You’ve heard the song in the latest Adidas commercials and now B.o.B.’s “Magic” featuring Weezer’s frontman Rivers Cuomo has an official video. The Sanaa Hamri-directed video is the third single lifted from …The Adventures of Bobby Ray.

B.o.B. wakes up and progresses throughout the day with many pretty ladies and a crazy house party. The question at the end is whether or not all that fun was all real or just a dream?

Kylie & Co. enlisted AlexandLiane to direct the video for her second single off Aphrodite, “Get Outta My Way.”

The video just smacks you in the face with enticing visuals. Lighting, fashion and simplicity are the three main factors behind this video and it’s those three main components that make this video one heck of a piece stylized art. Everything looks perfect and Kylie looks like, well, a goddess. Check the video out below.

After wishy-washy reports of Rihanna’s brand new single release, the news is official. Despite a release date of September 14 being issued, Ryan Seacrest will exclusively premiere “Only Girl (In The World)” on Tuesday, Sept. 7 at 3AM PT/6AM ET.

The song is produced by the duo responsible for her hits, “Hate That I Love You,” “Don’t Stop the Music” and her last #1, “Rude Boy.” Yes, Stargate has once again been brought on board to ensure Rihanna all types of “happy” and “dancey” success.

Hopes will not be held high but it will be nice to be pleasantly surprised because as Proph said, “She’s as as good as her last single.” The tastes of “Te Amo” and “Rockstar 101″ were bittersweet. We hope “Only Girl…” is that rot your teeth kind of sweet.

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Jay Complex spoke to us about his Underdog mixtape some months ago and now the days are nearing as the official mixtape cover art is here. Teaming up with BJM Photogrpahy, Jay stands in front of a chalkboard lined with the words, “I will not back down.” It is a strong message to show his drive, hunger, passion for what he does and where he wants to be.

Jay recently let loose another track from the mixtape and we are feeling this right about now.

The overly cute Selena Gomez of Selena Gomez & The Scene is about to release the group’s latest single, “A Year Without Rain,” from their sophomore album of the same title. The album will hit stores on September 21. We’ve always overlooked Gomez because she just seemed like one of the Disney crowd aka a Hollywood Records product. Then it finally hit us that she is exactly what we always say the overly sexual female performers should be: class and intelligence over sex and scandalous behavior.

“A Year Without Rain” is an almost perfect slice of Euro-inspired Dance/Pop. The intro sounds a little like Coldplay’s “Clocks” before switching into a euphoric thumping dance beat. It doesn’t take but one listen before you could care less who it is you’re listening to and just realize that this song Rocks, we mean Pop. Peep a preview of the music video after…

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The anticipation for Ne-Yo’s forthcoming studio album, Libra Scale, is pretty much non-existent and that’s possibly due to the bland and boring material that has leaked thus far. A new leak surfaced earlier and whilst it’s still nothing magnificent it surely sounds good.

The Stargate-produced “Everything’s Alright” has a really nice string melody and relies on repetition to make it way too easy for the listener to catch-on and sing those “OH-OH-OH-OHHHHHHHHH’s.” Ne-Yo really is hit-and-miss with this album, mostly miss but this song is doing it for us right now.

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In other Ne-Yo news, he spoke about recently going into the studio with Beyoncé for the her fourth studio album:

“It’s coming along nicely. I can’t speak too much on it, but it’s another direction for her, and she’s carving out her own niche. In a minute nobody will be in Beyonce’s lane. They really can’t get in her lane now, but they really can’t get in her lane after this album.”

Ne-Yo is partially responsible for Beyoncé’s #1 hit, “Irreplaceable,” so maybe they’ll work the magic again. As for Beyoncé being in her own lane, just READ HERE.

It was proven that not everyone can have their cake and eat it too when this week’s Billboard 200 chart was released. At #1 was Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream which was expected after the major success of her singles, “California Girls,” “Teenage Dream,” and the promo circus that was put together by her label. What wasn’t expected was although Perry was #1, her sales’ numbers were lacking. Teenage Dream sold about 192,000 copies which is not horrible by today’s music industry standards but is far off from earlier predictions. Early predictions had Perry estimated to sell near Gold numbers: near 400,000.

In a recent MTV article, the spotlight is put on Perry’s latest album as being more of a greatest hits collection than a “cohesive” list of songs. [READ HERE] Which makes sense as it seems people nowadays like their music uptempo and short as possible. So it’s almost as if the record labels know they won’t make the money with album sales so they say, “it’s all about the singles.”

There’s no sense in fighting the change; the days of each of your albums going Diamond with 2-5 #1 singles are over. Mariah Carey was the last to do accomplish that feat. Even Britney Spears who sold a ton of albums still only achieved her second #1 single about 10 years into her career and we still think that had to do with politics. In a similar situation, Alicia Keys couldn’t get a single to chart properly to save her life off the The Element of Freedom but that album surely went on to sell near-Gold figures in its first week alone and became Platinum soon after. On the contrary, Rihanna has hits upon hits especially only being around for five years yet her albums sales are nothing to boast about. Eminem is the only one out right now who can top both the singles’ and album charts along with Lady GaGa of the new decade of Pop Stars.

So as it stands the current crop of Pop stars are catering to listeners who appreciate a “fun” single instead of a “solid” album. But what will work for Perry is she has so many singles on Teenage Dream that they will keep the listeners’ attention and cause the album to stay in the charts for a long while.

It may be four entire months until Lady GaGa reveals the title of her third studio album on New Year’s Day but that isn’t stopping the information from rolling out. It is now known that Fernando Garibay will executive-produce the album.[SOURCE]

Fernando Garibay worked with GaGa on The Fame Monster for “Dance In the Dark.” He may not be widely known YET but Garibay had his productions out on the radio since 1998. Some of Garibay’s productions include Mya’s “Movin’ On,” Ricky Martin’s “Shake Your Bon Bon,” Enrique Iglesias’ “Bailamos,” Britney Spears’ “Quicksand” and “Amnesia,” Whitney Houston’s “Nothin’ But Love” a heap of The Paradiso Girls tunes including his best kept secret, “Down.”

Garibay has an entire other truckload of well known Top 40 songs that he’s either solely or co-produced. We had no idea he co-produced Houston’s “Nothin’ But Love”; we thought it was all Nathaniel “Danja” Hills‘ doing.

After running through that list of songs and knowing the songs he’s produced we could not be any more excited about this album and know that the pair will cook up some GREAT things.

N*E*R*D spoke had a one-on-one with Blackbook magazine to discuss their fourth studio album, Nothing. In the interview, the members discuss their different approach to the music all while keeping their unique and quirky style:

Williams’ deliberate shift from playboy to politico is felt all over Nothing, which he approached with a new-found sensitivity to global affairs. “We looked at the war, we looked at commerce, we looked at finance, we looked at the environment,” he says. It’s heavy stuff for a band whose inaugural single was called “Lapdance.” But, he adds, smiling, “We also looked at other interesting things, like the new Ferrari. I like a flower as much as I like a Ferrari. If it’s under the sun, why do I have to choose just one?”

For Nothing, 27 initial tracks were whittled down to the dozen or so that appear on the mastered album. The ones that got cut weren’t “magical,” Hugo says. “They were all great songs,” adds Williams, “but we needed something that will make people go, ‘What the fuck was that?’ When you hear this music, you’re gonna bug out.” Given the underwhelming critical reception of N.E.R.D’s last couple offerings, the band had better hope to blow a few minds. [SOURCE]

The guys have been through some changes as of late but it seems that the group remains a threesome. From what we just read it seems that the music will be left-field as usual so don’t expect a Billboard Hot 100 #1 unless it’s a surprise. Listen to 2 new tracks from the album after…

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Not too long ago, just under a year, Shakira released her greatly overlooked She Wolf album. Now, the naturally sexy international artist is releasing a brand new album entitled Sale El Sol. The behind-the-scenes videos of her brand new single, “Loca,” featuring Dizzee Rascal made its way online and now we finally get to hear both the English and Spanish versions of the songs.

Thanks to Proph we know that song borrows from El Cata’s “Loca Con Su Tiguere.” The song takes us on a trip back to the old Shakira with all its Latin elements whilst implementing new sounds such as Cuban music and the “grimey” Dizzee. The song is a definite winner and further shows off how Shakira can pull off being a cultural artist with so much Pop appeal so well. Listen to both the English and Spanish versions below.

This Spanish version is sending a heatwave through this place, so sexy.