Carrie Underwood is going global! With the release of her fourth studio album, ‘Blown Away,’ the country superstar has announced a string of concert dates in the United Kingdom and Australia. The just-announced Blown Away Tour dates will be the first headlining venture overseas for the ‘Good Girl’ singer.
These days, if anyone breaks any kind of musical record, you can assume it’s Adele or Rihanna. This time, the former took a crown from the King of Pop. The ‘Someone Like You’ singer bested the iconic Michael Jackson and his LP ’Thriller’ in the top 10 best-selling albums ever in her native U.K.
Chart-topping artists Kelly Clarkson, Usher and Nelly Furtado have been added to the star-studded list of performers for the 2012 Billboard Music Awards. ABC will air the event live from Las Vegas at 8PM ET on May 20.
It has seriously been a good year for Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton. The two have not only netted more awards than they can likely count but they were also both recognized just for being strikingly good-looking by People magazine. After Shelton was crowned Country Music’s Hottest Guy by People Country, his stunning wife just landed in People’s most beautiful women of 2012 issue.
At PS22 in Staten Island, N.Y., a chorus of talented fifth graders has garnered some national attention by performing hit songs with famous musicians like Gym Class Heroes, Ingrid Michaelson, Adele… and now, country’s own gem Carrie Underwood. Led by their instructor, talented piano player Gregg Breinberg, a few dozen chorus members gathered in the school auditorium recently to sing ‘Good Girl’ with Underwood, whose typically larger-than-life voice was almost overpowered by the kids’ skills.
People Magazine has named pop diva and new mom Beyonce as the “World’s Most Beautiful Woman” for 2012. In the magazine’s latest issue, the star gushes about her new baby girl and says motherhood makes her feel even more beautiful.
Just because she’s the Queen of Pop doesn’t mean Madonna is completely up to date on the genre’s landscape. Case in point: While most of us can’t escape One Direction, Madge claims to have never heard of them!
Denied!
Madonna revealed to a U.K. TV show that she wanted British diva Adele to perform with her at the 2012 Super Bowl, but the ‘Rolling in the Deep’ singer had to decline because her voice was still on the mend from vocal cord surgery. That would have been quite a halftime show, wouldn’t it?
A few weeks ago, TIME Magazine revealed the names it was considering for its annual list of the ’100 Most Influential People in the World.’ Reader votes determined one person, while the rest were selected by the magazine’s editors.
And now the final list — which includes athletes, actors, entrepreneurs and politicians — is out. So who made the cut?
