Idols Live heads to the Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes Barre PA. Show begins at 7 pm.
Duet partners make magic
It’s simple: A successful duet comes down to magic, says Gary Overton, chairman and CEO of Sony Music Nashville. And this summer, some of country’s biggest stars have cast their harmonizing spells on country radio.
No fewer than six duets have reigned on country airwaves over the past few months, and four of those — Brad Paisley with Alabama on “Old Alabama, ” Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood’s “Remind Me, ” Zac Brown Band and Jimmy Buffett’s “Knee Deep, ” and the Kenny Chesney/Grace Potter song “You and Tequila” — easily made it into the Top 10 on country airplay charts. Rascal Flatts recently released “Easy, ” a duet with English pop singer Natasha Bedingfield. Jason Aldean’s “Dirt Road Anthem” didn’t begin as a duet, but after the Georgia singer performed the song on the CMT Music Awards with Ludacris, a remix featuring the rapper was released.
Read more Tennessean.com
Jennifer Lopez: Music Video Shoot!
Jennifer Lopez sits on the shoulders of a man while shooting an upcoming music video on Saturday (August 20) in Los Angeles.
The 42-year-old entertainer worked with So You Think You Can Dance choreographers Napoleon and Tabitha during the vid shoot, which was reportedly for her song “Papi.”
See the photos at Just Jared
‘Glee’: Anne Hathaway still waiting for her callback
Remember back in January when Anne Hathaway met “Glee” co-creator Ryan Murphy at the Golden Globes, and she was going to guest-star on the show, and it was all going to happen within a few weeks of that?
Yeah — it hasn’t happened. But Hathaway hopes it still does.
“I’m planning on it. I don’t know if they’re planning on it, ” Hathaway tells PopSugar.
“He went back to the press room and said, ‘Anne Hathaway is going to be on the show, ‘ and that became like a news event, ” she says. “And I never heard from him again [laughs]. Ryan Murphy, I’m calling you out: I want to be on ‘Glee.’ I’ve got my songs picked out.”
Read more at Zapw2it
Ireland’s own Janet tipped for greatness in ‘X Factor’
SHE wowed millions of viewers with her stunning X Factor debut this weekend and has been tipped to win the competition for Ireland for the first time.
But today we reveal the moment Irish singing sensation Janet Devlin got her first taste of stardom.
Wide-eyed and innocent, the shy teenager dazzled the crowd in her hometown of Omagh last March when she scooped the top prize at a Stars In Your Eyes talent competition.
Read more at Independent.ie
X Factor opener watched by 10.5m
The talent show’s eighth series is the first without judge Simon Cowell, who is developing a US version of the show.
He has been replaced by Take That’s Gary Barlow, pop singer Kelly Rowland and Tulisa Contostavlos of N-Dubz.
Last year’s opening episode achieved overnight figures of 11.1 million, the highest in the show’s history.
Read more at BBC
Will Young: ‘I wasn’t happy. I was rude to people. I was a baby…’
A decade after thwarting Simon Cowell, Will Young is now a veritable elder statesman of pop. But is he as nice as we imagine? Not according to his therapist…
Will Young smokes a ruminative Marlboro Light, stares at a hole in his jumper, and reflects on what might have been. What if the public had been on his side week after week? What if Simon Cowell, Pop Idol’s hanging-and-flogging judge, had given him the thumbs up rather than the bum’s rush? What if the promised corporate riches had come his way? And what if the tabloid journalist had stuck to the prepared plan and “outed” him as gay on television?
Read more at the Telegraph
