Nicki Minaj has released another video from her Roman Reloaded album. This time she has teamed up with Chris Brown and Nas to tell a love story.
The track is a mixture of rnb and hiphop and is sure to leave viewers wondering if Nas and Nicki are going to be the next celebrity item.

2011 was a big year for RnB artists as sales rose for many top artists. While pop music is still on top of the charts, RnB music also had a strong following and has also dominated the charts from time to time. The recent popularity of RnB has also been down to the fact that new styles have emerged and pushed the boundary on a traditional RnB beat sounds like.

The following are the top five RnB albums in 2011:

21 by Adele

Adele is unmistakably one of the best RnB artists in modern times with her cool sounding voice that perfectly complements her instrumentals and amazing lyrics. Her sophomore album “21” was purchased more than 3,772,000 times worldwide. Her second album focuses on a more upbeat setting with the same soulful voice.

Christmas by Michael Buble

Second place is actually very surprising considering that it’s only a Christmas album. But Michael Buble was very successful in marketing the album with repacked traditional Christmas songs. More than 1,292,000 copies were sold worldwide and it’s becoming one of the top holiday albums of any year.

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Britney Spears as a musician is practically unstoppable. Since her early days as a teen pop icon, she continues to amaze her fans around the world. Although there is still ridicule and criticism on her private life, her focus on creating music is back. The latest album isn’t comparable to her early days but her current songs are good enough to attract positive attention.

Her latest album “Britney Spears: Femme Fatale” is another set of songs that deviates from her past trends after her tumultuous personal life. Instead of answering the critics through a song, the songs are now focused on something else. This is actually a welcoming change since not everyone really wants to hear a song as a response to critics.

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Michael Jackson may have passed away but he can still find a way to entertain his fans.

A new album was launched on December 14, 2010 simply called “Michael”. The songs in the album were originally recorded in 2007 and were completed after his death. The album features the hit single “Hold My Hand” which is a duet with Akon. It also contains ten tracks produced by different producers that are all recognized in the industry and had worked with the King of Pop beforehand.

Before the “Michael” album, the film “This is It” became a huge hit around the world. The original sound track with the same name as the film sold well online and in record stores. Just like “This is It,” the people behind the album have huge expectations for its success. The cover of the latest album was made by Kadir Nelson. The cover depicts the different events and personalities that made significant impact to the singer’s life.

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What an unexpected couple! After Beyoncé featuring in Lady Gaga’s single Telephone, the two ladies duplicated the experience with the latest video release of Video Phone. The video has the unmistakable touch of famous hip hop and R&B video director Hype Williams and has become a big hit on the web, probably more because of the sexy outfits and choreos of the ladies rather than the song, which in itself seems to have received quite a lukewarm attention.

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After the multi-platinum winner “As I Am”, released in 2007, Alicia Keys is back with a brand new album “The Element of Freedom”. The work will be released on the 11th December in two different versions, a standard one and the deluxe edition containing CD with DVD.

The latest work from the talented New York artist sees some big names of the industry involved. The album is produced by Kerry “Krucial” Brothers, Jeff Bhasker and Swizz Beatz among others and contains two very interesting features by Beyoncè and rapper Drake.

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Speech Debelle had released an album entitled Speech Therapy, an album that will speak your language and will go straight to your heart. It includes the song “Finish the Album” which is in fact the oldest song from her tracks. This song is what she used to play when she first visited Big Dada some 5 good years ago. Well, Speech Debelle had been through some tough times in her life and in this particular song has the theme that feels that way: an auto-message to finish the album.

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Mary J. Blige will be releasing another album as a follow up to her album the Growing Pains. She plans to release her next album by autumn this year and rumour has it that she had already picked a title for her latest album. It is believed that she album already and she chose ‘Stronger’ as the title of her  album. Also, the first single she chose for the album is the song entitled ‘One” featuring Drake. The album is another sure hit as Mary J. Blige never fails to make a big impact in the music scene with her great songs.

This autumn is going to be quite busy for her too. It won’t only be the time for her new album’s release but she would also be starring this September for “I can do bad all by myself” by Tyler Perry. Of course she’d also be quite busy with a new single that should be released before the album so indeed we’d be seeing and hearing more about Mary J. Blige in the upcoming months!

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Mariah Carey will be releasing her 12th album this year “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel” will be available by August 25, 2009 with “Obsessed” as the debut single from the album which had premiered last June 16, 2009.

The singer and songwriter, The-Dream had helped Mariah Carey with this upcoming album. The single “Obsessed” was co-written by Mariah Carey and The-Dream as well as Tricky Stewart. The music video for “Obsessed” will soon be seen on TV and it was directed by Brett Ratner.

Fans of Mariah Carey had the first-hand news directly from Mariah Carey’s Twitter account about this album and she also announced the title of her 12th album via Twitter. Mariah also added that this latest album is a very personal album that she dedicates to all her fans. She then added another Tweet about her chosen single for the album and said that it is one of her most favorite songs from all the songs she sang.

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“And then there was me” is Mario’s fourth album that was said to be released by June of 2009 but didn’t push through as expected. Now the album is set to be released by September of 2009, 3 months later than first planned.

The album’s title was confirmed by Mario himself while chatting to his fans on his official website. The first single for the album is “Break-up” which was written by Sean Garrett. It was first announced that the first single would be “Love” but this was then retracted by the singer himself.

It was in December of 2007 when Mario first confirmed that he started working on his next album which he said would start be recorded by January of 2008. He said that this album, his 4th album, would be his most personal album of his career. He had made several personal songs in this album including “The Hardest Moment” which he said has several lines with different meanings that talk about a relationship as well as moments in a relationship and such.

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