Band, Duo or Group: Zac Brown Band, Lady Antebellum, Rascal Flatts
Favorite Album: Jason Aldean, "Wide Open"; Lady Antebellum, "Need You Now"; Carrie Underwood, "Play On"

RAP/HIP-HOP
Favorite Male Artist: B.o.B., Drake, Eminem
Favorite Album: B.o.B., "B.o.B. Presents"; Drake, "Thank Me Later"; Eminem, "Recovery"

SOUL/R&B
Favorite Male Artist: Chris Brown, Trey Songz, Usher
Favorite Female Artist: Alicia Keys, Rihanna, Sade
Favorite Album: Alicia Keys, "The Element of Freedom"; Sade, "Soldier of Love"; Usher, "Raymond v. Raymond"

ALTERNATIVE ROCK
Favorite Artist: Muse, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend

SOUNDTRACK
Favorite Album: AC/DC, "Iron Man 2"; "Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers"; "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse"

ADULT CONTEMPORARY
Favorite Artist: Michael Bublé, Lady Antebellum, Train

LATIN
Favorite Artist: Daddy Yankee, Enrique Iglesias, Shakira

CONTEMPORARY INSPIRATIONAL
Favorite Artist: Casting Crowns, MercyMe, TobyMac

Eminem & Lil Wayne › No Love

If it ain't broke don't fix it, they say. Eminem presents his new video targeting the social issue of school-bullying as background story to No Love, the third single off his new album Recovery which features rapper Lil Wayne. Personally, it's not one of the top songs on my list just because of the "sing-rapping" verses. Let's face it, he should just rap and leave the hooks to a female singer. Lil Wayne is ok in this but he gets too much airtime, almost feeling like it's his record. And last, the sample brings back some MC Hammer-era images that I thought I had already forgotten. SNL skits anyone? Ok, I admit, it's really not a good match but in the end it's still listenable.




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And because it's good to get a laugh every once in a while, here's the original song What Is Love by Haddaway, which is sampled in No Love.

From Billboard.com:

With a 2-1 lift on the Pop Songs radio airplay chart for Eminem's "Love the Way You Lie," the song's featured artist Rihanna ties the mark for most No. 1s in the Nielsen BDS-based survey's 18-year history.

Rihanna joins Mariah Carey, who tallied six chart leaders between 1993 and 2005, Beyoncé (2003-10) and Lady Gaga (2009-10). The latter two acts equaled Carey's sum when their "Telephone" reached No. 1 in March.

(Carey's first eight singles in 1990-92, six of which topped the Billboard Hot 100, predate the Pop Songs chart's launch).

Avril Lavigne, Pink, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake share the second-highest Pop Songs No. 1 total, each having visited the summit five times.

Here is a recap of Rihanna's six Pop Songs No. 1s. Notably, from her arrival on the chart dated June 25,2005, through Feb. 28, 2009, she placed at least one title on the list in 190 of 193 weeks. After a six-month hiatus, Rihanna has appeared on the chart in each of the last 50 weeks consecutively, dating to the bow of "Run This Town," with Jay-Z and Kanye West, last September.

Title, Chart Date Reached No. 1

"SOS," May 13, 2006 (one week)

"Take a Bow," July 5, 2008 (three weeks)

"Disturbia," Oct. 4, 2008 (three weeks)

"Live Your Life," Dec. 27, 2008 (two weeks) (T.I. featuring Rihanna)

"Rude Boy," May 8, 2010 (two weeks)

"Love the Way You Lie," Aug. 21, 2010 (one week to date) (Eminem featuring Rihanna)

"Love the Way You Lie," which has spent the last three weeks atop the Hot 100, is Eminem's third Pop Songs No. 1. He previously reigned with "Without Me" (the chart week of July 6, 2002) and "Lose Yourself" (seven weeks, beginning Nov. 23, 2002).

Rihanna's achievements on the Pop Songs chart mirror her success on the Hot 100. Since her first week in charge of the Hot 100 dated May 13, 2006, with "SOS," Rihanna has logged seven No. 1s on the list, the most among all artists. Justin Timberlake is second in that span with four Hot 100 No. 1s.

Eminem & Rihanna › Love The Way You Lie

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Eminem › Not Afraid

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Drake, Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem › Forever