A company backed by investors including Will Smith and major record labels has launched a new Web site offering 10,000 free, high-definition music videos. Universal Music...
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You may have seen the recent photos
of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his
44th album, "Modern Times," shares a title with Chaplin's 1936
classic about...
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He never got an invitation and he certainly didn't R.S.V.P., but that didn't stop Will Smith from crashing Atir Cohen's bar mitzvah at Jerusalem's Western Wall.
Cohen, 13,...
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A list of winners from the 19th annual Kids Choice Awards:
Favorite Animated Movie: "Madagascar."
Favorite Movie Actor: Will Smith, "Hitch."
Favorite Movie Actress:...
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Wilson Pickett was remembered by friends and family Saturday as a singer who fell somewhere between a poet and a preacher, laying the groundwork for artists after...
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Got the latest "Death Cab for Cutie" tune on your iPod phone?
That's so 2005.
With the new year about to begin, it's time to upgrade your electronics, reprogram your...
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The members of Destiny's Child may have gone their separate ways,
but that didn't stop the band from picking up a pair of awards at
Tuesday's American Music Awards.
The...
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Stars appearing at Tuesday's American Music Awards will depart with a piece of the moon.
Lindsay Lohan, Will Smith, Missy Elliot and the dozens of other entertainers that...
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Apparently Mariah Carey and American Music Award nominations
belong together.
The R&B diva led the AMA field with
four nominations in all, including nods for Best...
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Leave it to a teen to knock R. Kelly for a loop.
Now That's What I Call Music! 19, the latest edition in the
world's most popular hits compilation series, used its star...
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To the Ozzfest fans who made it
clear they were angry about Wicked Wisdom being on the bill of
this year's hard rock road show: the band got your...
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After a galaxy of stars
rocked the world in the largest live concert ever held,
organizers on Sunday looked to a summit of rich nations to see
if people power would change...
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Canadian favorite Tom Cochrane kicked off Canada's Live 8 concert with "Life is a Highway" before 35,000 roaring fans, moving the global event into North...
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In Berlin, Green Day proclaimed its majesty with a cover of Queen's "We Are the Champions" as R.E.M. performed "Man on the Moon" in London. And R.E.M. hadn't left the stage...
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They started by predicting a riot, but instead there was brotherly love at the U.S. version of the global Live 8 extravaganza.
"Right now you're watching the biggest...
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Icelandic singer Bjork rocked Tokyo on
Saturday, kicking off the biggest live music show in history
which aims to pressure world leaders to do more to fight
poverty.
Live...
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The full lineup for Live 8 in Philadelphia:
Black Eyed Peas, Bon Jovi, the Dave Matthews Band, Def Leppard, Destiny's Child, Jars of Clay, Jay-Z, Kaiser Chiefs, Toby...
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Nearly everyone in the world can tune in Saturday to Live 8, the all-star concerts urging a political solution to African poverty. "We want to stand shoulder to shoulder, to...
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Organizers promise it will be the
greatest music show on Earth, as final preparations for the
Live 8 gigs are made and pop stars prepare to leave their egos
backstage to...
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Kanye West is now part of the lineup for Saturday's Live 8 concert in Philadelphia.
Organizers say Rita and Stephen Marley will also perform. They join musicians that...
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Academics and civil rights leaders
hope Live 8 concerts to press for action on poverty in Africa
will reawaken interest among black Americans in the continent
their...
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Kanye West turned out to be the best BET of all.
The
rapper-producer was a double winner at Tuesday night's Fifth Annual
Black Entertainment Television Awards, picking...
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Those West End Boys are headed east end on a mission of hope.
The Pet Shop Boys have been tapped to headline the newly added
Moscow installment of Saturday's Live 8...
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Will Smith has one big introduction to make at Tuesday night's BET Awards: Gangster rappers, meet the rest of the world. Smith told The Associated Press he hopes to impress...
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Alicia Keys, the Black Eyed Peas, Josh Groban, Def Leppard and Toby Keith have been added to the lineup of Saturday's Live 8 concert in Philadelphia.
Celebrity presenters...
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All you who missed out the ticket lottery or can't swing that
last-minute fare to London to see the anticipated Pink Floyd reunion,
fear not--Live 8 is going to be live in...
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And for the halftime show, Mike Tyson will chomp off one lucky
fan's ear...
Just days after pleading no contest to a
slugging a Nashville strip club deejay during a bar...
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Destiny's Child and Linkin Park have been added to the lineup for the Live 8 concert in Philadelphia on July 2.
The additions were announced Thursday, one day after...
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Twenty years after the Live Aid concerts, musical superstars are joining in a five-city spectacular to push a political solution for African poverty.
"We don't want...
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Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, will host the 2005 BET Awards telecast on June 28.
Denzel Washington and his wife, Pauletta, will receive the humanitarian...
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Former President Nelson Mandela on Friday welcomed stars including actor Will Smith and singers Annie Lennox and India.arie to South Africa for his second concert to raise...
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Life is still sweet atop the
Billboard Hot 100 for 50 Cent, who is No. 1 for the fourth
consecutive week with "Candy Shop" featuring Olivia.
The rapper is creeping up on...
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50 Cent is still making a killing at record stores.
In its first full week of release, "The Massacre," 50 Cent's sophomore album sold an estimated 771,000 copies. That's...
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The third chart entry proves to
be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the
Billboard Hot 100 with "Let Me Love You" (3rd Street/J). The
single moves 3-2,...
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A trip to "The Red Light
District" scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on
the U.S. pop charts Wednesday.
The Atlanta rapper/actor's fourth Disturbing Tha...
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Everyone from pop rockers John Mayer
and Maroon5 to hip-hoppers Slum Village and Dilated Peoples
wants to work with multiple Grammy Award nominee Kanye West.
So the fact...
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Young Buck's mother says her son has been treated unfairly by police and demonized for his gangster rap songs that depict the harshness of street life.
"Yes, he is into...
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MTV has announced that Jennifer Lopez, Hilary Duff, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jimmy Fallon, and Will Smith will be joining Paris Hilton, Lenny Kravitz, skateboard legend Tony Hawk,...
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In Will Smith's new sci-fi thriller, "I, Robot," his character drives a motorcycle. But in real life, Smith says he's driven by fear.
"What people believe is my...
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"Bennifer" has been over for months, but the media's love-hate relationship with the celebrity couple continues.
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have been banished from...
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The 2004 Songwriters Hall of Fame
Awards dinner June 10 in New York will be another star-studded
affair. But this year's ceremony, which honors songwriting
legends, also...
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Just because you have the method doesn't mean you can be the man.
Despite a strong showing by rapper-actor Method
Man, the artist on top of Billboard's Top 200 album...
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The cartoon ogre tale "Shrek 2," Tom Hanks ' crime comedy "The Ladykillers" and Michael Moore 's "Fahrenheit 9/11," a scathing attack on the White House, were among films...
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At age 18, J-Kwon is hardly old enough to be drinking or going to clubs — and that's what his huge debut hit, "Tipsy," is all about.
But to hear the St. Louis-born...
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Jada
Pinkett Smith and Britney
Spears are taking a trip to Europe together.
Smith
and her band, Wicked Wisdom, will be opening for the platinum pop
princess before...
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As entertainers become brands in
their own right, they're increasingly seeking "reciprocal
morals" clauses in their product-endorsement deals.
The clause enables an artist...
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Slayer, Judas Priest (reunited with
vocalist Rob Halford) and Slipknot will join Ozzy Osbourne as
the mainstage acts on this year's Ozzfest, set to begin in
early July,...
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Nick Cannon fancies himself a Renaissance Man.
He helped produce his self-titled hip-hop album, which came out Tuesday. He stars in the new movie "Love Don't Cost a...
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Rapper Ricky "Slick Rick" Walters said he still can't believe he was freed from jail Friday, more than 17 months after U.S. officials moved to deport the British-born music...
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Rapper Slick Rick is expected to be
released from Immigration and Naturalization Service detention
following a federal judge's ruling.
Judge Kimba Wood on Friday reversed...
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Sitting in a Florida jail cell, fighting his deportation, Ricky "Slick Rick" Walters counts the days. He ran out of fingers a long time ago. The Hip-Hop Hall of Fame...
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(10/23/03, 4 p.m. ET) --Hollywood power couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have filed a restraining order against a former employee. According to PeopleNews, the...
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Hollywood power couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are not only the executive producers of the new UPN show, All Of Us, they're going to bring their family in on the...
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A sitcom inspired by the lives of Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett, is in the works. Duane Martin and Elise Neal star in the pilot called All Of Us. Smith and Pinkett...
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Will Smith is leading the list of celebrities who are suddenly getting cold feet about attending the Oscar ceremony Sunday (March 23). According to E!, Smith's publicist...
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Rapper-actor Will Smith and his label, Columbia Records, which is distributed by Sony, have reportedly parted ways. Several reports have surfaced, with some stating that...
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Will Smith isn't resting on his laurels, even with a phenomenally successful movie career already under his belt. The rapper-actor explained to LAUNCH that the Holy Grail to...
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Will Smith and his wife, actress Jada Pinkett-Smith, have filed a petition for a temporary restraining order against a former employee, Mike Cooley. The petition, which was...
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One of the most-talked about aspects of the upcoming film Men In Black 2 are two scenes featuring the "King Of Pop" himself, Michael Jackson. Although rumors of his...
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Multiplatinum recording artist and actor Will Smith is preparing to release "Black Suits Comin'" as the first single from his new album Born To Reign, which is scheduled to...
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Superstar rapper-actor Will Smith, currently starring in the biopic Ali, is being sued by a childhood friend--his former beat box and collaborator Clarence "Ready Rock C"...
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(12/28/01, 10 a.m. ET) – Actor/rapper Will Smith may have originally turned down a chance to play Muhammad Ali some time ago, but eventually he changed his mind, and that...
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Actor-rapper Will Smith (The Legend Of Bagger Vance) will make a personal appearance Sunday (June 17) in Santa Monica, California, to sign copies of his new book, Just The...
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Will Smith and Martin Lawrence had a brush with disaster this week when a raging fire came near their California homes. Both actors own houses in Thousand Oaks, California...
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It was no trick but rather a major treat when Hollywood super couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith welcomed a baby daughter into the world on Halloween (October 31) in...
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Will Smith has sounded off on the current controversy concerning the marketing of violent movies to youngsters. An expectant father who already has two young sons, Smith...
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Will Smith's role in The Legend Of Bagger Vance, which opens in theaters nationwide on November 3, is quite a departure from the characters he portrayed in films such as...
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For weeks it appeared as though Ali, the Michael Mann-directed biopic about Muhammad Ali was down for the count due to budget restraints, but now an agreement has been...
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Will Smith is currently preparing for the release of two films that are expected to do for the multi-talented superstar's acting career what Men In Black and Independence...
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Will Smith was sued for copyright infringement in a San Francisco court Friday (June 23) by four songwriters of the Grandmaster Flash
& the Furious Five song...
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Will Smith, Adam Sandler, and the television show All That were the big winners at Nickelodeon's 13th Annual Kids' Choice Awards at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on...
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Will Smith presented the outstanding contribution to British music honor to the Spice Girls at the Brit Awards, which were held at London's Earls Court on Friday (LAUNCH,...
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Will Smith will be joined on stage at the Brit Awards by 40 dancers. Apparently, the dancers are being paid 3,000 pounds (roughly $5,000) each for every day they've worked...
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Will Smith,
Christina Aguilera
, and
N' Sync are among the stars of music, film, sports, and television who were announced as nominees for Nickelodeon's 13th Annual...
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Will Smith's production company, Overbrook Entertainment, will team with
Whitney Houston's production company, Brownhouse Productions, to produce a remake of the 1981...
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Hip-hop superstar/actor Will Smith will host an all-star New Year's celebration at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Multiplatinum R&B heartthrob Usher and...
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Hip-hop superstar/actor Will Smith will host an all-star New Year's celebration at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Multiplatinum R&B heartthrob Usher and...
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Will Smith always has plenty to be thankful for around this time of the year. His six-times-platinum solo debut album, Big Willie Style, was released on Nov. 25, 1997. The...
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Will Smith will usher in the new "Willennium" with a multimedia extravaganza at the Virgin MegaStore in New York City's Times Square on Tuesday (Nov. 16). During the event,...
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Will Smith has just wrapped production for his eagerly anticipated sophomore solo effort, which has been dubbed Willennium and is due out Nov. 16.
The album will feature...
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Will Smith, Dru Hill, and Kool Mo Dee have ridden to the top of the singles chart this week, as the title track to the Wild Wild West soundtrack rockets seven places to No....
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(6/30/99, 1 a.m. PDT) -Westwood, Calif. was transformed into the Wild Wild West on Monday (June 28) night for the Los Angeles premiere of the new Will Smith big-screen...
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You won't be able to see the Fifth Annual Blockbuster Entertainment Awards on TV until June 16 on Fox, but the ceremony was actually taped Tuesday (May 25) at the Shrine...
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Radio festivals are becoming as common as swimsuit shopping and vacation memos when temperatures start to rise, but Wild, Wild Wango Tango is bound to be one of the largest...
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Overbrook Music, the new imprint operated by the artist formerly known as the Fresh Prince, Will Smith, will make its bow on June 15 with the all-star soundtrack to Wild...
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In perhaps what was a preview of some Grammy Awards categories, Lauryn Hill and Will Smith were the big music award-winners at the 30th annual NAACP Image Awards, held...
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(1/11/99, 10 p.m. PST) – While the Grammy Awards have made changes in recent years in an attempt to honor critically-acclaimed artists along with the chart-toppers, Dick...
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Multi-platinum artists Shania Twain and Will Smith further proved their prowess with the public today, as their names led the announced list of nominees for the 26th annual...
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Sean "Puffy" Combs apologized for not being able to attend the photo shoot for XXL Magazine's "A Great Day In Harlem '98" on Sept. 29. The leading rap/ R&B producer placed...
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It's not the apocalypse, it's just the top three titles on next week's Billboard 200. For the second consecutive week, the Armageddon soundtrack tops the chart, with sales...
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Soundtracks continue to rule the charts this week, according to SoundScan data, but hip-hop and R&B artists are also continuing to make impressive showings.
The Armageddon...
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Summer blockbuster films aren't only knocking 'em dead at the box office, they've spawned some of the biggest albums of the season.
On the new album chart the City Of...
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The City Of Angels soundtrack returns to the top of the Billboard 200 this week with sales of 169,000, according to SoundScan data, while the other soundtrack...
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The fourth annual Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, held in Hollywood on Tuesday night, saw Jewel honored for Favorite CD (Pieces Of You), while Matchbox 20 earned the...
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Whatsa matta with kids today?
No sense of cool, perhaps, judging from the pop-heavy nominees for Nickelodeon's 11th annual Kids Choice Awards, set for April 4th with Rosie...
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Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, Erykah Badu, the Blues Brothers, Paula Cole, Shawn Colvin, Wyclef Jean, Aretha Franklin, R. Kelly, Sarah McLachlan and Will Smith have been added...
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Proving once again that no one forgives more than the American public, singer Vanessa Williams--a one-time Penthouse model and dethroned Miss America, was named Outstanding...
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