Monday, September 19, 2011 Posted by: CL CONTRIBUTORS

MUSIC NEWS: TONI BRAXTON INDUCTED TO GA MUSIC HALL OF FAME / TAMIA READIES NEW SINGLE & ALBUM / RIHANNA ALBUM/SINGLE NEWS

Toni Braxton poses with Usher backstage at the 33rd Annual Georgia Music Hall of Fame Awards on Saturday, after being inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.

Although her sisters were scheduled to induct Toni, they canceled their performance and word is, we’ll see this unfold in the new season of Braxton Family Values, which is set to premiere Thursday, November 10, at 9 ET.

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TAMIA’S NEW ALBUM & SINGLE ON THE WAY!

With the year drawing to an end, not many R&B singers are scheduled to release new albums. However, one of our favorite singers from the 90s/early 2000s is finally making her music comeback after 5 years.

According to Tamia’s publicist, Michelle Huff, the “Stranger in My House” singer will be releasing her newest single at the end of this month! What’s even more exciting is that her upcoming album is rumored to be titled Beautiful Surprise:

This will be Tamia’s 5th studio album following the release of Between Friends in 2006. At least we know that a real R&B artist will be making a comeback in 2012. Who else is happy to hear this besides me? Can’t wait, Tamia!

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Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Posted by: Christine

MUSIC NEWS: LIL WAYNE’S ‘THA CARTER IV’ SELLS A MILLI / TREY SONGZ BACK TO RAPPING IN ‘CHAPTER 5′

After his 9th studio album leaked and spread throughout the web, rapper Lil Wayne still managed to come out on top in first week album sales.

According to HitsDailyDouble.com, the 28 year-old entrepreneur sold a whopping 1,000,690 units of his latest studio album, Tha Carter IV! This makes Wayne the second artist to hit the million mark in album sales during the first week. Lady Gaga now holds the 2011 record for the most first week sales with 1.1 million units of her second studio album Born This Way.

Congrats to Lil Wayne for setting a hip-hop album sale record!

TREY SONGZ TO SHOWCASE RAPPING & STORYTELLING IN UPCOMING ALBUM

R&B singer Trey Songz recently announced that Chapter 5 will be the title of his fifth upcoming studio album. The Atlantic Records recording artist plans on taking it back to his rapping roots with more storytelling in the mix. The Rap-Up.com spoke with Trey’s leading producer, Troy Taylor and talked about where exactly Trey wants to take his next album:

“I think Trey is coming into his own now,” he said. “He was always taught to know what he wants and he was always taught to know how he wants to sound, and I think Chapter 5 represents the storytelling of how he feels and his emotions and just everyday life that people go through… Continue

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Friday, August 26, 2011 Posted by: BRIAN

MUSIC NEWS: KELLY ROWLAND TALKS NEW ALBUM ALREADY? / AMERIIE TALKS INDEPENDENT LABEL & NEW ALBUM

Despite releasing an album just last month, Kelly Rowland already is in talks about releasing a follow-up to her third studio album, Here I Am.

As not much of a surprised, Kelly will reteam with hitmaker Rico Love, who was responsible for penning her #1 platinum-selling single, “Motivation,” to create “classic, timeless R&B sound” with the former Destiny’s Child starlet. He gives us a little insight into what’s going on with the new project.

“I’m starting Kelly’s new album soon,” reveals Love, exclusively to Rap-Up. “While she’s on tour, I’m gonna be writing records for her new album. We can kinda roll that out and drop her new single in late spring. Excited about that.”

Here I Am debuted at #3 on the Billboard Hot 200 chart, and #1 on the R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart, with 77,000 copies sold in the first week. To date, it is Rowland’s highest debuting and charting album in the United States. “Motivation” has spent several weeks topping the charts as well, making it Kelly’s most successful solo single.

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011 Posted by: BRIAN

‘ROUND THE WAY: JAY-Z & KANYE WEST ACCUSED OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT ON ‘WATCH THE THRONE’

There’s about to be a big mess going on over at Def Jam, considering a post that has popped up on publisher, Numero Uno Group’s blog, citing that Jay-Z and Kanye West, who as a unite, call themselves ‘The Throne,’ are guilty of copyright infringement on their joint venture, Watch the Throne.

Apparently, R&B/soul singer Syl Johnson (who also father of singer/songwriter Syleena Johnson) is considering a lawsuit against the two for an uncleared sample of one of his songs on their album. A sample of Johnson’s 1967 song “Different Strokes,” which appears on the track “The Joy,” was allegedly never properly cleared.

According to the publisher’s blog, Kanye originally used the sample on during his G.O.O.D. Friday promotion, where he released a new track every Friday, leading up to his My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album. The track was supposedly supposed to appear on a deluxe edition of West’s album, but that never came to pass:

“After a little negotiating, we came to a price and a verbal agreement (one that is completely standard). Paperwork to confirm all of this was to arrive for counter signature. Weeks passed. Then months. No deluxe version appeared in the market place, and our emails and phone calls to Def Jam’s business affairs department went unanswered. We spent the better part of five months trying to get paid, and finally handed it to our lawyer who recommended not pursuing legal action as the song wasn’t actually being sold.

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