Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz are keeping their mouths shut for gay marriage. The couple are the latest celebs to take part in NOH8, a campaign supporting efforts...
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Ashlee Simpson-Wentz is moving to Melrose Place. The 24-year-old singer will join the cast of the CW's "Melrose Place," Simpson-Wentz will be playing a small-town girl...
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Despite TMI statements to the contrary, Pete Wentz's recent behavior may be putting his spousal and parental performance into perspective. Sure, the arrival of...
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Why does the media keep reporting on people we don't care about like Pete and Ashlee and anyone on The Hills? —F. Stap You may credit fear and laziness. That...
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The name Brooklyn has been done before, so Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Pete Wentz turned to another New York City borough in naming their newborn son: The Bronx. ...
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The pop star has finally popped. Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and her rocker hubby Pete Wentz welcomed son Bronx Mowgli Wentz, their first child together, Thursday at...
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Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz could find themselves facing another round of twin rumors. Pete's buddy, hip-hop artist Tyga, says that the parents-to-be are...
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Deny, deny, deny. That's what musician Pete Wentz did in April when reports surfaced that fiancee Ashlee Simpson was carrying his child. In an angry missive to MTV.com,...
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Singer Ashlee Simpson and her husband, rocker Pete Wentz, are expecting their first child, the couple said on Wednesday. "While many have speculated about this, we wanted...
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Ashlee Simpson is so over. The newlywed pop singer will go by Ashlee Wentz in private, and be professionally known as Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, according to a report posted...
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Pete Wentz has some wacky ideas when it comes to romance. The Fall Out Boy rocker has shown his love for Ashlee Simpson by commissioning artist Nathan Sawaya to create a...
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Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz got hitched Saturday night under tents and amid tight security, but E! News has an insider's account of the top-secret wedding ceremony and...
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Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz have made at least one thing official. A little more than a month after announcing their engagement, the musically inclined couple swapped vows...
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Ashlee Simpson's new album drops next week, but her biggest project to date will take a little longer to incubate. The freshly betrothed "Pieces of Me" warbler...
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Ashlee Simpson and her rocker boyfriend Pete Wentz are engaged. "We know there has been a lot of speculation recently about Pete and I, and we wanted our fans to be the...
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Looks like Ashlee Simpson can finally rest her head on something real. The pop star and her alt-beau Pete Wentz are engaged, according to a statement posted Wednesday by...
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Pieces of Ashlee Simpson are going to be all over the mall this spring. To coincide with the April release of her third studio album, Bittersweet World, the...
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Ashlee Simpson has set an April 22 release date for her third Geffen album, "Bittersweet World," which features production from Timbaland and the Neptunes' Chad Hugo. ...
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Ashlee Simpson may have been newly tattooed, but she certainly wasn't tipsy during a radio interview this week. Responding to wildfire rumors that she had been...
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Between them, sisters Jessica and Ashlee Simpson have had one high-profile divorce, an embarrassing lip-synch scandal, plastic surgeries both obvious and subtle, blame for a...
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Ashlee Simpson is no more of a threat to Fall Out Boy's success than Pete Wentz's affinity for eyeliner.
So says the band's guitarist Joe Trohman, who...
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The first single from Ashlee
Simpson's upcoming third album goes to iTunes and other leading
digital retailers on Tuesday.
Like a good percentage of the...
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The Cure's Robert Smith's has spoken about his unlikely collaboration with Ashlee Simpson.
As previously reported, Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz denied any involvement in...
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The American tabloids are buzzing with the rumors today (July 18) that Fall Out Boy's not-the-singer-actually Pete Wentz is engaged and about to be a father.
This wouldn't...
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The Cure frontman Robert Smith has teamed up with singer Ashlee Simpson for a collaboration on her new album.
The as-yet-untitled album is the follow up to 2005's I Am...
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Simon Cowell says he's bigger than The Boss. In an interview to air Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes," the "American Idol" judge says he's worth five times more to Sony BMG than...
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Amy Lee cut a ravishing
figure onstage as Evanescence appeared before a sold-out crowd
of screaming fans Monday at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom.
Sporting a black tank top...
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The transposition of the Simpson sisters has taken another turn: as
Jessica loses her voice, Ashlee's found a new one.
The
"L.O.V.E." singer has confirmed reports she...
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You may have seen the recent photos
of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his
44th album, "Modern Times," shares a title with Chaplin's 1936
classic about...
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Cheyenne Kimball may have her own MTV reality show and sing pop tunes, but she insists she's not just another blonde pop star.
Instead of comparisons to Ashlee Simpson,...
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Two months ago, Ashlee Simpson appeared in the women's magazine Marie Claire, championing natural beauty and self-acceptance in her interview. "She's had it with Hollywood's...
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It's 9 p.m. at The Gig
in Hollywood and a crowd of L.A. hipsters is trickling in to
catch the evening's act.
The bar itself is just one of several live music...
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O.K., so Ashlee Simpson is not the first person who comes to mind when you think of great live performers.
But skeptics may be surprised if they catch the scratchy-voiced...
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The Regent Beverly Wilshire hotel ballroom was filled with some of pop's biggest hitmakers, but even the most ardent music fans would have had a hard time finding a familiar...
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The world's largest record company is ready to give back after
being accused of giving too much.
New York Attorney
General Eliot Spitzer announced Thursday that...
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Ashlee Simpson is laughing off rumors that she had a nose job — but she's not denying it either. Recent photos splashed across the Internet and in tabloids suggest the...
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There will be a bit more breathing room this year for the A-list celebs who attend Clive Davis' swank pre-Grammy shindig.
Tuesday night's exclusive party and concert is...
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Strike two.
Just days after being tapped to replace
an ailing Ashlee Simpson at the Radio Music Awards in Las Vegas Monday
night, Bo Bice has canceled his performance...
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Ashlee Simpson is feeling well enough to hop a plane home.
The I Am Me singer has returned to the United States
from Japan to be with her family, publicist Rob Shuter...
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Ashlee Simpson's big comeback tour has been temporarily
derailed in Tokyo, after she collapsed and was hospitalized following
performance on MTV Japan Thursday.
The...
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Green Day had quite a night at the 2005 Billboard Music
Awards, taking home six trophies in all--a feat matched only by 50 Cent,
who also racked up a half-dozen trophies,...
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Ashlee Simpson is a bad, bad girl in the video for her new single "L.O.V.E." According to MTV.com, Ashlee skips out on her boyfriend one night to wreak havoc around town...
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SINGLE: JUST FEEL BETTER. Santana's previous "I'm
Feeling You," the been-there-heard-that first single from his
new "All That I Am," showed that any acclaimed musician...
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Without a shaman or some supernatural help, Carlos Santana's
All That I Am didn't have enough to beat back the latest Now
That's What I Call Music! for chart supremacy this...
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Destiny's Child knows how to make a grand exit; 'N Sync, not so
much.
The now defunct Beyoncé Knowles-powered
"Bootylicious" bunch is going out on top--the trio's...
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While the numbers
for recorded and live music have been mostly down again this
year, one thriving small-town music operation is bucking
industry trends.
More than 500...
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Billboard magazine is predicting that Ashlee Simpson's new album will debut at the top of this week's Billboard 200 album chart. According to predictions, sales of Ashlee's...
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Youth should be served next week,
when it is practically certain that Ashlee Simpson's sophomore
set will bow atop the Billboard 200.
Early sales cited by chains have...
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Almost a year after a technical glitch caused her to flee the show's stage in embarrassment, Ashlee Simpson returned to NBC's Saturday Night Live this weekend (October 8)...
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Is the music business on the
verge of a new boy band explosion? It sure looks that way. But
this time the band members are more than charismatic
performers: They write much...
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Usher, 50 Cent, Mariah Carey and The Game were among the recording artists up for multiple honors Wednesday night at the 2005 World Music Awards, which selects winners based...
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What a night for Green Day.
The heavily eye-lined
trio swept the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards, nabbing seven of the eight
awards for which they were nominated, including...
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Green Day's boulevard of broken dreams may soon be paved with
Moon Men statuettes.
The punk rockers led the field in
nominations for the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards...
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is expected to announce today an international "payola" settlement with a major record company to limit the industry's ability to...
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Rehab. Her weight. Her first album. Verbally attacking pop stars like Christina Aguilera. Fighting with her brother on national television. Being a rock star's daughter....
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Canadian punk rockers Billy
Talent led the 16th annual MuchMusic Video Awards, with nine
nominations announced Thursday.
Rapper k-os followed with eight nods, followed...
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More than three years after
taking the helm, Virgin Records chairman/CEO Matt Serletic is
finishing his first full production for a Virgin artist.
While he has produced...
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Who are the young stars of film, TV and music? Teen People's list of the "25 Hottest Stars Under 25" includes Alicia Keys, Ciara, Jessica and Ashlee Simpson, Jesse McCartney...
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MTV is pointing to spikey-haired singer Ryan Cabrera to host "Score," a new reality dating show. Unlike his ex-girlfriend's "The Ashlee Simpson Show," Cabrera's affair won't...
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Chances are you've heard Jem's music even if you didn't know her name.
Her songs have been prominently featured on Fox's "The O.C.," and she portrayed a wedding singer...
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Paris Hilton and Fred Durst are together again--if only for
purposes of a Secret Service investigation.
The hacking of
Hilton's T-Mobile Sidekick and the purloining and...
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All the Backstreet Boys ask is
that you give them a fair chance. The quintet is set to return
with a new Jive album in June preceded by a single in March.
"That's the...
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The "Stop Ashlee Simpson " online petition may have more 320,000
cosigners, but the object of its disaffection won't play along.
Instead of ceasing all "recording,...
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Generally, Bad Language is against awards shows. The TelePrompTer puffery and please-buy/see-my-latest-CD/DVD appearances are nauseating at best. But it's our job to report...
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Musicians want tsunami victims to know that the tragedy has not
been forgotten.
With news coverage fading fast six weeks
after the earthquake-generated waves killed...
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Cranky American Idol judge Simon Cowell thinks Beyonce is overrated and that Ashlee Simpson has been criticized unfairly. Cowell tells Esquire, "I find the whole Beyonce...
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Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey are putting a severe strain on the term "newlyweds."
The couple, who married two years ago, will return Jan. 26 for the third season of...
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Is it possible 78,000 football fans at Miami's Pro Player stadium
simply didn't care for Ashlee Simpson 's vocal stylings when she was
rounded booed during the Orange Bowl ...
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Ashlee Simpson is determined to stay optimistic about her career, despite being booed by 72,000 people at the Orange Bowl half-time show in Miami last week. Simpson tells...
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On second thought, perhaps Ashlee Simpson should have stuck to the
hoedown...
Singing live certainly didn't spare Jessica Simpson 's younger, acid-reflux-suffering...
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How's this for a stat: The combined sales of Norah Jones ' Feels
Like Home and Eminem 's Encore still doesn't best 2004's top
seller, Usher's Confessions.
Usher...
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The music industry reversed a four-year decline as album sales rose slightly in 2004 while overall music sales spiked thanks to a huge increase in digital track sales,...
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Ashlee Simpson and Kelly Clarkson might have wished they were lip-synching Tuesday night (January 4), after audio malfunctions marred their FedEx Orange Bowl half-time...
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Members of the rock band The Donnas were kind of glad when Ashlee Simpson was caught lip synching on Saturday Night Live.
They were hoping it would show the world the...
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Eminem apparently learned to be nice this holiday season because
Santa gave the usually naughty rapper another number one.
Previously ruling the charts for the last...
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Some people can't understand why Butch Walker would give Avril Lavigne a hit like "My Happy Ending" instead of keeping it for his own album, but the songwriter-musician...
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Dreams of world domination must be hard for MTV executives to avoid when they host a party at the Kremlin, with a Russian diva and Queen dueting on "We Will Rock You" and...
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Dreams of world domination must be hard for MTV executives to avoid when they host a party at the Kremlin, with a Russian diva and Queen dueting on "We Will Rock You" and...
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The third chart entry proves to
be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the
Billboard Hot 100 with "Let Me Love You" (3rd Street/J). The
single moves 3-2,...
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Snoop Dogg was too hot to drop
from the top of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart Thursday as
his hit tune "Drop It Like It's Hot" featuring Pharrell logged
a third week at...
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Ashlee Simpson could soon be doing her patented hoedown at a
venue near you.
The pop star has unveiled plans for
her first headlining tour, which will feature her...
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A trip to "The Red Light
District" scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on
the U.S. pop charts Wednesday.
The Atlanta rapper/actor's fourth Disturbing Tha...
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Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can't get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV's "Pimp My Ride"?
Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician...
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Lindsay Lohan really needs no
introduction.
She has starred in a number of movies, filled gossip
columns and appeared on countless magazine covers, including
Rolling...
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The 2004 Billboard Music Awards wrapped hours ago, and
Usher is still saying, "Yeah!"
The chart-busting singer walked
away with a leading 11 awards at the music biz's...
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Lindsay Lohan seems like a typical 18-year-old. She's really concerned with boys and her hair, she's fidgety and giggly, and she just bought these fuzzy purple boots from a...
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The 2004 Billboard Music Awards winners, announced in Las Vegas on Wednesday:
Artist of the Year: Usher
Female Artist of the Year: Alicia Keys
Duo/Group Artist of the...
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The music industry's ultimate popularity contest just can't get
enough of Usher and Alicia Keys.
The R&B competitors
lead the pack of finalists for this year's...
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Every year, recording artists and
their labels pull together holiday music releases in hopes of
striking perennial silver and gold, and 2004 can be considered
a banner year...
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Apparently Ashlee Simpson can't hoe-down her way out of
lip-synching hell.
The singer, despite numerous
attempts to spin her Saturday Night Live debacle in her...
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First Chingy hit the "Jackpot." Now he wants to collect again on "Power Ballin."
The 24-year-old rapper's first album sold three million copies behind the 2003 summer...
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Given that it's been blown wide open that Ashlee Simpson lip-synchs, a New York group is offering her fans the chance to try what they feel is "real" music.
HOPE, or...
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Ryan Cabrera may be better known as Ashlee Simpson 's ex-boyfriend, but now he's making a name for himself.
His major label debut album, "Take It All Away," has sold more...
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This year's American Music Awards will feature stars such as Usher, Alicia Keys, Gwen Stefani and Rod Stewart , but the most talked-about moment might come from the...
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Vanessa Carlton is realistic.
She knows today's musical environment is not always
friendly toward pop-oriented artists who play their instruments
and write their songs,...
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It seems Ashlee Simpson will forever bear the scarlet "L" — for lip-synching. The 20-year-old "singer" has been lampooned and shamed, held up as an example of today's...
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For Jay-Z and R. Kelly, their Unfinished Business is playing
out on the album charts...and, unfortunately in court.
The
feuding superstars should be celebrating as...
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It looks like Ashlee Simpson was wrong--her Saturday Night
Live lip-synching disaster wasn't her band's fault.
Actually, the downfall Simpson suffered on live...
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Ashlee Simpson's drummer, Chris Fox, is accepting the blame for cueing the wrong song for her second performance on Saturday Night Live on October 23. In a message posted on...
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With Ashlee Simpson in the news
this week following a disastrous lip-synching appearance on
"Saturday Night Live," Canadian pop singer Avril Lavigne says
it's "pathetic"...
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Can you feel the love tonight?
It looks
like Elton John is finally ready to apologize to Madonna after recently
calling out the Material Girl for lip-synching.
...
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Jessica Simpson will unveil two new
releases on Nov. 23: an expanded edition of a seasonal album
previously available only at 7-Eleven stores in North America
and a concert...
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By one measure of their success,
chart-topping rockers The Darkness have sold enough song
downloads, T-shirts and thongs on their official Web...
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For the first time since Jimmy Carter sat in the White House and
Star Wars had no sequels, Rod Stewart has the nation's number one
album.
The croaky-voiced crooner's...
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Usher won Hip-Hop Artist of the Year and Hip-Hop Song of the Year at the Radio Music Awards Monday night. Linkin Park grabbed the Alternative Rock Song of the Year and Rock...
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This just might be an incident Ashlee Simpson will want to omit
from her autobiography.
The raven-haired popster was
caught in a Milli Vanilli-esque moment during her...
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To beat country music's two biggest albums it apparently takes a
double dose of the country grammarian.
St. Louis rapper
Nelly banked more bling last week as his two...
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Apparently, it takes a cowboy to unsaddle a cowboy.
Country
music Entertainer of the Year Alan Jackson ended Tim McGraw's two-week
stint at number one, topping the charts...
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When it comes to being quick on the draw, can't no one shoot up
the charts like Tim McGraw.
In a week that saw new discs
taking the top four slots on the Billboard...
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Jay-Z may have "99 Problems," but winning Moonmen ain't one.
The rapper, who claims to be retiring from hip-hop, got a
fitting sendoff Sunday night at the 2004 MTV Video...
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Ashlee Simpson has shown no mercy on the charts. First, her
Autobiography destroyed the sales milestones of her more famous
sister, Jessica. Now, Ashlee's kicked her former...
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The Ashlee Simpson Show may be over on MTV, but it's just
getting started on the album chart.
The Simpson sis got a
boost from last Wednesday's finale of her reality...
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Now that's what I call a sweet 16!
The latest edition
of the top-pop hits collection, Now That's What I Call Music! Vol.
16, featuring singles by the like of OutKast,...
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MTV continues to add celebrities to the 2004 Video Music Awards. The newest additions read like a veritable list of who's funny, who's in the tabloids and who can flip...
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Move over, Jessica, Ashlee Simpson 's second to none.
The 19-year-old singer-actress has officially emerged
from her big sister's shadow, as her first album,...
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Pop singer Jessica Simpson canceled her Tuesday show at the Dunkin' Donuts Center because of a kidney infection, a spokeswoman at Columbia Records said.
Simpson, 23, was...
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When smooth jazz guitarist Russ
Freeman formed Peak Records in 1994, he sought to provide a
home for contemporary jazz musicians.
A decade later, Peak sports an impressive...
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