The Black Eyed Peas Experience

A few years ago you would have never thought your favorite music stars would immortalized in a video game. That is the case now with The Black Eyed Peas, who've really paved their way to become the ultimate digital phenomenon artists by joining Ubisoft for a new dance video game inspired by the group. Watch the trailer:

Black Eyed Peas on 'Dancing With The Stars'

The Black Eyed Peas make a stop on the Dancing With The Stars set to perform their latest single Don't Stop The Party:



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The 2011 Billboard Music Awards Performances

Beyoncé - Run The World (Girls)


The Black Eyed Peas - Just Can't Get Enough / I Gotta Feeling


Cee Lo Green - Medley


Taio Cruz - Dynamite / Break Your Heart


OneRepublic - Good Life
Far East Movement & Ryan Tedder - Rocketeer
Far East Movement & Snoop Dogg - If I Was You (OMG)


Mary J. Blige & Lil Wayne - Someone To Love Me


Rihanna & Britney Spears - S&M Remix


Nicki Minaj - Superbass
Britney Spears & Nicki Minaj - Till The World Ends Remix


Lady Antebellum - Just A Kiss


Keith Urban - Long Hot Summer


Ke$ha - Blow

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'

BEP: 'Don't Stop The Party' Single Cover Art + Video

Update: Watch The Black Eyed Peas' latest video!



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It's been officially confirmed that The Black Eyed Peas' next single will be Don't Stop The Party. Group member will.i.am gave out the news during his Ustream chat today. The video for the song will be launching on iTunes worldwide tomorrow! Until then, check out the cover art for the single.

Incubus Ascends

No surprise here, but let's point out the fact that just three weeks is what it took for Incubus' comeback single to top the songs chart! Adolescents is not only this band's 17th chart entry but it becomes their 4th chart-topper, following Dig, Oil And Water and Quicksand, all taken from their 2007 release Light Grenades. Black Heart Inertia was their last chart appearance, which debuted in May of 2009 and peaked at #11.

Foo Fighters is now down one spot but still strong with a bullet for Bridge Burning and Lykke Li's Silent My Song rounds the Top 3.

This week's Greatest Gainer belongs to The Script, a band that scored several hits from their self-titled album the last couple of years but has struggled a little with Science & Faith, their sophomore record. That's all about to change now that Dead Man Walking becomes their 5th Top 10 hit entering at #8 in it's second week; and there's more because Long Gone And Moved On is the Biggest Jump with a leap to #54 from last week's #92.

The Power Play track and Highest Debut of the week goes to the Beastie Boys and their single Make Some Noise, entering at #76 as their first track ever to chart. More new entries from Lupe Fiasco's unreleased version of Airplanes, originally made famous by B.o.B and also featuring Paramore's Hayley Williams, coming at #90; Gossip's Beth Ditto solo adventure pays off and now sees her chart debut with I Wrote The Book at #91; Placebo makes a surprise debut with a live version of Bright Lights at #98; Brandon Boyd's Revenge Of The Spectral Tiger comes in at #99 and The Black Eyed Peas earn their 23rd chart entry with The Best One Yet (The Boy) at #100.

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.

Adele Still Ruling UK Charts

Singer Adele is not only still ruling the UK charts but she has also matched Madonna's 21-year-old record for longest stay at the top of the albums chart with her album 21. What a nice coincidence.

From NME.com:

The Strokes' new album 'Angles' has charted at Number Three in the UK albums chart today (March 27).

The album went in behind Adele's '21', which is Number One for the ninth week in a row. Her first album, '19', is at Number Two.

Adele is now the first female singer to stay at the albums top spot for so long since Madonna's 1990 run with 'The Immaculate Collection'.

Her single 'Someone Like You' has gone back to the peak of the singles chart, leapfrogging Nicole Scherzinger's 'Don't Hold Your Breath'.

Scherzinger's album 'Killer Love' went in at Number Eight.

The Top 10 UK albums are:

1. Adele - '21'
2. Adele - '19'
3. The Strokes – 'Angles'
4. Jessie J - 'Who You Are'
5. Ronan Keating – 'When Ronan Met Burt'
6. The Overtones – 'Good Ol' Fashioned Love'
7. Rihanna - 'Loud'
8. Nicole Scherzinger – 'Killer Love'
9. Elbow - 'Build A Rocket Boys!'
10. Chris Brown – 'F.A.M.E.'

The Top 10 UK singles are:

1. Adele - 'Someone Like You'
2. Nicole Scherzinger – 'Don't Hold Your Breath'
3. The Black Eyed Peas – 'Just Can’t Get Enough'
4. The Wanted - 'Gold Forever'
5. Jessie J - 'Price Tag'
6. Rihanna - 'S&M (Come On)'
7. Wiz Khalifa - 'Black And Yellow'
8. Dr Dre featuring Eminem – 'I Need A Doctor'
9. Adele – 'Rolling In The Deep'
10. Lady Gaga - 'Born This Way'

The Black Eyed Peas › Just Can't Get Enough

In another circumstance watching the new video by The Black Eyed Peas for their single Just Can't Get Enough wouldn't hit such a bittersweet note. And that's because it was shot in the streets of Tokyo just one week before the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, as the opening message reads. Incredible how such a grand place stands so vulnerable during this time. Indeed, our thoughts and prayers are still with the people of Japan.




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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.

Super Bowl XLV Halftime Show

The long-awaited halfime show by The Black Eyed Peas was much more visually stunning than it was sonically. I guess the sound engineers didn't get their homework done in time. Putting that aside, the show featured a great medley of hits including I Gotta Feeling, Boom Boom Pow, Pump It, Let's Get It Started, Where Is The Love? and their current single The Time (Dirty Bit). We got a couple of surprises starting with a cameo by Slash rocking his guitar for Fergie's not-so-stellar rendition of Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child O' Mine and then later Usher joined in to perform his hit song OMG. So, enjoy while it's still available.




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BEP Announce Second Single

The Black Eyed Peas announced yesterday that the second single from their album The Beginning will be the one titled Just Can't Get Enough. I just had a listen and it's less stellar than the first single, which is really bad considering I still sorta dislike The Time (Dirty Bit). On the other hand, it has a lot of Fergie and that makes it an incomplete disaster.

Year-End Top Songs 100 - 76

Starting today, and for the next four days, I'll be presenting you The TMJ Charts Top 100 Songs for 2010! With the last chart issue of the year posted this past Saturday, I was finally ready to build these year-end charts. There'll be 25 songs posted each day until next Thursday when I'll be posting the Top 25.

There was a lot to choose from, with 511 different titles charting all throughout 2010, but these are the Top 100 based on the accumulated points for this year only (songs charting since 2009 are eligible). The stats are based on chart performance for 2010 as well, and titles with asterisks mean they're currently charting on the weekly Top 100.

Drake Finally Reaches The Top

After several close calls Drake has finally reached the top of The Chart this week as Unforgettable featuring Young Jeezy makes a twelve-spot jump to No. 1, the second biggest leap to the summit this year behind Katy Perry's Teenage Dream and the fifth biggest overall. Drake had previously only reached No. 2 on four different occasions with Best I Ever Had, Over, Mary J. Blige's The One and Timbaland's Say Something. For Young Jeezy this is his 4th chart-topper as a collaborative artist, having reached the top before with Mariah Carey's Side Effects (3 weeks), Jay-Z's Real As It Gets (2 weeks) and Akon's I'm So Paid (1 week).

The Week's New Releases (Nov30,'10)

So it all comes down to this, the busiest month of great new releases that I can remember in years. This week marks the The Beginning for The Black Eyed Peas... Oddly enough it seems like nobody's really aware of it. And I say that because of how huge The E.N.D turned out to be and how lackluster their new single is. Here's some of this week's releases:

The Beginning by The Black Eyed Peas
Only One Flo (Part 1) by Flo Rida
Love Me Back by Jazmine Sullivan
Second Chance by El DeBarge
Joy by Fefe Dobson
The DeAndre Way by Soulja Boy
Lost In Time by Eric Benét
Mr. I by Ron Isley
Northern Aggression by Steve Wynn
Glee: The Music, Volume 4 by Glee Cast

Black Eyed Peas to Perform at Super Bowl

From RollingStone.com:

After months of rumors it's finally been confirmed — officially — that the Black Eyed Peas will perform during halftime at the 2011 Super Bowl. "They could have picked anybody," will.i.am tells Rolling Stone. "They could rock a million and get Cheap Trick. I love me some Cheap Trick, those motherfuckers is dope. But it says something that they picked us."

The Black Eyed Peas are the first non-classic rock act booked for the halftime show since Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson's infamous "wardrobe malfunction" performance in 2004. "I've been at every single one of them since that," says will.i.am. "The Prince one, the Paul McCartney one, Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen."

Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" Named Bestselling Digital Track

For much of the Super Bowl's history the halftime show was almost an afterthought, often consisting of marching bands and salutes to American icons like Duke Ellington or Louis Armstrong. Michael Jackson performed at the 1993 halftime show, but two years later the show was an incredibly cheesy Indiana Jones skit followed by performances by Teddy Pendergrass, Tony Bennett and the Miami Sound Machine.

In 2001 MTV put on a multi-artist showcase featuring a medley by Aerosmith, N'Sync, Britney Spears, Mary J. Blige and Nelly. After the Janet Jackson debacle the show shifted towards classic rock acts, but after six consecutive years of that organizers clearly felt like it was time for a change.

The Black Eyed Peas are releasing their sixth album The Beginning November 30 and will launch a world tour to support it next year.

The Black Eyed Peas › The Time (The Dirty Bit)

It seems like it's taken forever (or they're running a little behind). Even more so if we consider their new album, The Beginning, will be out as soon as next week! But The Black Eyed Peas have finally released the music video for the first single titled The Time (The Dirty Bit). I still feel so underwhelmed by this song, as mentioned several times before, but one thing I can always enjoy is a BEP video. So here it is.



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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

Boy Bands Take Over The UK Charts

That's a very 1999 title but I'm not joking. This week sees two different generation of boy bands top both the singles and albums charts in the UK. On one hand there's the reunited group Take That with the fastest selling-album in the region and on the other the more recently formed group JLS for the singles chart.

From NME.com:

Take That have topped the UK album charts today (November 21) with the highest first-week sales for 13 years.

The reunited man-band’s album 'Progress' has sold almost 520,000 copies in the past week biggest opening numbers since Oasis with 'Be Here Now' in 2005.

They comfortably beat Rihanna's album 'Loud' which enters the charts at number two, while their single 'The Flood' remains at number two.

In a big week for boybands, JLS are a new entry at number one with their Children In Need single 'Love You More.

The top ten UK albums are:

1. Take That – 'Progress'
2. Rihanna – 'Loud'
3. Susan Boyle – 'The Gift'
4. Andre Rieu and Johann Strauss Orchestra – 'Moonlight Serenade'
5. Pink – 'Greatest Hits So Far'
6. Bon Jovi – 'Greatest Hits'
7. Bruce Springsteen – 'The Promise'
8. Cheryl Cole – 'Messy Little Raindrops'
9. Michael Buble – 'Crazy Love'
10. Katy Perry – 'Teenage Dream'

The top ten UK singles are:

1. JLS – 'Love You More'
2. Take That – 'The Flood'
3. Ellie Goulding – 'Your Song'
4. Rihanna – 'Only Girl (In The World)'
5. Katy Perry – 'Firework'
6. Far East Movement – 'Like A G6
'7. Black Eyed Peas – 'The Time (Dirty Bit)'
8. Alexis Jordan – 'Happiness'
9. McFly – 'Shine A Light'
10. Westlife - 'Safe'

Beatles Albums Dominate iTunes Charts

I know I made a joke about it earlier today but it's just because I don't understand Apple's monopoly over the digital music sales in the United States. In the end, joke or not, the Beatles will be the Beatles and their music catalog, within hours of being made available on the iTunes Store, is already making its mark in this digital era. It'll be interesting to see now how this move will impact the U.S. music charts.

From RollingStone.com:

A day after The Beatles' catalog arrived on iTunes, the band's albums are storming the iTunes chart. As of 9 a.m. ET on Wednesday, all 17 albums made available on Tuesday were in the top 50 of the digital-music store's albums chart — and three of those full-lengths — Abbey Road, The Beatles (a.k.a. The White Album and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band — were in the top 10. The band's career-spanning box set, which sells for $149, sat at No. 11.

iTunes doesn't release exact sales data for its charts, which are updated frequently throughout the day, and digital-album sales from all online merchants, including Amazon and other sites, are broken out separately from overall album totals by Nielsen SoundScan. First-week numbers for the Beatles' reissues won't be officially available until next Wednesday, when SoundScan will release sales totals for the week ending November 21.

On the singles side, the highest-selling Beatles song as of 9 a.m. Wednesday was "Here Comes The Sun," which was at No. 20, behind current hits like Ke$ha's chart-topping "We R Who We R" and Willow's "Whip My Hair." "Let It Be," "In My Life," "Blackbird" and "Come Together" were the only other individual Beatles songs in the top 50 at that time.

In other chart news, Susan Boyle's The Gift debuted atop the Billboard 200 on the chart released today. The second album from the British singer, who rose to fame on the Simon Cowell-assisted "Britain's Got Talent," sold 318,000 copies in the week ending November 14. The Gift contains the covers of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" and Lou Reed's "Perfect Day," as well as her take on Christmas standards like "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "The First Noel." Also debuting on the albums chart were Kid Cudi's Man on the Moon II (No. 3, 169,000 sales), the pop-hits pileup Now 36 (No. 4, 89,000 sales), Bon Jovi's Greatest Hits (No. 5, 88,000), Reba McEntire's All The Woman I Am (No. 7, 64,000) and Cee-Lo Green's The Lady Killer (No. 9, 41,000).

On the digital tracks chart, the cover of Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" that was performed during the November 9 episode of "Glee" debuted at No. 1, selling 214,000 copies for the biggest first-week Soundscan total for a song from the Fox hit show. The Black Eyed Peas' new single, "The Time (Dirty Bit)," also debuted on the chart at No. 3, selling 170,000 copies.