THE WEEK IN MUSIC

Another week of music gone by. Lets recap:

Hitting the Charts, Lady Gaga refused to give up her number one spot with Born This Way, which stayed atop the charts for a second week. The top 5 of the Hot 100 is below:

1. Born This Way---Lady Gaga

2. F**k You---Cee Lo Green

3. Grenade---Bruno Mars

4. I Need A Doctor---Dr. Dre ft. Eminem and Skylar Grey

5. Firework---Katy Perry

The list is the same as last week, with the exclusion of Wiz Khalifa’s “Black and Yellow”, and the inclusion of Dre’s “I Need A Doctor”. The only reason it took three weeks to hit the top 5 is because this was one of the few songs that the Doc was able to keep secret until it actually came out to radio. But that’s just an opinon………..lets get back to facts.

Top 5 Billboard 200:

1. Never Say Never: The Remixes----Justin Beiber

2. Sigh No More---Mumford & Sons

3. Now 37---Various Artists

4. Need You Now---Lady Antebellum

5. Doo-Wops & Hooligans----Bruno Mars

The Billboard 200 is not too hard to understand; all of the artists featured in the top 5 (and all but one in the top 10) performed and/or won awards at the Grammy’s two weeks ago.

Eminem, as a sort of symbol of all the success he has had since he released Recovery, became not only the most liked living artist on Facebook, but also reached 1 billion views on YouTube to join the likes of Justin Beiber and Rihanna as the only people to have ever done so.

See Em’s facebook page for yourself as well as his YoutubeVevo page.

Also subject of much discussion is Dr. Dre’s new song with the former Slim Shady I Need A Doctor. Watch the video below:

Em claims to have presented this song to Dre with the intentions of getting him fired up to complete the album and thus his comeback. Whatever the case, it has certainly resonated with fans, as the song moved to number 4 on the charts from being in the 30’s last week.

Props to Dre, whose illustrious career is run through in film and pictures in the beginning, and Eminem, who has come back with a vengeance this year!

On a, um, darker note, these pictures of Beyonce:

Set off critics, who claim that Beyonce darkening her face in an issue of French Mag L'Officiel Paris in tribute to Nigerian musician Fela Kuti was not fashionable, but “flat out offensive” and degrading.

I beg to differ. People can make ANYTHING offensive and degrading if they want to perceive it as such. But do you really think that Beyonce went in to that photo shoot with the intention of being offensive? Not a very smart business move, and Beyonce, who has made over $80 million dollars in 2009, is all about her business.

I don’t know if we’ll see Chris Brown and Rihanna this close anytime soon, but the restraining order that kept Brown at least 50 yards away from Rihanna at almost all times (10 yards away at entertainment industry events) has been lifted. Brown just completed a one-year domestic violence court required under his probation.

That’s all I have for today, but come back next week to find out the musical winners at the Academy Awards and some updated info on the most anticipated album releases of the year. Later!