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The rock band, Coldplay, tops 2006 Ivor Novello Awards, being nominated to three categories for ‘Best song musically and lyrically’ with their single ‘Fix You’ and for ‘PRS most performed work’ and ‘International hit of the year’ with their single ‘Speed of Sound’. On number two stands James Blunt with two nominations for ‘PRS most performed work’ and ‘International hit of the year’ with the Billboard hit ‘You’re beautiful’.
Concerning the ‘PRS most performed work’ and ‘International hit of the year’ categories, Coldplay and James Blunt are competing with Natalie Imbruglia and her single ‘Shiver’ and respectively, Robbie Williams’s ‘Tripping’ song. Gorillaz’s ‘Dare’ single, Kaiser Chiefs with the single ‘I Predict A Riot’ and Athlete with ‘Wires’ are the nominees for ‘Best contemporary song’.
The 51st Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting will take place at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London on 25 May.

Black Eyed Peas will perform in the Johannesburg Stadium at Ellis Park because they have organized The Peapod Benefit Concert in South Africa next month to promote freedom. They are already distributing free tickets to the event with the help of local newspapers. It seems like they are now accomplishing a promise they made two years ago when they played to commemorate 10 Years of Freedom in South Africa. They promised to return to give a free show for the people who may never have the chance to get down and celebrate with The Black Eyed Peas, in the true spirit of The Peapod. At least, this is what the rap singer, Will.I.Am said.

We have new details about Diddy’s new hip-hop album. It seems like it will be release on 19 September collaborating with many well-known celebrities like Mary J. Blige, Christina Aguilera, Brandy, Busta Rhymes, Nas or Will.I.Am. Diddy’s new hip-hop album will have many influeces. The hip-hop artist says he’s taking from what he had learned from dance music, electroclash, techno, hip-hop, soul, and pop, and kind of fusing it together. The new hip-hop album it’s still going to have that gangster vibe to it, but it’s a musical journey.

The hip-hop celebrity also says that he’s going to bring a lot of high fashion, a lot of energy, a lot of sex, a lot of drugs, spirituality, good times. It’s going to be like a spiritual revolution, like being sanctified. Well, I don’t know what to say about that. Isn’t this a little bit exaggerate? I’m shore it’s going to be a great hip-hop album but, being sanctified, drugs?

Linkin Park will soon enter the studio to begin recording the follow-up to 2003’s Meteora, the rock band’s third full-length album. In an interview with Chester Bennington, an interview which is posted on the official site of the rock band, the singer declares that their progressing pretty fast concerning the new rock album. Especially because Rick Rubin, the producer on the rock band’s new album brought something new, a new style in which they’ve never work before. It seems like they are coming up with ideas individually then come together and work on it as a band.

Chester Bennington, the rock singer of the band, will have more to work because the new rock album ‘will be more vocally driven than any of our other ones’. The rock singer also sees this album as a step forward for Linkin Park because they have a lot of material that is totally new and nothing we’ve heard from the rock band before. Something new but still with the same vibe they got us used to. It seems like they would wish their new rock album to be release by the end of this year.

Apple iTunes has two new features. The first one is ‘Commercial Success’ being 26 songs available for download that comes from commercials for different companies like Apple, Old Navy, Budweiser, Jaguar, AT&T, Cingular, Motorola, Dockers, Diet Coke, Candies, Honda, Hilton, Citibank, Nike etc.

The second feature is ‘As Heard On’. Through it, the American Idol fans can easily download songs that contestants perform on previous episodes. Is easy because you can navigate using tabs which let you browse songs from ‘This Week’, ‘Last Week’, ‘Previous Weeks’ and the ‘Complete Set’.