LA Reid will appear on The Ellen Degeneres Show. Check your local listings.
Billboard’s 21 under 21 List – Scotty McCreery comes in fourth, Demi Lovato comes in third, One Direction comes in second and Justin Beiber is Number 1.
Glee star, Lea Michele tweets, “Just had a very exciting music meeting and am proud to announce that im officially on the road to making my first album! I’m so excited!”
David Cook tweeted yesterday, “Spent all day recording demos. Had to stop for the night, though. Why? Because Sons Of Anarchy, that’s why.”
The Grand Ole Opry tweeted last night, “The beautiful Kellie Pickler smiling on the Opry stage.”
Rocker Adam Lambert to headline Maryland same-sex marriage benefit – Adam Lambert, the glam-rocker who rose to prominence on television’s “American Idol,” is the latest celebrity to be enlisted by the campaign to uphold Maryland’s same-sex marriage law. Lambert has been booked next week for a benefit concert at the 9:30 Club in the District, with proceeds to go to Marylanders for Marriage Equality, the group leading the campaign for November’s ballot measure known as Question 6. – Read more at The Washington Post
Taylor Hicks marks return to Las Vegas, but not (yet) to Bally’s – While we await word by our city’s greatest SEC football tailgate rocker and his possible return to Bally’s, we can report that Taylor Hicks will be back in town this week. He won’t be at Indigo at Bally’s. Not yet, at least. Instead, Hicks is the featured entertainment at the Las Vegas Hospitality Association’s 2012 Distinction Awards dinner gala Thursday at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The emcee is Las Vegas author Jack Sheehan. The most recent convention-style event Hicks played was the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., where he sang “Takin’ It To the Streets” just before Clint Eastwood took the stage. – Read more at The Las Vegas Weekly
Jennifer Hudson adds some glamour to Hearst’s 125th anniversary celebration – A 125th birthday celebration deserves a dose of star power.
And Jennifer Hudson certainly gave that as she helped the staff at Hearst publishing celebrate its milestone with a performance at Hearst Tower in New York on Tuesday. Looking stunning in a skin toned thigh length gown Jennifer entertained guests in her inimitable soulful style.
Is Nicki Minaj’s ‘American Idol’ Move A Win For Hip-Hop? – There is no doubt about it, Nicki Minaj scored a huge win this week when she was announced as one of the new judges on “American Idol,” but what does Nick’s new gig mean for hip-hop as a whole? Well, Wiz Khalifa told MTV News that if the YMCMB Barb could judge “Idol,” then the weed-loving MC himself could judge another singing competition. The notion doesn’t sound so far-fetched to Karen Civil, who runs her own blog at KarenCivil.com and oversees the social networking accounts for Lil Wayne and Dr. Dre’s Beats by Dre headphone line. “I can see Wiz hosting one of those shows, even though he smokes a lot,” she told MTV News. – Read more at MTV
Steve Harvey’s Got Talent – Watch Haley Reinhart as a talent judge on the Steve Harvey Show – Access Hollywood
‘X Factor,’ ‘Idol’ and ‘The Voice’ Judges Banking Bigger Paychecks as Ratings Sag – How many singing competition shows can viewers handle? Perhaps just one at a time. With The Voice airing in the fall for the first time since it premiered in April 2011 and The X Factor kicking off its sophomore season with Britney Spears and Demi Lovato joining Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid as judges, both shows are suffering ratings erosion. X Factor was down 23 percent (3.3 versus a 4.3 rating in the 18-to-49 demographic) compared with its first week last year, while Voice (excluding a post-Super Bowl episode that drew nearly 38 million viewers) was down 35 percent (4.0 vs. 6.2 rating) compared with its first week in the spring (it jumped 10 percent Sept. 17 but was still down 23 percent compared with the fourth episode of the previous cycle, which aired during mid-winter, when viewership tends to spike). – Read more at The Hollywood Reporter
