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Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said that this summer Apple will launch iPod nano of 8GB and 10GB. After the delay of touchscreen iPod, which might be launched next year, Apple should come with something new and amazing like: iPod nano of 8GB and 10GB. We now have only iPod nano of 1GB, which can hold up about 240 songs, iPod nano of 2 GB, which can hold up about 500 songs and iPod nano of 4 GB which can hold up about 1000 songs. Anyway, Apple launching iPod nano of 8GB and 10GB is just a rumor, still waiting for a confirmation.

According to Nielsen SoundScan, Rascal Flatts’s new album ‘Me and My Gang’ - which debuted at number one last week on Billboard 200 chart - sold about 345,000 units in the United States. ‘Rascal Flatts’s album is now again topping the Billboard 200 Chart. That’s a great surprise, concerning that there’s a ‘fight’ for this place between Rascal Flatts ‘Me and My Gang’ and Toby Keith’s ‘White trash with money’, an album which this week is on number two, selling about 330,000 units, pretty close to Rascal Flatts.

1. Rascal Flatts - ‘Me and my gang’ (last week number 1)
2. Toby Keith - ‘White trash with money’ (hot shot)
3. Various Artists - ‘Now 21′ (last week number 2)
4. Soundtrack - ‘High school musical’ (last week number 4)
5. T.I. - ‘King’ (last week number 3)
6. LL Cool J - ‘Todd Smith’ (new)
7. Tim McGraw - ‘Greatest Hits Vol 2: Reflected’ (last week number 5)
8. Pink - ‘I’m not dead’ (last week number 6)
9. Daniel Powter - ‘Daniel Powter’ (new)
10. James Blunt - ‘Bed to Bedlam (last week number 7)

After topping four times consecutive the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the pop singer continues to top the iTunes chart too. Although the release of his pop album was more then a year ago, Daniel Powter still has great success with ‘Bad Day’. The single of the LL Cool J featuring Jennifer Lopez stands on number two while on Billboard Hot 100 chart it is a re- entry on number four. What I really don’t like is that the video clip of ‘Control Myself’ - LL Cool J and Jennifer Lopez’s single - is made in Jamie Foxx ‘Unpredictable’s style. They should have been more originals.

1. Daniel Powter - Bad Day
2. LL Cool J feat. Jennifer Lopez - Control Myself
3. Ashley Parker Angel - Let U Go
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California
5. Sean Paul - Temperature
6. Rascal Flatts - What hurts the most
7. Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
8. The All-American Rejects - Move along
9. T.I. - What you know
10. The Pussycat Dolls - Beep

The pop/rock singer Daniel Powter tops Billboard Hot 100 chart again for the fourth week consecutive with his ‘Bad Day’ single from his debut album ‘Daniel Powter’. We have the highest re-entry in the 48-year history of the Billboard Hot 100, on number four: the hip-hop celebrity LL Cool J feat. Jennifer Lopez - ‘Control Myself’ being the eighth top 10 hit for LL Cool J and the ninth top 10 hit for the music and movie celebrity Jennifer Lopez.

1. Daniel Powter - Bad Day (last week number 1)
2. Sean Paul - Temperature (last week number 2)
3. T.I. - What You Know (last week number 3)
4. LL Cool J feat. Jennifer Lopez - Control Myself (re-entry)
5. Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten (last week number 6)
6. Rascal Flatts - What Hurts The Most (last week number 8 )
7. James Blunt - You’re Beautiful (last week number 4)
8. Mary J. Blige - Be Without You (last week number 5)
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California (last week number 24)
10. Dem Franchize Boyz feat. Lil Peanut & Charlay - Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It (last week number 7)

The pop celebrity Michael Jackson will release a new album in 2007 collaborating with a Bahrain records label. Two Seas Records’s owner Sheik Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa, son of Bahrain’s king, said that it had signed an exclusive recording agreement with the king of pop music, Michael Jackson. Two Seas Records also released pop singer’s Hurricane Katrina benefit single last year.

One of the greatest pop celebrities, Michael Jackson said that he’s incredibly excited about pop singer’s new venture, and he enjoys being back in the studio making music. We don’t know any more details about Jackson’s new pop album: no name, no track names, not a sure release date of his 12th album. Who knows what will happen till late 2007 when it is set to be release the new pop album.