Grammy Winners 2010 List

Posted by: Zooped, February 1st, 2010 - No Comments » twiter     buzz  

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Grammy Winners 2010 List contains some of the most famous celebrities of music world. Grammy Winners 2010 List consists of Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Rihanna, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, Stephen Colbert, Eminem and several other face names. Beyonce won six, while Lady Gaga stood second on the Grammy Winners 2010 list to receive three trophies among the most successful celebrities.Here is a Complete Grammy Winners 2010 list

8. Best Pop Instrumental Album award was presented to

Booker T. Jones for “Potato Hole”9. Best Pop Vocal Album award was presented to The Black Eyed Peas for “The END”

10. Best Dance Recording award was presented to Lady Gaga for “Poker Face”

11. Best Dance Album award was presented to Lady Gaga for “The Fame”

12. Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album award was presented to Michael Buble for “Michael Buble Meets Madison Square Garden”

13. Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance award was presented to Bruce Springsteen for “Working on a Dream”

Over all the show put up by all the celebrities was amazing. Beyonce has won 16 Grammy Awards including these six. While Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Pease and Jason Mraz were among those celebrities who stole the show and stood tall in Grammy Winners 2010 list.

Grammy Award for the Categories

1. Album of the Year award was presented to Taylor Swift for “Fearless”

2. Song of the Year award was presented to Thaddis Harrell, Beyoncé Knowles, Terius Nash & Christopher Stewart for “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it)”

3. Best New Artist award was presented to Zac Brown Band

4. Best Female Pop Vocal Performance award was presented to Beyonce for “Halo”

5. Best Performance by a Group of Duo with Vocals award was presented to The Black Eyed Peas for “I Gotta Feeling”

6. Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals award was presented to Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat for “Lucky”

7. Best Pop Instrumental Performance award was presented to Bela Fleck for “Throw Down Your Heart”



Jay-Z, Beyonce Top Forbes’ Top-Earning Couples List For Second Year in a Row

Posted by: Zooped, January 14th, 2010 - No Comments » twiter     buzz  

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Forbes is back with one of their annual lists, and topping it is Jay-Z and Beyonce … for Hollywood’s Top-Earning Couples.

According to the mag, Jay and B raked in a staggering $122 million between June 2008 and June 2009 to put them atop the list … by a mile … for the second year in a row. While both made a large amount of dough during that time period, Beyonce out-earned Jay-Z last year by bringing in $87 million to his $35 million. Last year, the couple sat atop the same list, earning $162 million.

Their fortune was made from Jay-Z’s musical empire, Beyonce’s chart-topping singles, and several clothing lines and ad deals.

The rest of the list is as follows, via Forbes.com:

2 - Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart ($69 million)
For the past few years Ford has stayed out of the spotlight, but he returned in a big way in 2008 with Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. Ford earned $65 million for his work in the role. His girlfriend, Calista Flockhart, is no lazy daisy. She stars on the ABC show, Brothers & Sisters.

3 - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie ($55 million)
Pitt and Jolie have always gotten plenty of attention, but now they’re making plenty of money too.The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was one of Pitt’s highest grossing films, earning $334 million at the worldwide box office. Jolie is profiting by embracing her inner action hero. Wanted earned $341 million at the worldwide box office. Later this year she’ll appear in Salt as a disgraced CIA agent.

4 - Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith ($48 million)
Smith is without a doubt the biggest movie star in the world. His films have earned a total $5.7 billion at the worldwide box office and studio heads say he earns every penny of his $20 million paycheck. Most of the couple’s earnings come from Smith, but Pinkett Smith has a growing career of her own. She’s been writing and producing films as well as voicing Gloria the hippo in the Madagascar films.

5 - David and Victoria Beckham ($46 million)
Beckham is still a worldwide soccer sensation at the ripe old age of 34. Part of the year he’s a star in Los Angeles with the Galaxy. The rest of the year he plays for A.C. Milan, which should help him land a spot on the England team to appear in a record-tying fourth World Cup this summer. Beckham’s wife, Victoria (better known as Posh Spice), is scheduled to appear as a guest judge on this year’s “American Idol.”

6 - Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi ($36 million)
DeGeneres has become an entertainment mogul. She has a successful talk show, shills for American Express and owns part of a dog food company. Next she’ll take over for Paula Abdul as a judge on “American Idol.” Her significant other, de Rossi, stars in the ABC show “Better Off Ted,” which has garnered a cult following but seems poised for cancellation.

7 - Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson ($35.5 million)
As one of the few actors in Hollywood who can still command a $20 million paycheck, Hanks is the main breadwinner in his house. He had another hit this year with Angels & Demons. The film earned $486 million at the worldwide box office. This summer he’ll once again voice Woody in Toy Story 3. Wilson has a much more low-key career, but she still pops up in best friend roles. She recently appeared with Meryl Streep in It’s Complicated.

8 - Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy ($34 million)
Carrey and McCarthy have been a couple for the last four years and in that time McCarthy’s profile has risen considerably. She’s gone from a Playboy model to an outspoken (and controversial) vaccine opponent. Carrey contributes the majority of money to the pair, but McCarthy will soon have her own television show under Oprah’s Harpo banner.

9 - Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes ($33.5 million)
Cruise and Holmes are a source of endless fascination for tabloids and they’re also very rich. Cruise is the family breadwinner, earning $33 million between June 2008 and June 2009. Holmes still acts a little. In 2008 she starred in Mad Money alongside Diane Keaton. Up next for Cruise: Knight & Day with Cameron Diaz.

10 - Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow ($33 million)
As the front man for the group Coldplay, Martin outearns Paltrow. The group’s latest album, Viva la Vida, sold 2.6 million copies in the U.S. and 3 million in Europe. Paltrow will be the high-profile spouse in 2010 though when she reprises her role as Tony Stark’s assistant, Pepper Potts, in Iron Man 2.

11 - Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick ($29 million)
Thanks to the success of “Sex and the City” (both the TV show and the movie) Sarah Jessica Parker has become a huge movie star. She also has her own line of perfumes and a clothing line, which means she vastly outearns her spouse. These days Broderick focuses on smaller films and Broadway. He is currently in an off-Broadway show called “The Starry Messenger.”

12 - Tim McGraw and Faith Hill ($28 million)
McGraw and Hill are the Jay-Z and Beyonce of country music. Every time NBC plays the Sunday Night Football theme Hill picks up a check. McGraw recently had a double platinum album with Let it Go. The couple has even toured together. Next up for McGraw: movies. He’ll star in Love Don’t Let Me Down opposite Gwyneth Paltrow.

13 - Eva Longoria Parker and Tony Parker ($22 million)
The Parkers are pros at their respective jobs and at racking up lucrative endorsements. San Antonio Spurs point guard Parker has done ads for Nike, FedEx and VitaminWater. When she’s not appearing on “Desperate Housewives,” Longoria Parker shills for L’Oreal, Samsung and Bebe.

14 - Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley ($20 million)
Heigl has become the go-to girl for Hollywood romantic comedies, earning upward of $10 million per picture in the process. Despite complaining publicly about her weak storyline on “Grey’s Anatomy,” Heigl is slated to return to the show this season. Her husband, Kelley, is best known for his 2003 hit song “Amazing.”

15 - Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban ($17 million)
Kidman and Urban earned about the same amount between June 2008 and June 2009, Kidman from movies like Australia and Urban from his hit record Defying Gravity. The album went to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. Up next for Kidman: Rabbit Hole, costarring Aaron Eckhart, about a couple who lose their son.



Jay-Z D.O.A.

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When Kanye West said there would be no Auto-Tune on Jay-Z’s upcoming Blueprint 3, he meant it emphatically: The first single off Jigga’s third Blueprint, fittingly called “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune),” debuted June 5th on New York hip-hop station Hot 97. The No I.D.-produced song, which samples heavily Janko Nilovic and Dave Sucky’s “In the Space,” takes aim at the ringtone-happy state of rap while also calling for a cease-and-desist to all artists using the voice manipulating Auto-Tune. Ironically enough, Kanye himself is one of the most notorious users of the technology, as evidenced by his 808s & Heartbreak.The premiere of “D.O.A.” was the culmination of weeks of rumors surrounding Jay-Z, as the rapper was reportedly considering record label suitors to distribute his Blueprint 3 after buying out his Island Def Jam contract. While there’s been no confirmation, Jay-Z - who was seeking a distributor for both TB3 and the output released through his Roc Nation label with Live Nation - will distribute 3 through Atlantic Records, while his Roc Nation artists will be distributed through a deal with Sony Music, MTV reports. The Blueprint 3 will reportedly be released on September 11th, exactly eight years after the original Blueprint hit stores.Last night at Hot 97’s Summer Jam all-star concert in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Jay-Z made a surprise appearance to perform “D.O.A.” with T-Pain, another producer and artist who has had a hand in Auto-Tune’s return to prominence. As Jigga says in “D.O.A.,” “You rappers singing too much, Get back to rap, you T-Pain-ing too much.” Check Nah Right for video of Jay’s “D.O.A.” at Summer Jam.

Eminem Best Rapper Alive

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Vibe magazine announced that Eminem had won its Best Rapper Alive competition, a NCAA-style tournament that pitted the “top” 64 MCs against each other.

The online contest polled users over a 5-week period. During the first week, the 64 competing rappers were paired off and users were asked to select the best 32 artists. The second week, that group of 32 lyricists was also grouped in twos and the voters picked their favorite 16. Over the subsequent weeks, the list dwindled down to the last b-boys standing, Jay-Z and Eminem. Eminem won by a landslide of 69 percent, compared to Jay-Z’s 31 percent.

“The results have sparked heated discussions.

Before getting into my opinion of the crowned champ, I am way curious as to how a Best Rapper Alive contest can include the likes of Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em, Shawty Lo and Flo Rida, but not list lyrical geniuses Rakim, MC Lyte, Chuck D, KRS-One or Slick Rick. I’m 38, so yes, I’m repping a different era. But if I am to take the title Best Rapper Alive literally, I say, these guys are alive and frankly can still put to shame the majority of the 64 artists who have made it on the ballot. Maybe instead they could call this list, Best Rapper To Recently Release An Album.I’m sure some of my questions will be answered in the November 2008 issue of Vibe, on newsstands October 21. In this issue, the Best Rapper Alive staff will explain the contest in detail. I must add that I respect the publication, still having in my possession its 1994 premiere issue with Treach of Naughty By Nature on the cover and having written freelance articles for the magazine from 2000 to 2006. I just don’t get the criteria.

I understand that the results were driven by the voters, but the brackets used for voting are suspicious. Take for example the following pairings that caused upsets during the first round of voting:

Lil’ Kim vs. Lauryn Hill
Lupe Fiasco vs. Q-Tip
Mos Def vs. Talib Qweli
Ghostface Killah vs. Raekwon
Method Man vs. Redman
Common vs. Black Thought

Pairings like these assured that six of the aforementioned rappers were not going to make it to round two. Each of those artists should have made it to the second round. And in other instances, favored artists were matched with MCs who had no chance of winning the first round:

Andre 3000 vs. Dizzee Rascal
Eminem vs. Soulja Boy
Lil’ Wayne vs. Trina
T.I. vs. Shawty Lo
Ludacris vs. Young Dro

Are you kidding? I think Dizzee Rascal is dope, but could he possibly get more popular votes than ANDRE 3000? Have the majority of the voters even heard of Dizzee? Soulja Boy, Trina, Shawty Lo, and Young Dro against those guys? Is this poll even real?

Out of 32 pairings, the first round only had a handful of legitimate groupings:

Cam’ron vs. Juelz Santana
Fabolous vs. Cassidy
Lil’ Boosie vs. Webbie
Lloyd Banks vs. Young Buck
Chamillionaire vs. Paul Wall

I realize the difficulty and pressure that lies in compiling lists. As a journalist, it’s something that you don’t take lightly because you know you’re going to get called out if your list is wack. I’m feeling bamboozled by this one.

I consider Eminem to be one of the greatest MCs to have ever rhymed. He has an undeniable gift of storytelling. He can freestyle. He’s passionate, and is one of the few who is blessed with the ability to simultaneously go straight mega pop and still reach the heads. He’s top 10 without question. Free Eminem Ringtones

Rihanna Tops U.K. Charts

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Rihanna’s chart-topping singles success follows last year’s epic 10-week run at the top with “Umbrella” featuring Jay-Z. The Barbadian singer has now had five singles reach the top two on the U.K. chart.

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