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Ask Billboard: Familiar Titles In Top 10

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:20:16 +0000

An eagle-eyed chart watcher notes that last week, four titles ranked in the Hot 100’s top 10 after previously charting by different artists.
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Kings of Leon Talks ‘Radioactive’ Single, Reveals Album Tracklist

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:20:16 +0000

As anticipation grows for Kings Of Leon’s ”Come Around Sundown” — the follow-up to its massively successful “Only By The Night” album — the band has been gradually letting fans in on details of the new record.
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Dr. Luke: The Billboard Cover Story

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:20:16 +0000

In Five Years, Lukasz Gottwald—Better-Known To Pop Music’s A-List As ‘Dr. Luke’—Has Gone From ‘SNL’ House Band Guitarist To This Generation’s Pre-Eminent Top 40 Hitmaker, Mentioned In The Same Breath As Such Hallowed Teen Titans As Phil Spector And Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis.
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Rosanne Cash Talks New Memoir, Relationship with Father

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:50:00 +0000

In an interview with Billboard, Rosanne Cash talks about her relationship with her father and reflects on her transition from a country hitmaker to a more introspective singer-songwriter.
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Eminem As the Riddler? Re-Casting ‘Batman’ with Rappers

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:50:00 +0000

Eminem has been a superhero on the Hot 100 chart lately, but apparently he’s ready to return to the silver screen as a villain in the next “Batman” movie. According to the National Enquirer, Em rhymed to his reps, “When it comes to business, you know I ain’t no fiddler… You tell them Batman biggies, I wanna play The Riddler!”
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B.o.B. Breaks Through: A VMA Cheat Sheet

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:20:14 +0000

After nearly quitting the music business last year, the eclectic MC and songwriter from Atlanta shot to the top of the pop charts.
By Jayson Rodriguez

B.o.B

Photo: ABC

B.o.B. isn’t like most pop stars. He really isn’t like most rap stars, either. But the guitar-strumming MC’s mix of melodic rhymes and earnest songwriting has him up for a few Moonmen at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, which air live on September 12 at 9 p.m.

Here’s how he did it.

The lanky lyricist grew up on a diet of Michael Jackson and Tina Turner, but when he got older his tastes widened to include everything from the Beatles to Björk.

That range wasn’t necessarily evident on his early productions, but his woozy “Cloud 9″ proved to be an underground gem that garnered the attention of key music industry folks, including T.I. and Atlantic Records; the Atlanta upstart is signed to that label through Tip’s Grand Hustle imprint.

B.o.B. had been championed as an heir to OutKast’s Andre 3000 after he released a slew of mixtape material in the past few years that earned him a solid reputation within the hip-hop community.

“I’ll Be In The Sky,” “Haterz Everywhere,” and “Lonely People” were among the notable numbers from his street projects, which include the DJ Smallz-helmed Cloud 9, Who the F#*k is B.o.B. and B.o.B. vs Bobby Ray, which was backed by DJ Green Lantern and Don Cannon.

As he sat in an incubation stage, however, B.o.B. soon found himself at the center of swirling rumors last year that he was quitting the music biz before his first album could be released.

But that turned out to be a small speed bump on his road to pop stardom.

In 2010, the eclectic rapper — who late last year announced he would also go by his birth name, Bobby Ray — found everything finally coming together for him.

His Bruno Mars-assisted “Nothin’ on You,” with its saccharine-sweet vocals and flirtatious verses, shot to the top of the Billboard Hot 100. His debut album The Adventures of Bobby Ray took a similar path, debuting at #1 on Billboard’s album chart.

His single with Paramore’s Hayley Williams, “Airplanes,” was a top five hit and his collaboration with Rivers Cuomo, “Magic,” just entered the top 10.

After opening for Jay-Z and Emimen on Thursday (September 2) night, it seems like B.o.B. can do no wrong these days.

He earned a total of five VMA nominations: Best Male Video, Best Collaboration, Best Hip-Hop Video, Best Pop Video, and Video Of The Year.

We bet B.o.B. will tell you himself that it pays to play different.

Do you think B.o.B will take home some hardware on September 12? Let us know in the comments!

The 27th annual MTV Video Music Awards will be broadcast live from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, September 12, at 9 p.m. ET. Fans can go to VMA.MTV.com (or text VMA to 97979 if they are Verizon subscribers) to vote for the winners in general categories, including Best New Artist, from Tuesday (August 3) through September 12.

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