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Rita Ora and Madonna (Photo courtesy of Matrial Girl)Madonna has announced she has a new face. No, she hasn't issued a statement about plastic surgery, rather she and her daughter, Lola, have announced that 22-year-old Rita Ora has been chosen to the new face of Material Girl, their junior lifestyle brand.

If you're not familiar with lovely Rita, she's a protégé of Jay-Z and a singer in her own right with a trio of number-one singles in the U.K. — "Hot Right Now," "How We Do (Party)" and "R.I.P." — as well as "Ora," a chart-topping album.

Madonna and Lola, apparently speaking in unison, said, "Rita is a talented beauty but what really drew us to her is the confidence she oozes through her music and her unique sense of style. On stage or off, in photos or on the street — she's a magnet! This is what the Material Girl brand is all about!"

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Lady Antebellum have been enjoying the spunkiest and sauciest hit of their career with the chart-topping single "Downtown," even as the videos and promotional appearances for it feature Hillary Scott looking ever-so-more pregnant. As the band takes the stage for an exclusive Yahoo! Music performance, the average viewer might not notice Scott's expectancy all that much, thanks to the miracles of slimming black.

Still, there is that moment when Scott pleads "I don't know why you don't take me downtown anymore" that you might imagine her partner's response reasonably being, "Um, because your water might break?"

Even with the blessed event being just weeks away — Scott's baby girl, her first, is due in late July — the trio haven't lost a step, and if anything, have been compressing about six months' worth of the usual album promotion into roughly half that time.

"I can probably speak for everybody on our team and say it’s easier to promote a record when someone’s not pregnant," Scott says.

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The Lonely Island (Photo: Joe Scarnici)Sean "Diddy" Combs must have had a blast filming the Lonely Island’s video for "Go Kindergarten." During the clip, he simulates pulling his junk out in a nightclub, eats garbage from a trash can, punches actor/comedian Paul Rudd (Anchorman, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) in the face, cuts off Rudd's finger with garden shears, and delivers Robyn's baby in the middle of the dance floor. Oh yeah, and smashes a champagne glass only to stomp on the shards bare-footed.Read More »from Diddy Cuts off Paul Rudd’s Finger, Delivers Robyn’s Baby in New Lonely Island Video

Last night, "The Voice's" final three were revealed, and with Team Usher's awesome outlier Michelle Chamuel still in the running (along with Team Blake's country contestants, Danielle Bradbery and the Swon Brothers), the results were cause for celebration, for sure.

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Queens of the Stone Age’s sixth studio album…,Like Clockwork, enters The Billboard 200 at #1. But it won’t be there for long. Black Sabbath is expected to debut at #1 next week with 13. That would be the first #1 for Black Sabbath (and/or for its star member, Ozzy Osbourne) in a chart career that dates back to 1970.

This is Queens of the Stone Age’s fourth studio album in a row to reach the top 20, but its first to rise above #5. The band first charted in 2002. The new album features guest turns by Elton John, Trent Reznor, Dave Grohl and Jake Shear of Scissor Sisters. The album sold 40K digital copies (out of 91K total), which enables it to also debut at #1 on Top Digital Albums.

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Cats on cats on kats! This is what the Internet was made for. Popstar Katy Perry takes her love for play-on-words to a new level in a Josie and the Pussycats-esque action/comedy adventure with popchips called Katy and the popcats (lowercase 'p' stylized for you wannabe editors out there). If you don't like cats, Perry is wearing a skin-tight purple catsuit the whole time to keep your attention.

With her trusty posse of popcats, all of whom have their own wigs of course, Perry along with Lulu, "The Wheels", Widget "The Brains", and Boodles, "The Muscle" are out to thwart the evil Fat Cat, the German-accented, blinged out owner of Fat Cat's Fatty Snacks. Oh, and she also raps a popchips theme song.

There isn't much plot, but it's

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