New Kevin Rudolf Featuring Flo Rida

Kevin Rudolf "To The Sky" Cash Money/Universal Republic Records Group

Flo Rida continues to keep busy this summer! As we already mentioned he has one of the lead singles off the Step Up 3-D Soundtrack. as well as appearing along side J. Lewis on “Dancing For Me”. It doesn’t stop there is making another  guest appearance off on another Pop single. That single is, “You Make The Rain Fall” from Kevin Rudolf’s second album, To The Sky, which was released on the heels of the success of his single, “I Made It (Cash Money Heroes)” featuring Lil’ Wayne, Jay Sean and Birdman. “You Make The Rain Fall” was recently chosen as Kevin’s second single because it has proven to be the second most downloaded song from his album. Take a listen see if you like it! 

Kevin Rudolf Featuring Flo Rida

“You Make The Rain Fall”

From To The Sky

Cash Money/Universal Republic Records Group

Bruno Mars Is “On The Other Side”

One of Clizbeats.com’s favorite new breakout stars, Bruno Mars just released his first music video from his debut EP, Its Better If You Don’t Understand. Its for the single “The Other Side” which features Cee-Lo and B.O.B. This is the first taste of what’s to come from Bruno’s debut album, coming soon from Fueled By Ramen/Elektra/Atlantic Records. Check it out!

Bruno Mars Featuring B.O.B. & Cee-Lo

“The Other Side”

From Its Better If You Don’t Understand

Fueled By Ramen/Elektra/Atlantic Records

Usher Preps For “Versus” In August

Usher Featuring Pitbull "DJ Got Us Falling In Love" From Versus LaFace/Jive Records/JLG

USHER TO RELEASE 8 NEW SONGS ON “VERSUS”

ON AUGUST 24^th

“Versus” Is The Final Chapter Of “Raymond V. Raymond”

New York, NY – On the heels of his successful, critically-acclaimed current album Raymond V. Raymond, Usher is gearing up to release Versus, an extension of  R V. R with eight new songs on August 24^th. On that day Usher fans will also have the opportunity to purchase Raymond V. Raymond (The Deluxe Edition) which will contain all songs from Raymond V. Raymond as well as Versus.  The  new set will include his current R&B hit “There Goes My Baby” and collaborations with Bun B,  producer Polow Da Don and others.

Versus is a conceptual sequel and final chapter of Raymond V. Raymond- an album in which Usher uses music to explore the dichotomies of his life as a newly single man/father.

The lead single from the new set is “DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love” featuring Pitbull and is produced by the inimitable Max Martin- who has worked with some of the top pop artists in the world including P!nk, Katy Perry and Britney Spears.  “DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love” will be serviced to radio mid-July. “DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love” will be delivered to radio stations world-wide this coming Monday morning.  Shortly after, “Hot Tottie” produced by the hitmaker Polow, will be delivered to radio on August 9^th.

Released late spring of 2010, Raymond V. Raymond reclaimed Usher’s dominance on the charts, debuting at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums and R&B Albums charts spawning five hit singles: “Papers,” “Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home),” “Lil Freak” featuring Nikki Minaj, “There Goes My Baby” and the pervasive summer smash, “OMG” featuring will.i.am. Additionally, Raymond V. Raymond held the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s R&B Album chart for seven weeks and since has sold over six million tracks and ringtones combined.

Usher’s ninth No.1 single, “OMG,” has had over 3 million tracks and ringtones to date and held the No.1 spot on the Hot 100 Singles chart for four weeks in a row.  The song hit No.1 on the Neilsen RingScan chart and continues to chart in the Top 10 for its tenth consecutive week. “OMG” enjoyed international success as well, reaching No. 1 on the iTunes chart in both the UK and Australia. Usher’s world domination extended through Canada (No. 1 airplay & Gold album), Ireland (No. 1), New Zealand (No. 1 airplay) and Sweden (Top 10 CHR).

This July, Usher will perform highly anticipated concerts in Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Philippines, Beijing and Macau. On July 11^th, at Wukesong Arena in Beijing, Usher will be joined by Asia’s top R&B star Wang Leehom for a joint performance.

Usher Featuring Pitbull

“DJ Got Us Falling In Love”

From Versus

LaFace/Jive Records/JLG

Usherworld.com

myspace.com/Usher

Pharrell & Robin Thicke Star On Soundtrack for “Despicable Me”

Despicable Me Soundtrack Star Trak/Interscope Records

Movie goers know that this weekend marks the release of the first film from Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures, Despicable Me. While the film has an all star cast of Steve Carrell , Jason Segel, Julie Andrews and Miranda Cosgrove, in some ways the soundtrack and music to the film is just as much of an interesting story. The music to the film was composed by Heitor Pereira and Pharrell Williams of The Neptunes and N.E.R.D.. Heitor Pereira is known for his work playing with various famous musicians like Simply Red, Elton John, K.D. Lang, Rod Stewart, and Jack Johnson. Pharrell Williams is best known for his work co-writing and producing hit records as a member of The Neptunes with his production partner, Chad Hugo. The Neptunes are known for being the master minds behind songs like “Hot In Herre” by Nelly, “I’m A Slave 4 U” By Britney Spears and countless hits by the likes of Jay-Z, Ludacris and Mystikal in the early 2000s. The Neptunes are also credited in helping reshape Justin Timberlake’s sound and image as an R&B artist, as well as relaunching the career of Robin Thicke when he signed to their label Star Trak Entertainment.

This marks the second motion picture sound track t0 be released by Star Trak/Interscope Records following 2009’s Fast and Furious soundtrack, that was also distributed by Universal Pictures, part of Star Trak’s parent company,  NBC Universal.  Pharrell has stated in interviews, that his unique level of participation with Despicable me was inspired from watching the 2006 animated feature Curious George.  Thanks to music loving movie execs like Kathy Nelson then of Universal Pictures, the Classic children’s character was backed musically by the distinct laid back and playful stylings of singer songwritter, Jack Johnson when brought to the big screen. Watching the film, Pharrell relished at the creative freedom that Jack had and reached out eagerly to do something similar with what tunred out to be Despicable me.  ”I was so envious of Jack Johnson for getting that project.” Pharrell told  blacktree.com.

“I thought it was so cool.  I was like, man, he did such an amazing Job.  I was like man, if I were to be given the opportunity man, I would really, you know, I would really, bust my butt to just make the best stuff.”

That enthusiasm earned him a meeting with Illumination studios, where he was granted the executive rights on the film’s soundtrack, and from that point on, “bust his butt,” is exactly what he did.  Excluding already established hits featured in the film, “Boogie Fever” by The Sylvers, and “You Should be Dancing” by the Bee Gees that consequently made the track list, Pharrell had a hand in writing and producing every single original song. He teamed up with the likes of Hans Zimer of famous movie scores like The Lion King, and nail the Curious George finger print from partner Heitor Pereira, who was one of its principle producers.

Bringing something uniquely his own, Pharell appeared a performer on 5 of the album’s 11 total tracks.  He also consciously spotlighted Star Trak Entertainment recording star and Clizbeats Featured Artist, Robin Thicke, who is featured in the film with his song “My Life”, an upbeat R&B tune written by Thicke and Williams. Check out some soundtrack samples, as well as Pharrell and Robin at work in the Studio creating “My Life.” in the viral video below.

Pharrell Williams

“Despicable Me Theme”

Star Trak/Interscope Records

Pharrell William’s & Robin Thicke

Producing “My Life” For Despicable Me

Star Trak/Interscope Records

Jessie James “Boys In The Summer”

JESSIE JAMES GREETS THE SEASON WITH “BOYS IN THE SUMMER,” NEW SINGLE ON MERCURY RECORDS, AVAILABLE AT ITUNES, AMAZON AND OTHER DIGITAL RETAILERS –VIDEO ON CMT

Jessie James

FIRST TRACK FROM UPCOMING SECOND ALBUM, OUT THIS SUMMER!

Follow-up to self-titled Jessie James debut album of 2009 – #1 iTunes and #1 Amazon – with “Wanted,” “I Look So Good (Without You),” “My Cowboy,” And “Bullet”

(June 30, 2010 – New York, NY) Jessie James steals her way into everyone’s heart this season with “Boys In the Summer,” her brand new Mercury Records single – impacting at Top 40 radio on July 12^th; at pop and country radio on July 13^th; and at Hot AC on July 19^th.  CMT is now airing the “Boys In the Summer” video following its premiere on June 18^th.

“Boys In the Summer” is the first new single pick from Jessie’s second album, due this summer on Mercury.  The song is already gaining traction at radio with airplay on nearly 20 pop stations.  “Boys In the Summer” is also the MySpace New Music Playlist feature for this week, as seen and heard by an average of more than 1 million visitors per day.

The new album follows-up her self-titled debut JESSIE JAMES (August 2009), which made headlines when it rose to #1 on the iTunes Pop Album Chart and #1 on Amazon’s MP3 chart.  It was fueled by the Top 20 Pop Song chart success of its first single “Wanted,” the full-throttle dance-rock scorcher that Jessie co-wrote with American Idol judge and hit songwriter Kara DioGuardi (along with Mitch Allen and David Hodges).  The album made a solid Soundscan debut at #24, and was also the #7 Digital Album.

With “Wanted” and her second single “I Look So Good (Without You)” at radio, Jessie premiered “My Cowboy” in November 2009, at the nationally televised 43^rd Annual CMA Awards.  The song was featured in tv promos on ABC and CMT for CMA’s annual Country Music Festival (formerly known as Fanfare) as CMT aired the “My Cowboy” video.  (The song was also heard in Sorority Wars, a Lifetime cable tv-movie shown October 2009.)

Later in November-December, Jessie joined Kid Rock on “Tour For the Troops,” entertaining American troops in Southwest Asia, and families in Europe.  The daughter of an Air Force fighter pilot and a self-described military brat (born on a U.S. base in Italy), Jessie was a welcome addition to the two-week schedule (formerly known as Operation Season’s Greetings), which made stops at Ramstein Air Base, Germany; Incirlik AB, Turkey; RAF Lakenheath, England; and a number of deployed locations in Southwest Asia.

In the final month of 2009, Jessie teamed with FOX-TV’s cable network SPEED™ as the face of their “SPEED™ Dream Ride” programming and promo­tion event.  She re-grooved her catchy rock gem “Bullet” (co-written with pal Katy Perry) – “Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?” – with a customized theme for the “Dream Ride” campaign, which featured multiple marathons of SPEED™’s most popular weekly programming, and the premiere of new prime time series, Dangerous Drives.

Jessie has logged an astounding 16 million-plus total plays on her MySpace website, www.myspace.com/jessiejamesmusic.  In addition to “Wanted,” “I Look So Good (Without You),” “My Cowboy,” and “Bullet,” the site also features full-length versions of every song on her debut album – including “Blue Jeans” (first heard in the hit Touchstone film and Hollywood Records soundtrack album of Confessions of A Shopaholic, and featured in the premiere episode of Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva), “Guilty,” “Burn It Up,” “Inevitable,” “Big Mouth,” “Burnin’ Bridges,” “Girl Next Door,” and “Psycho Girlfriend.”

JESSIE JAMES APPEARANCES

Date                City                             Venue                   ___

July      4          Nashville, TN              Riverfront Park

Aug.    13        Stockton, KS              Rooks County Fair

18        Escanaba, MI              Upper Peninsula State Fair

Sept.    24        W. Springfield, MA    Eastern State Expo

www.JessieJamesMusic.com

Christina Aguilera Talks Collaborating With Sia on “Bionic” Third Single

Christina Aguliera "Bionic" RCA Records/RMG

Christina Aguilera strips everything down for the third single from her latest album, Bionic . As we have mentioned before much of the sound of the Bionic album came from collaborating with producer and writers like Polow Da Don and Ester Dean, who had much to do with Christina’s first two singles from the album. But we neglected to tell you that Monkey Puzzle/Jive Records singer/song writer, Sia Fuller alos collaborated on four songs with Christinia. The four songs is what Christina has described on her VH1 Storytellers performances as the “heart of the record” From that “heart” is the album’s third single, a very powerful ballad called “You Lost Me” written by Sia Fuller/Samuel Dixon/Christina Aguilera. Check it out from VH1 Story Tellers!

Christina Aguilera

“You Lost Me”

From VH1 Story Tellers Christina Aguilera

Christina Aguilera

“You Lost Me”  (Radio Mix)

From Bionic

RCA Records/RMG

Sia

“Clap Your Hands”

From We Are Born

Monkey Puzzle/Jive Records/JLG

Janelle Monae’s Wonda Mix Music Video With B.O.B. & Lupe Fiasco

As we have mentioned in previous posts Clizbeats featured artists Janelle Monae and B.O.B. have teamed up with their Atlantic Records label mate for the ‘Wonda Mix’ of her single “Tightrope” from her debut album. (Janelle is one of the few artists signed by Sean “Diddy” Combs through his Bad Boy/Atlantic Records  joint venture that is still on both Bad Boy, and Atlantic despite Bad Boy’s primary change to Interscope Records distribution) “Tightrope” and the “Tightrope” (Wonda Mix) are part of the promotional first single from Janelle’s debut album,  The ArchAndroid which was released on May 18, 2010.

It has helped prove  that Janelle is one of the most critically acclaimed artists to sign to Bad Boy Records in recent years. She has been nominated for a Grammy in 2009 (best Urban Alternative Performance for “Many Moons”)  and she also won the Vanguard Award at the 2010 ASCAP Awards. As if that was’n't enough her talent was recently acknowledged by Pop/R&B icon, Prince as she paid tribute to him at the 2010 BET Awatds along side Esperanza Spalding, Alicia Keys and Patti LaBelle. See what the buzz is all about with one of Clizbeats.com’s favorite new rising starss.

Janelle Monae Featuring B.O.B. & Lupe Fiasco

“Tightrope” (Wonda Mix)

Wondaland Arts Society/Bad Boy/Atlantic Records

Janelle Monae, Esperanza Spalding, Alicia Keys & Patti LaBelle

Tribute To Prince

From 2010 BET Awards

Kelis’ “Flesh Tone” In Stores From Will I Am/Interscope Records

GRAMMY®-nominated singer-songwriter Kelis performed her latest single, “4th of July (Fireworks),” this morning on “TODAY” and next Tuesday, July 13th, on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.” The track is from her new album, Flesh Tone, which The New York Times called “one of her strongest records yet.” It was released today by will.i.am Music Group/Interscope Records and is available everywhere, including the following digital retailers:

Spin called Flesh Tone one of the “25 Summer Albums That Matter Most,” and gave it an eight out of ten rating in an album review, noting: “Kelis’ fifth album is part reinvention, part creative vengeance…the R&B maverick goes full tilt house diva.” “It’s the classic throb of disco liberation,” observed Rolling Stone while Vibe said it “gives drag queens and house lovers a new aural fixation.” “Flesh Tone…is built to detonate like a bomb on the dance floor,” said Elle. Perez Hilton gave the album a rave review on his website and has been tweeting about it non-stop, saying most recently: “I am LOVING that album!!!!!! From start to finish, it’s fire!”
ROBYN & KELIS – “ALL HEARTS” TOUR
featuring special guests Dan Black and Far East Movement

Kelis, best known for such smash singles as “Caught Out There,” the Top 5, GRAMMY-nominated “Milkshake” and “Bossy,” which became a million-selling ringtone, recently played the Glastonbury Festival. She’ll kick off the “All Hearts” tour with Robyn on July 23rd with a show at The Music Box in Los Angeles. The jaunt, which will feature special guests Dan Black and Far East Movement, will conclude with a two-night stand at New York City’s Webster Hall (August 4th & 5th). She’ll also play numerous international festivals this summer, including The Big Chill Festival in the U.K. on August 7th.

Introducing J. Lewis in “Dancing For Me” Featuring Flo Rida

J. Lewis

Hey everyone check out the first artist to be released under the new joint venture between Blackground Records and Interscope Records. (Excluding Timbaland who has been signed with Blackground since 1997 originially with Blackground/Atlantic, then Blackground/Virgin and now Mosley Music Group/Blackground/Interscope) His name is simply, J. Lewis and he is hitting the music business with a bang! J.’s first single is “Dancing For Me” and it features rapper, Flo Rida. Even though these two artists come from two different worlds, Flo and J. come together nicely! Check out the video here! Keep checking in with Clizbeats.com as we learn more about the story behind J. Lewis!

J. Lewis Featuring Flo Rida

“Dancing For Me”

Blackground/Interscope Records

Maroon 5 Returns With “Hands All Over”

Maroon 5 "Hands All Over" Octone/A&M/Interscope Records

Pop/Rock band Maroon 5 has returned to the music scene after a taking a break through much of 2008 and some of 2009. Now the guys are finally ready to release their highly anticipated third studio album, Hands All Over. The album was recorded through most of last year when the band relocated to Switzerland to record with legendary Rock producer, Robert “Mutt” Lange. Lange is a British producer that can easily be considered one of the most successful Rock producer in Pop  music. Lange has been known for bringing out the best in countless numbers of musical acts including, AC/DC, Def Lepard, Foreigner, Bryan Adams, The Cars, Nickelback,  and even Shania Twain.

While Lange had his “hands all over” as producer of the album, the album was still primarily written by the band members. Even though front-man, Adam Levine has been known to collaborate with everyone from Alicia Keys, Kanye West, to even the Ying Yang Twins, the only collaboration from guest vocalists on the album will be from Lady Antebellum on the song “Out Of Goodbyes.”

Hands All Over is not due in stores until September 21st, but fans do not have to wait that long to hear from the guys! The first single from Hands All Over, “Misery” was released digitally by Octoone/A&M/Interscope Records on June 22nd. The song, co-written by Maroon 5’s Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael and Phantom Planet bass player Sam Farrar has already reached #44 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and #19 on Billboard’s Hot Adult Top 40 Chart. Plus the guys plan on touring to support the album starting on July 30, 2010 in Saratoga Springs, NY. Joining them on the tour as supporting opening acts will be V.V Brown and Owl City.

Check out the video for “Misery” which premired on MTV and VH1 channels, as well as on Vevo last week. Also below check out the official track listing for, Hands All Over.

Maroon 5

“Misery”

From Hands All Over

Octone/A&M/Interscope Records

Maroon 5 Hands All Over track list Octone/A&M/Interscope Records

1. “How”

2. “Never Gonna Leave”

3. “Wasted Years”

4. “Last Chance”

5. “Don’t Know Much About That”

6. “Out Of Goodbyes” Featuring Lady Antebellum

7. “I Can’t Lie”

8. “Give A Little More”

9. “Misery”

10. “Stutter”

11. “Hands All Over”