Chris Brown

Chris BrownDownload is under investigation for allegedly swiping a female fan's phone out of her hands and driving away after leaving a nightclub in South Florida on Sunday (Feb. 19), Miami Beach police told NBC 6 Miami.

"B--ch you ain't going to put that on no website," Brown reportedly told 24-year-old Miami resident Christal Spann after she approached and took a photo of Brown and rapper Tyga as they were getting into a black Bentley outside club Cameo. Spann told police that Brown opened his window, took her $500 white iPhone 4S and drove away.Billboard 

Police responded around 4:40 a.m. but Brown is believed to have left the Miami area already. It is unclear if Brown, who performed at the American Airlines Arena on Feb. 16, is still in possession of the phone. The state attorney's office is reportedly preparing an arrest warrant and police have listed the offense as "robbery by sudden snatching."

Tyga has not been implicated. Brown has not commented on the accusations.fight sim

The "Turn Up the Music" singer is currently serving five years of probation after pleading guilty to the brutal assault of his then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009. Earlier this month a judge in Los Angeles praised Brown for his good behavior, but decided he should continue reporting to a probation officer in Virginia.

According to a RadarOnline.com source, "the conditions of his felony probation are very, very strict. Chris must obey all laws and not be arrested for any other crimes. This could be a huge nightmare for the singer's probation if he is arrested and charged."

On Monday (Feb. 20) Brown made headlines for releasing two remixed songs with his ex, one of them being sexually explicit.

On Twitter, the usually chatty Brown has not commented directly on the alleged incident. His only message on Feb. 19: "Awareness of your consciousness is EVOLUTION!" A day later he wrote, "I just hope my music inspires people to really come together. LOVE and POSITIVITY

Beyoncé

In a seeming case of chart déjà vu, Drake continues his reign on the R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, as "The Motto," featuring Lil Wayne, rules at No. 1 for a second consecutive week. 
  
The routine success of Drake leaves allow plenty of room to focus on a stellar feat accomplished by BeyoncéDownload and her old-school-reminiscent "Love on Top." The song earns the Greatest Gainer/Airplay award, lifting 4-2 (30 million audience impressions, up 22%, according to Nielsen BDS). Even better, "Love" becomes Queen Bey's first No. 1 song on the Adult R&B radio tally, where it rises 2-1 in its 19th week (dethroningRobin Thicke's "Love After War" after three weeks).Read More Billboard

Bieber

First off, Bieber'sDownload collaboration with Far East Movement, which also features Party Rockers LMFAO, drops on Tuesday, with Justin announcing the news on Twitter including the hashtag #LiveMyLife - perhaps a hint as to the name of the song.

Super-producer RedOne recently spoke to our US Team about the track, stating: "I did a few songs with Far East Movement, and one of the songs ... to me, it's a smash, And Justin sang the chorus. It's a really good song, and I think people are gonna dance like crazy to it."

In addition to the release, Bieber also revealed that the first single off his forthcoming album Believe will drop in March, tweeting: "And u guys keep asking. so yeah. my single is NEXT MONTH>#BELIEVE,"

Little else is know about the song, but given the caliber of talent he's been recording with for the album of the same name, it's certain to be something his Beliebers will look forward to.

First off, Bieber's collaboration with Far East Movement, which also features Party Rockers LMFAO, Downloaddrops on Tuesday, with Justin announcing the news on Twitter including the hashtag #LiveMyLife - perhaps a hint as to the name of the song.

For the album, he's hooked up with everyone from Pharrell WilliamsDownload and Rodney Jerkins Download

Super-producer RedOne recently spoke to our US Team about the track, stating: "I did a few songs with Far East Movement, and one of the songs ... to me, it's a smash, And Justin sang the chorus. It's a really good song, and I think people are gonna dance like crazy to it."

In addition to the release, Bieber also revealed that the first single off his forthcoming album Believe will drop in March, tweeting: "And u guys keep asking. so yeah. my single is NEXT MONTH>#BELIEVE,"

Little else is know about the song, but given the caliber of talent he's been recording with for the album of the same name, it's certain to be something his Beliebers will look forward to.

For the album, he's hooked up with everyone from Pharrell Williams and Rodney Jerkins to Drake,Download Lil Wayne,Download TimbalandDownlaod and Will.I.Am.Download

It's an exciting time for Bieber. As he continues to up his professional game, he's also about to celebrate a personal milestone: The teen star will turn 18 on 1st March.

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It's an exciting time for Bieber. As he continues to up his professional game, he's also about to celebrate a personal milestone: The teen star will turn 18 on 1st March.

Gorillaz

Gorillaz Downloadhave released their new single 'DoYaThing' as a free download - scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to listen to the song.

The track, which is a collaboration with OutKast's Andre 3000 and LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy, is available from Converse.com/doyathing.

The song was recorded for Converse's 'Three Artists. One Song' campaign, which has previously brought together rapper Soulja Boy, Andrew WK and Matt And Kim to record a collaboration, and also saw Graham Coxon, Paloma Faith and ex-Coral guitarist Bill Ryder-Jones collaborate to record a track together in 2010.

Gorillaz' Jamie Hewlett has also designed a new shoe range for Converse to go with the track, and is also working on an accompanying video. Singer Damon Albarn, meanwhile, recently commented that a 12-minute unedited version of the track would also be released in the future.

To celebrate their 10th anniversary last year, Gorillaz released the career-spanning compilation 'The Singles Collection: 2001 – 2011'. Albarn also revealed last November that he had been meeting up regularly with BlurDownload to record new material, while producer William Orbit hinted that the band could soon start work on a new studio album.

The Britpop legends performed together at the Brit Awards earlier this week (February 21), where they were honoured with the Outstanding Contribution To Music Award.

To read an exclusive interview with Blur, where they discuss the possibility of recording a new album and their plans beyond this summer, pick up the new issue of NME, which is on UK newsstands and available digitally now

Coldplay

Coldplay'sDownload Chris Martin has said that his band only triumphed at last night's Brit Awards (February 21) because there wasn't any other competition.NME

They beat Arctic Monkeys,Download Kasabian,Download Elbow Downloadand Chase and Status Downloadto take home the gong for Best British Group, but the singer insisted it was because they were the only choice "left on the pitch" for people to vote for.He told the Daily Mirror:To be honest, most British bands have split up. Blur have gone, Pulp have gone, Take That are on holiday, we're the only British band left on the pitch! But we'll take that.PowerfightThe frontman also joked that he wanted to expand his business interests into the fragrance market in the future, quipping: "All we want to do now is release a fragrance, open a few restaurants and open a theme park, JLS-style. We're hoping to have it tied up by 2016, look out for that."

Adele Downloadand Ed Sheeran Downloadwere the big winners last night, with the former scooping prizes for British Solo Female Artist and Mastercard British Album Of The Year, although her acceptance speech for the second gong wascontroversially interrupted by host James Corden. Sheeran, meanwhile, walked away with the awards for British Breakthrough Act and British Male Solo Artist. 

One Direction

One Direction Announce First UK & Ireland Tour 

The Brit Award winners will be hitting the road next February...Profight

One Direction downloadhave announced a series of dates as part of their first ever UK tour.
Fresh from winning the Best Single gong at The Brit Awards 2012 last night (21st February) Harry Styles and Co will be bringing their hit album Up All Night to life next February.

They have currently confirmed 15 dates across
the UK and Ireland, kicking off their tour at London's O2 Arena on 22nd February 2013 before finishing at Newcastle's Metro Radio Arena on 24th March 2013.
Band member Liam Payne revealed that the dates were booked during their acceptance speech at The Brit Awards.
Tickets for One Direction's 2013 arena tour are set to go on sale this Saturday (25th February) at 9am!
Current One Direction 2013 UK and Ireland Tour Dates:
February 22 - London, O2 Arena
February 23 - London, O2 Arena
February 26 - Glasgow, SECC
March 1 - Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena
March 2 - Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena
March 5 - Dublin, O2 Arena
March 6 - Dublin, O2 Arena
March 7 - Belfast, Odyssey Arena
March 8 - Belfast, Odyssey Arena
March 15 - Manchester, Manchester Arena
March 17 - Liverpool, Echo Arena

Ed Sheeran

Ed SheeranDownload

Underwhelming debut from a rising artist whose promise hasn't delivered Lines between genres have never been more blurred than right now, especially in the mainstream. Experimentation with styles and the melding of musical approaches is to be commended, obviously; but to relate authenticity with consistent, similar output is something very wrong indeed, as not everybody singing the same song is coming from the same place.


 These charting mutations and variations have as much to do with our culture of instant gratification as they do with music growing out-of-date more quickly – and what better person to stand tall at the lectern than 20-year-old Ed Sheeran, whose unlikely combination of acoustic folk and grime has seen him become one of 2011's biggest domestic successes.


 This is a man who's been couch-surfing for six years while incessantly gigging, putting out new music, plugging, and building a fanbase (and getting said fans to absolutely worship him). He's worked with grime artists and toured with Nizlopi, getting shout-outs along the way from Elton John and Jamie Foxx.


 Given the effort he's put in, it's certainly hard to begrudge Sheeran his achievements to date. Raised in Framlingham, Suffolk, he could always see further than the confines of his home town, and recorded his first EP aged 14 – the same year MySpace was bought for $580m by NewsCorp, for some context. Hard grafters were slightly easier to spot in 2005, and users of social media had to try harder to define themselves: The JCB Song's run for the Christmas number one felt like a huge-scale rebellion back then. But it's a shame that Sheeran's biography is a better summation of where we're at right now than this debut album, on which his precocious self-referencing can become infuriating. You Need Me, I Don't Need You is unbearable, as he sings, "I've done around about a thousand shows / But I haven't got a house plus I live on a couch / So you believe the lyrics when I'm singing them out". BBC


The escapist Drunk is sweet, but his auto-biographical approach to writing has a very limited shelf-life because, essentially, the story just isn't interesting enough to stretch across 12 tracks. There are standout cuts, though: Grade 8 is a flying track made for radio which opens with a bassline seeped in the nostalgia of Wifey by RnB boyband Next. The City's chorus also soars; again, the song draws on 90s RnB with Sheeran's driving, natural delivery and some emphatic drum fills comprising winning constituents. + will give Sheeran's rabid fanbase a lot to love, but it'll also make him an easy target for critics hungry for new directions in pop, as it fails to really gel the man's loves of folk and rap. But even though originality isn't quite what it could be throughout this set, the way he observes and picks situations apart is quite something – something to be developed for album two, certainly. If he ditches his bottom-of-a-Tube-escalator ballads (see Kiss Me) and stops trying to show off, Sheeran could well become a thrilling proposition over an entire long-player, rather than just in all-too-brief moments of magic.