Leona Lewis reveals new album ‘Glassheart’ artwork and release date, Matt Cardle’s team releases “Letters” album tracklisting! The Guardian interviews Leona Lewis. Uncle Simon takes his X Factor favorites to The Katie Piper Foundation charity dinner. Which One Direction member wore a bow tie?
Also, Simon’s new show “Red or Black” premiered in the UK on Saturday night. Check out the stunning pictures from the set and Leona Lewis’ performance of “Collide” (It was a part of the game!).
Leona Lewis reveals new album ‘Glassheart’ artwork, release date
Leona Lewis has unveiled the artwork and release date for her new album.
The singer will release her third studio album Glassheart on November 28 in the UK, following the release of the record’s lead single ‘Collide’ on September 4.
The artwork features a headshot of the 26-year-old, where Lewis has a miniature star tattoo beneath each eye.
Read More: Digital Spy
You can also see HQ picture of the album cover HERE.
September 02 2011: The ‘Letters’ album tracklisting
1. Starlight
2. Run For Your Life
3. All For Nothing
4. Pull Me Under
5. Amazing
6. Faithless
7. Beat Of A Breaking Heart
8. Stars & Lovers
9. Letters
10. Reflections
11. Walking On Water
12. Slowly
13. When We Collide
Release date: 10/17 in the UK
You can see and hear the preview of Matt’s single “Run For Your Life” HERE. The song and the video will be released tomorrow, 09/05. iTunes release date: 10/09.
Leona Lewis: the Hackney heroine has given Simon Cowell a lesson in taste
Collide singer talks epic spook-pop, riots and dodging Whitney style ballads with Sylvia Patterson
Leona’s as-yet-unfinished third album (out November, featuring a production spectrum from UK grime whizz Naughty Boy to US balladeer Ryan Tedder and Emeli Sandé) is called Glass Heart “because it’s about being fragile, but also open and honest”. We hear a few songs other than the current corking dancefloor single Collide, its backing track now credited to Swedish DJ Avicii after a copyright rumpus (“I don’t get involved in record label politics, ” notes Leona, adding that monetary/legal wrangling generally “actually hurts my soul”). There’s the orchestral soundscape of Sugar, the eastern-tinged 80s electro of Fire Flies. Most intriguingly, there’s the stunning trip-hop of Trouble (“It’s very London, “), as if Kate Bush in 1979 was transported through a pop Tardis to front Massive Attack in 1991. Her spectral vocal imploring “I’m a whole lot of trouble.”
“It’s definitely true, ” she smiles. “I am a whole lot of trouble.”
Read more: The Guardian
A date with Uncle Si: Cowell takes his X Factor protégés Leona Lewis and One Direction to glamorous fundraising dinner
Simon Cowell took his adopted family out last night, playing the cool uncle as he celebrated with X Factor stars Leona Lewis and One Direction.
The music mogul and his protégés headed to the Savoy Hotel for a fundraising event in honour of The Katie Piper Foundation, of which the Syco boss is a patron.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Groupies are heading in One Direction
SIMON Cowell will soon need to hire the Army to keep One Direction fans at bay.
Read more: The Sun
Jessie J on X Factor with Tulisa Contostavlos
JESSIE J has landed a key role on the X Factor – as a mentor at the judges’ houses stage.
The Do It Like A Dude singer, 23, will join N-Dubz star and judge Tulisa Contostavlos in Greece later this month.
Read more: The Sun
X Factor to have Amy Winehouse tribute week
This year’s X Factor live shows will include a night honouring Amy Winehouse.
Show supremo Simon Cowell is insisting that contestants sing the Grammy-award winning star’s hits.
Simon previously described Amy, who died in July aged 27, as an “amazing talent”.
A show source said Simon, 51, “felt it was only right for X Factor to honour Amy”.
Read more: The Sunday Mirror
Simon and Cheryl friends again after he admits: I’m sorry
When Cheryl Cole was dropped from the US X Factor in May, it seemed both her career in the US and her close friendship with Simon Cowell were over.
Now, after meeting him secretly two weeks ago, I hear that Cheryl has forgiven the TV mogul for not doing more to keep her on as a judge on the show.
The singer, 28, who is in Los Angeles filming a cameo role for the movie What To Expect When You’re Expecting, visited Simon at his home in the city.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Cheryl Cole’s sultry new calendar shoot is her sexiest yet
The British summer is all but over… but Cheryl Cole is making sure that 2012 will be hot, hot, hot all year round.
The 28-year-old singer shows Simon Cowell what he’s missing as she oozes sophisticated sex appeal with her stunning new shots for her official calendar.
Read more: The Daily Mirror
X Factor star Jade Richards is a hard-living, Goth party-animal
Big-voiced Jade Richards belted out a performance to “change her life for ever” last night… and it made her the new favourite to win The X Factor.
But we can reveal that away from the stage Jade is a hard-living, hellraiser who admits she likes “drinking too much and making an idiot out of myself”.
The self-styled goth is so proud of her wild ways she boasts: “I party like a rock star, look like a movie star, play like an all-star and… baby I’m a superstar.”
Read more: The Sunday Mirror
Great voice shame about the look: X Factor bosses tell Jade Richards the Goth look has to go
She may sing like Adele but she doesn’t look enough like her to please The X Factor bosses.
Hopeful contestant Jade Richardson has been told by show bosses to abandon her Goth image if she wants to be a successful star.
Read more: The Daily Mail
X Factor: Wills n’ Kate busker is this year’s Wagner Carrilho
A SCRUFFY busker who strummed an ode to Wills and Kate outside the royal wedding has been dubbed The X Factor’s new Wagner.
Brit David Wilder, 42, became a sensation Down Under after his tribute to the royal couple, was featured live on Oz TV show Sunrise.
The Jimmy Savile lookalike – who was plucked out of the crowds – impressed the show’s hosts so much he was offered a spot on the Aussie X Factor. But he turned it down for the UK version.
Read more: The Sun
X Factor Derry robbed me on a train. I thought he had a gun, says 15-year-old victim
X Factor contestant Derry Mensah has emerged as one of the favourites to win the ITV talent show, after winning over the judges and nation.
The 20-year-old Burger King worker charmed judge Kelly Rowland, telling her how much he loved her, and even went down on bended knee during his performance last Saturday.
But before the soul singer’s first appearance on the show was screened, it was revealed that he had been convicted of robbery. Now, his 15-year-old victim has described an experience so terrifying, he is still afraid to go out alone at night.
Read more: The Daily Mail
X Factor: Tulisa Contostavlos reveals she and Louis Walsh have fallen out with Gary Barlow and Kelly Rowland
The feuding X Factor judges were last night embroiled in a bitter row which has split the panel in two.
N-Dubz star Tulisa Contostavlos has revealed how she and Louis Walsh have formed an alliance after falling out with Kelly Rowland and Gary Barlow.
Tulisa, 23, says she and Louis, 59, have such a strong bond they have combined their names and started calling themselves “Louisa”.
Read more: The Daily Mirror
The night I smashed a Sinitta record over Simon Cowell’s head, Ian Levine paints an intimate portrait of X Factor’s music mogul
For a man who has been voted ‘more famous than God and the Queen’, Simon Cowell is still fiercely ambitious.
Later this month he will launch the US version of The X Factor. Success could make him a billionaire; failure may destroy his credibility.
He is said to be extremely nervous, yet few know the true personality behind a supremely confident public image.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Leona Lewis set for ITV showcase
LEONA Lewis is smiling again after getting the go-ahead to release Collide – her collaboration with Avicii.
On Saturday night she will perform the house-influenced track on Simon Cowell’s new ITV1 gameshow Red Or Black?
Leona has hired Kylie’s creative director William Baker to mastermind the performance after being given a £100, 000 budget by her label bosses.
Read more: The Sun
SNEAK PEEK: An incredible first look at Simon Cowell’s multi-million pound gamble, Red Or Black
The first stills of Simon Cowell’s latest, and most extravagant ever, project have been released, and it looks set to deliver exactly the high octane experience the television mogul had hoped for.
In Red Or Black, which starts tonight at 7pm on ITV, contestants may win one million pounds on live television for the first time.
These photos show some of the incredible games, all based purely on luck, in which simply by choosing red or black members of the public could win fortunes.
Read more: The Daily Mail
It could be an expensive week! First millionaire is made on action-packed Red Or Black
It is a life-changing prize and for the 1000 contestants, the chances of bagging the £1million were very slim.
But the dream came true for a very lucky man tonight as contestant Nathan Hageman scooped the jackpot.
The new millionaire was reduced to tears and barely able to speak as he choked: ‘Is this real, thank you, is this happening?’
Read more: The Daily Mail
TWO NIGHTS IN A ROW! Full time carer Kevin Cartwright becomes Red or Black’s second instant millionaire
You could have cut the tension with a knife.
Even presenters Ant and Dec looked like they were feeling the pressure resting on 44-year-old Kevin Cartwright’s shoulders as he made the decision which could change his life forever.
But that tension switched in an instant to jubilation, and Kevin gasped in shock as he became Red Or Black’s second consecutive millionaire.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Leona Lewis – Collide – Red or Black
The Official Charts Update – 09/04/11
Singles
#3 Olly Murs – Heart Skips A Beat (feat. Rizzle Kicks)
#8 Will Young – Jealousy
#16 JLS – She Makes Me Wanna (feat. Dev)
#31 Cher Lloyd – Swagger Jagger
#51 David Guetta – Night Of Your Life (feat. Jennifer Hudson)
Albums
#3 Will Young – Echoes
#5 Joe McElderry – Classic
#34 Will Young – The Hits
#44 Olly Murs – Olly Murs
New releases: Leona Lewis’ single, Collide, was released to iTunes last night. This release was quite a mess: Avicii controversy, music video release only 1 week before the single drop, etc. Next week we will witness One Direction’s single “What Makes You Beautiful” crush the competition with their record breaking pre-orders.
Alexandra Burke’s single will premiere next week. Alexandra tweets that her record label RCA decided to push the premiere of Alexandra’s new single back a week. Matt Cardle’s single premieres tomorrow, so I think it’s a wise decision.
