The Beginning is the sixth studio album by American hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas. The album was released on November 26, 2010 by Universal Music. The lead single, "The Time (Dirty Bit)", was released on November 9, 2010. The album debuted at number six on the Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 119,000 copies in the United States.
On June 6, 2010, the band confirmed that they were working on a new album in an interview for The Big Issue. The album was described as a sequel to The E.N.D. will.i.am announced that the new album, which "symbolizes growth, new beginnings, and starts a fresh new perspective," will be titled The Beginning and was released on November 30, 2010. The album was officially announced in a press release on October 26, 2010.
Many singles were made available as promotional releases for the album. The first, "Do It Like This", was released on November 15, 2010, and the second, "Light Up the Night", on November 22, 2010. The Beginning was a part of Oprah's Favorite Things for 2010. The audience was given the album 11 days before its official release. A stadium concert tour is planned starting after February 2011. Having previously performed at stadiums on the South American leg of The E.N.D. World Tour will.i.am revealed he thought stadiums would be a more ideal.
The album debuted at number six on the Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 119,000 copies in the United States. It is their third album to chart inside the top ten, but their lowest charting album since Elephunk, which peaked at number 14 in 2003. In the United Kingdom, the album debuted at number 17 selling 34,006 copies. Normally, selling over 30,000 copies is enough to get an album into the Top 3 or even the top spot however, due the usual strong competition in the autumn it failed to debut in the top ten however due to a performance on The X Factor it rose 8 places to number 9 and since spent 3 weeks in the top ten. In Canada, it debuted at number two selling 27,400 copies in its first week, being kept of the top spot by a margin of 200 copies behind Susan Boyle's The Gift. The album debuted at number one in France, selling 35,653 copies in its first week. It is The Black Eyed Peas' third consecutive number-one album in the country.
In Germany, the album debuted at No. 5 and started slowly to fall down. In its 3rd week, the album was at No. 9 but could jump to No. 7 the following week. Thanks to the success of the single The Time (Dirty Bit), the album rose from No. 7 to No. 2 in its fifth week, the album's peak position.
The Beginning received generally mixed reviews from most music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 47, based on 17 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews".
Monica Herrera wrote for Billboard that "the music is expertly produced, but problems arise when Will.i.am claims the same of his wordplay. On the track "Don't Stop the Party," he chest-thumps, "Kill you with my lyricals/Call me verbal criminal." It's a silly boast for an artist who clearly focuses on beats over rhymes, and is probably better off for it." Kevin O'Donnell of Spin described the album as "one of the year's wildest sonic stews" and concluded "Pop's reigning peddlers of dumb fun are actually starting to sound stylishly avant-garde on their sixth album." The Guardian's Caroline Sullivan gave the album 3 out of 5 stars calling it "upscale hip-pop" and said that "the Black Eyed Peas have created an album similar to 2009's enormously successful The END, but with more Auto-Tune and less input from the wonderful Fergie." Rolling Stone reviewer Jon Dolan viewed that the album "largely picks up where The E.N.D. left off" and felt that "they give themselves over more fully than ever to the groove palette of club culture, stirring up electro funk, Euro-trance and classic disco". John Bush of Allmusic gave the album 2 out of 5 stars, and noted that although David Guetta only appears on one track "his production job for 2009’s “I Gotta Feeling” casts a long shadow on this record of don’t-stop-the-party jams and club-life tracks."
Entertainment Weekly writer Simon Vozick-Levinson gave the album a very positive review and stated "The Beginning wisely sticks with the heavier electronic beats they began importing from European clubs for The E.N.D. — a key ingredient that transformed the Black Eyed Peas from merely major stars to arguably the biggest chart act going Every song is piled high with sticky pop melodies, slick hip-hop rhythms, bright synth parts, and vocals that have been diced and processed to high heaven, all furthering the goal of maximum catchiness." Greg Kot of Chicago Tribune gave the album 1.5 out of 4 stars and called it "the quartet’s tamest, most hook-deprived album in the Fergie era" and stated "the music’s reliance on rhythmic and lyrical repetition (as opposed to progression and surprise) becomes wearying." In his review for The Independent, Andy Gill wrote "It's a textbook blend of the over-familiar and the electronically treated, though their use of auto-tune and digital-stutter vocal effects is a touch more restrained than usual. From there on, the aspect never extends beyond the dancefloor, with martial synth-stomp riffs, spartan electro beats and loping bass grooves driving tracks". Ben Ratliff of The New York Times gave the album a negative review and noted it similarities with its predecessor, The E.N.D. with few differences, "less of Fergie’s actressy, un-Autotuned belting (too bad about that), bolder two-step techno beats, more heavily draped synthesizer tones and a fascination with late ’70s and early ’80s pop radio." and found the lyrics "soggy" and "cynical". musicOMH writer Luke Winkie stated that "will.i.am's productions sound like the bare minimum one could throw together and call a beat, usually encompassed by a simplified drum sequence and a buzzsaw synth turned up to the red and repeated long enough for DJs to make their paycheck" and wrote "the band has a knack of elongating their elementally good ideas into preposterously tiresome compositions".

"Only the Young" is the second solo single from singer-songwriter and The Killers frontman, Brandon Flowers, from his debut album Flamingo (2010). The song was written by Flowers and produced by Stuart Price.

Peter Hernandez Jr.于1986年生于美国夏威夷，他的艺名Bruno Mars为人们熟知。Bruno Mars嗓音独特，凭借与B.o.B合作的出道单曲《Nothin’ On You》挤下了连续5个星期排名第一的蕾哈娜，在美国Billboard顺利拿下冠军。其他还有与Travis McCoy合作的Billionaire等。
Bruno Mars在美国夏威夷的威基基(Waikiki)岛上出生并长大，是父母的六个孩子中的一个，而父母分别是波多黎各和菲律宾人。他出生在一个音乐家庭，给了他多元化的Reggae，摇滚，嘻哈和R＆B等多种风格。在很小的时候，Bruno Mars就开始模仿和表演例如猫王、迈克尔杰克逊等很具影响力的艺术家的歌曲。1990年他四岁的时候被MidWeek杂志精选为“小猫王”，之后在1992年于拉斯维加斯的蜜月影片中扮演小猫王。 2003年，17岁的他于President Theodore Roosevelt高中毕业，之后搬到洛杉矶追求他自己的音乐生涯。在成为一个成功的歌手之前，Bruno Mars已是一位知名的音乐制作人，参与了Flo Rida去年红翻天的《Right Round》以及2010年世界杯主题曲《Wavin’ Flag》的写谱，还为 Maroon 5和Sean Kingston等歌手写歌或监制。在《Nothin’ On You》成功不久后，他就宣布在2010年5月11日推出自己的细碟《It’s Better If You Don’t Understand》，而个人首张专辑《Doo-Wops & Hooligans 》也在筹备当中，准备在今年10月5日发行。同时来自新专辑的首支单曲《Just The Way You Are》已经在2010年7月19日发行，此曲MV也在今年9月8日发行，在美国Billboard Hot 100单曲榜上榜9周后终于不负重望夺得了冠军。新专辑的二单《Liquor Store Blues》也在9月21日在iTunes Store开放下载。

Multi-talented and flamboyant, Cee-Lo initially made a name for himself and his trademark crooning as part of pioneering Dirty South rappers Goodie Mob before he broke away in the early 2000s for a colorful solo route. Along with fellow Atlanta rappers OutKast, Goodie Mob laid out the blueprint for the Dirty South style during the mid-´90s, making serious waves with their debut album, Soul Food (1995). Cee-Lo was an important member of the group, often singing the hooks to many of Goodie Mob´s best songs (e.g., "Cell Therapy," "Soul Food," "Black Ice"). But the group didn´t last too long, and after a few releases over a five-year span, Cee-Lo split with Goodie Mob for a promising solo deal with Arista.
The deal came in the wake of Arista´s success with OutKast´s Stankonia (especially the single "Ms. Jackson"), not to mention the burgeoning neo-soul movement characterized by the likes of Alicia Keys, Jill Scott, and Macy Gray. Arista label head L.A. Reid no doubt sensed a lot of potential in Cee-Lo and gave him the green light to record a solo album. That album, Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections (2002), sounded unlike anything else out there — unlike Cee-Lo´s past work with Goodie Mob, unlike his neo-soul contemporaries, and unlike pretty much anything else except the weirder corners of OutKast´s Stankonia album.
The album unsurprisingly never took off commercially, despite some colorful promotion on Cee-Lo´s part (a wild video for "Closet Freak" and a belly-baring live tour), and the tattooed big man went back the drawing board, returning in early 2004 with Cee-Lo Green Is the Soul Machine. This follow-up was just as free-spirited as Cee-Lo´s debut but was a more focused effort, anchored by some radio-friendly singles produced by big-money hitmakers Timbaland ("I´ll Be Around"), Jazze Pha ("The One"), and the Neptunes. It also featured some nice production by Cee-Lo himself. Interestingly, Arista released the album shortly after parting ways with Reid and also after experiencing enormous, Grammy-winning success with OutKast´s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, an album (André 3000´s half, at least) that sounded quite a bit like Cee-Lo´s work.
In 2006, Cee-Lo enjoyed his greatest success to date as half of Gnarls Barkley, a duo also featuring producer Danger Mouse. "Crazy," the lead single from St. Elsewhere, the duo´s debut album, was an instant hit in the U.K. and steadily rose to the top of the charts in the U.S. by the end of the summer. The critical acclaim and commercial success of Gnarls Barkley awarded Cee-Lo the most attention he´d ever enjoyed in his career to date. Cee-Lo and DM followed it up with a second Gnarls Barkley album, The Odd Couple, in early 2008. After reuniting his original group, Goodie Mob, to play dates around the country in 2010, Cee-Lo recorded his third proper solo album, The Ladykiller, featuring an on-going dose of his unique take on soul, pop and hip hop in the 21st century, highlighted by the summery single “I Want You.” A frequent collaborator, Cee-Lo also worked with producer Jazze Pha for Happy Hour, Jazze Pha´s singing and rapping debut, with Cee-Lo co-producing and sharing vocals. In addition, Cee-Lo teamed up with PlantLife´s Jack Splash for the Heart Attack project.

专辑简介切尔西天王阿什利-科尔的前妻谢莉尔近日推出了自己的最新专辑《Messy Little Raindrops》，在这张专辑的封面上，谢莉尔一身橙色与粉色相间的连衣裙配上那华丽的豹纹尖靴，这一切的一切都显得谢莉尔是那样的妩媚动人，这似乎让所有人都以为这位曾经的英超头号娇妻已经走出了离婚的阴影，其实不然。
在这张专辑中有一首歌名为《Happy Tears》，这首歌的歌词很好的记录了她在离婚后的心情：“当我知道你欺骗我的时候，我哭了；当我说我要远走高飞的时候，我哭了；当我的内心不再相信你的时候我哭了。我剪短了头发，开始涂脚趾甲油；我卖掉了所有的钻戒也烧掉了你所有的衣服；当我刻意去抹去你在我心中的印记时，我哭了；当你的衣服被火烧时，我哭了……”
虽然整首歌没有提到那位切尔西天王的名字，但是明眼人一看就明白，这首歌是写给阿什利-科尔的。虽然这首歌的歌词不是谢莉尔亲自写的，但是当这位美女歌手看到歌词之后毫不犹豫的就答应了。由此可见，在谢莉尔的内心深处依然很难放下阿科尔。
这首歌一经推出，便取得了非常的反响。为了更好的为自己的新歌做宣传，谢莉尔打算在10月24日的《X Factor》节目的现场表演自己的最新作品。在谈到自己的新专辑的时候，谢莉尔也表现得非常期待：“我希望这能是一个惊艳的作品，我也希望歌迷们能够喜欢。在制作这张专辑的时候，我享受着全过程。”
另一方面，在单曲《3 Words》中与谢莉尔合作的她的绯闻男友，也是黑眼豆豆的主场Will.i.am表示即将担任著名选秀歌唱节目《英国偶像》和原版《美国偶像》评委的谢莉尔一定可以在美国一炮而红的。

Christina Perri是一名来自美国费城的创作歌手，至今并未签约到任何厂牌。她的第一支单曲《Jar of Hearts》的首次亮相是在美国大型舞蹈选秀节目《So you think you can dance》上。随后这支单曲登上Billboard's Hot Digital Songs 榜单19位。在此之前，她在洛杉矶一家咖啡吧担任侍者。后来她又发行了单曲：《Bang bang bang》
At just 24, Christina Perri has already lived a handful of lives. She's toured the world as an assistant to a rock band, spent a year at a prestigious university, became a wife and then an ex-wife, produced popular music videos, made olive oil in Italy and even served as a fashionista barrista in Beverly Hills. The whole while, music had been tapping her on the shoulder, trying to lead her down a path as a musician. It seems that fate grew tired of this shoulder-tapping approach as well and went for an old fashioned sucker punch.
On June 30th, a raw, defiant break-up song that Perri had written called "Jar of Hearts" aired on Fox's So You Think You Can Dance as a backdrop to a memorable piece choreographed by Stacey Tookey. The song struck a chord with viewers, who began downloading it from iTunes in droves, sending "Jar of Hearts" into the Top 10 on the iTunes Pop chart and into the Top 15 on the Overall chart overnight. Impressed, SYTYCD's producers invited Perri to play the song live on the show two weeks later.
Following Perri's stripped-down piano performance on July 15th, "Jar of Hearts" continued its meteoric rise. After landing at No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and at No. 1 on Amazon's digital singles chart, the track sold 200,000 downloads in three weeks. Suddenly a hot property, Perri signed a record deal with Atlantic Records and is in the studio finishing up her debut album, with an eye toward a late fall release. She will also hit the road for a handful of shows in late September to perform with Jason Mraz, one of her all-time favorite artists.
Perri feels that "Jar of Hearts" has connected because, "on a basic level, everyone has had this experience with a person who broke their heart. I'm just telling my story in a very real and direct way. This kind of slapped the crap out of everyone's hearts," she says with a laugh.

2011 debut full length from the Folk/Country duo. The Civil Wars consists of John Paul White, hailing from Florence, AL and Joy Williams, originally from Santa Cruz, CA, but now residing in East Nashville. The duo's chance meeting a year and a half ago fueled an immediate songwriting chemistry and creative synergy. Their second show ever, performed at a sold out Eddie's Attic, was recorded and released as a free digital album. Of the duo, Reg's Coffee House host, Scott Register, praises: 'In my 13 years on the radio, few of the artists I've championed had as immediate a reaction as The Civil Wars. When I first spun `Poison & Wine' listeners couldn't get enough of it and wanted to own it immediately. This band has the `it' factor that you look for. Don't miss out.'

UK two track CD pressing of this single lifted from the 2010 album Last Train To Paris. Features two versions of 'Coming Home': Album Version and Clean Version. Polydor. 2011.

Love? is the upcoming seventh studio album by American recording artist and actress Jennifer Lopez. Conceived during the pregnancy of her twins Emme and Max, Love? is Lopez’s most personal album to date, taking inspiration from the birth of her twins and her own experiences with love. Recording for the album began in 2009, with an original release date for the project was set for January 2010 to coincide with Lopez’s latest film The Back-up Plan. However following the lack of success with lead single “Louboutins,” Lopez and Sony Music Entertainment decided to end their ten year partnership leaving the fate of Love? in uncertainty. In 2010, Lopez has singed a new record deal with Island Records, which will see her release Love? in 2011. Currently the album is set to include a mixture of previously recorded material, along with new records with Tricky Stewart, The-Dream and RedOne commissioned by Island Records. The album will combine R&B, pop music and hip hop songs for a mixture of club-ready singles as well as slower mid-tempo songs. Lopez refers to Love? as containing her best vocals to date. The album’s first single under Island Records will be titled “On the Floor” and features Pitbull. It will be released fully on February 22, 2011, while the album itself is due on March 29, 2011.

Jewel六岁时，她就开始歌唱生涯，她经常跟随父母在所居住的爱斯基摩村落里演出，并倍受当地村民喜爱。直到她考上了密歇根州的Interlochen美术学院。在学院的学习过程中她还参与了戏剧的表演，在学期末的会演节目《Spoon River Anthology》中担任主演。她在毕业后去圣地亚哥找到了工作，但是她逐渐受不了了这种朝九晚五的工作方式，于是她决定把自己的主要精力放在音乐上。

Raised in Foxborough, Massachusetts, she began performing in singing competitions and local talent shows from a young age. In 2003, Record producer Vincent Herbert noticed her after she competed on the television show America's Most Talented Kids and asked her to audition for his record label Blackground Records. Having signed with them that same year, JoJo released her eponymous debut studio album the following year in June 2004. It peaked at number four on the US Billboard 200 and was later certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), selling over four million copies worldwide to date

2010年红透半边天的年度新人恶女凯莎〈Ke$ha〉创下许多新人纪录，不仅首张冠军专辑《派对动物Animal》全球狂卖200万张，还产生包括九周冠军曲〈Tik Tok〉 、〈Blah Blah Blah〉、〈Your Love Is My Drug〉 、〈Take It Off〉共四首全美单曲榜Top10金曲，成为史上第11位在首张专辑制造四首十大金曲的女歌手！ 2010年11月22日她将以《派对动物Animal》的概念推出延伸EP《Cannibal》，首支单曲〈We R Who We R〉在美国iTunes一推出便狂飙到单曲排行下载冠军，成绩惊人！

Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television judge. After singing in church during her childhood, she pursued a career in gospel music as a teenager.

Last Night On Earth. This is the story of last night on earth. Ten tracks to tell one, many and countless tales. Ten tracks that look through the pane, beyond reflection, into the night dark and the lives burning brightly within it. It may be their last night on earth. It may just feel that way.
Our third album is adventurous like its journey from Bethnal Green synagogue via the Thames riverbank across the Atlantic, the United States and all manner of Los Angeles neon-lighted highways. But it is unmistakably Noah and the Whale.

Shifting to indie Razor & Tie after a four-year hiatus following her 2007 album, Heroes & Thieves, Vanessa Carlton turns inward on her fourth album, Rabbits on the Run. Embracing all the spectral elements that ran underneath the surface of her music, Carlton avoids any of the surging orchestrations or any suggestions of cheer, spending long stretches of the album alone with her piano, and when the arrangements are fleshed-out, they’re done so subtly that it often seems as if she’s singing alone in the studio. Even if it has the effect of turning Rabbits on the Run into something of an unintentional Tori Amos homage, it’s an appropriately austere setting for Carlton’s melancholy introspections, ruminations that don’t offer any easy way inside. Unlike “A Thousand Miles” or the two albums that dealt with the repercussions of her initial success, this is music made with no audience in mind: it is strikingly personal, to the extent that it suggests that Carlton needs to get this soul-searching out of her system in order to move forward.

从Carole King到Timbaland, 再到Pharrell Williams还有Smokey Robinson，这又有一位出色音乐制作人跨越制作身份成功迈进歌手行列。一个崭新的名字即将入进最佳杰出歌手名单。他作为Universal英国唱片公司与美国Motown唱片公司的商业接点被推向唱片界。他就是英国著名制作人兼歌手Taio Cruz。他出生于伦敦，有尼日利亚和巴西的血统。 　　Taio曾与Jazze Pha和Rich Harrison合作为Usher, Mya还有Britney Spears等诸多大牌歌星担当歌曲创作。Rihanna一度风靡全球音乐排行榜的超热门冠军单曲"Umbrella"就是出自他手。Youtube网络当红美女歌手Esmée Denters进入Justin唱片公司顺利成为签约歌手Taio功不可没。 　　被超级热门歌曲的制作者Dallas Austin是TLC和Boys 2 Men的制作人称Taio是“the new Babyface”新版Babyface。上学的时候他常常被老师和同学昵称为“小孩”（The Kid）,这个名字是从“天才小孩”（the wonder kid）缩略来的。但后来，他就以各种各样的名字为人所知了。比如：Eric Sermon,制作人兼说唱歌手。喜欢他的人叫他（The Truth）“真理”。Christopher "Tricky" Stewart,出现在Rihanna的《Umbrella》，Madonna和Britney的《Me Against The Music》的制作人被昵称为The Black Liberace。 　　作为制作人或者是创作者的Taio在英国曾与很多艺术家、制作人和作曲人合作或者替他们写歌。简单说来有：灵歌巨星——Omar,著名的制作人/艺术家——Nitin Sawhney,传奇歌手——Lulu，英国Garage音乐的创始人——Wookie，还有原来的流行偶像的获得者——Will Young。Taio为Will Young创作的《Your Game》这首歌，不光是获得了白金销量，更为他在Brit Awards上赢得了最佳英国单曲的大奖。 　　作为制作人，Taio取得了前所未有的成功。作为歌手，虽然是新人但过人的才华也是为他赢得了歌迷媒体的强烈关注。Taio平和柔美的嗓音可以和诸多伟大的歌手比拼。与他可以相提并论的有：Stevie Wonder，Boys 2 Men，Marvin Gaye，Michael Jackson和Prince。他从这些人那里得到了不少灵感，而且Taio认为能与这些歌手相比是他无尚的光荣。