Jesse McCartney - Bleeding Love [original version]

Leona Lewis may have made the song a hit, but believe it or not the song was actually written by One Republic frontman, Ryan Tedder, and pop star Jesse McCartney. The song was however given to Leona after Jesse's 3rd album, Departure, was postponed. I bet he wished he kept the song though, seeing as it was the best-selling single for the UK in 2001, and the song has already topped the charts in 18 countries. Now Jesse's Departure album has finally hit stores, and we finally get to hear the original version of the song that introduced Leona to the world.

Jesse McCartney - Bleeding Love

Rafaelico's MCC mash-ups.

The same dj who mashed up Touch My Body and Umbrella has added 3 news mash-ups to his youtube account. Check them out


Touch My Body As We Ride [featuring Rihanna]
Shake it Off at the Parking Lot [featuring Nivea]
I like You, But I Gotta Shake You Off [featuring Ciara]

Ciara - Click

In February, Ciara announced plans to release a 3 part, amusement park themed album titled Fantasy Ride before the end of the year. So far, she has worked with Danja, The Clutch, Tricky & Dream, Polow and T-Pain for the album.

It was thought that the album's first single would be a song called High Price featuring Ludacris, however, Click is the first taste of new music to leak. The song is said to be meant for the Sex and the City soundtrack, but it is not confirmed whether the track will make the final cut of either album yet.


Ciara - Click

Usher - Here I Stand

Usher is back with the follow up to 2004's Confessions. Here I Stand features production from Jermaine Dupri, Polow Da Don and Dre & Vidal and also features cameos from newlyweds Beyonce and Jay-Z.

The album's first single, Love in the Club hit #1 a month before the video was released. With the Remix to Love in this Club with Beyonce and his second single, Timbaland's Moving Mountains, both moving up the charts, it appears his year once again.

Usher - Here I Stand

Video update

Rihanna & Maroon 5 - If I Never See Your Face Again

nice clip, Rihanna looks sexy, and some of the scenes are reminiscent of her erptic shoot with Robin Thicke for Giant magazine.

Mariah Carey - Bye Bye

Here's MC's new vid for anyone sleeping under rocks

Alicia Keys: Teenage Love Affair

This vid plays off of a movie, can't quite remember which one, but I think it was a Spike Lee joint so she gets points for choosing to reference good material

Fall Out Boy - Beat it


paying homage to the king of pop, Michael songs sound good with a rock edge as previously proven by Alien Ant Farm

One Republic - Say

Better than apologize... maybe?

Rihanna Bows at the top of Hot 100

Rihanna's Take a Bow made oneof the biggest leaps in history this week, 53-1, pushing Leona Lewis' Bleeding Love out of the top spot. Take a bow's 53-1 leap makes it the second highest leap to #1 in history behind Maroon 5's 64-1 leap with Makes Me Wonder last May. Coincidentally, Rihanna is also featured on the band’s “If I Never See Your Face Again” which debuted at #57 this week. Rihanna also holds the 2 of the top 3 spots for highest first week digital sales as well.

The song which was released digitally last week debuted at #1 on the Digital 100 chart with sales of 266,000 giving Rihanna the second best opening in history, behind Mariah Carey's Touch My Body[286,000] which coincidentally broke the previous record set by Rihannas Umbrella[277,000] in June of 2007.

Take a Bow was written by Ne-Yo and produced by Stargate, and will be one of 4 new songs(1) “Take A Bow”; 2) a cover version of Maroon 5’s “If I Never See Your Face Again” (featur­ing Maroon 5); 3) “Hatin’ On the Club”; and 4) “Disturbia.”) from Good Girl Gone Bad:Reloaded. The album also comes with a dvd featuring an hour and a half long concert video, 20 minute documentary, and and alternate home music video for Umbrella. Good Girl Gone Bad:Reloaded will be in stores on June 15th.

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Hell freezes over; Madonna compliments Mariah on Z100 and in IBN

Madonna personally squashed the so called rivalry between her and Mariah in an interview with Z100 earlier this week. During the interview Madonna was asked about her interpretation of the word legend, after Mariah took the term offensively according to one deejay. Madonna quickly tried to steer the conversation in a new direction, but not before noting that loves Mariah's new disc, E=MC2.

Madonna complimented Mariah again during an interview with IBN in New Delhi, Madonna was asked about what she thought of Mariah releasing her album in the same month. She replied by saying, "I don't really pay any attention to it, but I love her new record, 'Touch My Body’. It's good. I exercise to it everyday." However she later mentioned that she does ab works outs to Eminem because it's angry music. Mentioning Eminem could have been a low-key insult to Mariah.

I never thought I'd live to hear Madonna, who according to reports stopped Mariah from opening the Grammys in 2006, utter a nice word about Mariah. Now if only Mariah said a nice thing about Madonna, then maybe some of the rivalry between their fans will die out too.