Singer/songwriter Sade shows off a bit of her smooth side on the new track, “Skin,” from her upcoming album, Soldier of Love.
The highly anticipated project will hit stores February 9th.
Looks like Lyfe Jennings is putting out a new album, the follow-up to 2008’s Lyfe Change, entitled I Still Believe.
The debut single from the album is “Busy.”
Songwriter Sean Garrett is still putting in work to get out his new album. This time, he teams with Young Money front woman, Nicki Minaj.
His debut album, Turbo 919 never hit stores in the United States markets, so Garrett is hopeful that his new material with Atlanta-based producer, Bangladesh, and features from Gucci Mane and Nicki will help draw more attention to his project, which has no solid release date.
Literally less than a month after being released from prison and entering a half-way house, T.I. has already started talking about a new album.
After the release of 2008’s Paper Trail, which garnered multi-platinum success, Jim Jonsin, the producer responsible for T.I.’s #1 hit “Whatever You Like,” opened up to Rap-Up.com album the album:
“He’s back in the studio. I sent him some music via e-mail,” Jonsin reveals.
“He can work during the week and not on the weekend, I believe. He’s definitely working on an album for this year right now.”
There’s no concrete direction, release date or title for the album, but it sure to come out before the end of 2010.
Fresh of the heels of a hot new photoshoot with famed celebrity photographer, Derek Blanks, former Destiny’s Child bandmate Kelly Rowland is already hard at work on her third studio album.
It seems like producer, Jim Jonsin is dropping all the hot details about upcoming albums, considering that he’s working with everyone this year! She’s been working with he and Rico Love, the duo responsible for Bey’s “Sweet Dreams.” They’ve completed four songs together.
“She’s doing a pop-house and R&B sound, like a mixture,” Jim says. “It’s really cool. Some uptempo stuff, some ballads, all around really nice — more like a Donna Summer sound.”
In addition to working with Rico and Jim, Kelly, who is said to be channeling Donna Summer this time around, will also reteam with famed DJ and producer, David Guetta (whom she made #1 magic with on the single, “When Love Takes Over”). She is also said to collaborate again with long-time friend, Nelly.
Rowland, who recently parted ways with Mathew Knowles, currently doesn’t have a label home, however she is in talks with a couple of labels, specifically, Universal Motown.
Previous American Idol winner Ruben Studdard released his last album, Love Is last year, and he’s putting a new single out, featuring Miami native, Rick Ross.
The track appeared on the album without the rap feature. Ruben is currently working on a fifth album, titled Playlist: The Very Best of Ruben Studdard, which is set to hit stores soon.
Pop princess Rihanna releases her version of the Bob Marley’s 1980 classic, “Redemption Song” for the recent tragedy in Haiti.
Today, Rihanna performed the track on Oprah. Check out the video below the cut.
After releasing the last single from her debut album, In A Perfect World…, Keri Hilson has already begun in the studio for work on her sophomore album.
Keri has been back in the studio with those who help create the success of Perfect World, including Timbaland, Danjahandz, Polow Da Don, and now adding Kanye West to the list of heavyweights on the album, as well as Will.i.Am. Here’s what head of urban music at Interscope Records, DJ Mormile, had to say about Keri’s upcoming project:
“We’re just getting into this,” says Mormile.
“But we already have an idea of what we want to do. This album will continue the evolution of Keri, building off the hits ‘Knock You Down’ and ‘Turning Me On,’ which helped define her. This new album will be ‘Turning You On’ times 10.” [SOURCE]
She hopes to have her album out by May 31st of this year, with a single out no later than March. There have been hints that newcomer, Drake, who is also slated to put out a new album this year, will be a guest feature.
Jazmine Sullivan, who released her debut album, Fearless back in 2008 is back in the studio working on her sophomore album.
She worked with a flurry of producers on her last album, and this time around, Sullivan has tapped the likes of Ne-Yo, Los Da Mystro and Ryan Leslie. Interestingly enough, Jazmine toured with both last Ne-Yo and Ryan Leslie last year.
From the looks of things, this album will be just as well-rounded as the first.
Three tracks confirmed for the album are, “Blow,” the Prince-ode, “Vanity Six,” on which Jazmine chants, “Just play my favorite song, get my ‘86 on/Don’t make me wait too long, just play my favorite song/I’ll get my Vanity Six on,” over drums and horns, as well as the reference, follow-up track to her hit “Bust Your Windows,” on the Ne-Yo-written, “You Get On My Nerves.”
