Here are the finalists for the 2006 Billboard Music Awards, which will be handed out Dec. 4 live on Fox from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Winners are determined by actual performance on the Billboard charts.
Female Artist of the Year
Beyonce
Mary J. Blige
Rihanna
Female R&B/Hip-Hop Artist of the Year
Beyonce
Mary J. Blige
Mariah Carey
Billboard.com
Full download’s coming soon…
Okay guys, so this isn’t directly Beyonce related, but Dustin did it advertising his new blog, so I figure why can’t I? lol… A good friend of mine has recently opened up her own GREAT Kelly Rowland forum, called The Kelly Korner. Make sure you drop by, register and join in the festivities lol… SPREAD THE WORD!
[ The Kelly Korner ]
Sorry there haven’t been many updates recently, I’ve had a really busy few days (just graduated! WOO!) Anyhow…
Beyonce is among a select group of entertainers who have been invited by the United Kingdom’s Princes William and Harry to mark the 10th anniversary of their mother Princess Diana’s death with a pop concert at London’s new Wembley Stadium.
Also on the list of performers is rock legend Sir Elton John, along with George Michael and Kylie Minogue. Local performers as well as additional international superstars will be invited to take part. The concert is rumored to be just one event to mark Diana’s passing, but nothing else has been confirmed yet. An official announcement is slated for December 12.
- HRS News
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! Attention all ForeverBeyonce visitors! A brand new celebrity weblog has just been launched, and it goes by the name of Think2wice.org! A friend and I are running it, and we promise to deliver the best in daily celebrity news. But don’t think I’m going to neglect this site; I will still (with the help of Jason) continue to deliver you guys updates on Beyonce. But be sure to add Think2wice.org to your bookmarks!!
Pop icon Beyonce is looking for the hottest and best dancers on the planet for her upcoming world tour. Five U.S. cities — Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston, New York, and Chicago — will host open call auditions, at specific locations TBA, beginning in December:
December 6 & 7 Los Angeles Alley Kat (1455 Gordon)
December 9 Atlanta Dance 101
January 6 Houston location TBA
January 11 & 12 New York location TBA
January 27 Chicago location TBA
Dancers may be male or female, of all nationalities, but must be at least 18 years old. For more information on Beyonce’s 2007 World Tour Dance Auditions, please visit:
http://www.beyonce.com
http://www.beyonceonline.com
http://www.beyonceknowles.net
http://www.musicworldringtones.com
http://www.columbiarecords.com
A few updates for Irreplaceable…
#3 on Hot 100
#1 on Billboard Hot R&B
#5 on POP 100
#1 on iTunes
Two popular rap acts occupy the top two spots on The Billboard 200 this week, with the Game’s “Doctor’s Advocate” coming in at No. 1. The Geffen effort moved 358,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, a couple hundred thousand copies fewer than the 587,000 that greeted his debut “The Documentary” in 2005. “Doctor’s Advocate” manages No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart as well.
Beyonce’s Columbia set “B’Day” re-enters the top tier, climbing 16-9 with 68,000 and a 17% sales increase.
- Billboard
Thanks so much to Jason for posting the youtube video of Beyonce performing Irreplaceable at the 2006 American Music Awards! Here is the FULL performance in MPEG format. Check it out below!
Zipped MPEG: 43.5 MB - Download Here!
The only version available at the moment of this video has the beginning cut off, but as soon as I find a full version it will be posted :)
Just a reminder to everyone that TODAY is the Download Day for Irreplaceable. Try to download it as much as you can from any LEGAL source. These include iTunes, Puretracks, Napster, Rapsody, Sony Connect, MSN Music, Virgin Digital, Wal-Mart Downloads, FYE Download Zone, Musicmatch and MANY more. And spread the word!!
Thousands of teenagers were screaming, wailing for a beautiful, young woman a global pop star far from home who was spending a very special night backstage practicing her Japanese. The beautiful, young woman is Beyonce Knowles, on tour in Tokyo. On this night in September, she turned 25. That she chose to celebrate this day far from friends, family and home is just part of being Beyonce, we learned. “I’m just now starting to get it balance,” Knowles said. “I’m starting to learn to take care of myself, and usually, it’s all or nothing. I work really, really hard, long hours, or I do absolutely nothing.” Watch the full story on “Nightline” at 11:35 ET tonight.
And over the last few months of watching her behind the scenes, from Tokyo to Chicago, we never saw Knowles doing nothing. We saw a major contender for the hardest-working woman in entertainment who endured grueling 15-hour days, a work ethic based on unrelenting pace. “I was really exhausted when I was in Japan,” she said. But exhaustion is no excuse for Knowles. “I know when people are in the audience they come to see they want to see a show. They want to live out their fantasies,” Knowles said. “And I see when I am looking in the audience it doesn’t matter how sad or how weak or whatever emotion they feel. For that two hours they think they are me. So they don’t want to see something boring, so I give them a show.”
I know something like this has already been posted, but just to make it official…
The Nov. 20 broadcast of “The Oprah Winfrey” show will be devoted to the upcoming movie musical Dreamgirls. “Get ready to be dazzled by the star-studded cast of ‘Dreamgirls,’” Winfrey’s official website says. “The stunning Beyonce, the brilliant Jamie Foxx and the legendary Eddie Murphy like you’ve never seen them! And, the ‘American Idol’ finalist who took Oprah’s breath away. Plus, a performance that brings down the house.” The Oprah Winfrey Show airs in the metropolitan area on WABC-TV Channel 7, from 4-5 PM ET; check local listings.
Directed by Bill Condon, “Dreamgirls” is scheduled to hit movie theatres nationwide Dec. 25, although it will premiere in New York Dec. 4 and in Los Angeles Dec. 11. The film stars Jennifer Hudson as Effie, Beyonc Knowles as Deena Jones, Anika Noni Rose as Lorrell Robinson, Jamie Fox as Curtis Taylor Jr., Eddie Murphy as James “Thunder Early” and Danny Glover as Marty. Director Bill Condon also wrote the film’s screenplay based on the late Tom Eyen’s book. The film employs most of the original score by Eyen and Henry Krieger as well as four new tunes.
“Dreamgirls,” according to the film’s official website, “follows the rise of a trio of women Deena (Beyonc Knowles), Effie (Jennifer Hudson) and Lorrell (Anika Noni Rose) who have formed a promising girl group called The Dreamettes. At a talent competition, they are discovered by an ambitious manager named Curtis Taylor, Jr. (Jamie Foxx), who offers them the opportunity of a lifetime: to become the back-up singers for headliner James ‘Thunder’ Early (Eddie Murphy). Curtis gradually takes control of the girls’ look and sound, eventually giving them their own shot in the spotlight as The Dreams. The spotlight, however, begins to narrow in on Deena, finally pushing back the less attractive Effie out altogether. Though the Dreams become a crossover phenomenon, they soon realize that the cost of fame and fortune may be higher than they ever imagined.”
- Playbill News
Below are a couple of videos of Beyonce performing at this year’s World Music Awards! For those that are wondering, she DID NOT perform Ring The Alarm. She just did the dancebreak (like at the VMAs) as an intro to Deja Vu. And later on in the show, she performed Irreplaceable! These videos should hold you over ’til the show airs in the next couple of weeks … Enjoy!!
Show Opener - Deja Vu
Irreplaceable
