Scotty McCreery is shooting a music video for his single “I Love You This Big” in Los Angeles tomorrow (June 30) at 5 pm. The casting agency put out a call for fans to take part in the shoot. Read the casting call HERE.
Via @RCAPromo: “New York Lee DeWyze fans! @LeeDeWyze will be performing “Beautiful Like You” tomorrow on “Good Day New York”! 9am EST on Fox!”
It’s Day 2 of the X Factor US live auditions in Seattle Washington. Follow all the action @TheXfactorUSA
David Cook wrote with Springsteen guitarist
David and Van Zandt met on the 2008 American Idols Live! tour, and the guitarist also attended David’s 2009 concert at New York’s Nokia Theater. David says Van Zandt suggested writing together.
“I was floored, ” David says. “That was like going to class. I felt nervous the way I felt nervous the first day I went to high school: ‘Okay, don’t do anything to stand out the wrong way. Be cool. Blend in.'”
David describes the resulting song as “a little ballad-y, which surprised me. I think we set out to write an uptempo, rabble-rousing song and ended up with this kind of cool ballad.”
Read more at USAToday
Jennifer Hudson arrives to join “Stooges”
Jennifer Hudson, who won an Oscar for her role in “Dreamgirls, ” has arrived to join the cast of “The Three Stooges.” She plays a nun.
“Working with Jennifer Hudson today, ” actor Sean Hayes tweeted on Tuesday. “Looking forward to hamming it up with her. I think we should have a sing-off.”
Hayes also tweeted this “sneak peek” photo, at the right.
Read more at AJC
Introducing the Queen of Pop
Here is the first Rolling Stone Queen of Pop Index. We ranked 16 solo female artists, looking at album and digital song sales, Hot 100 rankings, radio airplay, YouTube views, social media, concert grosses, industry awards and critics’ ratings. In alphabetical order, they are: Adele, Christina Aguilera, Beyoncé, Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cyrus, Ke$ha, Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, P!nk, Rihanna, Robyn, Shakira, Britney Spears, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood.
On the master rank, Carrie came in 11, Kelly 13 out of 16
Read more at Rolling Stone
Jason Aldean’s Fans Follow Him Down a ‘Dirt Road’
‘Don’t You Wanna Stay, ‘ your duet with Kelly Clarkson, went gold. Did you immediately know that song would be a monster hit?
That duet has been an amazing song for us and has been huge for my career. Getting to work with Kelly … she is probably my favorite female singer out there. Obviously, when you’re bringing another artist in to sing on a song, there’s a lot of things you’re unsure about — how your voices are gonna blend and things like that. That’s something you really don’t know until you get in the studio. But once she came in and started singing on it, I knew right away that it was really good. After she came and put her magic on it, it took a great song and made it even better. As far as singing it onstage every night, I feel like it’s gone really well. That song has been a big song for my career, and we felt like it was something we definitely wanted to have in the show. The only way to do that was to build something and have her on the screen. If there ever is a point where she can come out and be in the show and do it live, that’s something I would love to do, but unfortunately we can’t do that every night. So having her on the screen is the next best thing.
Read more at The Boot
Kara DioGuardi Judges a Belly-Flopping Contest on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ (VIDEO)
Jimmy Kimmel set up another one of his belly-flopping competitions on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ (Weeknights, 12AM ET on ABC). While the first contestants were a little underwhelming, Kimmel got his hopes up when Eddie stood poised and ready to jump.
Clearly, his was the belly to beat, but could he flop it properly? Kara DioGuardi was on hand to judge, while Jason Bateman made sure Kimmel reminded him to jump belly first into the water. You can’t get a good splash otherwise.
See the video at AOL TV
Behind the Social Media Scenes at NBC’s #TheVoice [EXCLUSIVE]
Social media isn’t just for early adopters: America’s top-rated new show is chock full of digital and social integrations. We’ve already discussed how The Voice came to life and why the digital integrations were put into place. Now we’re going to show you how it’s done.
Mashable went backstage at the final performance show of The Voice to see how the social media gets integrated so seamlessly.
Read more at Mashable
Justin Timberlake Takes MySpace Ownership Stake and Strategy Role
Justin Timberlake is taking an ownership stake in MySpace.
The singer-actor, who starred as Facebook pioneer Sean Parker in The Social Network, will play a “major role in developing the creative direction and strategy” for the rival platform.
Specific Media, which today acquired MySpace from News Corp., made the announcement late Wednesday.
Read more at Gossip Cop
