RnB Music News

Loso’s Way had reached the number 1 slot for the top 200 albums that sold an amazing 98,000 copies. Fabolous also had great success with From Nothin’ to Somethin’ which was #2 back in 2007 and it sold over 150,000 albums on the first week of its release!

Loso’s Way is the 5th album signed by Fabolous which has been released just this July 28, 2009. It was originally called “Work Hard, Play Harder” and was set for release by June 30 of this year but was then pushed back to July 28, 2009 so he could include the movie for this album. Loso’s Way has the deluxe and the standard release albums. There is a bonus DVD with the movie Loso’s Way and it features nobody else but Fabolous himself.

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Aaliyah was an R&B singer, actress and model whose life was cut short by a plane accident back in August 25, 2001 together with other members of her staff who were with her during the filming of her music video “Rock the Boat” in the Bahamas. The cause of the plane crash was said to be the overweight in the craft since Aaliyah and her crew brought all of their heavy equipment on the said flight instead of leaving them behind.

After the news came out that Aaliyah died, everyone who knew her was shocked with the very tragic ending to this beautiful young princess whose career was at its peak. Her third album then became number 1 from number 19 just shortly after her death .

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Avril Lavigne is said to release her latest album which is going to be a little bit more mellow than her previous albums of the pop-rock kind. Her fourth album is going to be a bit more serious and the album is set to be released by November under RCA.
The album will have less rock noise and more “emotion and feeling” and acustic guitar. What will be the next step in Avril’s change- singing with Mariah Carey?

The 8 songs out of the 12 tracks in the album are produced by her own husband Deryck Whibley. Most of the songs here are acoustics and vocals which makes it very different than the shouting songs she used to sing in her previous albums.

Is this going to be a new beginning for Avril Lavigne aka Mrs. Avril Whibley? She started with this album by singing songs on her home piano which is very different with how she used to start on her previous albums. The 25-year-old singer said that one of the songs was used from the Black Star fragrance TV commercial which she decided to turn into a full song.

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Chrisette Michelle had released her 2nd studio album in May under Island Def Jam Music Group. She started recording for her second album by last year and just last January, she released her title track entitled “Epiphany” as its first single. For this album, Chrisette said her inspirations are Claude Kelly, Chuck Harmony, Ne-Yo and Bei Maejor. She said that this is a more youthful and more upbeat album compared to her first studio album.

Chrisette loves “Blame it on me”, one of the songs on this album and she also likes “On My Own” which she said reminded her of her dad. The album received positive criticisms and some critics say it’s a great album for those experiencing breakup. It expresses anger as well as some heartache on its serious songs.

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Lloyd announced that he would leave The Inc. Records. The R&B artist Lloyd is best known for his album which was first named as “Sexual Education” but eventually they agreed on calling his third album as “Lessons in Love” which makes it sound more appealing.

Lloyd’s first single from “Lessons In Love” features Ludacris and it was entitled “How We Do it (Around my way)” which had reached the Billboard’s Hot R&B and Hip-Hop Songs Chart at #77. The song is said to be featured on their version release that would be sold on Wal-Mart. The second single did much better as it peaked to #13 on the same hit charts and it is entitled “Girls Around the World” featuring Lil Wayne. The third single is “Year of the Lover” but did not do very well on the charts. They were planning on releasing a third single from the album but because the third single didn’t do well, they chose not to push through with the plan. If it did, the fourth single would have been “I Can Change Your Life”.

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The Grammy award winner RnB singer Usher has a 7-year-old photo of himself and he gave it to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the Billboard was unveiled on April 29, 2009 in Atlanta. Usher was there together with his mother and they are hoping that this cute image of the 7-year-old kid who turned out to be one of the pop sensations of today will raise awareness to the youth and be inspired by him.

The billboard will help raise awareness needed by the club and this is because Usher credits the club to have made such a big difference in his life. There are other artists who also have their childhood billboards with the likes as Martin Sheen, Denzel Washington, Shaq O’Neal and many more. The president of the Boys & Girls Club of America hopes that the effort put up by these artists would also spark even more alumni to contribute and act as role models.

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After the scandal involving Rihanna and Chris Brown, nudity pictures of Rihanna have been made public but even if all publicity is publicity, the pictures did not boost the artist’s sales according to Nielsen SoundScan. But obviously, the beautiful Rihanna was on everyone’s lips on the Internet, on blogs and chat rooms.

On the other side, Chris Brown is losing his stardom. After his assault with Rihanna, his songs are being dropped by Radio stations as requested by their listeners. His good image is now a goner and his fans are now turning against him. Will he still have a career? As of now, Chris Brown is definitely a goner.

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Can we hear wedding bells soon for Ashanti and boyfriend Nelly? Well, this R&B Star Ashanti had give off a hint that she will, in fact, marry her rapper boyfriend Nelly this year!

Ashanti and Nelly have their relationship for 4 years but it’s only 4 months ago that they actually made the announcement that they are really a couple. It’s really difficult to keep a high-profile relationship a secret but they managed to do it. Or did they? There were lots of rumors circulating about the Ashanti and Nelly relationship but both had denied everything but this did not stop the rumors from circulating. Well, it’s just like how the saying goes, “if there’s a smoke, there’s fire.”

During Ashanti’s interview with US Weekly, she said that she is absolutely thinking about getting married to Nelly this year. She believes though that she still needs to do a few things more before walking down that aisle.

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Dr. Jan Adams is a popular and highly publicized plastic surgeon as he had appeared in different shows including Oprah. One of his patients was Kanye West’s mom Dr. Dande West who had breast reduction and tummy tuck surgery. The next day, she passed away.

It was controversial and after the operation, many fans of Dr. Jan Adams had second thoughts of being under the knife with him. It was 2007 when Dande West had died but now, the doctor who may have caused her demise is losing his license. It’s not because he was charged for her death but it’s because of his driving under influence convictions with 2 accounts.

Dr. Adams had admitted the allegation but he may petition again for reinstatement after 3 years. This is his second time in one year to have lost his license as a physician. The first one was in January when the medical board didn’t renew his license immediately for the reason that he failed to give his child support pay to his ex. (more…)

Rapper Fatboy Slim was in rehab for his alcohol addiction. Many Hollywood celebrities should follow him and flood the rehabilitation centers all over America for the same type of addiction. Fatboy, Kudos to you!

Fatboy Slim checked himself in a clinic in South England in March as he has been battling with his addiction for some time now. This is indeed the best act he had done for himself and hopefully this will go all the way to his remission.

Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim had decided that if he wanted to kick his addiction to booze, he should decide to voluntarily check himself in and he did just that.

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