Beyonce has been confirmed as a headliner at this year's Glastonbury Festival, which will take place from June 22-26 in South West England. The R&B/pop star, who is currently working with producers like Sean Garrett on her fourth album, will perform a 90-minute set on the final day of the fest.
Beyonce -- who is nominated for two Grammy awards this year -- was last seen on stage supporting her 2008 album, "I Am... Sasha Fierce," during her "I Am... World Tour," which ended last February. Rumors spread earlier this week that the singer would be headlining Glastonbury alongside U2 and Coldplay, although no other performers have been confirmed yet.
"This really is the biggest festival in the world and I cannot wait to perform there. Everyone who attends is really appreciative of music and is in such a good mood that entire weekend," says Beyonce in a statement. "I'm pumped just thinking about that huge audience and soaking up their energy."
Beyonce was last seen at Glastonbury Festival in 2008, watching her husband, Jay-Z, perform a headlining set. The festival, which expects an audience of 200,000 this year, featured Gorillaz, Muse and Stevie Wonder as headliners last June.
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This year the Virgin Media Music Awards were all about the ladies, with pop stars like Lady Gaga, Christina Aguilera and Kylie Minogue taking top prizes. According to the awards' website, more than 6 million votes were cast by fans in the U.K., taking some of music's fiercest females to the top of the nominee pack.
Minogue took home the prize for Best Album for her 2010 release Aphrodite. She also won Best Single for her track "All the Lovers."
Following her national anthem slip-up at the Super Bowl last weekend, Christina Aguilera was showered with love by fans who named her Best Comeback. Aguilera will have a chance to further redeem herself when she performs at Sunday's Grammy Awards.
Lady Gaga took home the prize for Best Collaboration for her epic dance track "Telephone" featuring fellow diva Beyoncé. The song and video placed second in two categories, Best Single and Best Video. Gaga also placed second in the Best Live Act category. John Lennon won the honor for Legend of the Year, but Gaga came in second, further solidifying her pop icon status.
Muse took home the prize for Best Group and Best Live Act, Marina and the Diamonds nabbed the Best Newcomer trophy and Shakira won Best Solo Female. And while her solo album was received as well stateside, Miley Cyrus' "Can't Be Tamed" video nabbed the teen star Best Video.
Brits James Blunt and Pixie Lott were named Hottest Male and Hottest Female. Plan B took home the award for Best Solo Male.
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Lady Gaga has partnered with Target to offer fans an exclusive deluxe edition of her new album Born This Way, due out in May. The edition includes three additional studio songs and five remixes and will be available for pre-order at target.com/gaga beginning at 8 a.m. CST on Friday, February 11th through Saturday, February 26th.
“We’re excited to be working with Target,” said Steve Berman, vice chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M. “We always have a tremendously successful relationship when we get together on something like this. Target provides us with the perfect platform to really turn the spotlight on the incredible album that Lady Gaga has made.”
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Kanye West may be a superstar rapper, but according to pint-sized popstar Justin Bieber, Yeezy doesn't own a mobile phone.
The Baby hitmaker, who worked with Kanye on a remix of his tune Runaway Love, claims he was shocked to find out that the Power rapper doesn't have a cell.
Speaking of Yeezy to our US Team, the 16-year old singer revealed: "It's funny, because he doesn't even use a phone, he just sends email."
Bieber continued: "It's so crazy. I'm like, 'How can you not use a phone?'"
Justin, who premiered his new 3D movie Never Say Never in LA last night, also shed some light on what it is like working with Kanye, revealing that West is "really laid back."
The Pray singer explained: "He reproduced the 'Runaway' joint, and I'm really excited. It was amazing. He's such a cool guy, and he's just really laid back and just nice, and at the end of the day, he's just a nice person."
JB's manager Scooter Braun also admitted that Bieber and West are collaborating on some new material for Justin's next album, stating: "Justin is working on new music. He and Kanye had a call the other day about a song they're trying to work on together."
He added: "Kanye wants to produce a bunch of new songs for the new album."
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Nicki Minaj has claimed that she has "toned down" her sexy image despite protests from her record label, Young Money.
Speaking to NME, the Moment 4 Life rapper revealed that she wanted to take on a less saucy character, because she wanted to be know for her music and not just her looks.
The 26-year old explained: "If you listen to my album, compared to my early mixtapes, a lot has changed. I mean, I really toned down the sexual stuff."
She continued: "There was no need for me to do it. I feel like in the past females have kinda relied on that because they feel like that’s all they have to offer."
As for making the change against Young Money's wishes, the star - who signed with Lil Wayne's label in 2009 - added: "I was around people who were telling me, 'This is what you should be doing'."
"When you're young and impressionable you feel like 'Okay, you know best'."
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In the midst of recording a new album, Nightwish has been preparing a movie.
"Imaginarium" is a music fantasy - film based on the forthcoming Nightwish album of the same title and its 13 songs.
The protagonist of the film is a songwriter with an otherworldly imagination. He is an old man who still thinks he`s a young boy. While asleep he travels into his distant past where his dreams of old come back to him mixed to the young boy`s world of fantasy and music.
In his dreams the old man fights to find the memories most important to him.
This never-done-before project originates to more than two years in the past when Tuomas first introduced his ambitious idea of the Imaginarium - concept to the fellow band members and to Mr. Stobe Harju, the director behind "The Islander" - music video. He will be the director of this full-length feature. The film will be produced by Solar Films Inc. together with Nightwish.
The shootings for "Imaginarium" will begin this spring, it will have its premiere in 2012 and the album it`s based on will be released in an undefined point in time.
Nightwish will hold a press conference related to this project at the end of February.
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Joe Jonas has been busy working on the studio on his solo album.
Make sure to pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly for a sneak peek of what Joe’s been working on. Don’t worry, Joe isn’t moving too far from the roots of the music you’ve grown to love from him.
He shares, “It’s not a cheesy pop record. Most of the songs are love-related, but I put responsibility on myself to grab their ears again.”
So what is the sound? Joe says, “The dance element is where my heart is.”
For even more, make sure to pick up the issue of EW which is on newsstands in NYC and LA today and everywhere on Friday.
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